Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Solar Cycles

Just like everything in the universe the Sun is in a constant state of change.  I believe the ancient cultures documented this with their esoteric wisdom found in different arenas. 
Quite often the sun was depicted with both short and long rays extending out intimating to me they understood both Solar Maximum and Solar Minimum and the cycles of this star that gives us light and life.

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Information that was freely available to us all prior to the Roman Church taking control of everything.  We went into the Dark Ages and so much was lost by so many and the knowledge was hoarded up inside the walls of the Vatican where it still lives today.

Slowly since that time people have spent many useful hours observing the world around them and these observations have been very profitable knowledge wise regarding what our star, the Sun is doing and how the behaviour of the Sun is so much more influencing that just shining light on us and making us warm.  The story is centered around Magnetism. We will get back to that.
Observation of Solar Cycles 
The observation of what is now known as Solar Cycles was first observed by Heinrich Schwabe.  Schwabe was initially looking for the planet Vulcan, in doing this, daily for 17 years he scanned the sun.  He noticed there were regular variations in the number of sunspots.  He published an article on this  in 1843. The paper was called "Solar Observations during 1843". Schawabe had noticed a ten year cycle of 'maxima and minima'. 
Another scientist Rudolf Wolf an astronomer and mathematician decided to look at this work of Schwabe's.  He was so interested that he began to observe himself and take notes.  He collected data on Sunspot activity right back to 1610. He also calculated it was a cycle of 11.1 years.

Alexander Von Humboldt used Wolf's information in his third volume of the "Kosmos".

The science of Sun Cycles is now well documented. Each cycle is given a number called a 'Wolf Number' honoring the work of Rudolf Wolf.

We are presently in Sun Cycle 24 transitioning into Solar Cycle 25.  or SC25.

Below is a short video that explains what sun spots are.


Useful Links
The Solar Cycle | Astronomy
Solar Cycle 25 - First spot observed

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Friday, December 07, 2018

What is Gravity? A science discussion with Wallace Thornhill.

Science is stuck. Science has become very boring.  Science mandates you are good with mathematics when that is not even a requirement.  Science is like a new religion and the scientists are nothing more than white coat priests.  If you don't agree with these scientists you are then considered a heretic.  Australian scientist Wal Thornhill experienced this dilemma up close and personal.  Wal decided it was a waste of time to continue on a continuous path to nowhere and turned his back on this, instead Wal is still researching the electric universe but without the time wasters.

Who is Wal Thornhill..
Wallace Thornhill (b. May 2, 1942) earned a degree in physics and electronics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and began postgraduate studies. Before entering university he had been inspired by Immanuel Velikovsky‘s best-selling book, Worlds in Collision. However, the lack of curiosity and the frequent hostility toward this challenge to mainstream science convinced Thornhill to pursue an independent path outside academia.
According to mainstream science Gravity has no poles and is therefore it's not ever a repulsive force.  Wal talks about Gravity in the video below in an entire new light.  Wal talks about a time when Saturn was Earths Luminary.  The Sun has captured all the gas giants.


The Electric Universe is the work of Imanuel Velikovsky's work.  It makes sense where physics makes zero sense when it comes to explaining our Universe/s.

"The Electric Universe theory highlights the importance of electricity throughout the Universe. It is based on the recognition of existing natural electrical phenomena (eg. lightning, St Elmo’s Fire), and the known properties of plasmas (ionized “gases”) which make up 99.999% of the visible universe, and react strongly to electro-magnetic fields."  https://www.electricuniverse.info/

It is almost a must to read Velikovsky's book "Worlds in Collision".  Here is a link to see it in PDF

https://biblefacts.org/pdf/worlds-collision.pdf

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Thursday, March 02, 2017

The Observer Principal and the Double Slit Experiment.



When we look at things, they change.  It is like they know we are watching!  Dr Thomas Campbell explains this fascinating principal of physics.


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Natural Dyeing Workshop - Deepwater School of Arts
Our pieces were beautiful as we gazed lovingly upon each others samplers


Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Whoa! DNA sequenced Water Bears...

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These creatures affectionately known as Water Bears, due to their bear like cute faces and bear like claws on the extremities are 'Tardigrades'.  These little creatures are simply phenomenal in what they do and how they survive.

