I live in upstate NY and noticed some very strange weather patterns this week. Instead of asking some conspiracy theory quacks, I thought it would be better to ask the people of this form so I can hopefully be "debunked". I tend to not believe in this crap.
Been seeing a lot of increased air traffic lately with very loud jets (military base is ~ 45 miles away). Captured a few nice pics of contrails a fewer weeks ago on a nice clear day. Seemed kind of strange how the end of the contrail suddenly disappeared but I'm sure it can be explained.
Yesterday morning I was stacking firewood outside when it started to snow quite heavily. I was a little surprised since I thought the area was dominated by high pressure for a few days. It was snowing heavy at 9am est and was finished by around 930am in my area. The Doppler pattern on twc looked like a bulls-eye shape. I've been told it is just a Doppler spread effect, but, isn't that caused by a long distance from the radar tower? The bulls-eye clouds were right smack on top of the tower so I thought it would be from the "dead zone" caused by the angle of the radar but idk. Here are some screen shots from twc on that day:
I am lead to believe that the general consensus about twc is that it sucks. So I tried looking at some radar data from http://vortex.plymouth.edu/nids.html and http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/
I found it a little strange how the data for January 15th 14:08 to ~18:00 UTC (9:08-13:00 EST) is missing for the TYX radar. Maybe it's just a coincidence. The neighboring radar CXX had some strange patterns later on that day around sunset so I'm assuming these are sun spikes?
Around 9:30am EST yesterday I snapped a few more contrail pics:
Well in any case, I collected a few snow samples and was considering doing some elemental analysis. I just wanted to ask this community if they think it would be worthwhile to do this since it is expensive, I don't have a lot of money, and would be happy to throw them out if I can get some answers.
Thanks for viewing this thread.
Been seeing a lot of increased air traffic lately with very loud jets (military base is ~ 45 miles away). Captured a few nice pics of contrails a fewer weeks ago on a nice clear day. Seemed kind of strange how the end of the contrail suddenly disappeared but I'm sure it can be explained.
![8.jpg 8.jpg](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10497-b1b589a5a7f6d5685fc1d8c47b4f1f79.jpg)
![9.jpg 9.jpg](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10498-4c874bdc9c4f82d27e192cccbcc1f878.jpg)
Yesterday morning I was stacking firewood outside when it started to snow quite heavily. I was a little surprised since I thought the area was dominated by high pressure for a few days. It was snowing heavy at 9am est and was finished by around 930am in my area. The Doppler pattern on twc looked like a bulls-eye shape. I've been told it is just a Doppler spread effect, but, isn't that caused by a long distance from the radar tower? The bulls-eye clouds were right smack on top of the tower so I thought it would be from the "dead zone" caused by the angle of the radar but idk. Here are some screen shots from twc on that day:
![0.JPG 0.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10489-404f4925fed6e3465256cd8f46b836b4.jpg)
![1.JPG 1.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10490-36194aa5b2c5a278cbb65d666bc3c42c.jpg)
![2.JPG 2.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10491-b8aa033588e89f8e599c3f0a830a5636.jpg)
![3.JPG 3.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10492-efde5bb9a8e8b10c3ad15408eb580fdd.jpg)
![4.JPG 4.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10493-0747f10e018f6d8c7efa73c3b1bd2194.jpg)
![5.JPG 5.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10494-f9d98e24803872d83fe655ac9cf1005d.jpg)
I am lead to believe that the general consensus about twc is that it sucks. So I tried looking at some radar data from http://vortex.plymouth.edu/nids.html and http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/radar/
I found it a little strange how the data for January 15th 14:08 to ~18:00 UTC (9:08-13:00 EST) is missing for the TYX radar. Maybe it's just a coincidence. The neighboring radar CXX had some strange patterns later on that day around sunset so I'm assuming these are sun spikes?
![6.JPG 6.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10496-da34514cbb3baa14c50b0dd93f65c556.jpg)
![7.JPG 7.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10495-6ce4764c9a7cd4125f4466cb3128cdf8.jpg)
Around 9:30am EST yesterday I snapped a few more contrail pics:
![12.jpg 12.jpg](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10501-3024d6e6c2788c2bdd095716413d104e.jpg)
![11.jpg 11.jpg](https://www.metabunk.org/data/attachments/10/10500-d324ed5ade879bc9b89867335b61f6e6.jpg)
Well in any case, I collected a few snow samples and was considering doing some elemental analysis. I just wanted to ask this community if they think it would be worthwhile to do this since it is expensive, I don't have a lot of money, and would be happy to throw them out if I can get some answers.
Thanks for viewing this thread.