Cloud Stalker: Just thinking

Friday, March 23, 2007

Just thinking

I've been thinking, Florida is in a drought again, It seems rain isn't flowing the way it should be.
to me just your average sky watcher, weather has been pretty normal.
It rains in the summer and its dry in the winter , You get your classic winter storms of course but for the most part its dry. So how I wonder did are levels get so low ? Is the population consuming more then our fair share?
That's what I'm thinking its not the weather or global warming its humans to many of em, filling there pools watering there lawns ( sometimes in the hottest part of the day when it does absolutely nothing) We try to reserve but more and more people move to Florida everyday.
I hope we see some more tropical events this summer with some of that extra rain to fill our lakes.

1 comment:

Dewdrop said...: It's a curse... it's got to be.

~Dew; March 25, 2007 at 1:22 AM

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HAIL (3/4 inch or greater)

Hail can cause significant damage to your vehicle, break windows and damage roofs of homes and businesses.
Hail can cause significant bodily injuries such as broken bones and even blindness if wind blown.
Softball (4.5 inches) sized hail was reported in Lake Wales, Florida on March 30, 1996.
Haildrifts, up to four feet deep of dime to nickel sized hail, occurred in low-lying areas near Zephyrhills, Florida on January 29, 1997.
Hailstones the size of softballs can fall at speeds faster than 100 mph

supercell

Supercells derive their rotation through tilting of horizontal vorticity (an invisible horizontal vortex) caused by wind shear. Strong updrafts lift the air turning about a horizontal axis and cause this air to turn about a vertical axis. This forms the deep rotating updraft, the mesocyclone.
A cap or capping inversion is usually required to form a downdraft of sufficient strength. The cap puts an inverted (warm-above-cold) layer above a normal (cold-above-warm) boundary layer, and by preventing warm surface air from sinking too far, allows one or both of the following:
Air below the cap warms and/or becomes more moist
Air above the cap cools
This creates a warmer, moister layer below a cooler layer, which is increasingly unstable (because warm air is less dense and tends to rise). When the cap weakens or moves, explosive development follows.
In North America, supercells usually show up on Doppler radar as starting at a point or hook shape on the southwestern side, fanning out to the northeast. The heaviest precipitation is usually on the southwest side, ending abruptly short of the rain-free updraft base or main updraft (not visible to radar). The rear flank downdraft, or RFD, carries precipitation counterclockwise around the north and northwest side of the updraft base, producing a "hook echo" that indicates the presence of a mesocyclone.