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One of the (many reasons) why convection is so pervasive in Florida, is 
because of the 'Florida Ridge'. 

Yes, there is a 'virtual ridge' in the middle of the peninsula, and if you 
know what you are looking for, you can easily hitch a ride in a glider from 
the Everglades to Valdosta in South Georgia. 

The phenomenon is produced by the 'Sea breeze':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_breeze,
which occurs in both coasts at the same time.  The air flows inland in the 
morning and both currents clash midway in, and have no other choice but go 
up, which produces a wave similar to the effect of a ridge facing the wind, 
which in turn creates a wave that you can 'surf' with the glider like the 
condors do. 

The thunderstorm happens (like anywhere else) when the convection lifts the 
moisture, which turns into water vapor as it cools off in the climb.  When 
turning into water, the water vapor releases its 'latent heat' (the heat 
that turned into vapor at the first place), which increases the speed of the 
updraft (another free ride upwards in a glider), which draws in more 
moisture, which releases more heat, and ultimately creates a runaway effect 
that, given enough moisture, will overdevelop on a super-cell and spawn all 
sort of nasty weather (including tornadoes) 

Just tidbits of knowledge that make me giggle...   :)
ET 


Michael Havens writes: 

> yeah... it does not protect you in lightening storms? 
> 
> what caused me to buy it is I was just about to hit the enter key to
> compile the second program for LFS when the power shut off for like half a
> second. 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote: 
> 
>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
>> Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>>
>> > I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The
>> > 550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now I
>> > don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the many
>> > lightening storms here in gainesville!
>> > 
>>
>> That's a great price! 
>>
>> The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm. A
>> simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents your
>> computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid transitions between
>> power and no power. It also gives you a reasonable timeframe to perform
>> an orderly shutdown, and in cases of > 1minute power outages, which
>> describes over half of our power outages here in Seminole County
>> Florida, you just keep computing. 
>>
>> Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and all
>> the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down,  (Brother MFC8810dw
>> prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS click, but otherwise
>> there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to thing what would happen to
>> my box if I didn't have a UPS. 
>>
>> I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my
>> whole-house pfSense router/firewall. 
>>
>> SteveT 
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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