Cloud Stalker: Fog this morning

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fog this morning

Sometimes area discussions crack me up I'm reading it this morning while looking outside and as u could plainly see we have some fog going on. Read this:
.UPDATE...DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND ADD IN SOME FOG TO THE NORTHERN
WATERS THIS MORNING...
Well I'm glad he decided to add that other wise i might have thought i was seeing things. lol
Yesterday's forecast did a 180 with the pops chances...MODELS HAVE ALMOST COMPLETELY
DONE A 180 WITH REGARDS TO GUIDANCE. NOW THE MAV HAS GONE FROM
8-10 PERCENT POPS IN IT`S LAST TWO RUNS OVER TAMPA UP TO 80
PERCENT FOR TONIGHT! We saw that with last nights blog. Rain totals as promised, Thanks to my good friend Dew and her awesome birthday gift.

I know the image stinks but My camera well you know if u have read my blogs.
Rain was consistent through out the night and as u can see from the top picture clouds have consumed the sky.
By this afternoon most of the fog should lift. we are expected to have mostly cloudy skies for the day. The upper level disturbance that moved over our viewing area last night is now located in the middle of our state.
They still have a slight pops for our area but i think the seabreeze will keep any rain that is produced from the daytime heating in the south. Yea i know i said that yesterday but models change things happen and when they do i will be right on top of it. Plus I am no meteorologist....yet.
Now on to the cold front pushing in.

There is a strong cold front pushing in from the Mississippi Vally and with high pressure behind it fueling it we should start feeling a difference in the air tomorrow and definitely by Friday, with temps reaching to the 30's or 40's depending where you are. BRRRR well from a Floridans point of view. I will no more as the day goes by.
until the next blog have a wonderful day!!!
Jess.. :-)
Cloud Stalker

1 comment:

Dewdrop said...: You crack me up!!!; January 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM

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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.