A Tropical Storm in Arizona??? The Mighty Monsoon (From 0 to 60 in 5 min.)

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camelsandfriends

5 жыл бұрын

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@hotdogs6751 5 жыл бұрын

What inspires you to make a youtube channel?

@camelsandfriends 5 жыл бұрын

I made my KZbin Channel in 2009 because I loved to film and I loved animals. KZbin was young then and there were not a lot of videos. I wanted to show the close relationship you can have with all animals and to hopefully show the public something that would foster respect well after they watched the video. I also did it because I just wanted all my animals' videos together for myself to reflect on or for family and friends. I had no idea at the time that KZbin would become a big part of my life and I never realized the amount of people I could actually reach. Now that I have so many that watch, I try to focus on education or showing things that someone would not see every day. If you look back at my very first videos, they are more general 'home movies' than my videos are now.

@hotdogs6751 5 жыл бұрын

Well, 9 years later you are verified and more than 177K Subscribers,you've made it this far,congratulations!

@camelsandfriends 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was so proud to get my award from KZbin in the mail for passing 100k subscribers. I took it right over to Baby and Nessie and opened it with them. :) I think though compared to other channels of the same age, it's been quite slow going. I am not very good at self-promotion, I don't sensationalize and anything involving marketing the animals as a product or show piece to attract attention for the sake of popularity really doesn't sit well with me. Which I think is the main reasons that my channel has remained relatively small, despite over 500 videos and I believe though I am not completely certain-- that as a single channel I have had the most viral animal videos of all time. I don't think anyone comes close. I wish that I could grow my channel more, it would certainly help the animals to earn more money via my partnership. However, at the same time I can't seem to set them up to be used as show pieces to do it... which is defeating to them in the end.

