Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Latest microwave image just in:

No David I will update tomorrow if I get time.

Dry air might be the problem. The microwave shows almost no solid convection to the NW of the center. It looks like a pocket of dry air has smashed the NW side of the storm. That might make some sense when you look at this water vapor image. There is an area of fairly dry air between the large outside spiral band and the center.

This is just my opinion Michael, but this just doesn't look like a sheared storm to me.

It is definately dry air, just look at the break off of convection north of the storm until the outside band. If that doesn't look like dry air intrusion, I don't know what does.

Chanchu definetly isn't too healthy ATM. But consider that the shear over it is being produced by an anticyclone - that Chanchu is going to move under. Remember what happens then?

Heh - now THIS is cold-core.

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where is that map tell you that like is it for us like FL and is it like for MX

Heh - now THIS is cold-core.

Watch out Antartica!!!

I see we are up to 13 tornado reports now. One hit a meat packing plant.

Good bit of wind ~ the top of a water tower blew off, trees fell & power failed.

Lotta hail~ the softball is huge & nothing soft about it... Back to that PBS show lastnight & their clip on heavy hail. They showed how frogs, insects, fish, baby turtles were sucked up & huge hail would form around them. With the creatures or objects frozen in the center. They said it once happened with 3 people that were handgliding I think. Well they hit the storm & were forced to bail their aircraft, deploying their parashoots on the way down. They didn't go down through, the storm sucked them up & began covering their body's with ice, making them human hail. Somehow one survived, the other two died, frozen, covered in ice.

That's one hailacious story Skyepony!!

LuckyTacoBlizzard...read your post seven times. Now when I close my eyes, they dart around and tickle my eyelids, and I can't get it to stop.

Good morning all. Still looking for good storm video and links for the site. Ya'll stop by and leave any feedback you have in my blog. I am continuing to update the site daily withmore links. Added several new model links last night.

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Shear has slacked off a little, but still too high for anything to form right now. Should not be too long before the shear dies down a little more.

Thanks
SJ

Still at 75 kts, JWTC is changing the track every advisory. It's got some decent covection now.

Skyepony wrote:

"They said it once happened with 3 people that were handgliding I think. Well they hit the storm & were forced to bail their aircraft, deploying their parashoots on the way down. They didn't go down through, the storm sucked them up & began covering their body's with ice, making them human hail. Somehow one survived, the other two died, frozen, covered in ice."

Happened to some German glider pilots back in the 1930s. Two gliders got caught up in a thunderstorm and the pilots had to bail out. One of them made it. The other was sucked into the powerful updraft in the center of the storm and covered with heavy layers of ice. He became a human hailstone and fell 7 miles to his death. What a crappy way to die.

Here is one of the coolest and funniest things I have seen in awhile...

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Wonder if you could file a claim for insurance for bat damage? LOL

Holy supercells, Batman!