I used to ride my bike there almost weekly. I would start at the Hawley School in Newtown. Go through Brookfield, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Wash Depot, Woodbury, down to South Britain, back to Newtown. 45 miles.
Yes, but when you get steep lapse rates, doesn't that mean the air is cooling with height? So it would seem a narrow DGZ means the air goes from -12 to -17 (or -10 to -18, whatever the DGZ definition is) quickly, representing rapid lift through the column.
I know my reasoning is way off here, just trying to figure this out.
Academic question Fish:
Is a thick DGZ preferred over a thin one? I though a thin DGZ meant that the air is rising quickly through the -12 to -17 region?
I can remember one of the Accuweather guys way back in the day, on 1010 WINS in NYC (may have been Elliot Abrams). He would refer to the first two weeks of February as "the snow window".