My weekend writing on 4 looming heat challenges with the upcoming FIFA World Cup
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Marshall Shepherd
Still in awe of interstate-induced cliuds. Somewhat validates a career of research we have done on how cities affect clouds, rainfall and lightning...My explanation here
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Using my article in first comment and some guidance to Gemini, a graphic of what I think happened to produce Interstate-Generated clouds Tuesday in Houston
You may need to download and zoom. Read the green box first...
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Note: There are some AI imperfections but big picture is fine
If you saw the video of Houston roads causing clouds. Here is my explanation. I have studied this type of thing for decades.
-->https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2026/06/03/did-interstate-roads-in-houston-create-clouds/
Clouds
Video
ICYMI my thoughts as #worldcup approaches. Heat will be a major player too
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I truly believe that no matter how much computing capability we develop, no matter how explicit the model physics becomes, no matter how good AI becomes, it is these micro scale processes that will produce the initial conditions uncertainty that Edward Lorenz saw as a limit to forecastability.
