Cloud Stalker: Beautiful Days

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Beautiful Days

Blue skies, nice breeze, warm but not hot temperatures, one could get used to this.
I'm sorry I did not get a chance to do my Monday Weather terms,. My son came down with Cat scratch fever I had to take him to the doctors and he wanted all my attention. I will resume weather terms again on Monday.
weather is again back to normal for April, early this week it was actually cold for Florida standards 40's at night and upper 60's for daytime high.Brrr.
Right now it is a perfect 75, just right.I caught some real pretty early morning clouds the other day I would have got the perfect sunrise shot if those pesky house's weren't in the way.

This is the only picture that came out half way decent the rest were kinda blurry.
Since I have had no storms to photograph I have been taken kitty shots. I guess you can call me cat stalker for now.

Have a great day and see you tomorrow for sky watch Friday!
Jess
Cat stalker
:)

2 comments:

Ann (MobayDP) said...: awwww :) Adorable.; April 18, 2008 at 7:43 PM
CloudStalker said...: Thank you Ann! I love my kitty's!; May 9, 2008 at 10:12 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.