Why Are Some Cities ATTRACTING Storms While Others REPEL Them?

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@rainey1987 Ай бұрын

I live in West Texas in what was once a verdant riparian Valley. Over the past 40 years I've watched swaths of green earth turned to Black asphalt or brown desert and yet they have no idea why it's hotter

@ecurewitz Ай бұрын

And the asphalt is only one part of the equation

@perfectallycromulent Ай бұрын

because they're not watching videos like this. they're working from a belief that god gave them the earth to use, and that if they use it like god intended, everything should be just fine. when you talk about this stuff, you're aren't just giving people a science lesson here, you're challenging their core beliefs. that's why its difficult for them to understand and change.

@PaperSmudge Ай бұрын

Wind and Solar cause more environmental damage than fossil fuels when both are managed correctly. You have to destroy ecosystems to gets thousands of pounds of rare earth metals and battery dumps (since we don’t know how to recycle batteries) would cause battery acid to leak into the water table and rivers causing aquifers to be unusable and rivers/lakes to become dead zones. Also the sheer amount of land you have to use just to supply the world is of the entire state of Arizona. Nuclear is a far safer, environmental friendly and efficient source of energy.

@danielcarroll3358 Ай бұрын

@@PaperSmudge This is a cut and paste. The same FUD appears in answers to other comments here.

@MarriedWithPizza Ай бұрын

Same thing in California Central Valley. Everything is dry and dead. Fire season keeps getting longer, the farmers need to use up all the water, or they lose the water. Insane.

@rainydaywoman8997 Ай бұрын

Well this makes sense. I live on a plain with mountains to the east. The clouds “stack up” against the mountains, then they drop precipitation, lighten up, and go over the mountains to the next valley.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

We live right next to one of the ridges in the Blue Ridge, and we see all sorts of ways the weather is affected by the mountains, too. The rainbows are nice 😂

@lo-kel Ай бұрын

Mountains cause changes to weather, why wouldn't a pile of giant buildings do the same?

@nialeemaria Ай бұрын

Buildings aren’t nearly as tall….

@lo-kel Ай бұрын

@ even hills have impacts on the weather.

@shacktime Ай бұрын

@@nialeemaria The Saudis are working on that😉

@filmbuffo5616 Ай бұрын

One is bigger than the other by an order of magnitude.

@shacktime Ай бұрын

@filmbuffo5616 Debatable. Massive urban sprawl creates heat islands that can completely alter microclimates in ways mountains don’t. Also, regional climates took millions of years to conform to mountains and valleys. Urban sprawl changes these in mere decades.

@birdnird Ай бұрын

Austin, TX definitely has a rain repellent dome. I have seen countless storms from the west part, go north and south of the city, and merge again on the east side

@esgee3829 Ай бұрын

they didn't talk about the magnitude of the effect for h-town or atx. i'm curious how large it is now, but i guess to know i'll have to read the papers referenced...

@ivanrodriguez268 Ай бұрын

same in Houston!

@user-lw3wl4ps7z Ай бұрын

San Antonio as well. It rains/storms seldom enough down here, but you can literally just watch the radar and systems just say "nope", unless they are already stable/strong.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

@@esgee3829 Houston gets hit worse because everything is covered and the water has nowhere to go

@Padraigp Ай бұрын

I used to live at the South of a lake surrounded by mountains...the rain would form come down the valley and drop rain on our tiny village...nowhere else would have it all around just us not even the mountains where the rain came from or the lake where the water i guess came from just us! I visited on a sunny day and thought what a nice town then I moved there and it rained 345 days of the year!!! 😂 now I live near a place that has some metal deposits ..not iron i forget which metal and we attract thunder and lightning to always hit one side of town!! 😂the natives all would have known this and told you not to build your cities here or there i suspect.

@waleedkhalid7486 Ай бұрын

I am literally about to start a unit on lightning formation preceded by a unit on thermodynamics. This video is perfect to introduce the topic.

@rcpettengill Ай бұрын

The situation with Austin is probably more complex than presented in your story. Austin has long had a reputation as a tornado repellent, long before the city had a high rise downtown. The reason may be similar however. I’ve heard this attributed to the hill country topography along the Balcones Fault which runs through the western (up wind) part of Austin.

@ecurewitz Ай бұрын

F the way meds are coming downslope, any storms tend to dry up. I live in a town with a similar effect

@chrisschaeffer9661 Ай бұрын

God hates Confeds

@joshuaharper372 Ай бұрын

I live at the top of the Balcones formation in south Dallas, and it has a similar effect (at least anecdotally for the past 50 years) in disrupting tornados.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

We were in Austin in April because we traveled to Texas to watch the eclipse (good times, we were just able to see it despite the cloud cover over Fredericksburg). One thing that was clear even between Austin and San Antonio is that the urban center in Austin has more green spaces. We didn't get to Houston, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are fewer green areas there, too. I was really excited to see the Moonlight towers, btw, they are really neat!!!

