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The point made was fine as long as the lightning strike is the common ground to cloud type.
But there is a fairly rare cloud to ground strike, AND that lightning strike is the most powerful one. I learned about this while working at General Electric in Pittsfield, Mass. where they had a lightning research center.
Boy what a pleasure. Whenever there is a high centered over North Texas and very little wind a temperature inversion sets up over Dallas. Signals for digital 4 was 40 uV at 5 A.M. and 79 uV at 9 A.M. The same situation existed back when I was a teenager in Connecticut. A temperature inversion would set up over New York City bringing in the Philadelphia stations.
Also; radio signals of 144 Mhz and 432 Mhz bend so signals equidistant on the other side of NYC brought in stations from York and Lancaster PA.
It sounded like 7 shots from a 50 caliber rifle in 1 1/2 seconds, and hit the water tower near
California Trail. I've seen multiple strikes before, but not seven in a row.
Jim
Yeah Maria!
Apr 8, 2008 | 8:45 AM PST
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Weather
Maria mentioned that it was raining out in Mount Pleasant a couple of times. Another weatherman mentions us as "north of Mineola". While not in Mt. Pleasant, I am way, way out here. About 18 miles west of Mt. Pleasant and 6 miles south of Mount Vernon on Lake Cypress Springs.
When there is a heat cap, TV reception improves. The bigger area and the stronger the cap, the better the reception.
88's to Maria <:-)
Jim
It's Springtime in East Texas
Mar 31, 2008 | 9:37 AM PST
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Evan's video screen mount
Mar 28, 2008 | 9:26 AM PST
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I take minor offense to the viewer's comment to "tell-it-to-Tim" where he didn't like the mount for Evan's screen.
It was with great disappointment to let it go at my garage sale. There was a lot of work converting it from the tire cover on grandpa's 1934 Cadillac continental.
Jim
