About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Computer computations continuing to ____________
I wanted to add some suspense to this blog today, and to enhance readership beyond one, I would do like TEEVEE news and weathercasters do who get people to hang around by saying silly things like:
“Will it rain for the Arizona fubball game tomorrow? We’ll tell you at 11”
when an answer consisting of a single word would do.
These are one of the dumbest, outrageous and annoying lines that weather and newscasters come up with over and over again, and I hope I am NEVER on TEEVEE and have to say something like that unless I am making a LOT of money, and then I might say almost anything! (Haha, just kidding, I think, but not positive.)
Well, since the supercomputer calculations, these based on earth data from last night at 5 PM AST (00 Zulu, Greenwich Time, Central Universal Time, etc.) continues to show early December rains in Catalina (see illustrative figure above), we need to have some spaghetti to see if a trough in the middle troposphere has much chance of being here:
Went on a hike yesterday morning, about 4 h worth up the Baby Jesus trail to the Deer Camp trail and back down again. Here are some scenes from later November from a desert having a lot of rain in September and October. Octotilloes are blooming here and there! Amazing! Morning glories hanging on, too. Cement trough, though, was dry. Boohoo. Didn’t expect that.
By Art Rangno
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.