About real clouds, weather, cloud seeding and science autobio life stories by WMO consolation prize-winning meteorologist, Art Rangno
Pretty skies; pretty Cirrus
Here are some shots:
The weather ahead
Tried to find some rain for you in the models, but only one had rain, and that was the low resolution (big grid spacing) Canadian GEM model posted here. It had the rainy panel (lower right) for SE Arizona calculated from last evening’s global data:
Also, I am really learning about how much the WRF-GFS model likes to bring hurricanes and tropical storms into the Southwest. Yesterday’s model run at 11 AM AST, had another doozie coming up the coast in two weeks still having tropical storm strength and its about to pounce on northern Baja, southern Cal, and maybe AZ. Here is that depiction for your amusement, valid at 11 AM, Saturday NCAA football day, November 9th.
the stuff of dreams for Saturday, November 9th, 11 AM AST.
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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.