by JP Michael » Tue May 19, 2020 1:02 pm
Maol wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 10:17 am
Was the example in Australia accompanied with a heavy precipitation event?
The opposite. We had a sudden and severe heatwave that day. But I was referring only to surface phenomenon; we had no upper-atmospheric 'ping' event, and I could not find evidence of any such upper-atmosphere disturbances during the Australian severe weather events back in January.
Maol wrote:As the event in Texas occurred in the middle of the night, it leads to ponder if a large mass of H2O entered the atmosphere from an extra-terrestrial source, such as the portion of the magnetotail H2O plasmoid that snaps back toward the planet when the larger portion breaks off the tail and is ejected into, or torn away by, the passing solar wind.
It is known Earth's magnetosphere contains H2O plasma and provides OH/H2O to the lunar surface when the Moon passes through the magnetotail.
When a magnetotail plasmoid ejection event occurs, might not some of the earthbound portion of the H2O plasmoid impinge upon the lower atmosphere when the magnetohydrodynamic force accelerates it back toward the planet. By this means a relatively large mass of H2O, and associated electric charge, could enter the atmosphere at a particular location or region in a short period of time, and consequently, a weather event of lightning, golf ball size hail, heavy rain and wind, all emanating outward from a central locale.
It's an interesting hypothesis. Note that water has multiple charge phases: OH-, H3O+, H5O2+. Whether these can survive energetic plasma environments such as a plasmoid ejection event someone else can produce some papers, etc.
What is interesting about the US event is that there is not just a single ping, but double. And this occurs more than once, double each time. I find it hard to believe that a randomly occuring twinned-'plasmoid ejection event' would happen in the roughly the same location of the US upper atmosphere on 3 separate occasions.
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Was the example in Australia accompanied with a heavy precipitation event? [/quote]
The opposite. We had a sudden and severe heatwave that day. But I was referring only to surface phenomenon; we had no upper-atmospheric 'ping' event, and I could not find evidence of any such upper-atmosphere disturbances during the Australian severe weather events back in January.
[quote="Maol"]As the event in Texas occurred in the middle of the night, it leads to ponder if a large mass of H2O entered the atmosphere from an extra-terrestrial source, such as the portion of the magnetotail H2O plasmoid that snaps back toward the planet when the larger portion breaks off the tail and is ejected into, or torn away by, the passing solar wind.
It is known Earth's magnetosphere contains H2O plasma and provides OH/H2O to the lunar surface when the Moon passes through the magnetotail.
When a magnetotail plasmoid ejection event occurs, might not some of the earthbound portion of the H2O plasmoid impinge upon the lower atmosphere when the magnetohydrodynamic force accelerates it back toward the planet. By this means a relatively large mass of H2O, and associated electric charge, could enter the atmosphere at a particular location or region in a short period of time, and consequently, a weather event of lightning, golf ball size hail, heavy rain and wind, all emanating outward from a central locale.
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It's an interesting hypothesis. Note that water has multiple charge phases: OH-, H3O+, H5O2+. Whether these can survive energetic plasma environments such as a plasmoid ejection event someone else can produce some papers, etc.
What is interesting about the US event is that there is not just a single ping, but double. And this occurs more than once, double each time. I find it hard to believe that a randomly occuring twinned-'plasmoid ejection event' would happen in the roughly the same location of the US upper atmosphere on 3 separate occasions.