“So what gives Mr. Weatherblogperson? Most clouds had no ice and a very, very few did, ones that had some rain fall out of them. Below I have handcrafted a diagram with too many arrows and text on it, just for you, my friend, to help explain the mystery of yesterday’s clouds. I think, or… Continue reading Pretty scenes and a little ice
Category: Overshooting tops
Isolated, but “volcanic”
Forgot the nice sunrise and another faint rainbow, two mornings in a row! In case you missed them, again, here they are: While yesterday’s Cumulonimbus clouds were sparse, their “overshooting” tops told you that they had pretty violent updrafts in them, ones that carried the top of the cloud past the tropopause (the boundary… Continue reading Isolated, but “volcanic”