Tag Archives: thunderstorms

Cold front and rain

Posted on September 3, 2010 | Comments Off on Cold front and rain

The first cold front of the season? Probably. Anyhow, it’s drawing moisture out of the Gulf and producing thunderstorms and steady rain. Over an inch so far at the rancho. Been a fairly wet year. Hope it continues. Had enough drought, after a hot and unusually dry August. But LCRA’s Bob Rose says it’ll return next week.

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America from the flight deck

Posted on June 27, 2009 | Comments Off on America from the flight deck

Captain Dave uses his weather radar to thread his A321 through a Southern thunderstorm:

"Before we picked our way through this line-up of Thor’s children, the co-pilot told the lead flight attendant to batten down the hatches. I woke the passengers up, using my best imitation of the mythological captain’s voice, and told them to take their seats and strap in tight. After I put the PA handset back in it’s cradle, I remark to the co-pilot, ‘The passengers are probably freaking out back there because of AF447.’"

Good writing. Good read.

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Gravity waves

Posted on October 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Gravity waves

A Texas scientist I know has a sloop on Lake Travis named "Gravity Wave," which is handily explained here, but the link and this post is about another, much larger kind of gravity wave called an "undular bore." Stupid name, but an impressive event, as a train of thunderstorms recently spawned four gravity waves rolling through the atmosphere over Des Moines, Iowa.

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Posted in Sailing, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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Postponement

Posted on June 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Postponement

It’s not raining out at the lake yet, but with a forecast 90 percent chance of thunderstorms with gusty winds and lightning for the area, I put off the rerigging until Thursday morning when the forecast rain chances are much lower. Just don’t want to be out in mid-lake when a storm whips up.

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Storms & space

Posted on September 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Storms & space

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And you thought space was "out there" and the weather was "down here."

Uh uh.

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