@frederickheard2022 Ай бұрын

Air pollution and impervious surfaces are the two low-hanging fruits that could make a huge difference in flooding impacts even if rainfall increases with particularly juicy storms.

@Madmun357 Ай бұрын

Correction... Tropical Storm Harvey dumped rain on Houston. Hurricane Harvey tore through Rockport, TX then weakened, moved out over water again, then landed over Houston...as a tropical storm.

@mikeg9b Ай бұрын

Yes. I went out on the porch several times during Harvey, which I wouldn't have done in hurricane-force winds. It wasn't that windy, but the rain was unreal.

@allgood2981 29 күн бұрын

I watched it rain heavy nonstop from my porch for more than 8 straight hours without stopping. I couldn't believe it as my neighbors and I watched the reservoir fill up & overflow.

@Madmun357 29 күн бұрын

@@mikeg9b I grew up in west Texas, so seeing the rain in Houston during those flooding events was almost incomprehensible for me. My mind couldn't make sense of it

@darindooley4683 Ай бұрын

Lived it and have seen the change over the last 30 years here in Katy west of Houston. We have a lot to learn.

@nicholaslogan6840 Ай бұрын

NO, we have enemies to defeat. Corporations created all these problems by lying to people and changing laws they should never have been able to influence. The rest of us can't help using gasoline, plastic, etc because everything in the world is designed to be wasteful and become obsolete, all in service of driving 'the economy'

@TaliaMellifera Ай бұрын

this is an intelligent layout of the dynamics & I appreciate the message about cities themselves following and sharing their masterplans, liveable, diverse, low-traffic cities.

@AudraK Ай бұрын

From coastal Georgia, I can say storms have gotten worse. We evacuated maybe 3 times 20 years ago but have had to evacuate at least once a year since the past 5-8 years. Not to mention the road I live on used to flood constantly until we raised the road 6inches. We then had no issues with flooding until this year. This is the first time water has gone over the road since being raised years ago. It just gets worse and worse. Slowly. But worse nonetheless Hell downtown Savannah floods after a light sprinkle. The city can’t handle regular rainfall. With these extra storms, downtown has had its ass handed to it far too many times recently

@benjamincornia7311 Ай бұрын

That flooding may have more to do with rising sea levels. When sea levels rise, it also raises the water table which increases flooding in coastal areas. I recommend moving further inland before the property market collapses.

@johnnymichael1804 Ай бұрын

@@benjamincornia7311you gonna tell that to the Obamas too?

@benjamincornia7311 Ай бұрын

@@johnnymichael1804 I will if I see them. The real estate collapse has already started in some areas.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

cities were never meant to be on the gulf coast, Houston was built on plains so the water gets stuck

@benjamincornia7311 Ай бұрын

@@johnnymichael1804 Trump will also lose Mar-a-Lago.

@jerrymckittrick3039 Ай бұрын

The St. Louis urban heat island seems to repel storms. Many times storms will split as they approach the city, and immediately after the front passes through to Illinois, storms and tornados will pop up again. Was hoping this would be explained in the video since St. Louis was on the title illustration. Thanks for the great weather videos Maiya!

@RobertSaxy Ай бұрын

They gave a possible answer to this at the end of the video, they didn’t mention St. Louis but talked about how for yet to be understood reasons it seems that cities that have a trapezoidal shape to their developed areas seem to repel storms, they even said the storm splits just like you described. And I to will add my thank yous to Maiya and the team for these videos

@ldbarthel Ай бұрын

@@RobertSaxy Totally anecdotal, but it seems to me that the storms that track along I-44 are more likely to split than those that track along I-170. (Storms along I-70 are typical west to east, but storms along I-44 tend to be associated with the clockwise rotation of tropical storms in the Gulf.) This lends credence to the trapezoid observation, due to the orientation of the city and the rivers. Storms tracking along I-70 basically encounter a semi-circle, while storms along I-44 encounter more of a trapezoid with curved sides.

