Cloud Stalker: flowers

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Refletions and flowers

I have been trying new photo ideas, since I cant be in the plains experiencing all the wild weather i need to stay busy here in sunshiny Florida. Two more days till Hurricane season officially starts, and this year i plan to track all the storms. I don't have a large map but i plain on using several if i have too.
Yesterday was a weird day for me my emotions ruled me. Sometime the chin just stays down you know. Luckily for me today i am back to normal. I have been experiencing with flowers, tell me what you think.

school is letting out soon/next Wednesday and i plan on taking my boy on many adventures, since i work nights i can enjoy the day with him. I can't wait!
Well in case your wondering about our weather here.... Blue skies and palm trees all day long! Yawn......
Have great day!
Jess
Cloud stalker

Friday, May 23, 2008

Sky Watch Friday

Visit Mr. Old Wom Tigley to join us in sky watch Friday

The top picture I took this morning shortly after 7am the sky was amazing.
The bottom picture is from yesterday after the rain we finely received, I got this idea from sky watch bloggers. I'm still experimenting.

It look likes we will see more rain today and perhaps some storms(fingers crossed)
I'm am off today so I can do a little chasing if the situation arises. This is what NOAA has to say: THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
AMPLE MOISTURE CONTINUES TODAY AS A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY LIES
NORTH OF THE STATE. UPPER LEVEL ENERGY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS
NORTH FLORIDA...COMBINING WITH THE MOISTURE AND THE FRONT TO
SPARK OFF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STORMS...MAINLY OVER THE
NATURE COAST COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL
FLORIDA...WITH THE BEST CHANCES OVER THE INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON.

WITH TODAY`S STORMS...EXPECT BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY UP TO 40
TO 50 MPH IN THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE NATURE COAST...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS.

I took this last picture for a friend Ms. Chickadew this one is for you. I never had a flower turn out so well in a photograph.

Happy Friday everyone!!! Have a great weekend!
Jess
CloudStalker

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.