OrangeRoses's WunderBlog

W 070809

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:39:00 GMT

Heat Index is slowly creeping higher this afternoon into the high 90's F with one PWS over 100 F (ambiguous data) that is always higher than anywhere else in this area. Relative Humidity can have localized differences, even in a small neighborhood, just like different rooms in a house have varied humidity. As temperature and humidity increase the H.I. is higher than keeping R.H. the same and T increasing, but even at lower T values should RH increase a lot it would ...
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Su 070509

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

It rained 0.94 in | 2.4 cm in four intervals — between 2 AM and 4:30 PM. More on the way this evening. The ground was very dry after 2-3 weeks of temperatures soaring from 90° to 100°+ F. Some front lawns had morning sprinklers and the predawn dew disappeared over the past week. We have had bipolar rainfall starting with Flood Warnings in April through May, and then in June little or none. And now it returns again, with enough to soak the topsoil without pondin...
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F 070309

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:29:00 GMT

Heat Advisory 10 AM to 9PM Friday and Saturday July 4thClick the IDAB SITE link to watch the graph update at 60 second intervals ( in a separate window or tab ).Mesonet.org IDAB SITE Realtime GraphΦ
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Th 070209

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Earlier today I watched a formation of cirrus clouds that stretched from West to East across a pale blue sky. It looked like a Giant Swan with long extended wings. Such beauty there is in Nature when we have a moment to observe something that will never be exactly the same again. Along the northern horizon was a straightline of cumulus clouds growing & lifting upward from the heat(convection). I wondered if they would grow into cumulo-nimbus thunderstorms(which I wa...
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Real Time Data Monitoring

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:39:00 GMT

This marvelous website is in my area, has excellent amd accurate weather instruments with 60 second updates . Click the IDAB link to watch the updated graph in a separate window.Mesonet.org(IDAB SITE) Realtime GraphThe red line on the top most section shows the heat index, which is not always forecasted correctly for this area because the people do not use reliable data, like we can now see above.Φ
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