Atmospheric Electricity and Weather Impacts
Despite claims about settled science there is still much to learn about how electrical charges in Earth’s atmosphere impact weather, and especially in the ionosphere. 
In this article we explore further the ideas of Edsel Chromie who insists modern meteorology fails to account for the full role of electrical forces on the Jet Stream. Meteorologists do appreciate there exists a global atmospheric electrical circuit and while some traces of it are found less than a meter above the land and water surfaces much is evidenced at very great heights.
Chromie, a retired science writer and researcher, also served in the US Navy as an engineer. It is there that he evolved his fascination with the workings of electrical energy in nature. After decades of study he is persuaded natural phenomena, not yet explained by science, may be better understood via hitherto unconnected but relevant laboratory experiments with electricity.
Meteorologists are taught, and it is conventionally believed, that the relative strength or velocity of the jet stream is proportional to the intensity of the thermal gradient. The veteran researcher asserts that it may be shown that the Jet Stream is driven by earth’s electromagnetic forces and not just from changes in air pressure (thermal gradient) and the centrifugal effects of the earth’s rotation (Coriolis force).
The history of meteorology has seen an inexorable step by step acceptance that the atmosphere generates enormous currents (flow of electrons, negative charges). But their extent has never been fully determined. For example, on the microcosmic level electricity flows between clouds and ground during a lightning discharge, it begins with condensation of water vapor within the clouds; each minute water droplet moving through the air collects upon its surface a certain amount of negative charge by collecting ‘free’ electrons. While on the macrocosmic level Chromie says electromagnetism globally alters weather.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
It is fact and no conspiracy theory that The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Bernard Eastlund is the scientist whose name is most associated with the creation and development of the HAARP project.
Eastlund explained in his patent application that by influencing the ionosphere, methods of weather modification are possible.
“Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns or altering solar absorption patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device.”
Coriolis Forces in Opposition to Jet Stream
It is understood that the jet stream is caused by the meeting of air masses just under the tropopause where winds are the strongest. When two air masses of different densities meet there, pressure created by the different densities causes winds to increase. As these winds attempt to flow from the warm area in the nearby stratosphere down into the cooler troposphere they are deflected by the Coriolis Effect and flow along the boundaries of the original two air masses. The results are the polar and subtropical jet streams that form around the world.
In short, we can see the Coriolis forces can be in opposition to the Jet Stream, rather than assisting it. To Chromie what meteorological science offers up in explanation is “vague and contradictory.” He says electricity is overlooked as a player.
It was in 1978 that Chromie argued about such anomalies with a professional meteorological consultant, Virginia Bigler. The disagreement was about the speed of the Jet Stream, which Chromie said was faster than could be explained by the Coriolis force and thermal gradient alone. This, he asserts, is because it is impossible to spin anything and cause the air around to spin faster than the spinning object.
Like most meteorologists Bigler insisted the jet stream was caused by the rising heat from the Earth that throws the air 300 mph. up and ahead of the Earth’s 1,000 mph ground speed of the spinning Earth. However, argues Chromie:
“the Sun rises from the East so the heat expands the air and should progress from the hot and expanded air from the East toward the colder air in the West. Convection and conduction are added to the convoluted and complex formula of rising heat but that could make a difference of only a few mph., not 300 mph. And rising heat and the Earth’s rotation cannot explain the differential between calm winds and the destructive 300 mph winds of a tornado in exactly the same area on exactly the same day only a few minutes apart.”
Laboratory Experiments over Unproven Theory
Advocating for applied science and experiment over traditional theory Chromie was in no doubt:
“My explanations were based on what I was taught in the U. S. Navy in 1943 to trace a tangle of wires resulting from a torpedo or bomb on our ships. The method used was discovered in laboratory experiments in the early 1900’s that proved when a high voltage electrical current was forced through a wire it always produced a swirling magnetic field around the wire, always clockwise when viewed with the direction of the primary current flow, the created an eerie glow in the gases surrounding the wire.”
The flow of energy is predictable
Edsel continues:
”When you hold an ordinary compass near the wire the compass needle will always point in the direction of the swirling magnetic field current flow. So, to trace the directional flow of the energy through a wire to determine in which direction the current comes from we were told to wrap the fingers of our right hand in the direction indicated by the compass needle and your thumb will point without fail in which direction the energy flows. This was referred to as the ‘rule of thumb.’”
As a challenge to readers and fellow researchers Chromie suggest trying a simple laboratory experiment with magnetic field currents that may be said to represent Earth’s magnetic field currents.
Using Chromie’s Rule of Thumb he continues:
“pointing with the Earth’s North flowing magnetic field, your fingers will point toward the East and the direction of the jet stream wind. Then, when you consider the speed of the jet stream wind, it would actually spin the Earth at a slower speed. For one thing nobody can ever spin a sphere of any kind and cause the air around it to spin faster than the sphere itself. Thus, the rising heat principle plus the relative speed differential indicates that the conventional belief is backwards.”
