mleku on Nostr: watching the spread of fresh water out into the ocean during this time of heavy rain ...
watching the spread of fresh water out into the ocean during this time of heavy rain has really made me wonder about what effect the draining of rain water into the salty sea water has on rain itself
the rain does not come down anywhere near as heavily on the other side of the island because the clouds come from the north, and the mountains induce the clouds to cool and precipitate
but because of this, at the same time, when it does rain, the water runs off mostly down to the ocean on the north side of the island
the fresh water seems to be more dense, based on the clear difference of its refractive index, it reflects more light back here than the salt water, which can only be because of an increased refractive index meaning the same incident light angle is doing the "total internal reflection" thing more strongly than the salty water - teh salty water is more dense in terms of mass, but its more conductive to light, so less is bounced straight back when it hits the ripple of the waves
there are two properties of this fresher water that are important, i think, and just keep in mind that although it only overwhelms the volume of water along the northern coastline (and yes, also because it's both colder and lower density by mass, though higher refractive index) during such heavy rain, but the mountains soak up the water and leak it out slowly all the time on this side, in preference to on the other side
the fresher water is more magnetically permeable and thus attracts more of the electrons and particles coming from the sun, which improves the amount of ionization of dust particles (and probably water droplets from the sea included) as well as being colder, causing a thermocline on this side of the island versus on teh other side, where the sea water is not freshened up nearly as much (only to the extent that humans have redirected the water there)
so, the extreme difference in climate between the two sides of the island has many facets to it, and one of them definitely is the much larger amount of fresh water that drains out into the sea, cooling and changing the refractive index and magnetic permeability of the sea water
the other thing, regarding what i said about permeability, is that most of the lightning i've seen on madeira has been pretty much out to sea in the north, which again, points to what i'm saying - the magnetic permeability of the fresh water attracts the ions more, and the ions conduct electricity better, so when there is a discharge from a cloud, it is more likely to happen here than on the other side
and there is almost a perfect connection between lightning and rainfall, the other thing that increases lightning occurrance is conductive ground, but since this is about the sea, this is not relevant here... relative to that situation, the freshened sea water and the more salty sea water are both not much different in terms of how they can conduct electricity down to some kind of capacitative material, but then the difference is about the magnetic flux lines channeling more of those ions towards this side than the other side, for all of the reasons mentioned before, the refractive index, the magnetic polarity (permeability from less resistance to electron flow with anisotropy)
it makes me think of something that would bring more of the rain to the south side of the island, also
lightning conductors, very big ones... just really fucking tall long steel rods poking out of the ground... maybe tubular would help
these would attract the ions more and increase the cloud formation from winds coming up from the south, which are warmer but hold more water (higher pressure)
and yeah, that whole pressure thing also... naturally the colder air is lower pressure and lower pressure is more likely to dump water out of it
lol, the random shit i think about
the rain does not come down anywhere near as heavily on the other side of the island because the clouds come from the north, and the mountains induce the clouds to cool and precipitate
but because of this, at the same time, when it does rain, the water runs off mostly down to the ocean on the north side of the island
the fresh water seems to be more dense, based on the clear difference of its refractive index, it reflects more light back here than the salt water, which can only be because of an increased refractive index meaning the same incident light angle is doing the "total internal reflection" thing more strongly than the salty water - teh salty water is more dense in terms of mass, but its more conductive to light, so less is bounced straight back when it hits the ripple of the waves
there are two properties of this fresher water that are important, i think, and just keep in mind that although it only overwhelms the volume of water along the northern coastline (and yes, also because it's both colder and lower density by mass, though higher refractive index) during such heavy rain, but the mountains soak up the water and leak it out slowly all the time on this side, in preference to on the other side
the fresher water is more magnetically permeable and thus attracts more of the electrons and particles coming from the sun, which improves the amount of ionization of dust particles (and probably water droplets from the sea included) as well as being colder, causing a thermocline on this side of the island versus on teh other side, where the sea water is not freshened up nearly as much (only to the extent that humans have redirected the water there)
so, the extreme difference in climate between the two sides of the island has many facets to it, and one of them definitely is the much larger amount of fresh water that drains out into the sea, cooling and changing the refractive index and magnetic permeability of the sea water
the other thing, regarding what i said about permeability, is that most of the lightning i've seen on madeira has been pretty much out to sea in the north, which again, points to what i'm saying - the magnetic permeability of the fresh water attracts the ions more, and the ions conduct electricity better, so when there is a discharge from a cloud, it is more likely to happen here than on the other side
and there is almost a perfect connection between lightning and rainfall, the other thing that increases lightning occurrance is conductive ground, but since this is about the sea, this is not relevant here... relative to that situation, the freshened sea water and the more salty sea water are both not much different in terms of how they can conduct electricity down to some kind of capacitative material, but then the difference is about the magnetic flux lines channeling more of those ions towards this side than the other side, for all of the reasons mentioned before, the refractive index, the magnetic polarity (permeability from less resistance to electron flow with anisotropy)
it makes me think of something that would bring more of the rain to the south side of the island, also
lightning conductors, very big ones... just really fucking tall long steel rods poking out of the ground... maybe tubular would help
these would attract the ions more and increase the cloud formation from winds coming up from the south, which are warmer but hold more water (higher pressure)
and yeah, that whole pressure thing also... naturally the colder air is lower pressure and lower pressure is more likely to dump water out of it
lol, the random shit i think about