TITLE:
Mid-West Summer Weather and the Way of Least Friction
AUTHORS:
Kern E. Kenyon
KEYWORDS:
Mid-West Summer Weather, Way of Least Friction
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.12 No.9,
September
15,
2020
ABSTRACT: A
typical summer weather event in the mid-west starts with a cool dry wind moving
south near the Rocky Mountains and an equal mass of warm moist air moving north
to the east of it in a side by side arrangement. Arguments supporting this
proposition include observations, theory and
one assumption. Observations are an awareness of the predominately north/south
wind directions at one point in northwest Iowa for more than 30 consecutive
summers as well as knowledge of the eastward flourishing vegetation
distribution throughout the mid-west starting at the Rockies. The theory is the
expectation that in geophysical flows the configuration most likely to persist
and be observed has the least amount of friction among all possibilities. One
assumption is that only a single southward cold wind takes place at one time to
initiate the weather “cycle”.