Read Full articles Here :Gizmodo Australia      Science Alert.com
From the Article: Water bears, known to scientists as tardigrades, are famously adorable microscopic creatures who can survive anything: freezing, total dehydration, radiation bombardment, and even the vacuum of deep space. Now scientists have sequenced a tardigrade genome, and are very surprised by the results.

Yesterday a group of researchers led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biologist Thomas Boothby published their analysis of the tardigrade genome in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. What they found was that 17.5 per cent of the tardigrade genome actually comes from other organisms, including plants, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. These genes entered tardigrade DNA in a process known as horizontal gene transfer, which is quite common among single-celled organisms but rare among animals. The closest comparison with the tardigrade is a microscopic form of plankton called a rotifer (pictured below, eating), which has about 9 per cent of its DNA from other organisms.



Thursday, October 29, 2015

Physist quotes on the matter of "Matter"

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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulating consciousness.”  
~Max Planck~

“Broadly speaking, although there are some differences, I think Buddhist philosophy and Quantum Mechanics can shake hands on their view of the world. We can see in these great examples the fruits of human thinking. Regardless of the admiration we feel for these great thinkers, we should not lose sight of the fact that they were human beings just as we are.” ~ Dalai Lama~

“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a ‘mental’ construction.

Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote:
‘The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.'”  
 R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, “The Mental Universe”; Nature (436:29,2005)


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Monday, July 20, 2015

CERN is short for CONCERN - and now its Pentaquarks!

CERN sees the “Pentaquark” for the first time

Scientists at the LHC (large hadron collider) / CERN have made a new discovery.  They have observed a rare particle combination (called a “pentaquark”) for the first time.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/209919-cerns-large-hadron-collider-confirms-newest-particle-the-pentaquark

Diagram from CERN (left is the assembled 3D “pentaquark” taking the shape of a pentagram – right is the sub-components of the particle(s)

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Image from Physics World
 Getting down about what PENTAQUARKS are?
“A pentaquark is a hypothetical type of subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark bound together.

As quarks have a baryon number of +13, and antiquarks of −13, it would have a total baryon number of 1, thus being classified as an exotic baryon. By contrast, regular baryons (or ‘triquarks’)—which also have a total baryon number of 1—consist of three quarks.

The name pentaquark was coined by Harry J. Lipkin in 1987, although the possibility of five-quark particles was identified as early as 1964 when Murray Gell-Mann first postulated the existence of quarks.

Although predicted for decades, pentaquarks have proved surprisingly difficult to discover, and some physicists were beginning to suspect that an unknown law of nature forbids their production.

The first claim of pentaquark discovery was recorded at LEPS in Japan in 2003, and several experiments in the mid-2000s also reported discoveries of other pentaquark states. However, others were not able to replicate the LEPS results, and the other pentaquark discoveries were not accepted because of poor data and statistical analysis. On 13 July 2015, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported results consistent with pentaquark states in the decay of bottom Lambda baryons (Λ0b).
https://www.google.com/search?q=pentaquark&num=50&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIrLbistvfxgIVVI6SCh2OGQlv&biw=1920&bih=918


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Image From Science Network 4

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Image Source - The Ultimate Curiosity

Baryons are massive particles which are made up of three quarks in the standard model. 

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"Collision Time"


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Thursday, July 16, 2015

So what does CSIRO stand for... Just a bit of TriViA.



Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia. It was founded in 1926 originally as the Advisory Council of Science and Industry.

csiro - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Resea...


Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is the federal government agency for scientific research in Australia. It was founded in 1926 originally as the Advisory Council of Science and Industry.

csiro - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Resea...

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Coal Seam Gas - The Research

This is a list of links that are related to Scientific Studies and academic papers on the Mining industry in Australia, specifically the Coal Seam Gas Mining Industry.

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Research & Papers

Great Artesian Basin report

Soil Futures Consulting, November 2014

Credit Suisse Equity Research – Santos Report

Credit Suisse Securities Research and Analytics, 11 March 2014

List of fracking bans worldwide

Updated December 2013

Symptomatology of a gas field

Geralyn McCarron, April 2013

Is fracking good for your health?

