[FRIAM] This morning's hailstorm

[Nicholas Thompson]

so, as the Chief Weather Nerd on the list,  I thought I  ought to be able
to say something about this morning's hail storm.  I can't really.  I can
regale you with this morning;'s skew-T diagram from ABQ which would tell us
something if we understood it.

[image: image.png]
Notice that there is some CAPE and that and that most of it is above the
freezing level.  I send this along in the hope that I will entrap others in
guessing what these things mean. Notice that the the airmass in the top
half of the atmosphere seems quite different with strong sw winds, low
dewpoints, and a cap.
Here is a  surface map for this morning:

[image: image.png]

--The dry line is pretty well developed in southern NM, but very diffuse up
where we are, so I don't think that's playing much of a role.

To get a sense of the big picture,look at this radar mosaic.
https://radar.weather.gov/region/conus-large/standard

And then compare it in your mind to this 500 mib chart.  Wierd.
[image: image.png]
I really wish we had a proper meteorologist on this list.

Talk about complexity.,

N

Nicholas S. Thompson
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