Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Triple-digit temperatures are expected at virtually every station in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas today (along with a bunch in Louisiana, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western South Dakota, and southeastern Montana):



Across the water, the European heat wave continued into its third week. For example, Madrid, Spain, reached 104 today, its warmest June reading ever.

Quoting Some1Has2BtheRookie:


I can fully relate to what you are saying. I hope that I did not come across as being that any of these people were seeking a star status. They cannot actually make themselves a star. The public does that for them, or not.

;)
that's why i added the 'edit' statement.. didn't intend it directed at all; just commentary sparked by your language.. which it's clear such mentality does exist with some other bloggers.
myself, i throw a thing or two out there on occasion, but my level of analysis is so shallow in comparison to data some folks use, i expect it mostly goes unnoticed :P

Quoting GeorgiaStormz:


why would you respect me?
i havent done anything yet.

you post alot and i have never seen you do anything trollish

Quoting Stormchaser2007:
Horrific story.

.REFERENCE TORNADO...VENUS TORNADO

RATING: EF-2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 115-120 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 3.6 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS
FATALITIES: 1
INJURIES: 1
START DATE: JUN 24 2012
START TIME: 1223 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 2 SSW VENUS / HIGHLANDS / FL
START LAT/LON: 27.0400 / -81.3600

END DATE: JUN 24 2012
END TIME: 1229 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 2 NNW VENUS / HIGHLANDS / FL
END_LAT/LON: 27.0900 / -82.3600

SURVEY SUMMARY: THE 32-YEAR-OLD VENUS MOTHER WHO DIED FROM
INJURIES AFTER A TORNADO FLUNG HER 200 FEET AWAY FROM HER
HOME WAS FOUND CRADLING HER 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN HER ARMS. SEE COMPLETE HERNANDO TODAY ARTICLE AT HTTP://BIT.LY/KXFQQV

:( That's really sad... Really sad...

Looks like the center is becoming elongated.

Quoting Neapolitan:
Triple-digit temperatures are expected at virtually every station in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas today (along with a bunch in Louisiana, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western South Dakota, and southeastern Montana):



Across the water, the European heat wave continued into its third week. For example, Madrid, Spain, reached 104 today, its warmest June reading ever.

It is times like this that I wish the Houston adage about our weather was true... "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes, it will change."

Quoting Neapolitan:
Triple-digit temperatures are expected at virtually every station in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas today (along with a bunch in Louisiana, Nebraska, eastern Colorado, western South Dakota, and southeastern Montana):



Across the water, the European heat wave continued into its third week. For example, Madrid, Spain, reached 104 today, its warmest June reading ever.

ok 104 in spain in June is just ridiculous! the world is so out of wack right now! we are effed! specially along the coast!

Quoting CarolinaHurricanes87:


Thanks for taking time out of your day to be a sarcastic prick. And if I hadn't just posted a paragraph about how ridiculous it is to criticize other posters, I would point our that your spelling could use a little work. But its a blog, and you are likely just another person with "little man syndrome", so I'll get over it, leave the blog since it is in full-blown troll mode today, and go back to enjoying the great weather here in central NC.

79, sunny, low humidity. Lovin it.

Prayers for TA and your family.
Prayers for any Floridians in harms way.

umm i wasn't being sarcastic, but now i will be, can you help me with my spelling teacher??? oh nevermind spell check your own words ghost rider........poof....

Quoting wxmod:


All satellite images WXMOD posts come from NASA:

http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/nrt-data/hazards-a nd-disasters



They are easily verifiable at this site. I have posted this link many times before. The Greenland photos are located at about 50.00,69.00

Thank you. I mentioned it because the original site is blocked on my computer (at work)...

What a huge squirrel tail to the Northeast Debby has developed!
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/ecwv.html

Quoting Sfloridacat5:
Looks like the center is becoming elongated.

It has been stretched out most of the day, but its axis has been changing. Earlier this morning it was SSW-NNE, now it looks more WSW-ENE.

Looks like Debby is finally about to make landfall south of Cross City, Florida (sometime later today at least as the cold front starts to give her a kick). The 26" of rain with Debby in Sanborn is incredible, hopefully we don't see anything like that as she slowly moves eastwards across the state. Can't rule out another flood though if convection fires near the center again. I put my full forecast and analysis at http://weather.schematical.com/

Quoting Sfloridacat5:
Looks like the center is becoming elongated.

yeah it does, but thats the closest ive seen convection to the center since it first developed! i think it will look better once it hits land and the day time heating really fires the storms around the center, probably will help it when it makes it into the atlantic!

Just something to think about.. alot of us Meteorologists and people in general living on the west coast of florida from Venice to Panama City are very thankfull that this storm did lack moisture. Sure alot came down on Saturday and Sunday in extreme western florida and in Apalachicola on Monday..but this is such a slow mover that the rainfield could of been alot more than squalls of showers coming in for most of the State. There is a tornado threat but the dynamics are slight now. But I'm talking about rainfall..especially in the Tampa Bay area.. there was Alot of Rain early on Saturday into Sunday. The Flow off the GOM is surging water over its banks in S Tampa and St Pete,.. if the normal TS had the moisture field with it... the area from TampaBay north to Cedar Key would be approaching 25-40 inches of rain in 4days (Sat thru Tues).. So in all, this could of been a whole lot worse for West Central Florida coastline. We saw what St Pete- Clearwater got on Saturday, We saw what Apahalcholca got on Monday.. think of it as if this system didn't have dry air in it.

