Cloud Stalker: Even more rain for florida

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Even more rain for florida

You know I love it when i am right about the weather. Yesterday I was watching the satellite of the gulf and i said to myself, that's gonna be something and when i woke up this morning and turned on the news the weather chick was calling it a non tropical low and NOAA has it marked as an invest. Of course its not gonna be more then it is because of land right in its path but its nice to know i still have my instincts. I got a text from dewdrop this morning telling me how lucky i am. I replied Hee Hee i know. Such weather geeks we are.
Her is a recent satellite picture./

Invest 94 got its act up a little last night, enough for then to send an air force reserve hurricane hunter aircraft into it. Not a threat they said yesterday, I knew it was one to keep an eye on as a matter of fact i will be keeping on on it until it is no more.
I am going to try to get to the coast today to see if there is any action aka water spouts. Right now here in pasco we have a complete grey coverage and there is no wind movement at all. We got a large amount rain last night and we are close to 8 inches from Saturday. That's a lot rain folks. I am also gonna try to get out and take pictures of are over flowing rain reservoirs. Cross your fingers for me i am with out a car right now so things are not as easy as they once were.
Ta Tafor now...
Jess
Cloud Stalker

1 comment:

Dewdrop said...: Weather geeks to the core! Go Meso Mommas!!!; July 16, 2008 at 3:33 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.