01-07-2019, 04:13 PM
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Hailstorm.
HiI know we complain about the summer weather here, including the recent thunderstorms.
This ridiculous.
https://news.sky.com/story/freak-hai...ajara-11752298
01-07-2019, 04:34 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiI know we complain about the summer weather here, including the recent thunderstorms.
This ridiculous.
https://news.sky.com/story/freak-hai...ajara-11752298
I bet they weren't expecting that!
01-07-2019, 05:54 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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Can't read/watch it, I refuse to click their button.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48821306
01-07-2019, 06:44 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
Wow! Now that's news!I'm trying to find some meteorological information on whether it was a front/system of some sort or just a pop-up storm that produced it.
Those kids must have been absolutely thrilled! I am sure the've never seen snow, let alone ice like that before.
01-07-2019, 07:19 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
Originally Posted by Judd
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How about this one?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48821306
01-07-2019, 08:00 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
It seems that there was a small low pressure air mass that was building to the north with the summer heat supplying the warm, moist air. Storm development was accelerated by orographic lifting over the mountains to the north, followed by cooling/condensing/raining as the storm moved south.All the while, the surrounding front or air mass was supplying more energy into the storm, which allowed droplets to move up in the storm, freeze, fall, cool - and continue to take in enough energy to force the hailstones upward and form more layers. The whole up-down-layering-like-an-onion cycle repeated with the hailstones getting larger until they became to too heavy to be supported by the updrafts in the storm and fell.
The storm hail-making machine kept right on going because the energy that would have normally dissipated when the hail fell was continued to be fed by nearby warm/moist air mass that was all but staying in one place.
It was, you see, a perfect storm!
01-07-2019, 08:11 PM
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Re: Hailstorm.
Originally Posted by Surfermom
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It seems that there was a small low pressure air mass that was building to the north with the summer heat supplying the warm, moist air. Storm development was accelerated by orographic lifting over the mountains to the north, followed by cooling/condensing/raining as the storm moved south. All the while, the surrounding front or air mass was supplying more energy into the storm, which allowed droplets to move up in the storm, freeze, fall, cool - and continue to take in enough energy to force the hailstones upward and form more layers. The whole up-down-layering-like-an-onion cycle repeated with the hailstones getting larger until they became to too heavy to be supported by the updrafts in the storm and fell.
The storm hail-making machine kept right on going because the energy that would have normally dissipated when the hail fell was continued to be fed by nearby warm/moist air mass that was all but staying in one place.
It was, you see, a perfect storm!
A perfect storm for the average man is forgetting his wedding anniversary and also forgetting to pick up her Mother from the Station when she was coming to stay the weekend to celebrate it..
Not me I hasten to add, but an Ex Colleague did.
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