1931:41z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared of the Midwest (click here for 12 hour loop)
Torrential rain in daylight while a shelf cloud is moving east.
There is a hard front moving from west to east. Don't underestimate it's effects. The radar may not be telling the entire story.
The front is dense and dark and it's rain clouds are high altitude with plenty of light penetration. It isn't stopping.
Ain't nothing like being on the ground, satellites have their limits.
The dark clouds are moving southeast. It is still daylight as if noontime and raining hard. Everything is drenched. Satellite signals lost.
Has to be inches per hour.
Wind has stopped, continues to rain at the same rate. Puddles forming with an inch of water.
Emergency vehicles.
4:37 PM 74 degrees Fahrenheit.Tropical storm Kiko still churning in the East Pacific, began a full 40 hours ago.
No activity in the Atlantic. This time last year there were eleven named storms in the Atlantic; this year only six.
The action is shifted to the East Pacific along with the lack of Jet Stream involvement. There are more storms in the East Pacific this year than last. The air masses are driving Central America tropical water vapor westward.
The rain is slowing and the sunlight has not changed.
The climate is changing and the hurricane season with it. The storms have spawned in higher turbulence with the return trip of Sol south after it's northern peak, however, the season is growing later because the water vapor needs to cool and condense in order to organize in the Atlantic.
There could be a repeat of a Superstorm in the Atlantic, but, I doubt it will be normal.
Lake effect clouds are coming over the hill with a very low cloud ceiling settling in, not enough density to block the sun, but, the rain continues. The lake effect off the bay is moving slowly from north to south.
There are some densities at the Eastern Antilles, the question is will it consolidate a rotation or simply dissipate. It is the same place where Sandy started.
See, at this point Earth has a real affinity for NEAR SHORE AEROSOLED WATER VAPOR. If there is going to be an accumulation it will mostly likely start there and continue to build. The trip from Africa is proving to be too long a journey for sustained winds at this point. The open ocean's water vapor is unavailable to sustain velocity. Rain stopped, light and cloud static and 1.25 inches in puddles.
Miniature sunflower crop still standing as if the rain never occurred.
Darker clouds now from the bay with a border to the system noted and sunlight the other side of the border unobstructed by clouds. Darker cloud noted to have minor mesotornadic composition.
Satellite signal returned.
5:06 PM Temperature 70 Fahrenheit''
More light colored clouds coming off the bay.
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