@RobertSaxy Ай бұрын

@ how anecdotally intriguing, thanks for the sharing of your observations

@johntouchet7178 Ай бұрын

Proximity to the Gulf of Mexico probably contributes to higher humidity in Houston, while Austin seems to sit closer to the center of the "heat dome" that cooks the central plains in summer, and the central jetstream powerfully pushes dry air across Austin before hitting the wall of gulf humidity near the coast. Water runoff differs as well, because Austin sits on a large geological formation of karst limestone -- allowing water into the ground more readily. Houston sits on the Gulf Coastal Plain, underlaid with clay soils which take longer to absorb water, even where not covered with concrete or asphalt. I don't dispute the effects described by your scientists, I merely want to point out that the complications far exceed what you described.

@ernestsmith3581 3 күн бұрын

The story presents a complete misrepresentation of Texas weather. Austin gets around 20-30 inches of rain per year; always has. Houston gets between 40 and 80, depending on where in town you are and whether the year is wet or dry; and it's ALWAYS been that way. They are in entirely different climactic regions. Austin is near the southern end of the Great Plains, and Houston is in the Eastern Forest climactic zone. If one were making a study of how humans have changed climate, I cannot think of a study more apt to generate erroneous data than comparing these two Texas cities.

@anniegerlach2563 Ай бұрын

As someone from St. Louis: we just turn on the arch and the weather goes away

@ScottTempler Ай бұрын

and for those not in the know, San Antonio is just south of south of Austin Central Texas so generally would affects Austin can affect San Antonio depending on the storm size or lack of

@chrisconklin2981 Ай бұрын

I live in a semi-urban area of Florida. The ground is very sandy so water is absorbed very quickly. One notable feature is that retention ponds are build to catch road water runoff.

@shacktime Ай бұрын

Yup. But as seawater continues to encroach and seep into your bedrock it’s gonna wreak havoc.

@chrisconklin2981 Ай бұрын

@@shacktime True. It's called saltwater intrusion. Here in Florida the bedrock you talk about is pours limestone. Called the Floridan aquifer, it is one of the best in the world. The trick is to keep this limestone filled with freshwater that resists the saltwater. Retention ponds aid in this effort. Unfortunately, over pumping well water lowers the groundwater level leading to saltwater intrusion.

@duB420Grass Ай бұрын

I live in an area of Cleveland that is built around and maintains a natural drainage system. We also have permeable sidewalks in most our commercial districts. The only flooding here is when the 100 plus year old sewers get backed up because we can't fix them because we keep sending money to cities rebuilding in disaster/flood prone areas.

@PenguinInguinLodge Ай бұрын

Houston resident here. We get almost all our summer time rain from the Gulf. That is something absent in Austin. That’s probably more of a factor than the shape of the city or anything else talked about here.

@ECBPhotography 29 күн бұрын

What about the fact that Houston is 30-60 miles away from the gulf and Austin is significantly less humid?

@aliciajeffcoat5627 Ай бұрын

Our house flooded in Harvey. We lived in friendswood tx and will never live near a creek again.

@durandalo11 Ай бұрын

my man out here calling storms "Juicy"

@dc2guy2 28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@nolongerlistless 10 күн бұрын

"Juicy" and "juicier" are fine by me, but "more juicier" makes me angry, because it is a mistake that is being propagated by internet.

@l0gh0rn1 Ай бұрын

This is so fascinating. We are seeing more flooding in Houston but certain neighborhoods get it worse. We need more studies to plan cities better. Use super computer models to predict where extreme rain events are more common and disincentive people from building there. The shape of Austin downtown needs to be studied better and implemented here in Houston. The problem with Houston is there are multiple areas of tall buildings. There are as many tall buildings in Gallerias as Downtown.

@TaliaMellifera Ай бұрын

there's a lot of landscape study about what is making cities liveable and what not; the local governments must introduce them more and more..!

@PaperSmudge Ай бұрын

It’s not the layout, it’s just the Houston is a swamp. There need to be more drainage systems tho,

@Demopans5990 Ай бұрын

At the same time, having purpose designed public transit can allow a city to continue to function in all but the absolute worst conditions. An elevated rail system doesn't care about floods for one.

@niqhtt Ай бұрын

Now lets be realistic.. the majority of people that vote here don't believe science anyway.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

The problem is creating areas that the flood waters can drain into, that's how you recover faster

@inappropriatejohnson Ай бұрын

Thank you. Too bad the governors of Texas and Florida won't see this.

@DarkPesco Ай бұрын

And the governors of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee......

@hennyHBK Ай бұрын

Govt knows they jus don't give a Fuck, Especially Big Oil in Houston

@PaperSmudge Ай бұрын

@danielcarroll3358 Ай бұрын

@@PaperSmudge Boy! Is that a pile of FUD! Battery recycling is profitable and there are several firms doing it right now. It will be a while before there is a need for more battery recycling because they have turned out to last much longer than originally thought. I'll bet you are one of those who think EVs have to have a new battery every few years. They outlast the car and then have a second life in fixed applications.

