[FRIAM] "Weather line" on 14

[Frank Wimberly]

>  Frank, who knows the area well, thought that idea was absurd.

I wouldn't say something you said was absurd.  I remember that straight
ridge from my childhood.  I also remember the historical railroad routes.
That's a natural feature.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024, 9:09 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Stephen,
>
> Thank you for prompting me to respond to this inquiry.  I was having some
> trouble getting the image to behave on my computer, and so was reluctant to
> wade in.
>
>  Indeed, just as nature abhors vacuums, she abhors straight lines, and so
> any line as straight as this one requires a special explanation.  To me,
> that the line points southwestward toward the radar site NW of ABQ suggests
> a radar artifact, perhaps the shadow or some distant hill.  As we watched
> the animated radar image, we could see a persistent weakness in the radar
> echo along that line, even as the clouds crossed it.
>
> Speaking of abhorrent straight lines, during our conversation with Frank,
> we spent quite a lot of time discussing another line, a berm of sand that
> runs across the Galisteo Basin in roughly the same orientation, perhaps 50'
> high?.  I had noticed this feature on topo maps and always assumed it was
> an old railway embankment.  Frank, who knows the area well, thought that
> idea was absurd.  So, we were left with the puzzle of a highly linear
> geological formation several miles long.
>
> Could it be that this geological straight line accounts for the straight
> line cloud formation that Mr. Kadlubek  sees? As the dry line breaks down
> in anticipation of the SW Monsoon, moist air does indeed move northward,
> following the river valleys up from TX.   AT some point, it will be raised
> enough that its moisture is condensed leading to the release of latent heat
> and the further development of clouds.  If the structure that raises it is
> a straight line, then the clouds themselves will be arranged in a straight
> line.  We can see this effect often along linear coast lines as a sea
> breeze front topped by (usually) fair weather cumulus.  However, given all
> the dramatic topography in the area, it's hard for me to imagine that this
> low lying feature would be determining very often.
>
> I, too, live for the weather.  I don't live for Face Book, however.  So if
> you have any way to put in touch with Mr. Kadlubek, he and I could perhaps
> have coffee when I get back to Santa Fe in the fall.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Nick Thompson
> "Behavioral Meteorologist"
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM Stephen Guerin <
> stephen.guerin at simtable.com> wrote:
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>> Nick,
>>
>> It's your time to shine! Respond to Vince.
>>
>> In the comments, local knowledge refers to it as the "prison line" as
>> weather is different on either side of the prison on 14.
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