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The Weather Channel Actual Highs
The time of day is different.
June 28, 2015
The National Weather Service confirms a tornado touched down in Lee County just before 6 p.m. Saturday evening knocking down trees and damaging roofs.
The twister was part of a huge group of thunderstorms that moved across the ABC11 viewing area Saturday evening. ABC11 Eyewitness pictures and videos showed just how much damage the severe weather caused....
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The Weather Channel Current Temperatures
Follow the water vapor trail. is California getting any water?'
Nope. (click here)
The air is too dry. There has to be air saturation before there is precipitation. There was some shade. Some humidity. It is a start, but, no rain.
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
What is different that might lend a change in California water vapor is the high pressure intrusion in the middle of the country. If that continues, it will continue to force the water vapor from the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) toward the west coast. It will continue for a period of time because of the very sluggish air movement.
The waning of the water vapor as it moves north clearly illustrates hot and dry air. As soon as it moves to the droughted areas, first in western Mexico, then in California, there is evaporation. The water vapor nearly disappears. This is the first step in recovering from a drought. The air has to accumulate water vapor.
If the ITCZ water vapor continues up the west coast USA, there is a chance it will permanently force some degree of precipitation. I've stated before, changes in climate begin at the extremes and move toward majority occurrences. This, along with some rain earlier, I think it was spring and not winter, could be a shift.
The northwest has never been effected by the east Pacific high that has plagued California. There may be enough water vapor coming into play to bring about a longer term climate change. The rains will be torrential. It is the way climate is now. The water is at a much higher location in the troposphere, so when the weight of the molecules become heavy enough and even hail, it will come down to the surface, but, it will be dangerous.
The resistance in the climate to allow rainfall is illustrated in the size of the hail. It was just the last week or so there was grapefruit sized hail. That has been a rarity and actually I've never heard reports of grapefruit sized hail. So, the water vapor is sequestered high in the troposphere to even build up that size hail. The troposphere is hot. The rain simply isn't making it to Earth's surface. The heat contained in the troposphere comes from the surface up, no different than where infrared originates.
This illustration is in an entry on this blog dated December 30, 2004. It is an illustration from NASA. It was an illustration from NASA for far longer than December 30, 2004. I'm just sayin'.
