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Re: Stupid **** that pops into my head
Mostly clear or mostly sunny is reported for coverage from 1 to 3 oktas, while partly cloudy or partly sunny refers to cloud coverage of 3 to 5 oktas. Mostly cloudy is reported if 5 to 7 oktas of the sky are covered with opaque clouds. When the sky is obscured by fog, 9 oktas is reported for total sky cover, indicating it could not be observed.
In meteorology, an okta is a unit of measurement that describes the amount of cloud cover at a given location, such as a weather station. It's an eight-point scale that estimates sky conditions based on how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging from 0 oktas to 8 oktas:
0 oktas: Clear sky
1 okta: 1/8 of the sky covered in cloud
7 oktas: 7/8 or more of the sky covered in cloud, but not full cloud cover
8 oktas: Full cloud cover with no breaks
Should I post this in the Useless Information thread? @Bob_Luken @Yakster
Re: Stupid **** that pops into my head
Why does my weather channel list some days as mostly sunny and some as partly cloudy? Isn't that the same thing?
Re: What are you reading?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31341/flying-pinto-killed-its-inventor
Per discussion with Paul
Re: Whatcha smokin this morning?
Good morning frank and Edward. I was getting low output and an air hissing noise from the Ave. Found this under the band. Finger over these holes fixes the low smoke issue.
Re: The useless information thread
“You’d get some people angry if you grew potatoes in Neil Armstrong’s poo.”
Biologist Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of a book on human settlements in space, explains that the bags of waste left behind on the Moon would make good fertilizer for lunar soil — if NASA didn’t regard them as heritage. (Nature Podcast | 38 min listen)
Re: The useless information thread
"About one-third of Americans under 30 regularly get their news from it." (TikTok)
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
My Internet went down this afternoon, a local outage affecting <501 users, so I plugged in my DVD player and put in Oh Brother Where Art Thou to watch but the DVD player died after I put the disc in.
I fired up the PS4 to play a different DVD, now that OBWAT is a prisoner of my dead DVD player but the PS4 booted up with a mass storage error and the controllers weren't paired so I gave that up.
So, I'm streaming Radio Paradise from my phone to the soundbar for entertainment while I wait for the network to be restored.
Re: The useless information thread
John Tyler, our 10th president who was born in 1790, has a living grandchild.