@BlackDot-xyz Ай бұрын

Dems are controlling the weather to try & stop Trump from helping Putin save & protect Ukraine!!

@Kehk-in-a-MiG Ай бұрын

Albuquerque does this, where the air rising out of the Rio Grande Valley creates a "snow hole" over the Metro and the mountains and Belen get all the snow.

@tomasmondragon883 Ай бұрын

I don't know if it's so much an Albuquerque thing as it is a mountain and valley thing. The weather bubble over Los Lunas and Bosque Farms is much more pronounced than it is over Albuquerque. (North) Albuquerque only has mountains to its east while the towns to the south are bracketed by volcanoes to the west and mountains to the east. The chain of volcanoes to the west of the central Rio Grande Rift Valley ends north of Belen.

@tomasmondragon883 Ай бұрын

@Kehk-in-a-MiG Ай бұрын

@@tomasmondragon883 Those town/villages are part of the Metro. Belen could be considered an outer suburb, but seems to be outside the snow hole.

@garrenosborne9623 Ай бұрын

This is great research & it offers a few useful possibilities taking advantage of the effect, with judicious modifications of the built environment: 1. yes use the effect to deflect dangerous storms. 2. but harvest storms of water, via retro-fitting drainage to treatment to new city induced farm land.

@ScottTempler Ай бұрын

I felt here in San Antonio that unless there's Large hurricane on the gulf. we don't get any rain. All the rain coming from the north gets blocked by the Hill country

@jrm78 Ай бұрын

One problem which made flooding worse in Houston was the development of the wetlands in and around the city itself. Healthy wetlands act as a sponge soaking up excess rainfall, but they have become tract housing and parking lots, the runoff quickly floods the streams and rivers. And it is the people and businesses in the newly developed former wetlands which receive the brunt of the damage.

@grahamlindsay1263 Ай бұрын

If you haven't been part of a natural disaster, then just imagine not having power for a minimum 10 Days. Inability to flush your toilet for 3 weeks unless you put the water in there. No cell service, your car radio gives you news updates, this occurs to all of your neighbor's, throughout your municipality and your county north south east and west you are smack dab in the middle. What can you do to get yourself ready? Will you pay attention to when you need to be ready? Will you cooperate?

@zimbabwe_twinnedwithanfield Ай бұрын

This is my childhood 😂.

@joltjolt5060 Ай бұрын

By that logic all the skyscrapers on the beaches of Florida should stop hurricanes. Meh.

@theautotoyboxfollowyourdre9722 29 күн бұрын

In Houston even the weather is getting stuck in traffic.

@dc2guy2 28 күн бұрын

gold 😂😂😂😂

@michaelangulo1853 23 күн бұрын

Funnie

@MrSymbolic7 28 күн бұрын

Man Made Wether !

@jamescox7007 Ай бұрын

In Sudbury Ontario, if you watch the radar you can see storms break apart and form past the city. While south and north stay intact..

@petermiesler9452 Ай бұрын

0:40 That question, 'Is it possible we could impact weather' underscores our historic disregard for learning about Earth systems. Is it possible, it's unavoidable that packing high rises together will impact weather patterns on all sorts of levels. How could it, not? It was our duty to be curious and learn about those sorts of things. Instead we were too self absorbed to pay attention to nature, that environmental thing. We wholeheartedly embraced progress and technology and always refused to consider the other side of the progress coin, the costs, the damages inflicted to humans and biosphere - the trajectories we were creating, unintended consequences, the party was too much fun to think of that. We chose to dismiss, pretend we could ignore. Bad call that one.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

there was a reason the natives never lived close to the gulf, they knew that storms would come

@arlingtonguy54 29 күн бұрын

I left New Orleans after having my house flooded during Katrina and moved to Western NC that was supposed to be to climate safe. We learned differently recently during Hurricane Helena.

@asrr62 29 күн бұрын

yeah hills create bad flash flooding which is what happened there.

@drewcarter5435 29 күн бұрын

This is B.S . I have lived in houston all my life and i can tell you that storms use to be the normal thing here until they started tearing down all the trees. Houston is supposed to be a tropical area which means is supposed to rain here often, that's not the case any more as we get less and less precipitation every year unless a sever storm comes, and that's a big if. Also the bad flooding is due to the increase in building and tearing down of the trees. Flooding used to be minor before the all the building and expansion. People need to stop coming here and move out toward rural areas, there's to many crowded in this area and to much concrete for a tropical area

@rockys7726 Ай бұрын

One of the reasons why I moved to Austin. No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no earthquakes and only small chance of forest fire.

