About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Tropical fetches
Flash: Very light rain (R–) falling at 5:30 AM! Amazing… Won’t measure though, as thickest clouds are already sliding away. But still, great to see, to smell the scent of rain in the desert, and feel the drops in this little surprise sprinkle!
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Forgetting about that last big bust, namely the last big trough of the season that let us down by producing no measurable rain, let us now consider tropical finches, or rather, FETCHES, since an example is coming soon, one that might well bring rain. (I know what you’re thinking; you’ve heard that before, wrongly, I might add as in the LBT-LBB). Hope springs eternal I guess, though rain is predicted by both the USA and Canadian models, so there is some mathematical backing to this hope. See below, as rendered by IPS MeteoStar:
Retiree from a group specializing in airborne measurements of clouds and aerosols at the University of Washington (Cloud and Aerosol Research Group). The projects in which I participated were in many countries; from the Arctic to Brazil, from the Marshall Islands to South Africa.