Evolution Of Storms

Overcast with words it doesn't matter where all the water is coming from only where it goes

Evolution Of Storms

 

It doesn't matter where all the water is coming from only where it goes

 

They started to fill in the whole area shown by the passing front lines on the weather maps

Could have looked like this before we know the outlines of the storms we looked for patterns

Only really big ones use to be completely filled in solid looking liquid mountains in the skies

Shaped as an ellipse or circle or oval or just filling in the outlines of any old shape

By the frontal lines that creep across the horizon like waves the rain follows the invisible pointers

The common wheel shape with a hub and spokes radiating off into the distances

The center hub turns as the center of the low pressure zone curls out across the lands

The spokes wind round the hub providing waves of precipitation with dryness in between

A score of years ago nine inch rain falls started to appear more common flooding rivers and low lands

Downpours started and went on and on inch by inch as the measured inches passed the common few

Nine inch storms if you graph them over time increased in number and we know the floody results

Now the hollow shapes of the storms are filling in the open spaces that gave a nice break in time and flow

Some frontal zones cover half the nation on a good day though now it might be not so good

Mostly empty of water they travel over the land blowing out across eastern shores into the oceans

Well they don't have to be empty outlines any more mere dispersers of needed water for dryish lands

With the whole outline filled in clearly seen on the maps new rivers can form in hours and wetter still

Then the land dries out hours days or weeks later only waiting for the cycle to start again

Melting ice disappears into the clouds but doesn't mix with ocean waters sitting on top as fresh water lakes

The government sends out five year voyagers to go where no man has gone before or so it seems

In hunt of these fresh water lakes that inhabit the oceans floating on top taking decades to mix in

The simple looking oceans actually subdivided into huge currents hotter or colder or deeper or saltier

These huge currents slither like snakes through ocean depths diving and surfacing as they seem fit

Some take hundreds of years to go round the planet bringing water from older times back to the present

Someday we might build fantastic Martian canals to bring the water from the wettest zones to the parched zones

Or pump dry fresh water lakes laying on ocean surfaces as a new kind of treasure that we all know it is