Jul
7
I went ahead and got the old FAQ page back online as well before I got too tired to work on this tonight. I did a few minor changes, but if someone would like to look it over and see if they can think of any other REALLY GOOD FAQ questions that should go there I would appreciate it. It’s linked in the left menu, or click here.
Wow, 3 whole sections back online in one day! I am making progress now!
Sites looking great, David! If you can offer weather, it’d be even better than the mudslides. I am extremely wx deprived!
I’ll at least put up more weather news vids for you. And of course once I get into the chase accounts they will have video with them as well. Maybe that will help a little!
How about “What is a supercell?” And then “So do all supercells produce tornadoes?” Then you could throw in the rarity of it.
Maybe it’s too much, but every once in awhile I will have people tell me that the reason why tornadoes form, is because of all of the warm air from the south and the cold air from the north colliding (I had a local yokel explain to me a couple of years ago this , while watching a wall cloud near Girard KS about 1/8 mile in front of us.)
You should put something on there about how cold fronts, can still produce tornadoes, but drylines, warm fronts, surface lows, are much more ideal. Explain that the cold air will have a tendency to outrun the storm and cut off the warm air needed. Probably too much info lol.
If only it were as simple as their understanding. lol.
Dick
Yeah, good suggestions for sure. The idea of the F.A.Q. is more to address the type of questions we COMMONLY get every time someone pulls up, or we are stopped getting gas, or going through the drive-thru at McDonalds.
I plan later on to write some more in depth article for things just like you mentioned, for those that want to get a deeper understanding of various things we do or use.
Our AFD from the NWS once read… “Supercells may produce tornadoes.” I got a nice chuckle out of that one.
Since I was a little kid weather forcasts predict thunderstorms one day and thundershowers another day. Meteorologically, is there a difference between a thunderstorm and thundershower?
Well, no, not really Michael. Generally speaking you don’t hear NWS personel using the “thundershower” term. It’s most often heard in media weathercasts. To get thunder you of course need lightning, which would be a storm, even if it’s not a severe one.