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Been busy and back looking into this now.

F22 Simpilot said:

Pretty crazy that's where those massive wildfires were and now this. They mention La Niña which means we could see a lot of rain which would be great since we've had hundreds upon thousand of square miles of wildfires here in the Rockies near where I live. This was due to a very dry season. I fear that once the run off occurs from the snow melt the water supply will be contaminated so I need to stock up on a massive amount of water. Colorado gets its water from the snow melt in the Rocky Mountains. California as well has had their fair share of fires, though, for that state it's like the freaking Norm.

We had some really bad fires summer 2019. The whole east coast went up in flames between October and March.
I saw the news with the California fires and then all the landslides when the tree roots holding the soil were gone. Terrible pictures. At least in Oz it's relatively flat so we don't have landslides much. Only very localized.

F22 Simpilot said:

We are in a tornado prone area so I hope La Niña doesn't spur that on if it's related. Several years ago a town just east was hit by a massive tornado. Tornado outbreak sequence of May 22–31, 2008 - Wikipedia

We've had a handful of tornados but not as bad as what you guys are getting. The outback coverage is pretty poor with weather stations so a lot might be missed and undocumented.

F22 Simpilot said:

Looking here, I see La Niña was pretty strong for the years 2007-2008, and it was 2008 when the massive EF3 tornado hit in Windosr. So far it looks like this year is moderate. Certainly not weak so I'm predicting some tornado bull crap coming up.

We're filled up with water now as we had huge precipitations this fall and it fell pretty much every where it was needed. That brought other problems. We currently have an uncontrollable mouse plague in the west. They reproduced in all the hay stacks and there are 100s of thousands of them. The mild temperature kept them going so the only hope is a cold snap this winter.

multiweb said:

We've had a handful of tornados but not as bad as what you guys are getting. The outback coverage is pretty poor with weather stations so a lot might be missed and undocumented.

That's very interesting. I didn't know Oz got tornadoes.

Yeah, I was thinking solar powered weather stations could be used with Sat uplinks or terrestrial RF, but I think in order to know if there's a tornado you'd need radar. It looks like NEXRAD can reach out to 143 miles (230 KM) to 286 miles (460 KM) depending on the mode. Some very interesting information here. Interesting to note that the term, "cone of silence" was used in the movie Twister. Having seen that movie on opening day and about ten times after, it seems the researchers did a fare amount of research while at the same time exaggerate some things. LOL Most movies do anyway. The research that was done for the hit TV show The X-Files was pretty damn awesome, that much I have to say.

Anyway, at some 750 kilowatts of transmission energy, you'd need several of these in the outback for a NEXRAD. LOL

While not real by any means. I've flown in the simulator in the Northern Territory and it is HOT! My Sim uses a dedicated weather engine that pulls real-life weather data from the Internet. So if it's raining in Seattle it'll be raining in the Sim. If there's icing at FL35 (35,000 feet | 10.67 KM) there will be ice. But icing effects are dependent on the add-on aircraft you use and whether the aircraft can use that data in the Sim to simulate the effect. Same for weather radar withen the cockpit. Yes, planes do have their own weather radar. They also have something I think is really kool[ called a TAWS (Terrain Alert Warning System) I had a simulated life-like TAWS in several of my aircraft. In one example, I could fly the F-22 in and out of cannons at night with absolute impunity.

Anyway... LOL

Oh! Just one more thing. NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar) transmits on 2.7 GHz -3 GHz. I found that interesting since it's near WIFI and Bluetooth. On the low end that's only 300 MHz from 2.7 GHz. But pretty damn significant none the less in terms of frequency separation.