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It's about to hit here in Denton. I'll let you what to expect when it makes it across to the Dallas side. Hopefully it's not the "sky is falling" routine the weather guys are saying.
I am about to go into class and the weather can't make up it's mind. It Rains really hard few a few minutes then it stops and then starts again. The air is rather warm here which makes me doubt hail. But I am not a weatherman.
I am about to go into class and the weather can't make up it's mind. It Rains really hard few a few minutes then it stops and then starts again. The air is rather warm here which makes me doubt hail. But I am not a weatherman.
From nssl.noaa.gov. If the air is warm, you can still have hail since it doesn't depend on ground level air temperature.
Hail is a form of precipitation that occurs when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere where they freeze into ice. There are two ideas about hail formation. In the past, the prevailing thought was that hailstones grow by colliding with supercooled water drops. Supercooled water will freeze on contact with ice crystals, frozen rain drops, dust or some other nuclei. Thunderstorms that have a strong updraft keep lifting the hailstones up to the top of the cloud where they encounter more supercooled water and continue to grow. The hail falls when the thunderstorm's updraft can no longer support the weight of the ice or the updraft weakens. The stronger the updraft the larger the hailstone can grow.
Recent studies suggest that supercooled water may accumulate on frozen particles near the back-side of the storm as they are pushed forward across and above the updraft by the prevailing winds near the top of the storm. Eventually, the hailstones encounter downdraft air and fall to the ground.
And I just got owned by the fish... Good job sir!!
Not trying to own, just playing weatherman. I learned something by looking up how hail forms. That site has good stuff on tornadoes too. I've always been fascinated with weather, just chose the wrong career path I guess.
Not trying to own, just playing weatherman. I learned something by looking up how hail forms. That site has good stuff on tornadoes too. I've always been fascinated with weather, just chose the wrong career path I guess.
I like watching the storm chasers on discovery - those fools have funky rides, wear ragidy a$$ clothes, BROKE as hell...and they LOVE every second of that sh*t.. freakin awesome..
Addison update - we got some hail for about 20 seconds and it was VERY small...after that the rain and the hail stopped..I wouldnt be surprised if the sun came out in another hour or so..
****, is it still hailing? I need to find the spot where it is and go there quick! I have light hail damage from up north a while back and I never took care of it through the insurance.
I learned something by looking up how hail forms. That site has good stuff on tornadoes too. I've always been fascinated with weather, just chose the wrong career path I guess.
