This blog is meant to highlight a scenario where a early AM land breeze was not forecasted by the majority of model guidance nor by the human forecaster. We will examine the synoptic and mesoscale features for the area, during the period leading up to the land breeze event in order to determine if there…
This snapshot of wind observations combined with a radar image of storms moving through NJ from W to E is a good example of a gust front / outflow boundary increasing our wind speeds out ahead of approaching storms. A gust front / outflow boundary is simply a storm scale mass of cold / cool…
Using this loop over inter-tropical convergence zone – I’ve been watching a low level circ for the last day or so, and now it has become an area of interest. http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tpw/natl/anim/latest72hrs.gif With strong Bermuda High remaining in control over Atlantic, this could be a system worth watching over the next few days. Very low chance…
The recent synoptic setup lately provides us with a good example of a blocking high entrenched out in the Atlantic. A blocking high is simply an area of high pressure that is relatively stationary for an extended period of time. The series of surface maps below show the blocking high staying put through Saturday morning as it…
Rain can effect winds in very different ways depending on the vertical conditions. Today we saw a large area of precip into VA waters and check out the mixing induced by the showers on the western shores.
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson… Snapped a few pics today as I was watching some shelf clouding during fast developing mesocyclone activity – saw shelfing to the west stretch out across the sky and a vortex popped out right in front of me along the river. At first I was confused given position of storm…
This is where our Meteorologists will post topics for their discussion and to share concepts that we observe and help better understand the complexities of predicting winds in the areas that we focus on. Not all posts will have answers, but all are aimed at stimulating discussion. If you wish to comment on…