@camelsandfriends 5 жыл бұрын

We had a huge storm last night. This was the beginning of it. It literally went from 0 to 60 in 5 minutes. The sky was clear just minutes before the beginning of the film and by the end of it the sky was about to burst open. Only a couple minutes of footage was missing from 'start' to 'finish' which I edited out because I had to wipe my camera lens and re-adjust. Monsoon isn't like a normal storm, it's quite amazing and this area in Arizona is the only place in North America that has one. For more information on the monsoon see below or in the pin commented, as I don't think all the info will fit here. The Sonoran Desert Monsoon The word monsoon refers to a system of winds that changes seasonally, bringing wet and dry periods to a region. In the Sonoran Desert, the summer monsoon consists of winds from the sea flowing inland to fill the partial vacuum created by rising continental air warmed by the summer sun. These winds bring moisture. The belt of westerlies shifts north in the summertime so that the Pacific high sits around 40 latitude, allowing moist air from the Pacific off of Baja California to move into the region. These westward-moving winds actually circle around into the area and often reach the Sonoran Desert as southeasterly winds. This is one reason people in the past assumed that monsoon moisture comes from the Gulf of Mexico. Recent studies, however, lead many meteorologists to believe that most moisture from the southeast is drained by the 6500 foot (1980 m) Mexican Sierra Madre and so doesn't reach the Sonoran Desert. This issue is yet unresolved. Once Pacific moisture reaches our area, usually in July, the increased humidity means we really begin to feel the heat. If June has proceeded as usual, the desert surface is very hot, causing the moist air moving in to expand and rise. The hot air rising off the desert floor moves upward in great columns called thermals, which can be three to five miles (5 to 8 km) in diameter. Broader areas of cooler air separate the thermal columns, which is why thunderheads can be so wildly scattered. The creation of thermals can be a violent business, and local updrafts can move at over fifty feet (15 m) per second. The strong convection upwards is usually matched by strong downdrafts which kick up sand and dust as they hit the land. Above, the air cools as it rises, until at about 17,000 feet (5200 m) the moisture freezes. A growing thunderhead can tower 40,000 feet (12,000 m) or more, with the whole top containing a raging snowstorm a strange concept to a person broiling at ground level. And even with all the buildup, it is not at all uncommon to have a "frustrated"thunderstorm. Towering cumulus clouds sweep across valley floors, whirling skirts of wind and dust, and throwing lightning bolts. Yet all the rain can evaporate before reaching the ground. This creates one of the more awesome desert sights: virga the trailing vaporous streams of rain that hang from a thunderhead with frayed ends drying in the layer of hot air over the desert's surface. he rain that does reach the desert floor in a summer thunderstorm typically does so with great vigor. Although the dry desert can absorb substantial amounts of water, much of the rain rolls off the hard-baked ground. Sheets of water wash across the land, filling arroyos and riverbeds in minutes, the flow carrying along sand, rocks, and plants, carving new stream channels and eroding stream banks. This runoff is a critical resource for desert life, whether it is providing a temporary pool for a desert spadefoot (Scaphiopus spp.), a cool spell and source of groundwater recharge for urban desert dwellers, or irrigation for a Tohono O'odham squash field. Another manner in which rain comes to the Sonoran Desert is by tropical cyclones, which originate in the eastern part of the North Pacific, usually in the early fall. These giant storms have established some of the all-time records of monthly precipitation in the Sonoran Desert region. The Spanish word chubasco is frequently used by Sonoran Desert dwellers to refer to these tropical storms. ("Chubasco"is more generally defined as any extremely violent storm.) Although infrequent, these storms are memorable. Consider, for example, some statistics from the flood of 1983. About 10,000 people were displaced. Water, mud and debris severely damaged or destroyed over 1300 homes; 1700 received lesser damage. Many people who fled from their homes were cut off from help because roads, bridges, phone lines, and electric lines were washed away. Interstate 10, the main link between Phoenix and Tucson, was washed out at the Gila River, and twenty other main highways were closed. Nine people drowned trying to cross flooded washes; four others were killed when aircraft got caught in downbursts and crashed. These large storms begin out at sea, and, as they churn over Baja California, the storms pick up additional energy from the warm waters of the upper Gulf of California. They reach the Sonoran Desert region with renewed energy. The Yuma area is frequently hardest hit, occasionally receiving its whole annual allotment of precipitation in a matter of hours. Even when the storm remains at sea it can still produce heavy rains in the desert. In 1970 and 1983, the tropical storms Norma and Octave pounded the Pacific side of Baja California. Moisture moved up into the Sonoran Desert region from the south, met a cold front moving into the area from the north and caused tremendous flooding across the area. Tropical storms are a normal part of the weather pattern, and they have visited the Sonoran Desert region once or twice per decade in recent times. 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@modtanoi1502 5 жыл бұрын

Do you want to have another emus and ostrich yes or on ?

@lookingout9621 5 жыл бұрын

Love the setting. Very cool.

@night_owl3117 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to see the animals react to the strong wind. Camels, as usual, look so calm. Nandi seems to want to play even though a storm is coming. The goat was eating, looking nervously around her to see what was coming. They all seem to care about themselves, with the exception of the laama. When he appeared in the background, it was obvious that he was at work and very busy. He seemed to count all the animals to make sure no one was missing. Tesla really allowed me to discover a facet of the laama that I did not know. I say Tesla but, it is rather you that I thank you for putting these videos online. Take care of yourself and your gang.

@cleo6205 5 жыл бұрын

Hi. How much land do you have your animals grazing on? To me, it looks like 40 acres.

@camelsandfriends 5 жыл бұрын

It's only 5! 40 would be a dream. 10 would be a dream even!

@goodtackle9650 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing all these information about te mansoon wind , very interesting to know about it , i knew before about the 1983 flood that hurt badly the corn fields in Illinois. You know this reminds me with a similar wind -well not closely similar - we have in spring called Al khamaseen , it blows for 50 days from the great Sahara and hit Eygpt , Arabia and all the desert belt around. Its close to this wind but not close enough its hot and sandy . I think since you like the desert you might want to know more abou it , here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamsin

@timberthewolf9448 5 жыл бұрын

I got to observe wild skunks

@MEOWz_MAGzTER 5 жыл бұрын

i've been wondering, i've read articles before that say animals can feel where there's gonna be a natural disaster?. like earthquakes/tsunamis. have you ever experienced that? have you ever noticed your animals start acting weird whenever the weather turns or something bad is about to happen?