Jeremy Moss, Alicia Coram & Grant Blashki; November 2013

CSG and Your Health: Understand the Risks, Protect Your Family

Dr Wayne Somerville, 2013

Cooking up a price rise

Matt Grudnoff, The Australia Institute, 5.7.13

Higher levels of stray gases found in water wells near shale gas sites

Various authors, Duke University, 24.6.13

Pouring more fuel on the fire

Matt Grudnoff, The Australia Institute, June 2013

Information to stop gas-fired power

Dr Gideon Polya, 19.06.13

Peer Review of Interim Protocol for Site Verification and Mapping of BSAL

Robert Banks, SoilFutures Consulting - 1.05.13

Coal Seam Gas Moratorium

Published by Mike Mizzi on 27.1.2012

Fracking hell: the untold story

Earth Focus & UK's Ecologist Film Unit

Exposure to severe urban air pollution influences cognitive outcomes, brain volume and systemic inflammation in clinically healthy children

US National Library of Medicine (PubMed) National Institute of Health

How the EPA linked “fracking” to contaminated well water

ARS Technica - 9.12.2011

Who regulates the regulators?

A Question of Balance - CRN (Community Radio Network)

NSW: Fossil or balanced future?

Total Environment Centre - October 2011

The Coming Famine – Prof. Julian Cribb

Julian Cribb & Associates Discussion Paper

The Great Artesian Basin: more than the eye can sea

A Question of Balance: CRN (Community Radio Network)

110922 Question Without Notice Coal Seam Gas

Senator Larissa Waters in parliament, questions re coal seam gas

The mining and burning of coal: effects on health and the environment

The Medical Journal of Australia - paper by Dr's Castleden, Shearman, Crisp and Finch

Senator Bill Heffernan and NICNAS at CSG Senate Inquiry

Coal Seam Gas Senate Inquiry - 10.9.2011

Senate Inquiry Hansard NSW Bureaucrats

Federal Senate Hearing - 3 key NSW govt. bureaucrats - 9.9.2011

Submission to parliamentary inquiry

Submission to Parliamentary inquiry into coal seam gas

Assessment of impacts of CSG operations

Professor Chris Moran, Dr Sue Vink - University of Queensland

Documents: Natural Gas’s Toxic Waste

Articles on Gas' Toxic Waste

Groundwater Impacts of Coal Seam Gas Development

Mr. Mal Helmuth - Executive Director LNG Projects - with Sue Vink, Nadja Kunz, Damian Barrett, Chris Moran

Submission into impact of mining coal seam gas

Doctors for the Environment Australia Inc. Dr. David Shearman, Hon Secretary

Groundwater connections between the Walloon Coal Measures and the Alluvium of the Condamine River

John R Hillier - consulting hydrogeologist

Preliminary Assessment of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Robert W. Howarth, David R. Atkinson, Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology, Cornell University

Methane contamination of drinking water

Osborna, Vengoshb, Warnerb, and Jackson - Center on Global Change, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708

Violence behind mining boom revealed

Queensland University of Technology - Professor K. Carrington. 6.12.2010

UNSW Connected Waters

The University of New South Wales 'Connected Waters' web site

E.I.S. for coal seam gas in Surat Basin

Golder Associates - June 2009
Images @ Eminpee Fotography


Sunday, October 05, 2014

The Report of Coal Seam Gas Mining is in by Chief Scientist - Mary O'Kane.

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READ FULL REPORT Click HERE to PDF

Outspoken communities right across NSW demanded answers – the NSW Government commissioned a review by the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, Professor Mary O’Kane to do a review which took 18 months to bring to completion.

NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer - Mary O'Kane

The Terms of Reference for the Review are as follows
  1. Look at industry compliance / corruption
  2. Identify and assess gaps in the indentity and management of risks
  3. Identify best practices
  4. Do comparative assessment of CSG in NSW to other states
  5. Monitor and inspect all current activities
  6. Information on elements of CSG operation and impact are to be produced as Info Sheets.
Music always comes to mind in stressful situations and this time all I could hear was Pink's song "I got Money Now".   It just played over and over in my head the entire time I was reading her report where she has done a fine job of shafting NSW and the land and water.

Professor O'Kane nearly made me choke because she openly suggests a "LEARN AS WE GO APPROACH".  I think this is outrageous behaviour from a scientist who clearly knows more than she is divulging it appears.

