Re: Re: Q
Moonlit_Angel said:
I love learning about them, like I said. My dad told me earlier about this meeting being held in the first week of April dealing with weather-they'll have people from the National Weather Service come in, and local meteorologists and stuff, and it does sound rather interesting-I might go check it out.
Yeah, do go! A few years back I went to a meeting/lecture at a local university and got certified as a local weather spotter (I can't even remember who did it, the NWS or NOAA probably). You just go through a bunch of info with people from the NWS and some local weathermen for about 3 hours. You can ask questions too. A lot of weather buffs go to talk about their various gadgets they use, but I just wanted the certification to be a local spotter. Basically, what you're suppose to do is report the weather under-the-radar, meaning stuff like low rotation, mesocyclones (my FAVORITE hehe), funnel clouds, tornadoes, large hail - the stuff that happens below the radius of our Dopplers.
One of the bio teachers at my high school found out and gave me permission to roam freely during severe weather (when the rest of the school has to squat in the basement hallways)
Do you have any cool storm pics? I have a few that I should scan. Is there any cool weather phenomena you're looking forward to seeing? I had a list of four, let's see if I can remember....
a halo (the circular rainbow around the sun)
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (VERY rare, usually at high altitude, which is nowhere I've ever been!)
a green flash (the green burst above some sunsets, appears for a fraction of a second)
a cumulonimbus incus with a mesocyclone, overshooting top, mammatus clouds - the works!
^ MESOCYCLONE!!! (huge rotating section that drops below the base of the cloud)
^mammatus (underside of anvil)
^overshooting top (pokes into the stratosphere)
So far, I've only seen the halo. I've been in some great severe storms, but when you're in them, you don't get to see the features
And once I saw iridescence (up on the cirrus clouds at high altitude or COLD weather):