Day 148: Tropical-like Airmass
As I alluded to on Day 145, a very warm, and humid airmass was poised to affect the southeast United States for most of this week. As a result, afternoon showers and thunderstorms have developed the last several days over much of the southeast. The image above depicts several clusters of ongoing thunderstorms throughout the southeast. The storms in Alabama have wreaked havoc with the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament that is underway in Hoover, AL. Numerous rain/lightning delays have been experienced and more are possible as the evening continues.
As for VORTEX II, a strong cap aloft has prevented thunderstorms from developing in their anticipated target area. As such, V2 is currently traveling to position themselves for tomorrow. Hopefully the atmosphere will cooperate.
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Patrick Marsh is a Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma's School of Meteorology. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas in 2005 and a Masters of Science in Meteorology in 2007. In addition to working on his doctorate, Patrick serves as the National Severe Storms Laboratory Liaison to the Hazardous Weather Testbed where his research interests lie in working with operational forecasters, data mining, data visualization, and all things high-impact weather. For more about Patrick's work, check out his complete CV!
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