@WaterWaver-fy8de Ай бұрын

No ocean

@kaiqiwei3628 Ай бұрын

Austin is too expensive and the terrain is bad for city development.

@rockys7726 Ай бұрын

@@kaiqiwei3628 yeah it's gotten a lot more expensive but no different than the rest of TX. But the view from the hills are spectacular.

@rockys7726 Ай бұрын

@@WaterWaver-fy8de Hence no hurricanes...

@michaelangulo1853 23 күн бұрын

Flash floods are a problem in hill county

@esgee3829 Ай бұрын

10:29 "cities themselves can have a masterplan. how they grow," lol you ain't talking about H-town! And frankly the inability of most US cities to get zoning and transit done right to address their affordability issues does not inspire confidence.

@PaperSmudge Ай бұрын

We have a lot more than most cities with underground tunnels from building to building in most of downtown. Transit is a bit lack luster tho. But anyway it is quite walkable even in neighborhoods that weren’t created to be walkable. I live in one of those communities which is considered not walkable but I can walk to restaurants, stores and family within 20 minutes.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

they are starting to, we are getting light rail and BART metro extended in the SF Bay Area

@mirhasanoddname Ай бұрын

Not american but I've noticed this comparing my hometown to a city 20 minutes away. It's nice to finally have an explanation for it, thank you!

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

we've known about the heat sink, but we haven't had enough data for a correlation

@libertyblueskyes2564 Ай бұрын

WEATHER ENGINEERING has been around since the late 1800s

@brotherted9212 28 күн бұрын

I’m sorry, but the explanation for Austin’s relative drought is supposed to be the shape of that small area of downtown high rises? I’m just not buying that. The less than 1 square mile downtown area can’t be scaring away the moisture throughout all of the much, much larger Austin metro area, including suburbs & ex-urbs.

@victoriaeads6126 Ай бұрын

This all makes so much sense. I hope urban planning is already taking this data into account. How Phoenix will continue to be habitable eludes me, though. They are in a valley with extremely dry air. There's just nowhere for that heat energy to dissipate. It's a lovely place, but eventually I think people will decide it's not worth it.

@平和-v1z Ай бұрын

Great episode!

@lordraiden5398 Ай бұрын

To experience this first hand just drive past a large golf course or park in the evening during the summer with windows down or on a motorcycle. It is about 15° cooler.

@bigwev101 Ай бұрын

They completely ignored San Antonio, which is 100 miles south of Austin and 200 miles west of Houston, a city that repels storms and is dramatically dryer and hotter than both Austin and Houston.

@sandydiller4828 Ай бұрын

Other than the four years spent in Boston, I lived 50 years in the city of Chicago and the last seven in SW Michigan, about 3 miles from Lake Michigan. However, I currently live 3 blocks from a smallish lake that feeds Lake Michigan, and for some reason, that lake stops the big booming storms that come across the big lake. I have watched my former city experience TEN tornadoes with two touchdowns - one in my old neighborhood 😳 - and yet my area gets spared most of the time. Lake effect snow otoh, well, it’s going to be a FUN winter! It’s getting drier here, with rain coming more in bunches rather than steadier events. Chicago has spent $$$ over the years retrofitting older buildings with garden rooftops, and my former employer is responsible for the last 40 years of success completing and maintaining the deep tunnel and reservoir project, successfully meant to direct combined sewer flow away from city streets during rain events. But it’s impossible to lessen the heat literally coming off the high rises. So yeah Chicago is a big dome.

@ageh4chou Ай бұрын

Columbus, OH. I've watched countless storms seem to break around the city, then go on to damage other parts of the state. The worst storms I've experienced here have knocked out power for days, but I fear that a rare 'direct hit' would be devastating.

@UserName-ts3sp Ай бұрын

Another thing for Columbus... There's an unglaciated hill between Springfield and Columbus. It helps slow down and break up storms that hit Dayton and points west.

@abcqwerty01 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your video. I have an idea, why not convert concrete footpaths back to its native or original terrain? Cars needs asphalt roads, but humans do not. Footpaths in front of residences can be looked after by the residents themselves. Public areas can be looked after by the local councils.

@nateavish1892 Ай бұрын

People who need mobility supports (walkers, wheelchairs, etc) have a hard enough time with bumpy sidewalks, or even most brick surfaces. Thankfully, though, there are ways to design the built environment to allow people to enjoy it AND to support effective water drainage :)

@abcqwerty01 Ай бұрын

@@nateavish1892 I was just thinking about those who may have mobility issues needing smooth footpaths. Thank you for your idea.

