-You are in an arid climate where there is no such thing as "normal amounts" because the bulk of yearly precipitation arrives in a few storms. What you think is "normal" is just an average. Last year, the Sierra Nevadas had 600% of average snowfall due to a few weeks worth of winter storms. But "atmospheric rivers" can set up in June, too, not of mention decaying tropical systems swinging up from the Mexican coast in late summer, so trying to predict autumn fire-seasons from half a year out is a fool's errand.
"It got me thinking about the weather manipulation"
-With a plane full of silver-iodide, you can make a cumulus cloud get bigger. But alter the jet-stream? Not there yet.
"it was some kind of directed energy beam. It pushed all the clouds out of its way"
That's not how electromagnetic radiation works. It doesn't "push" clouds anymore than your flashlight pushes fog out of the way. And antifa punks with Bic lighters are roughly 1000x cheaper, and expendable if they're caught.
But 99% of "spot" fires are caused by embers raining out of the smoke plume. Once a fire is over an acre in size, it'll begin generating firewhirls that'll suck material up like a tornado. The ability of a wildfire to propagate in windy conditions are jaw-dropping if you've never seen it before. Spend a few hours watching this on a large screen. You'll see all "modes" of fire behavior.
That's a dumb video. The maker is either unaware of (or lying about) the fact that satellites will frequently shut off for hours at a time when their orbit places the earth in an eclipse orientation relative to the sun. This is to prevent the sun from frying the satellite's optics (which are otherwise shaded when the sun is off to the side).
As a hurricane-buff, it's been a constant annoyance for decades to have imagery go "dark" for several hours when there's a cat-5 growling in the Caribbean.
"Nowhere near our normal amounts."
-You are in an arid climate where there is no such thing as "normal amounts" because the bulk of yearly precipitation arrives in a few storms. What you think is "normal" is just an average. Last year, the Sierra Nevadas had 600% of average snowfall due to a few weeks worth of winter storms. But "atmospheric rivers" can set up in June, too, not of mention decaying tropical systems swinging up from the Mexican coast in late summer, so trying to predict autumn fire-seasons from half a year out is a fool's errand.
"It got me thinking about the weather manipulation"
-With a plane full of silver-iodide, you can make a cumulus cloud get bigger. But alter the jet-stream? Not there yet.
"it was some kind of directed energy beam. It pushed all the clouds out of its way"
That's not how electromagnetic radiation works. It doesn't "push" clouds anymore than your flashlight pushes fog out of the way. And antifa punks with Bic lighters are roughly 1000x cheaper, and expendable if they're caught.
But 99% of "spot" fires are caused by embers raining out of the smoke plume. Once a fire is over an acre in size, it'll begin generating firewhirls that'll suck material up like a tornado. The ability of a wildfire to propagate in windy conditions are jaw-dropping if you've never seen it before. Spend a few hours watching this on a large screen. You'll see all "modes" of fire behavior.
That's a dumb video. The maker is either unaware of (or lying about) the fact that satellites will frequently shut off for hours at a time when their orbit places the earth in an eclipse orientation relative to the sun. This is to prevent the sun from frying the satellite's optics (which are otherwise shaded when the sun is off to the side).
As a hurricane-buff, it's been a constant annoyance for decades to have imagery go "dark" for several hours when there's a cat-5 growling in the Caribbean.