If you've driving the stretch of I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and get off at the Baker exit near Death Valley, you have the opportunity to see the ultimate tacky weather object--the world's tallest thermometer. Rising a full 134 feet above the dusty streets of Baker (population: 700),
the working thermometer is the brainchild of Baker resident Willis Herron, who spent $700,000 erecting the huge instrument. In an article in the June 2005 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Willis says: "Awww, I know it's tacky. But I also know people won't be able to pass it more than four or five times without saying, 'What is that?'". And hopefully pull off the expressway to take a look--and buy a burger at the Mad Greek restaurant or a slice of strawberry pie at the original Bun Boy restaurant, now owned by Steve Carter, whom Herron sold the thermometer to in 2000.
The thermometer weighs 76,812 pounds, sports 4900 light bulbs, and is held together by 125 cubic yards of concrete--much of this added after 70-mph winds snapped the thermometer in half shortly after it was built in 1991. The 134 foot height is symbolic of the 134 degree maximum temperature recorded in Death Valley in 1913--the all-time record for North America.
Dr. Jeff Masters
The world's tallest thermomerter! (
robsters)
Located in Baker, California, 109 degrees
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http://www.weatherunderground.com/tropical/at200508.disc.html
As of 11 a.m. AST Tropical Depression number 9 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Irene; this is the earliest that there has been nine tropical storms on record. Irene was located near 20.5 north and 45.5 west or about 1160 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Irene is moving towards the west-northwest at 9 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. The minimum central pressure is estimated to be at 1005 millibars or 29.68 inches. Further strengthening will be slow to take place due to the unfavorable upper level wind environment. However, some models suggest that in coming days, upper levels winds will become more favorable. A general track off to the northwest is expected over the next several days.
IRENE IS THE EARLIEST NINTH NAMED STORM ON RECORD...BREAKING THE
OLD MARK BY 13 DAYS. NORMALLY BY THIS DATE ONLY TWO NAMED STORMS
HAVE FORMED. damn this is worse
http://vortex.accuweather.com/hurricane/regions.asp?anim=LOOP&type=IR&large=1&site=ATL®ion=ATLE
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float2-wv-loop.html
Look here the center is in the corner of the screen.
Center around 21n 46w.
And if you look earlier I thought there was more of a circulation below 20.
SURINAME TO 18N54W MOVING W 10-15 KT. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOWS
TWO ENERGY CENTERS WITH THE WAVE.. ONE AT THE NORTHERN END NEAR
16N AND OTHER ONE NEAR THE ITCZ S OF 10.5N. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED
WITH THE NORTHERN PART OF THE WAVE SHOULD ENTER THE SOUTHERN
LEEWARD ISLANDS LATE TODAY AT ABOUT THE LATITUDE OF GUADELOUPE.
THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE WAVE IS EXPECTED TO IMPACT THE
WINDWARD ISLANDS OVERNIGHT WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS EXPECTED
OVER THAT AREA THROUGH MON. THE GFS EVEN SUGGESTS A WEAK LOW
COULD SPIN UP IN THE S PORTION OF THE WAVE BY THE EARLY PART OF
THE WEEK. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW TSTMS ARE FROM
15.5N-17.5N BETWEEN 52W-58W WITH WIDELY SCATTERED TSTMS FROM
8N-11N BETWEEN 51W-58W.
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