She spoke with Alan Jones later on and could not work out why people were a little scathing.  Hmm.  She has allowed Gloucester Gas project to proceed regardless.  There seems to be a really unclear message here that is twisted into two apposing ideas. O'Kane should have said No more.  Instead she said lets proceed with caution.  This is a weak bow down to industry.
Given extraordinary community efforts to demand change – the NSW Government commissioned a review. It called on the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, Professor Mary O’Kane - See more at: http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/2014/need-for-csg-catchments-ban-clear/#sthash.O5C41Vbd.dpuf
Given extraordinary community efforts to demand change – the NSW Government commissioned a review. It called on the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, Professor Mary O’Kane, to review CSG activity in NSW. The review took 18 months to complete and was delivered on 30 September 2014. - See more at: http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/2014/need-for-csg-catchments-ban-clear/#sthash.O5C41Vbd.dpuf
Given extraordinary community efforts to demand change – the NSW Government commissioned a review. It called on the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, Professor Mary O’Kane, to review CSG activity in NSW. The review took 18 months to complete and was delivered on 30 September 2014. - See more at: http://stop-csg-illawarra.org/2014/need-for-csg-catchments-ban-clear/#sthash.O5C41Vbd.dpuf

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Sunday, August 04, 2013

The chief Scientists all in a row.

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Every state and territory has an office of the Chief Scientist.  The Australian Federal Government also has a Chief Scientist and the government relies upon the Australian Chief Scientist for advise to the Government of Australia on scientific and technological issues.

The Chief Scientist holds the position of Executive Officer to the PMSEIC.  The PMSEIC is the Prime Minister's Science and engineering Council.

The Chief Scientist chairs the Research Quality Framework Development Advisory Group, the National Research Priorities Standing Committee and is a member of other key Government committees:
The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) is part of Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR). Its primary responsibilities are to support the Chief Scientist and the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC).

The Office of the Chief Scientist provides secretariat services to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC), announced by John Howard on 18 December 1997.

Prior to 1997, the council was known as the Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council (PMSEC), and had 15 meetings from 6 October 1989 to 10 December 1997.

It was established by Ralph Slatyer, the first Chief Scientist.  

Meetings

The council usually holds two meetings each year, facilitated and advised by the OCS. In 2003, the council only met once. The OCS undertakes the establishment and support for the Council's ad-hoc working groups.

The Council has in the past met to discuss:
  • emerging areas of science
  • important strategic interests where science plays a role
    • Antarctic science
    • deforestation
    • effects of brain disorders
    • premature death
    • environment
  • growing technology based small and medium enterprises
Recipients of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science, previously known as The Australia Prize becomes a member of the Council for the following year.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Water Properties and Facts and Figures About Water.

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Tap near the footbridge at Urunga NSW


http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Water is unique in that it is the only natural substance that is found in all three physical states—liquid, solid, and gas—at the temperatures normally found on Earth.
Water freezes at 32° Fahrenheit (F) and boils at 212°F (at sea level, but 186.4° at 14,000 feet). Water is unusual in that the solid form, ice, is less dense than the liquid form, which is why ice floats.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Water is called the "universal solvent" because it dissolves more substances than any other    liquid. This means that wherever water goes, either through the ground or through our bodies, it takes along valuable chemicals, minerals, and nutrients.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Pure water has a neutral pH of 7, which is neither acidic (<7) nor basic (>7).
The water molecule is highly cohesive—it is very sticky. Water is the most cohesive among the  non-metallic liquids.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Pure water, which you won't ever find in the natural environment, does not conduct   electricity. Water becomes a conductor once it starts dissolving substances around it.
Water has a high specific heat index—it absorbs a lot of heat before it begins to get hot. This is why water is valuable to industries and in your car's radiator as a coolant.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif The high specific heat index of water also helps regulate the rate at  which air changes temperature, which is why the temperature change between seasons is gradual rather than sudden, especially near the oceans.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Water has a very high surface tension. In other words, water is sticky and elastic, and tends to clump together in drops rather than spread out in a thin film, like rubbing alcohol. Surface tension is responsible for capillary action, which allows water (and its dissolved substances) to move through the roots of plants and through the tiny blood vessels in our bodies.