A visual illustration (above) depicting Chromie’s explanation of Earth’s weather patterns was first published on May 6, 1978. A copy of that illustration was published in the international internet Global News on Jan. 1, 2014 at: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january012014/earth-weather-ec.php
This illustration also depicts the high and low pressure areas in accordance with the rule of thumb. Chromie adds, “ When you wrap your fingers around the jet stream, your fingers will point downward toward the right that represents a downward flow of energy that will add to the gravitational pull on atmospheric gases and produce a high pressure area. Your fingers will point upwards on the left side of the jet stream wind that will produce an upward flow of energy to partially negate the pull of gravity on molecules of air and create a low pressure area.”
Chromie then tells us to point your thumb in the downward direction of the high pressure flow, “your fingers will point in the clockwise direction of the swirling winds around a high pressure area” he says.
And, if you point your thumb in the upward direction of the low pressure area, your fingers will point in the counter-clockwise direction of the swirling winds around the low pressure area.
The relative intensity of the primary current will determine the speed of the circular winds of the low and high pressure areas. This is conventionally attributed to the spin of the Earth. However, the spin of the Earth is relatively constant and cannot attribute to the calm winds on one day and the 300 mph winds of a tornado on another day- or even on the very same day in exactly the same area in many instances.
Chromie explains that the anvil effect that still baffles contemporary meteorology is a mystery that can be explained with this concept.
“If you follow the direction the anvil points, you will see that it will point to the nearest high pressure area that will also be an abnormally high pressure area. This represents the high altitude energy flow of the connecting loop between the high and low pressure areas. Notice that I depicted this illustration and copyrighted this concept before the electromagnetic loops were discovered and videotaped by the NASA satellites. We have the very same electromagnetic loops on Earth but they are so weak that they cannot be seen. If the Earth’s magnetic field were as powerful as the million times more powerful magnetic field of the Sun, they would also glow visibly and reach thousands of miles through the sky.”
To Edsel Chromie his explanations accord precisely with the laws of physics and in accordance with proven laboratory experiments. The belief that the heat rising from the Earth “throws the air up and ahead of the Earth’s rotation” cannot be explained sensibly and certainly cannot be demonstrated in any laboratory, he insists.
Author’s Addendum (September 5, 2016):
Thank you PSI for your effort in publishing my concept of weather. Now, if we can get meteorologists to read it with an open mind they should recognize that it is the proverbial “better mousetrap” because all of the circular winds follow a precise direction indicated by the rule of thumb. The difference in temperature the meteorologist use in explaining the jet stream and various winds would result in a random wind direction. One additional fact I should have included is that the “trade winds” actually follow the wind direction that would be caused by the Earth’s rotation. The jet stream energy carries the atoms of gases only within the influence with its flow. The remainder of the atmospheric gases follow the spin of the Earth but at a slower pace than the actual speed of the Earth’s surface in accordance with the laws of physics. So, with the air moving slower than the surface speed of the Earth, the atmospheric gases appear to be flowing West when it is still flowing East but at a slower speed than the ground.
Also the mention of “Each minute water droplet moving through the air collects upon its surface a certain amount of negative charge by collecting free electrons”, is incorrect. Water droplets do not mysteriously collect free electrons. It is the addition of an abnormal concentration of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that creates an abnormal resistance to the natural flow of the magnetic field of the Earth that creates an abnormal charge of static electricity that is discharged as lightning.
This interference in the natural flow of magnetic field current is exactly what is happening in the bizarre sightings of moon pigeons, wriggling worms, space angels and alien spacecraft reported by the astronauts and the space probes. It is the disturbance of the natural flow of energy by the spacecraft that causes the invisible magnetic field to become abnormally intense enough to stimulate the atoms of gases to a glowing state of excitement and create these bizarre glows.
I thought it would be simple for highly educated scientists to recognize the absolute wind direction and speed in the entire weather system and realize it is a more accurate and a more certain indication of weather related phenomena. Obviously, the lifelong beliefs of the fifteenth century philosophy are difficult to overcome. Now, it seems to be the more convoluted and complex a theory is, the more the scientists like it. It must be remembered that nature has only the invisible magnetic field and the equally invisible atoms of gases at its disposal to create the most bizarre optical illusions of particles reflecting sunlight that have blown the minds of the most intelligent experts at NASA.
Again, my concept complies with all of the laws of physics and even grade school children can understand it while the official explanations of the experts violate the laws of physics and even the experts do not fully understand it.
Edsel
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Edsel Chromie is a retired science writer and World War Two Navy veteran with expertise in electric systems. While in the service of his country he applied his knowledge of magnetic field currents through a wire to determine electrical damage in US Navy torpedoes. He has four approved patents on solar energy and Sun 
tracking systems. Over several decades Chromie has applied his unique insight into interpreting various natural phenomena.
Today Edsel writes for Principia Scientific International about this unique set of life experiences which has guided his scientific understanding. His insights, unrecognised by the scientific community, may provide answers to yet unexplained phenomena. You can write to Ed Chromie at this address: [email protected]
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