[FRIAM] The Dry line.

[Stephen Guerin]

Thank you, Nick. I appreciate your interpretations.

Here's two videos of storm development over the Sangres today - curious on
your thoughts.

   - Los Alamos looking east toward Sangres
   <https://playground.realtime.earth/incidents/SantaFeStorm_20240609/LosAlamos1_2024_161_13-2024_162_0.mp4>
   - Santa Fe looking northeast toward Aspen Vista
   <https://playground.realtime.earth/incidents/SantaFeStorm_20240609/TreeHouse_2024_161_13-2024_162_0.mp4>


-Stephen

On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 11:29 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:  heres 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.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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