Take a look at this radar image:
This is a perfect example of a Nor’Easter. You can see the cyclonic rotation in the image above, as the low is centered a few hundred miles off the coast at NJ. The Bright yellow banding indicates strong vertical ascent, possibly due to Warm air advection. This area can experience a lot of rain, something like 4 inches per hour!
Let’s turn that into snow shall we?. Assuming the stand 10:1 ratio, that could be as much as FORTY INCHES! Thankfully this is not the winter time. I wouldn’t want to be shoveling that.
In fact…I dont think they sell shovels down here in FL. Foreign object to these guys
Hey guys just making a few tweaks to this site and my vortex site. Nothing much on the vortex page, but here I completely changed the design. Hope you like it.
I understand that Plymouth had a tornado warning last night. No reported tornado, however there were some hail / wind events in the area.
After trying six times over the course of the past month. Space Shuttle Endeavour finally makes it into space. Even though it took a while, it was great to see it. Because of all the scrubs, and the wednesday launch, a lot of people weren’t present, which gave us the opportunity to see it over at the VAB, which is about 3 or 4 miles from the launch complex. It was nothing short of epic.
Well now that the launch is out of the way I’ll be able to focus more on my work. Speaking of that here is an update. Currently i have all my data (NCDC NSS files from 2003-2008) for most of the warm season convective events down here on the KSC / Cape Canaveral Station. So far the results do not look too great, although it does appear that the presence of hail does enhance these wind gusts. If only the polarimetric radar was working. Currently it is being calibrated and no data is being archived.
I only have 4 weeks left down here. And that will consist of a lot of work, including making some statistical forecasts, writing the data and methodology paper, and preparing for presentations to give down here. I also found out that I will be presenting on my own at the AMS Conference in Atlanta this January. Hopefully it turns out OK.
