Welcome to one of the great cloud blogs of our time today, great as in volume, not in eloquence or anything like that. \ A humorous final note: Here are two model runs only 6 h apart from last evening. The first one, from 5 PM AST global data, valid on the 26th, brings that… Continue reading A September thunder, rainbow, and interesting cloud extravaganza (i. e., too many cloud photos for one day but it deserved it)
Category: Cumulus clouds
Cumulus congestus cloud grows into a Cumulonimbus over Sutherland Heights! 0.45 inches falls in 20 min after transformation!!
Also, I am also posting way below a new (!) not-previously-published. but rather rejected- by-important-scientists-a-long-time-ago-manuscript FYI! Very exciting! (Hah!) Its published now, though, isn’t it???!!! “Online.” Its about science and how it works, and how it has failed; examples given. I put it down toward the bottom of a normal blog because I am shy.… Continue reading Cumulus congestus cloud grows into a Cumulonimbus over Sutherland Heights! 0.45 inches falls in 20 min after transformation!!
Large pileus of Cumulus featured
As well as some shots of that violent blast that hit the CDO HS and the area around Concordia Ave. One ALERT gauge reported 1.34 inches! Nice. The uprooting of trees wasn’t so nice, however. Sutherland Heights whiffed again on rain, except for that little sprinkle just after 8 PM, sad to say. AZ mod… Continue reading Large pileus of Cumulus featured
Some recent clouds I have known; updating “not pubbed” list
The End (of the cloud discussion) New “not pubbed” item: I’ve added RViewpoint_10-24-06_submitted date Aug 31, 2006_final, something that’s been sitting around for years! Spent a lot of time writing it, but ultimately deemed it a hopeless task that it would be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteor. Soc. under then current… Continue reading Some recent clouds I have known; updating “not pubbed” list
Wipeout! Shaft winds weaken before arriving, aren’t able to push clouds up much
Surfaris. Except it wasn’t funny. This song begins with a mocking laugh. Well, maybe “mocking” is correct. Used 90 min of video on an “incoming” yesterday, thinking we’d get shafted pretty good as a thin line of heavy Cumulus congestus transitioning to Cumulonimbus passed over, maybe a quarter or more of an inch from both… Continue reading Wipeout! Shaft winds weaken before arriving, aren’t able to push clouds up much
Evening thunderstorms roll across Catalina with apocalyptic cloud scenes
Some apocalyptic cloud scenes can be Cumulus that explode suddenly into Cumulonimbus, and Cumulonimbus clouds with their foreboding (unless you live in a desert) rain shafts, and their predecessor shelf clouds like “swirly dark Stratocumulus”, and arcus clouds, the latter, a lower line of clouds just above and a little behind the wind shift at… Continue reading Evening thunderstorms roll across Catalina with apocalyptic cloud scenes
Passages: an upper low one on the 18th disappoints; today is the 20th
I got behind…. Lot of great scenes on the 18th, but, ultimately with hopes raised for appreciable measurable rain in Catalina, it was a disappointing day. Nice temperatures, though, for May if you’re a temperature person. Only a sprinkle fell (4:15 PM), and if you weren’t outside walking the dogs you would NEVER have noticed… Continue reading Passages: an upper low one on the 18th disappoints; today is the 20th
“The Magnificent Seven” (minute storm); 0.13 inches!
A reference to yesterday’s seven minutes of mayhem here in Catalina/Sutherland Heights; alludes to but an old 1980s song by the English punk band, The Clash about really bad weathermen: “one says sun, one says sleet1.” Back to weather and yesterday’s microburst with three minutes of sheets of unbelievably heavy rain with rice-sized hail, 50-60… Continue reading “The Magnificent Seven” (minute storm); 0.13 inches!
A humilis day with a surprise ending; horse prank story
Yesterday was another great humilis day for you, with quite a phase twist at the end. I am sure most of you out there saw the surprising final touch to a warm day with high-based shallow Cumulus. Let’s see how close that using that old estimator technique was yesterday by examining the Tucson sounding for… Continue reading A humilis day with a surprise ending; horse prank story
Rain follows the jet
0.02 inches of it, anyway, as the core of the jet stream at 18,000 feet or so passed by Catalina yesterday afternoon. Keep your eye on the orange and reddish streak in these progs from IPS MeteoStar yesterday morning beginning at 5 AM AST and how it slides over us as the clouds began to… Continue reading Rain follows the jet