Cloud Stalker: January 2009

Friday, January 9, 2009

Weekend weather

If your gonna be outside tomorrow your gonna really enjoy the day its gonna be beautiful! High around seventy five,seventy six. Southeast winds around 10 mph...becoming south in the afternoon. I'm gonna get up early tomorrow and clean my house so i can enjoy the outside in the afternoon.
Sunday the weather starts to change with a cold front moving in, their is a 30 percent chance of rain and the blue skies that you enjoyed on Saturday will be filled with clouds i enjoys so much. More chilly weather ahead It looks like Florida's winter has kicked in.
Have A great weekend!
Jess

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Christmas rainbow

Yup just now getting this up. This was a very special Christmas and in the end we were rewarded with a beautiful rainbow.
I have been very busy lately and soon i will getting my blogging back up.
Weather has been pretty much the same for so long that there really was no need for an update.
We are getting our first cold front tonight since winter started. Its really not gonna get that cold, tonight lows in upper 40's tomorrow upper 60's for a high. which is chilly for us here Florida since we have been in the 80's for so long. That's a twenty degree difference. The rain we received today is the last chance till Sunday ,Monday and Tuesday and that is only a twenty percent chance. Its been real dry in our parts. Beautiful days even for someone like me to enjoy. Although I am missing the summer action.
I am not gonna make to the plains this year as see so far, But i am gonna try like heck to make to the sea breeze boundaries here in Florida. With or with out a camera.
No Santa didn't bring me a new camera. The shot i took of the rainbow was with old camera that barely works i surprised to get the shots I did.
any who gotta go for now. I will blog again for the weekend weather update.
Take care!
Jess
Cloud Stalker

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.