Barometric Pressure

[Penny Lingenfelter]

I've never seen it but they say there is so much salt in the Salt Lakes in Utah that it's almost inpossible to drown. Everything floats.

I've been out on the kite field with a high pressure system when it's akin to the Salt Lakes. No wind, and yet it was like my kite was being held up in the air effortlessly. Seriously, you could feel the still air lifting it.

I believe in our wind storm last night we had a low pressure system.. I really should go and check. The boss says in some areas they call it a hurricane, some areas call it a typhoon and here we call it a wind storm.

My thoughts were that a typhoon and hurrican have the winds traveling mostly in one direction in a specific area. I've never been in a typhoon but in all the videos I've seen the trees appear to be leaning the same way.

Last night it was interesting. I walked out to the middle of our yard during the biggest wind storm in over 10 years.

I have a large enough yard, not surrounded by trees and buildings and the wind always blows though it. I could see the tops of the trees bending and hear the wind blowing furiously, but my banner hanging on the house was being blown flat in the opposit direction, only to blow a 180 in the opposite direction.

Still , standing in the middle, front or back of my yard was not a trace of wind!!!

OK, No wind in the middle of a wind storm.. pretty strange huh?

Then when I went into the house and tried to close my door, we couldn't close it without several attempts. It felt like we were closing it againt hurricane winds...yet there was still NO wind!!! Just pressure.

That barometric pressure is interesting stuff.

It was pretty amazing to me.

BB

Penny

[ant man]

sopunds like early fall here not a breeze of wind you would think that nothing would fly but even on a still day your kites will fly at the beach its almost to weird for words

[sky fish]

I think the weather man called that cyclonic wind conditions .Mother nature can be a fascinating

[Penny Lingenfelter]

I forgot to come back in here and say thank you Sky Fish. I looked it up and it appears to be anticlonic. very interesting thank you. BB Penny

[Grandpa]

Penny...

You ain't missing much by not seeing the Great Salt Lake.

But it is true about the salt content... It's like you float on it, not in it.

When your skin dries your bod is all white and caked with salt... kinda nasty

unless you're into that kind of stuff.

We have a place up in the mountains that's dense forest... not rain forest like the coast...

just so many trees you can't see more than 50 feet. It's not uncommon to be there with no

wind on the ground but 60 feet up in the tree tops you can hear the wind whistle and see the tops sway.

[Penny Lingenfelter]

Hmm, You can't see the wind for the forest? Very interesting. You float on the lake? Stranger then Science.

We find oddities even when we're not looking. Believe it or not.

BB Penny ~ who can't spell anticyclonic.