On Aug 25, 5:58*am, wrote:

For the sake of discussing the weather, I take no shame in asking
questions I may or may not know the answer to.

You wouldn't happen to be a troll called Dawlish perchance?

If or if not so, here is something you may or may not like answers to
or know or not know the answers to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_K%C..._vortex_street

Stuff on there about the fish-tail way that fluids behave when an
obstruction causes pressure changes in the fluidity of said fluid.

For the uninitiated:
It's not so much the knock-on effect of the fluid going around the
obstacle as in for example wind flowing in a stream in which a
telegraph pole has been inserted. It is more the knock on effect that
the pressure changes introduce.

The molecules hit the barrier and dam up. The dam bursts and a drop in
pressure takes place.

Physical deformities are introduced and physical changes take place in
the stream. If it is air heavily laden with water at the dew-point,
for example, precipitation may occur.
/for the uninitiated.

Is this a form of channeling or is it more likely to be the end
product of channeling?

Do you know enough about fluid mechanics to comment on whether the so
called dimensionless numbers used in it, resemble the articulation of
shapes in trigonometry?

For the uninitiated:
One such number is taken on by the above phenomenon to dictate the
windspeeds / wire length temperature deformations and air pressures
required to make telegraph wires "sing".

It obviously varies with wind speed and the lengths of the wires
between poles.

But also obviously varies with the mass of the wire and the tension of
it as well as the mass of the air at any particular time.
/for the uninitiated.