There is no one direction the wind comes from when thunderstorms or tornadoes occur. Where warm moist air is forced to rise by hills, mountains, or areas where warm/cold or wet/dry air bump together, thunderstorms can form. The surface direction of wind varies depending on your location (northern/southern hemisphere, and even coastal/plains/mountains), and what weather patterns usually affect the area.

Most thunderstorms occur in the late afternoon. By this time of day, the sun is setting. The orange hue is caused by the same process that causes the vivid colors at sunsets. Shorter wavelengths of light (blue) are scattered quickly, leaving only the yellow-orange-red end of the spectrum.

FirstEnergy Corp., the parent company of FirstEnergy Solutions, currently purchases wind energy from the following wind farms: Allegheny Ridge Wind Farm (near Altoona, Pennsylvania) -- Allegheny Ridge is the largest wind farm in Pennsylvania, with 40 wind turbines producing 2-MW of power each in Phase I of the farm's development.

The wind turbines are preferably fastened to each module (typically two/level each at opposite sides of a module) which passively rotate about the core support tower to face the wind in unison because they desire to achieve thrust equilibrium. Every other module is rigidly fastened to the tower thereby providing tower stiffening and enhancing tower strength.[ Back to Top ]

The billet hose end covers are designed to have the tapered end with the Cool-Flex logo going towards the Cool-Flex hose. This installation is designed for two reasons: If using a radiator such as a Walker the outlet neck on the top of the radiator is very short and if installed backwards the hose may blow off the radiator due to lack of engagement. When properly installed the machined aluminum cover conceals the rubber coupling, giving you a great final finish.

Wind direction sensors include resistive types, and digital resolvers. As the wind vane turns on a resistive sensor, it moves a wiper on a circular resistor, analogous to the volume control on a radio. A digital resolver uses three of more light sensors to read a pattern of stripe printed on a disk attached to the wind vane. These patterns translate to wind directions. Resistive types offer higher resolution than resolvers do.

Whether or not you should drive through a storm is a complicated question. It would be important to know what kind of storm you are dealing with – is there a potential for tornadoes, hail, flash flooding, or blinding rain? If so, I would suggest leaving your car and taking shelter in a substantial building.

Wind velocity is used to adjust the heat exchange transfer rates for positively buoyant surface density current mixing for heated discharges. Wind velocity is used to adjust the turbulence in the surface layer to account for increased mixing for positively buoyant surface density currents. Therefore, in general, wind is not a directional quantity within CORMIX, but is used to adjust density current mixing properties.

Yes, wind directions in reports of the actual weather and in forecasts are the directions from which the wind is coming. This is logical for weather since where the wind is coming from often determines the kind of weather it brings. In the USA for instance, a winter north wind can bring cold air form around the Arctic.

One of our scientists has compiled statistics on severe weather hazards for the U.S. You can click on your area and a graph will come up showing what days of the year have the most thunderstorms. You might consider contacting your local National Weather Service Forecast Office because they will be more in tune with local climatology.

No one really knows what causes thunderstorm clouds to look green at times. It could have something to do with sunlight refracting through the storm.

The Wayback Machine is named in reference to the famous Mr. Peabody's WABAC (pronounced way-back) machine from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show.

The villa has an idealistic south facing pool for all day sunshine. No need to keep moving those loungers around to catch the sun.

Some magnets, called oriented or anisotropic magnets, have a preferred direction in which they should be magnetized. The "orientation direction," also known as an "easy axis" or "axis," is the direction that achieves its maximum magnetism. Other magnets, called unoriented or isotropic magnets, can be magnetized in any direction.

It depends on what you're doing. The level wind makes a lot of sense for fishing with lures. Without a level wind, you must spread line back and forth on the spool with your thumb. If you don't have to do that, you'll notice more about the water in front of you. The level wind saves you work. Anglers who fish live bait, or use very heavy mono, or who absolutely have to get that last yard of distance on a long cast, may prefer an open faced reel without a level wind.

Electricity from a wind turbine acts the same as electricity generated from any other source. Once the energy is generated and goes into the grid (the "power pool"), each electron is indistinguishable from another. However, the generation and the sale of renewable energy is tracked by unique Renewable Energy Certificates (also called "Green Tags").