@slowlife2158 Ай бұрын

I wonder if this effect also interacts with our western US wildfires. Do urban effects on weather increase risk of lightning, and therefore lightning-caused wildfires downwind? Like if we get heat and Lightning and east winds, would the location of Bend, OR increase fire risk in the cascades immediately west of the city, like Three Sisters, Mt Jefferson, or Waldo lake areas?

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

the urban heat sink would create more heat in the air, not a direct factor but definitely a connection

@feliciabaham5446 Ай бұрын

As a Houstonian, our trees are disappearing...concrete has replaced them

@RonaldPetrin Ай бұрын

Cool topic wise we all need to get hip to.

@johnkarjalainen8003 Ай бұрын

Yes, adapt, research, respect, and cooperate with planetary forces and with all Earth’s creatures, a good advice to y'all chicks and fellas ... This changed mindset is going to be humanity's best protective umbrellas ...

@aellalee4767 18 күн бұрын

First year in university I was in a basement suite in a city. My geography professor told us the section of town I was in would eventually flood when a massive once in a decade storm hit. I moved to higher ground and that storm hit less than 6 months later. I would've lost everything, but I didn't even realize it was happening because I wasn't paying attention to radio or social media and just walked to work and home and had been sleeping during the storm. Since then I've picked places to rent in part based on geography. I would wait for a geographically safer place to come available. I did this again when I'd moved and that city got the first of it's now annual atmospheric river events. I was on the third floor on a hill, no problem. We got such bad snow that same year the metropolis shut down in lots of sections and I was able to just walk to the grocery stores and banks nearby. The house I've bought I made sure was on a hill, has no history of major floods like nearby, and while we get wind storms the worst of it hits outside of town but no records of the worst ever hitting here since people have been recording that information. I cannot stress how important it is that people look into these things. There are so many places that cities and towns approve for housing than should not be approved before you include climate change into the conversation.

@jamesanderson5268 Ай бұрын

One thing I've noticed living a good part of my life on the eastern side of rivers, bad weather coming from the west and if there's a river like the Illinois River for us right now (20 miles to the west), the river seems to suck the power out of the storm. While the west side of the river gets really bad thunderstorms, they tend to die out and give us on the east side only showers. One time while in the USAF, we were stationed at Scott AFB IL. There were some tornadoes in the suburb of St. Louis but those tornadoes disappeared before they got to Scott but they hit a small town 10 miles to the east of Scott AFB. Meteorologists say that is not a thing but we seen it time and time again. Rivers seem to suck the power out of storms.

@omostim2385 29 күн бұрын

I feel like Houston usually repels storms. I watch storms on radar raging from the west only for them to fizzle out when they get here then start back up to the east of us. I used to be the guy saying “looks like we’re gonna get some rain” but now I just wait and see quietly lol

@EcomicArt Ай бұрын

Houston, we also have a problem, says India. The pace of urbanisation is not China like but it's not slow either. Urban sprawls are engulfing hinterlands in a chaotic fashion. Building and environmental codes are paid no heed. Constructions take place on river flood plains or on the river itself. Make downtown impervious. Building codes is yet to account or pay respect for the living ecology in which cities are located. We have now Valencia's happening on an yearly basis. But we don't know at whom should we hurl the mud.

@RonaldPetrin Ай бұрын

Answer is: Absolutely! If we have the will power to see the initiative through to real policy then action beginning with plan proposals, feasibility plans and final work plans and the necessary funding. See it through y’all!

@luxxt.3408 Ай бұрын

Yes, born & raised New Yorker and I have noticed the storms are increasingly worse especially those flash thunderstorms during the summer months. Now that the city is considered a humid subtropical climate, I noticed it gets so hot and muggy some days, you know it’s going to downpour.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

not just storms, heat waves are getting worse, we just had one last month in California

@greatcountryliving 15 күн бұрын

Geoengineering & weather modification ON PURPOSE

@EduardQualls Ай бұрын

The Internet, with both remote work and online-merchants, has cratered the importance of "downtown." This has decreased both traffic and the need for high-rise or sprawling business areas. Of course, it has also brought on the current crisis in business-space investment with the demand for office space tumbling. The online way we coped with the pandemic accelerated the demise of the "central business district."

@dc2guy2 28 күн бұрын

that's why they're trying to force people back in office. city governments gotta generate those juicy tax revenues.