Quoting jeffs713:

It is times like this that I wish the Houston adage about our weather was true... "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes, it will change."

Yesterday and again today, I'm backing my car into the garage so the hood and engine is near the garage door so whatever heat can escape out, instead of being deeper inside of garage near the door and inner wall.

Quoting ncstorm:

again..refresh your page before copying.. you have 48hrs but out to Weds.. you have to hit refresh each time still :)

Quoting Sfloridacat5:
Looks like the center is becoming elongated.

Aww sweet she doesn't want to leave the Gulf, I don't blame you Debby, but please move along.

Hot air out here, everything you touch even in garage is hot to the touch

Quoting jeffs713:
441. How about posting an image link that goes somewhere other than a site dedicated to art, which could be easily photoshopped... Maybe link an image from the original site, such as the NOAA or another organization that has direct access to the images (not rehosted images).

Here's the link to a similar image, if not the exact image, of the Disko area of Greenland, showing the pothole lakes/ponds, glacial outflow and dirty surface. The image is from the Centre for Ocean and Ice. I tried embedding the link so the image would show, but it's too wide for the blog.

photo link:
Link

Center for Ocean and Ice link to more images for the same region: Link

Quoting RitaEvac:


Yesterday and again today, I'm backing my car into the garage so the hood and engine is near the garage door so whatever heat can escape out, instead of being deeper inside of garage near the door and inner wall.

hmm, thats a pretty good Idea. Never thought of that.

Quoting RitaEvac:


Yesterday and again today, I'm backing my car into the garage so the hood and engine is near the garage door so whatever heat can escape out, instead of being deeper inside of garage near the door and inner wall.

Yep. I just moved to a new office building this week (now closer to the Memorial area), and I have access to a parking garage now... It is AMAZING how much difference it makes.

Quoting RitaEvac:
Hot air out here, everything you touch even in garage is hot to the touch

Just hope your A/C doesn't fail, cause if it does, your burnt toast.

Quoting MjOregon:


Here's the link to a similar image, if not the exact image, of the Disko area of Greenland, showing the pothole lakes/ponds, glacial outflow and dirty surface. The image is from the Centre for Ocean and Ice. I tried embedding the link so the image would show, but it's too wide for the blog.

photo link:
Link

Center for Ocean and Ice link to more images for the same region: Link

have those lakes been forming in the past during the summer, or is this a recent development?

Quoting yoboi:


umm i wasn't being sarcastic, but now i will be, can you help me with my spelling teacher??? oh nevermind spell check your own words ghost rider........poof....

Yobol....You ain't missing anything with that poster. Many ignore as do I after rude posts...Love the name calling and then the prayers at the end. Hypocritical much?

Oh... And TA13, you have WUmail.

Quoting E46Pilot:



hmm, thats a pretty good Idea. Never thought of that.

It's already over 100 in the garage, add the heat from the hood/engine, becomes unbearable in there, especially when you have a home gym exercise machine to work out to....

Is there anything to prevent Debbie from going south once she emerges out over the Atlantic? I would sure hate to see her go south then back across the state.

Quoting Tygor:


Yeah 107 here with no wind. Thankfully there's almost no humidity otherwise I'm pretty sure the pits of hell would be showing themselves.

Don't worry hottest part of our day is yet to come, the all time high of 112 in Austin could be in jeopardy since the hottest part of day is between 4 and 5 pm? Some records will fall, the bad thing about this heat wave is No wind at times in certain locations. I was on a metal boat on a Lake early yesterday morning with the No wind, no ripples at all and I baked for 3 hours, I have been fishing this Lake for over 30 years with a boat even when it is hot but I have never seen it that calm or that hot.

Quoting newportrinative:



You ain't missing anything with that poster. Many ignore.....Love the name calling and then the prayers at the end. Hypocritical much?

yeah i noticed that.....

Quoting BrickellBreeze:


Just hope your A/C doesn't fail, cause if it does, your burnt toast.

Know plenty of people that are going out

Quoting uncwhurricane85:


yeah it does, but thats the closest ive seen convection to the center since it first developed! i think it will look better once it hits land and the day time heating really fires the storms around the center, probably will help it when it makes it into the atlantic!

I agree. Being that part of the inner circulation is already brushing the coast, watch for convection to fire close to the center very soon.

This is what kills this blog, there is way too much I did this first, you missed this, you didn't call it right, nevermind there were a lot of " professionals" that missed it. Ok we get it. All the folks attacking people who just give there opinion. It's really what's wrong with people these days. No matter how much computerized info you have in front of you, it's still a guess. The models aren't a perfect science, case in point. The Euro is usually the winner this time it wasn't. This childish crap of trying too discredit people who are sharing there FREE time to try to give the "uneducated" an idea of what's going on needs to quit. Thanks to those of you who do take time too put together your ideas for those who love the weather but aren't "meteorologically inclined.

