Here are a collection of analyses depicting the meteorological conditions that fostered some of Thursday’s active t-storms By Tom Skilling (Via Facebook) Moisture within Thursday’s warm, buoyant air mass—which included low 80-degree high temps and low to mid 60-degree dew points indicating moderately “humid” air—ascended into “divergent” upper-level winds at the jet stream level (18,000 […]
Tuesday features scattered showers and thunderstorms as we’re primed for storm development. Turbulent upper level winds out of the south keep us unstable and with a steady supply of warmth and humidity with southerly winds, it won’t take much to see a storm or two develop throughout the day, especially for areas that pick up […]
Two tropical features are being monitored in both the Pacific and Atlantic. Tropical Depression Twenty-E developed on Thursday about 1,000 miles off the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California. According to forecasters, it has a chance of becoming Tropical Storm Ramon before weakening over the open Pacific. In the Atlantic, forecasters are watching an area of low pressure that has developed along a frontal boundary.
Of the two disturbances we’ve been tracking, one just north of the Bahamas doesn’t have much chance of development after encountering stronger upper-level winds.