About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Not here, but they were there
OK, enough of yesterday, a bit of a disappointment unless you looked at the models and saw that there wouldn’t be much here.
But TODAY….oh my. Those models have a MUCH more active day! Be ready; have camera charged, video as well. Don’t forget, you loggers out there, to note the time of your first Cumulonimbus sighting.
Should be a “fun” day with once again our very warm cloud bases (topping Sam Ridge now as I write at 6:02 AM) giving us, in essence a cloud travelogue to normal condtions in tropical countries near the Equator.
How much rain can fall from in these tropical boys? As we saw two days ago, 2 inches in an hour can fall; three is possible. 2-3 inches in an hour? Happens all the time in Florida in the summer. And with our upper sixties and low seventies dewpoints this morning, we are one with them (taking into account our higher elevation).
The End.
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.