Cloud Stalker: Deprived blogger

Monday, August 20, 2007

Deprived blogger

Its 12:14am
With the little kitty and family staying with us computer time is valuable!
I have been watching dean out in the Al antic, Quite the storm he is with NOAA web site I have been tracking the storm. I also have been reading Jeff Gammon's Blog wheni get a chance waiting for updates from Jim Edd's who has been updating Jeff from kinsford, Jamaica with winds at 145mph Dean is a Quite impressive Storm. You can read Jeff Gammon's blog by clicking his name under Storm chasers on the right side of my blog.
Also Dewdrop has been doing a fantastic job updating her Blog on Dean That too is under the storm chaser link just click on flight of the south Georgia storm chaser.
I have been deprived of that for now, I have Patience and one day I will have readers from all over checking on my blog for updates.

Florida weather has been normal, Hot and well hot! We made a record high for today at 96 degrees! Not triple digits but i could have cooked an whole chicken on the side walk today. we cooled at the beach, went to Fred Howard park in tarpon springs the beach is so pretty

cooling off and looking for shells

I love taking pictures of the sunset

Well its forecasting to be hot and dry pulse storms popping up is never out of the questions if your in the I4 area but if your by the water like me we should see a repeat of today .
well I'm pretty tired now i hope i don't have to many typos..lol Good night and and have a Happy Monday!!

2 comments:

Dewdrop said...: Beautiful sunset pics. LOVE THEM!; August 20, 2007 at 11:11 AM
CloudStalker said...: I thought you would! I posted all of them on myspace/in my pictures.; August 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM

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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.