It's going to snow!

[Janet]

They've been talking in general terms for the last ten days or so, and now the met sites I follow are starting to converge ... and they agree something is going to happen next week. It won't be long-lasting but it will be unusual, and it appears to be a part of what the Daily Mail is calling the polar vortex, or something, that's going to freeze the US in a few days time.

Apparently a tongue of this polar wotsit is going to come down here ... and bring snow!!!! The major met sites are saying (about the US) that no-one under 40 will have seen anything like this before.

It's going to snow in Tenerife!!! 

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[Perikles]

Wow! I've never seen a relativity vorticity of +22 before

Is that a purple alert?

And what the hell is it?

[Nova]

 

[El Profesor]

It's going to snow in Tenerife!!! 

It always does, some years more, some years less.
Sometimes it gets down to the lower slopes below Villaflor, to Escalona. Then everybody says they've never seen it that low before.

One thing is for sure . . . it's going to rain a hell of a lot at the end of the week.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I'm with the Prof on this one.  I think Teide's going to get a nice new white hat.

[Janet]

Hell's frozen over ...



Reminds me of the brilliant "hell question", attributed to a physics student but actually written as a humorous piece by a scientist:

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:

"Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

"First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.

So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose.

Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over."

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

I've always preferred this version.   

"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. if Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, and then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my freshman year that "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is, therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being, which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

[Janet]

Niagara falls, at least part of them, have frozen! Amazing photos HERE ...

[Nova]

Wow!