@ifeelikedyeing Ай бұрын

I am so worried about my community flooding at some point! This conversation is so important and should be alerting to a global degree

@stephenriggs8177 Ай бұрын

Born and raised southeast of Houston in an area that was strangely isolated from the most devastating weather events. I loved thunderstorms. They led to flooded streets, which might leave your car stranded, but I never saw floodwaters encroach more than a few feet over our grassy front lawn. Even hurricane Alicia was pretty trivial, in our neck of the woods. But I haven't lived there in 25 years, and the concrete sprawl that I left behind is far bigger, now. (Houston is incredibly flat, so there's nothing to constrain growth except for Buffalo Bayou/The Ship Channel.)

@aldraysmith4357 Ай бұрын

I'm from Richmond,Virginia this happen this summer a local meteorologist was explaining this phenomenon.Urban heat island effect .

@lianagheorma92 Ай бұрын

I wish California would use this info to get us more rain!

@missedinformation7068 28 күн бұрын

The diurnal cycles of heat islands were first investigated in major European cities by Renou (1868) and Hann (1885), who observed 3-hourly and daily maximum/minimum temperatures. Their work evolved with the first hourly observations made in urban and rural areas by Alfred Angot (1896).

@lysandroabelcher2592 Ай бұрын

By "city", when talking about Austin, Dr. Niyogi really means DOWNTOWN ! That's an important note because it's often the higher buildings, but that's not necessarily the case beyond USA and Canada!

@0tolerance583 21 күн бұрын

I noticed Austin has a special safe space in between the hurricanes and tornados. I thought it was primarily the distance from the coast and tornado belt, but suspected the cities surrounding it caught the storms, but this video really confirms the city interaction with the weather.

@0tolerance583 21 күн бұрын

The ice storms are something else, though... nothing like snow

Ай бұрын

HTX is east of the 100th and close to the coast. Plus, it's surrounded by refineries that have regional disasters every few years. Instead, I live near the 100th and away from the coast where there are minimal risks. No deep dive needed.

@SephieRothe 28 күн бұрын

I’m a Houstonian and work in Horticulture and we have to explain to clients that their chill hours (an approximation of some chemical reactions plants use to determine if winter is done, certain plants need a certain minimum amount of chill hours to flower and fruit) vary with how close they are to the city center. The effect is large enough that it determines which fruit trees cultivars are appropriate in which parts of the city, so the heat island is something we factor a lot. We also watch the weather so we have seen storms slow down and get trapped. I’m assuming these phenomena were also responsible for Tropical Storm Allison sitting over us and becoming the first storm to never make Hurricane that got its name retired?

@rkozakand Ай бұрын

I live in Omaha. It has long been observed that storms seem to avoid the city.

@theautotoyboxfollowyourdre9722 29 күн бұрын

Prices so High in Austin even the weather is like oh Hail NO!

@RavenWolfDrum69 Ай бұрын

Haarp. The blue water blobs

@boomerbear7596 29 күн бұрын

In Texas we have this term for it, specifically the idea of cities repelling storms. The local meteorologists in Amarillo call it the "Amarillo effect" and I've grown to apply this term to anywhere rain's avoiding or even as a verb (e.g. in the usage "the storm Amarilloed" if rain misses us).

@oneperson5760 18 сағат бұрын

Yes, I have been affected by rain in an urban area. My small city did not keep its storm drains or pumping stations maintained, nor its stormwater drainage canal properly cleared out. So our home flooded from Hurricane Gustav, 2 days after the storm. So we moved from in town and bought land with a slope to it, unlike our flat land in town. Our house is on a ridge at the top of the slope now. When it rains heavily, as in a tropical storm, I can see the water filling the creek down below the house and the water rises, but it does not come near our house, it drains away from our house. I do not trust urban planning for adequate drainage during storms, because the city always finds storm drainage less important and fails to maintain infrastructure, preferring to use the money for something else. So I moved to a place with natural drainage which does not need maintenance.

@RazorFoxDV Ай бұрын

I live in the Norfolk, Virginia, area and I'm wondering if our city is a storm deflector like Austin. I personally love a good storm and so often, I'll see an uninterrupted line of storms coming in on the radar which then promptly breaks up over the metro area. There'll be storms immediately to our north, west, and south (east is the ocean), but a noticeable empty patch over us and, as a storm lover, I find this highly frustrating.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

it depends on the wind patterns and how the metro area is laid out, but it could be

@DanielWatson-vv7cd Ай бұрын

Seems like a combination of factors. Urban island effect, ozone particulate, and the Sky island (via tall buildings) affect.

