2230.19z
UNISYS Infrared US Satellite (click here for twelve hour loop - thank you)
Twelve hours ago it looked as though the deadly day would end. It was looking like bad storms but not deadly bad storms. But, then Earth assembled it's power drawing on multiple sources of water vapor drenched in heat.
May 11, 2016
1048 GMT
Current Surface Map at the Weather Channel (map of the weather fronts)
May 11, 2016
0430.19z
UNISYS Infrared US satellite (from the same loop of previous satellite image)
May 11, 2016
1045 GMT
Weather Channel Current Temperature Map
1030.18z
UNISYS Infrared US satellite image
Wind Map (click here)
May 11, 2016
5:35 am EST
top speed: 26.7 mph
average: 6.5 mph
There is a lot of energy being used by Earth when these extreme events occur. In that energy level comes the understanding of the power of heat contained in water vapor.
