Cloud Stalker: wasnt to far off the mark

Friday, June 15, 2007

wasnt to far off the mark

Bored, and DTING, I need a good storm and bad....
I have been reading chasers bogs for about and hour now and all it did was make me want to see some action even more!!
I am so frustrated right now because i have so much to learn i don't know where to start!! I need a good hands on teacher..The best teachers i know live in minnesota or my Jenn who lives in Georgia. What is a girl to do....

Any way I wasn't too far off the mark the other day about rain. we did get a little of the small cell the other day but that was it!!
I don't see any thing for today here in west pasco, Damn the west coast sea breeze it just pushes everything away!!

Well I guess for now I will live my life trough the eyes of other chasers thank you guys for blogging and photographing, your my eyes to the world!! Have a good weekend and lets all pray that Jesse gets some action(storm action that is!)

3 comments:

Dewdrop said...: Let's get Weather Forecasting by Tim Vasquez and read it together... sort of a support group. Peggy, Jeff and Jay suggested I read it, but I haven't gotten it yet. If we both get it and force ourselves to read it and perhaps discuss what we read and talk to Peggy about it, we might make some good headway. Thoughts...? Sorry, no Myspace IM, they took it off at work... I have Yahoo though.; June 15, 2007 at 10:29 AM
CloudStalker said...: I cant get it this week funds are way low, but as soon as i can i will I think its a great idea, Jenn I know you know what i'm talking about but my trip out to the plains changed me, I am gonna find the time and the money to get what i need, and learn what i can, to be a more then i am. Did that make sense?? I want this to be my life. I have yahoo too and will add you right way!!; June 15, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Dewdrop said...: Makes total sense. The show changed me, too. We'll get there. I have complete faith in that.; June 16, 2007 at 8:13 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.
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Hailstones the size of softballs can fall at speeds faster than 100 mph

supercell

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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.