Cloud Stalker: loving the Florida weather

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

loving the Florida weather

Love being in Florida weather, yes indeed! 80* in the day mid 60s a night, Cant beat it. The Dry season is upon us and it doesn't it even seem we had a wet season.
And the way it seems we are doomed by a dry winter this year, so they say. I have seen some great winter storms with the cold front sliding down and the tropical warm air hitting it just right, my kind of weather there.
You might think i'm crazy but i am definitely one the those kind of people who want to be right there, Being in the TIV vehicle would be "THE BOMB". Yes indeed if ever i am giving the chance I would do it in a heart beat!
Extreme baby!! Many years from now when I have way more experience you bet I will try to get as close as i can and film the heck out of it!!
But it will be on my own forecasting I would never steal a storm from another. The chase is all about the forecasting that's what it makes the chase, I was only a guest of chasers I myself haven't had a real chase all my footage is based on Peggy and Melanie's forecasting. I will chase you can bet your sweet petunia's on that!

Weather wise look for the same kinda weather till Friday we have another cold front coming down rain chances are low with it but its look to get quite chilly. No beachen this weekend.Well time to hit the hay have a good week!!
Jess

2 comments:

Dewdrop said...: Great post, Jess!; November 14, 2007 at 10:50 AM
CloudStalker said...: Thanks!!chickadew!!; November 14, 2007 at 8:13 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.