Cloud Stalker: Hurricane PALOMA

Friday, November 7, 2008

Hurricane PALOMA

Yesterday about 530pm I was watching T.S. Paloma saying to myself damn that looks like a Hurricane to me, Great rotation, strong storms. At seven pm They indeed upgraded her.
Possibley the last hurricane of the season and it looks like the Grand Cayman might get a direct hit. It looks like Poor Cuba will also take another hit this season as well . A strong trough of low pressure approaching the U.S. East Coast is pulling Paloma to the north, and this trough should continue to pull the storm northwards and then turn it northeastward by Saturday. Florida is in the clear. Her is something intresting I read from Dr. Jeff Masters site:Historical note
This year and 2005 are the only seasons that we've had major hurricanes in the Atlantic in four separate months--July, August, September, and October. If Paloma becomes a major hurricane, it will make 2008 the first year since record keeping began in 1851 to feature major hurricanes in five separate months.
I wonder what next year will bring we seem to be breaking records each year.

Weather for us her in sunny Florida remains normal for this time of the year, nothing like the end of October where we had record breaking low temperatures. We do have a cold front approaching,

A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO NORTH FLORIDA LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AS THE
RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE GETS NUDGED INTO THE ATLANTIC. THE CLOUDS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT WILL PROBABLY NOT REACH OUR NORTHERN
ZONES UNTIL AFTER SUNRISE ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY WILL FEATURE A PRIMARILY DRY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE...
ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE MORE CLOUDS AROUND. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO
PICK UP A LITTLE BIT FROM THE NORTH BEHIND THE FRONT...AND
CLEARING SKIES MAY EVEN MOVE INTO THE NATURE COAST BEFORE SUNSET.

IT WILL CONTINUE TO CLEAR RAPIDLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH SATURDAY
NIGHT WITH COOLER AIR MOVING IN ONCE AGAIN. TEMPERATURES WILL
SETTLE INTO THE LOWER 40S OVER THE NATURE COAST...BUT REMAIN
CLOSER TO THE LOWER 50S OR SO OVER MOST OF INTERIOR CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.

SUNDAY WILL BE A TYPICAL NOVEMBER DAY WITH LOTS OF SUNSHINE AND
MILD TEMPERATURES.

Sounds good to me!!!
If you noticed I have been blogging less, its because my little camera has finely went to camera heaven. I am without. I have no credit cards and no extra money to replace it. so until the camera fairy comes I will have no pictures to share. I am very bummed. very bummed. Oh Well I have a roof over my head and some food for our belly's so life goes on.
Have a great weekend!
Jess
Cloud Stalker

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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.