http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif The density of water means that sound moves through it long distances (ask a whale!). In sea water at 30°C, sound has a velocity of 1,545 meters per second (about 3,500 miles per hour). 



http://ga.water.usgs.gov/frameworkfiles/images/icons/dripsmall.gif Air pressure affects the boiling point of water, which is why it takes longer to boil  a egg at Denver, Colorado than at the beach. The higher the altitude, the lower the air pressure, the lower the boiling point of water, and thus, the longer time to hard-boil an egg. At sea level water boils at 212°F (100°C), while at 5,000 feet,  water boils at 202.9°F (94.9 °C).
        Some of water's physical properties:
  • Weight: 62.416 pounds/cubic foot at 32°F; 1,000 kilograms/cubic meter
  • Weight: 61.998 pounds/cubic foot at 100°F; 993 kilograms/cubic meter
  • Weight: 8.33 pounds/gallon; 1 kilogram/liter
  • Density: 1 gram/cubic centimeter (cc) at 39.2°F, 0.95865 gram/cc at 212°F
        Some water volume comparisons:
  • 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 128 fluid ounces = 3.7854 liters
  • 1 liter = 0.2642 gallons = 1.0568 quart
  • 1 million gallons = 3.069 acre-feet = 133,685.64 cubic feet
       Flow rates:
  • 1 cubic foot/second (cfs) = 449 gallons/minute = 0.646 million gallons/day = 1.98 acre-feet/day
 Read more about this story from USGS

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Science is not the same as it used to be.

So called progress has destroyed the integrity of millions and millions of people.  We are no longer able or willing to use the body and the physical embodiment for the improvement of nature,  for the strengthening of character, for the extensions of knowledge and through the birth and rebirth within ourselves of those elements and factors and parts which are necessary to our  perfection.

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We have therefore gradually changed our fathers house into a place of merchandise.    We have failed to recognize the gift of the sacred year.  A year is set aside for the growth of beings and this has something to do every year by repeating patterns.  These repeating patterns is the great teacher and if a person is observant of the months of the past year, he will recognise how and where states and patterns could be addressed for his personal improvement. 

This is Astro Theology.

The old systems have gone away, there are traces of it but mostly its passed away and people have no idea of our debt to the universe as humanity is.  Monetary gain is the highest attainment of most people and no care or concern given whilst doing this. 

Science was in the hands of an exclusive group of knowing and informed and morally incorruptible people who had forsworn any personal advantage and foresworn not to make a profit from this. 

Clearly this is not the case today.  Universities taking money from corrupt and powerful mining companies and perverting the science to aid their venture to gain even more money and power.  I weep for our planet with these people at the helm. 
In history past the scientist was an instrument so valuable.  The scientist was developed from the great triad of music mathematics and astronomy.  We have a scientific world that has made the most amazing discoveries but we also have a scientific world that is open to corruption and money. 
This is treachery at its very finest.  This is not hidden, they openly do this to all who will fall for this. 

The science is wrong when it covers the evil effects to benefit getting more money at the cost of families with children.

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Monday, December 03, 2012

The Weather is always big News

Today I saw Lightening come from out of the sun.   I was so excited.  After my initial excitement I realized it was not from the sun but from the storm just above the sun on the horizon.

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Dawn Sky in Urunga
The Science of Thunderstorms

All thunderstorms go through three stages: the cumulus stage, the mature stage, and the dissipation stage. Depending on atmospheric conditions, these three stages can take anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours to occur.

There are four main types of thunderstorms: single cell, multicell, squall line (also called multicell line) and supercell. Which type you get depends on the instability and relative wind conditions in the atmosphere’s different layers (called "wind shear"). Single cell storms are the typical summer thunderstorm we experience in temperate locales. They typically move, being a function of a local atmospheric instability.

Multi cell storms can form clusters or “squall lines” (organized line of storms). They tend to form from convective updrafts in or near mountain ranges and linear weather boundaries, usually strong cold fronts or troughs of low pressure. Multicell line storms can span hundreds of miles. They move swiftly, and are preceded by a gust front. Heavy rain, hail, lightning, very strong winds and even isolated tornadoes can occur in a squall line.

Images @ Melonpopzdropz Flickr