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    Weather References and Newbie Information

    in Southeastern States

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    Plus newbies need to know that the 850 temp is at around 5000 ft so the surface temps can often be above freezing when the 850 temps would indicate snow. Also, a warm layer during sleet events often develops above 850mb.

    Wes, that's really interesting. When I think of a sleet layer, it's a warm layer lower than 850. Is that not normally the case?

    Post a recent picture of yourself

    in Southeastern States

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    I recently had great news. 2 Romance novels and a book of poetry have been published. Dreams do come true, now if I can just get in on a really good snowstorm this winter! This picture is what's on the back of my book.

    Are you writing categorical romances or single romance books? Just curious, as I'm a librarian.

    Congrats!

    Weather References and Newbie Information

    in Southeastern States

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    Maybe I'm old school, but I still like Unisys Weather for a mix of layperson and met charts. Good jumping off point, especially in the Plains, but useful nationwide is the OU Met page som.ou.edu/wx and no I did not go to OU. ;)

    If you do not have access to the European model www.meteoblue.com has an approximation I believe. It is a European weather site. Click on North America weather maps and go from there using the tabs at the top of the chart. This is anecdotal only, but I think the clouds/rain is loosely based on European output. Enjoy!

    Unisys is awesome...it's where I learned a lot from back in the day.

    Weather References and Newbie Information

    in Southeastern States

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    I'd also add this:

    if you're new, you're going to hear alot about soundings from the models. I've found a snow sounding from an airport in Michigan to use as an example:

    Date: 48 hour Eta valid 18Z THU 17 NOV 11
Station: KMBS
Latitude:   43.53
Longitude: -84.08
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LEV PRES  HGHT  TEMP  DEWP  RH  DD   WETB DIR SPD THETA THE-V THE-W THE-E   W
    mb     m     C     C    %   C     C  deg knt   K     K     K     K    g/kg
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0 1000   144                                                                 
SFC  995   187   0.9  -7.2  55  8.1  -1.9 270  16 274.5 274.8 271.5 280.7  2.23
 2  950   551  -3.8  -8.6  69  4.8  -5.4 272  21 273.3 273.6 270.6 279.1  2.09
 3  900   975  -8.1  -9.5  89  1.4  -8.5 273  22 273.2 273.5 270.5 278.9  2.06
 4  850  1415 -12.2 -13.2  92  1.0 -12.4 282  23 273.4 273.7 269.9 278.0  1.63
 5  800  1875 -15.7 -19.1  75  3.4 -16.4 283  24 274.4 274.5 269.5 277.4  1.05
 6  750  2358 -18.8 -25.1  57  6.3 -19.8 290  27 276.2 276.3 270.0 278.2  0.66
 7  700  2871 -20.0 -30.1  40 10.1 -21.4 281  34 280.3 280.4 272.2 281.7  0.45
 8  650  3416 -23.9 -34.6  37 10.7 -25.1 280  36 281.9 282.0 272.8 282.9  0.31
 9  600  3995 -27.7 -37.1  40  9.4 -28.6 281  36 284.0 284.1 273.9 284.9  0.26
10  550  4615 -31.8 -43.0  32 11.2 -32.6 282  38 286.3 286.3 275.0 286.8  0.16
11  500  5282 -35.7 -47.9  28 12.2 -36.4 282  41 289.5 289.5 276.6 289.8  0.10
12  450  6009 -38.5 -57.9  11 19.5 -39.1 282  44 294.9 294.9 279.1 295.0  0.03
13  400  6813 -41.4 -69.3   3 27.9 -42.0 283  48 301.2 301.2 281.8 301.2  0.01
14  350  7712 -44.7 -71.3   4 26.5 -45.2 285  54 308.4 308.4 284.7 308.4  0.01
15  300  8737 -46.8 -69.5   6 22.6 -47.3 284  58 319.3 319.3 288.5 319.4  0.01
16  250  9942 -47.4                      276  60 335.6                        
17  200 11414 -48.1                      268  66 356.6                        
18  150 13301 -49.3                      265  52 385.1                        
19  100 15940 -50.7                      255  44 429.8                        
TRP                                             0

    If your sounding looks like that, I can almost guarantee what falls from the sky will be snow. Of course, there are nuances to reading this sounding like noticing if the column is significantly saturated that you'll learn with time. Text soundings can be found at this address: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/make.html

    Please, no matter whatever you've learned elsewhere, believe this(http://68.226.77.253/text/NAMSFC/NAM_KCUB.txt) is a sounding. That is what's called model extraction data. While it can give you some of the specifics you get in a sounding, it is NOT a sounding.

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