Living in far Northern Illinois, I will be the first to tell you that we need a little bit of rain up here. Luckily, we got a few inches of rain this morning. Well, the storms that gave us the welcoming rain also started a fire with lightning. More here: http://www.wrex.com/story/15130130/crews-battle-house
Stay safe out there!
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Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts
July 22, 2011
July 19, 2011
More Insanity
Check this out:
The SPC's "supercell composite" has a high point of 82. I consider a value into the 40s extreme, much less the 80s. We've had a few days straight now with absolutely insane environments, from a 200,000 Craven/Brooks value a couple of days ago, EHI values in the mid-teens yesterday, and now supercell composite parameters exceeding 80. Wow. As usual, stay tuned!
July 17, 2011
Insane
An incredible Craven/Brooks Significant Severe value was noted in ND, an extreme number of 190,000. 20,000 is the general "magic number" for significant severe weather. Just crazy. Stay tuned!
July 15, 2011
This is just absurd
While doing my afternoon skim of the weather, I found this map:
The CPC has forecast a ninety percent chance of above normal temperatures. It is uncommon to see values in excess of 60%. Ninety percent is, well, absurd. It is highlighting the major heat wave that you've all heard of. Stay safe out there, and stay tuned!
Interesting Image
This is nothing about anything going on today, just a cool image. I was playing around with GR2Analyst, when I noticed that there was a storm right on top of the Minneapolis radar. Radars that we currently have can not scan upwards. Instead, they take individual snapshots of different angles. The last scan angle that I have is at 19.5 degrees, but I can't confirm whether or not the NWS has higher scans. I draw it out here:
Sorry for the crudeness. So, since a storm was over the Minneapolis radar, we got this image:
I like to call this the "stadium" effect. Because of the different scan angles, there is a stair-step appearance inside of a big "bowl," giving it the look of an arena. Just a fun little image I wanted to show here. As always, Stay tuned!
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