[FRIAM] The Dry line.

[Nicholas Thompson]

Shalll  I add you to this list.  I don/t think I will carry on for too much
longer.
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From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Subject: The Dry line.
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>


Apparently, I never sent this out this mornng.

Rainy day in the mosquito infested swamp, first in two weeks.  A "back door
front"  has pushed into New England from the NE, and we have actually
turned the heat on.   Similarly, a back door front has pushed into NE NM,
loosening the gradient of the dryline.  Summer cold fronts are ambiguous
with respect to moisture, being moister than desert air but dryer  than
gulf air.

[image: image.png]

Be sure to draw the 50 degree dewpoint contour.  It is pushing into the
Northern RG valley.
[image: image.png]
Note the flow of higher dewpoint air westward along I-40, coming into ABQ
as an east canyon wind.

The eye candy tells it all.
[image: image.png]


Will there be clouds  in santa fe today?  This seems the classic monsoon
situation.   I hope you can see this water vapor time lapse.  Really
dramatic!

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sr&band=09&length=24

Low pressure cyclonic circulation over  Northern Mexico, most air streaming
NW into New Mexico, being forced upward by the topography.  Now we have the
added feature of the back door cold front.  Probably not the day to plan a
fishing trip down stea of a burn scar.

NWS ABQ is quite bullinsh about weather for today.

[image: image.png]

Oh, and by the way:  here's the skewT for ABQ today, just in case anybody
is curious.  I wish somebody wise would put me out of my misery and explain
these things to me.    It does not look like a particularly rainish
sounding to me, but WDIK.  Not much, that's for sure.

Despite the hundreds of cards and letters I have received asking me to
continue this service, I am probably going to run out
steam in the next few days, or so.  I hope to see this current event
through.

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Well, since I forgot to send it out, let's see how it verified.

[image: image.png]
The Water Vapor imagery is really dramatic.  You can see the anvils from
the clouds forming over the Sangrees pushing up into the jetstream like
rocks in  a river flow, creating long wakes downwind.   Exciting.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sr&band=09&length=24

Please somebody let me know if this link is working.

NIck


PS  Think what psychology would be like if the technology of people
observation had developed as dramatically in the last 50 years as the
technology of air observation.

n
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