Cloud Stalker

Friday, June 22, 2007

Good morning!!
How do you get it to rain???
Water the lawn!!
We have been a little lazy with watering the lawn(just doing are part to conserve water) It does seem when, we do water the lawn it rains.
last night about 11pm a nice little cell dropped some much needed perception!
It rained steady for about fifteen mins then moved south but it was so nice to listen too, we even were honored with a little thunder.
Today's chances with rain for us here off the coast is low as the low pressure weakens and the dry air follows, but as aways with the heating of the day, we have a chance of a thunder storm popping up between the boundaries.
winds are coming in NW now and will change to west in the afternoon. So it looks like a nice evening to put out the lawn chairs and admire the sunset.

I have been taking pictures through the week of the east Sky's watching CU pop up bust a cap(i love saying that)
Wednesday I took the sunset pictures, It was such a nice evening with nice west-coast breeze you could smell the salt in the air.(evenings are my favorite time of the day, i don't know what is but it makes me feel Sarene like.

I still have more research to do for the weekend forecast but from what Ive seen already i think the rain chance is low for the coast.Enjoy the pics!! And have a wonderful day!! Jess

2 comments:

Tony Laubach said...: Thanks for the comment earlier this month! :o) I'm hopeful we can spare some of this rain to you guys down in the southeast... although here in Colorado, we're starting to run a bit dry as well. And its hot to boot... ick! Summer is my least favorite season! :op; June 23, 2007 at 9:34 PM
CloudStalker said...: hey tony thanks for stopping by, i have to diagree with summer its realy fun watching the summer thunderstorms! not as fun as chasing in the spring but it works for me!!; June 26, 2007 at 7:59 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.