Last night I posted this Wednesday night water vapor forecast from NCAR’s WRF weather model.
The convergence of cold dry air and warm moist air will produce violent weather along the frontal boundary.
http://realclimatescience.com/2011/04/26/the-boundary-line/
Note the very large humidity/temperature gradient across the frontal boundary in Alabama. The clash of cold dry air and very warm moist air is deadly.
If you follow that North East my place is under the lime green and we have been inside at least 4 Tornado warning boxes so far tonight and tornado watch until 2am! We are experiencing pockets of rain and electrical storms but the most damaging stuff is missing us.
I hope it misses everybody. Living in Kansas, this stuff is just part of Spring and Summer…..but it never numbs me to the deadly potential of these systems.
Here’s to hoping you and yours stay safe.
Well most of the activity has passed. While setting up my property I planned for windy conditions and built in a protected location with ridges on three sides that do a good job of diverting wind from the house.
BTW
The National Weather service get a lot carried away with their tornado warnings.
Water vapor? See what that pollution did! BAN H2O!!!
If water vapor is a greenhouse gas, it is a creation of the DEVIL (look at all the tornadoes) and must be EXORCISED from our planet!
You’re right, dang it! If we can just get all that H2O out of the air think how great life would be. Who needs a stinkin atmosphere!
At the rate they are issuing tornado warnings it is no wonder people are still at risk of injury or death. Last night over 50 tornado warnings were issued for east Tennessee and as of this morning one possible is being investigated according to a local news source. When they attempted to give direction the severe weather was traveling it was as if they could not even read a map as they a possible 30 mile wide tornado traveling at 60 miles an hour nowhere.
In the DC area, we have been under a tornado watch since 2 PM yesterday and still under a watch until 3 PM today. Also multiple tornado warnings.
We have had a couple rumbles of thunder for all that. Yes, too many warnings are as bad as none at all, because people aren’t going stop living when 99% of them are false alarms.