Quoting RitaEvac:


It's already over 100 in the garage, add the heat from the hood/engine, becomes unbearable in there, especially when you have a home gym exercise machine to work out to....

buy a portable a/c unit from home depot for $290+ depending on area you want to cool.

Quoting BrickellBreeze:


Just hope your A/C doesn't fail, cause if it does, your burnt toast.

ours did several years ago.
had to sleep downstairs
Was 98 outside.
low 100s upstairs.
about 92 downstairs.
I would go to sleep, wake up, wring the sweat out of my clothes and take a shower.

Debby was/is a very "frustrating" storm to forecast and it brought out the best and worst out of the models and humans as well.......Model divergence when a storm has not formed, or is way out to sea, is one thing. Model divergence, and other uncertainty, when a storm is on your doorstep is another and Gulf storms are some of the toughest ones to deal with.

I can't remember how many times we have seen the "cone" keep shifting to the left on an incoming Cape Verde storm heading out of the Bahamas towards Florida and the Gulf. Everyone "waiting on the expected turn" as the cone shifts West from South Florida, to Big Bend, to Panhandle, to AL-MS, to LA and so on when ridges and weaknesses do not materialize exactly as predicted in earlier model runs.

This experience with Debby illustrates why this is not a perfect science yet; and may never be.

Quoting uncwhurricane85:


have those lakes been forming in the past during the summer, or is this a recent development?

They have been forming in the past during the summer, but earlier and earlier each summer.

for those who would like to know just how much water is in an inch of rain in gallons for a set surface area this link is interesting. The ammount of water that has fallen in gallons over florida these last few days is unbelievable!

Link

Hummm, Center about to make landfall. Just a tad ahead of schedule ya think?

Sorry for the double post.

Quoting StPeteBill:
Is there anything to prevent Debbie from going south once she emerges out over the Atlantic? I would sure hate to see her go south then back across the state.

There isn't anything to really drive her south or back west, as there is a high pressure pushing her east, and the A/B high will push her north.

Image didn't animate..will try again..

Quoting Saltydogbwi1:
for those who would like to know just how much water is in an inch of rain in gallons for a set surface area this link is interesting. The ammount of water that has fallen in gallons over florida these last few days is unbelievable!

Link

wow that's a lot....

Quoting fredric1979:
This is what kills this blog, there is way too much I did this first, you missed this, you didn't call it right, nevermind there were a lot of " professionals" that missed it. Ok we get it. All the folks attacking people who just give there opinion. It's really what's wrong with people these days. No matter how much computerized info you have in front of you, it's still a guess. The models aren't a perfect science, case in point. The Euro is usually the winner this time it wasn't. This childish crap of trying too discredit people who are sharing there FREE time to try to give the "uneducated" an idea of what's going on needs to quit. Thanks to those of you who do take time too put together your ideas for those who love the weather but aren't "meteorologically inclined.

I agree. Too many children come on here and try to establish themselves as "good forecasters" as a status symbol. All they end up doing is driving intelligent people away from the blog, irritating the other children (who then get into an e-peen match), and getting on everyone elses' nerves.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

No. My mom had a stroke, I got in a minor wreck with my grandpa, and I was almost struck by lightning. At 3 AM.

Wow. I'm so sorry. I hope you and your grandfather are okay and wishing your mom a speedy recovery.

Quoting yoboi:


looks like the new norm for texas, one more year and texas might be the new nevada.....

Look at the global patterns and how the airflow patterns are but it is quite obvious that just like there is a tropical flow there is a dry flow. The Sahara to the American dessert. And look at a topographical map of the US and you will see the dessert advancing from the pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast of Texas. Central Texas has been transitioning for years now and its going to continue unless there is a global climate change like there was 10,000 years ago when global climate changed and created the desserts. I do not now the effect of GW on this and hate to bring it up but you think it would speed this process up.


Back on topic Debby looks like she is flying compared to the past 3 days even tho she is still moving pretty slow. I fill bad for you Floridians and I hope everyone stays safe.
Link

Ya those lake have been forming earlier and earlier and now they're getting larger. Watched one that was seven miles by twenty with a decent depth I want to say of about eight feet disappear in a matter of minutes as a fissure opened up. Scientists fathom that all this water rushes to the bottom and makes the shelf move faster and faster as the situation exasperates.

Quoting jeffs713:

It is times like this that I wish the Houston adage about our weather was true... "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes, it will change."

They say that here in Colorado too. I heard it growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio as well. In fact, I did a little research one day and came to the conclusion that the "If you don't like the weather just wait x minutes" adage is common for just about any place with a temperate, continental climate.

As for our weather along the Colorado Front Range, adages notwithstanding, I don't expect much change for at least 10 days out. It is currently 103 F and climbing at Davidson Mesa near Louisville. Humidity is a lousy 11% and winds are gusty and erratic. But hey, at least we have a few clouds around today.

I am not that much knowledgable about tropical meterology but did something extra ordinary happen that debbie followed the GFS model and not the Euro? How could the Euro still go with the western track, even late in the game when all along the GFS saw debby's correct path?