@nicktoofar3514 29 күн бұрын

How are you going to reduce the surface area of concrete in a city and yet build them less rough it doesn't make sense lady

@velvettedelaney Ай бұрын

Love this series! I’m learning so much ❤

@DavidDominguez-xf6mp 29 күн бұрын

I live off i30 in west ftworth we always notice in our household that storms coming from west Texas always seem to miss us and head in a north east direction towards what is considered tornado alley in north Texas we have a daughter in that area and we always call her ahead of time.This happens about 80% of the time on average.

@UHaulShorts Ай бұрын

It kalled *HARPP* & *DARPA* chick

@Onegreatcook 11 күн бұрын

People are so brainwashed, they don't believe in HARPP

@johnchambers8528 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the video about the warming effect and how it makes a difference to cities. I live in southeast Pennsylvania and we get hot and humid summers. This sometimes causes really bad downpours of rain. While I have only experienced occasional small flooding in my basement, it has caused bigger problems for others in our area. One of the simple things I feel that could be done is to provide more green space to cool and let water be absorbed. For example when new developments are built or shopping centers many are almost pure asphalt. Why can’t they provide small islands between sone of the parking areas with grass and trees to both provide shade and water absorption.

@josephteller9715 Ай бұрын

Really wish this was more in-depth and had more detail. Like many cities, we are fighting with where I live with politicians and the developers that are influencing them who want to change our zoning laws & ordinances and increase the heights allowed for buildings and in the process reduce also the amount of Green Space and soft surfaces for absorbing precipitation and using a region wide drought (the worst one in 200 years) as an excuse as to why we don't need to worry about storm runoff issues, despite sitting a short distance from the ocean and having rivers that run thru our city.

@MorganHJackson Ай бұрын

I'd be really interested in seeing what effect trees have. They'd cool a place down, but also release water which might help build storms.

@danielzhang1916 Ай бұрын

trees and natural drain areas would help a lot, it's about the water having somewhere to go

@ArnoSchlick Ай бұрын

Brilliant content, thank you!

@joeanderson8839 Ай бұрын

Driving in Atlanta has become a nightmare. It has always been a bad dream. But this is ridiculous.

@gsnyder2007 Ай бұрын

2024 will be the hottest year in history. We are now over 1.5c and the extreme weather is happening all over (we are in severe drought in MA) but if I watch mainstream news (eg. CBS, NBC, ABC, etc) there is no coverage! It’s like we are in a collective delusion just going about our lives like everything is normal.

@MiguelY22 Ай бұрын

Hello from Houston

@chrisschaeffer9661 Ай бұрын

Trump gonna deport you. Too bad you voted for him

@ErikaCrist7749 Ай бұрын

My current city repel rains. It's a heat bubble since the current mayor (4 years in charge and just got 4 more now) has a habbit of ordering trees to be cut. Never planting a new one. So it's regular to rain around, on the fields outside the town, while on the inner parts we just get the casual light rain. It's a really hot town, reaching easily 38-40ºC and only dropping below 25º some 3 months of the year. Basically, a to-be desert

@kananaskiscountry8191 Ай бұрын

the more we play with the weather the faster we will wreck this world = do u want to kill all of us by using us like test dummies = lets face it ur already treating us like dummies!!!

@teyhoonboon5853 Ай бұрын

Warming whether is getting worse, years by years. It require huge financial to change the landscape of city, and it is not easily to control the small and big storms from happening. In order to prevent flooding in the city, the city requires to build underground water catchment which can release excess of water into the sea.

@tracybeck1328 25 күн бұрын

The annual Sturgis Rally in South Dakota has storms and rain about 4-5 days into the event every year. I’m not really shocked to learn the sudden massive increase of vehicle exhaust might affect the weather. I’ve had a front row seat to watch it since I moved to the Black Hills in the mid 1990’s.

@ic_clearly Ай бұрын

why weather people Never talk about the effects of Geoengineering ... hummm? Shhhh.

@Onegreatcook 11 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@philyeary8809 Ай бұрын

Its called geoengineering, kids.

@HammedBurngur Ай бұрын

Surely you can prove such geoengineering exists

@Onegreatcook 11 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@k.domingue1954 26 күн бұрын

WEATHER WARFARE Using Weather modification system

@sportykev Ай бұрын

this is so fascinating

@Rene-uz3eb Ай бұрын

I think the co2 and maybe methane bubbles over cities also play a role in these local 10C differences. Little greenhouses over cities. Easy to see up to 50ppm difference.

@homedeezyfasheezy5662 Ай бұрын

They definitely picked the right city in Austin for an example of storms drying up near cities. You can literally watch the radar every time a storm comes through and can almost guarantee the storm will lighten up or dissipate once it hits Austin. However when it does rain hard a lot of time the storms can be pretty violent causing damage to trees and flash flooding usually occurring around the month of May.