Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Real Weatherman's Report

10-20-2015

Hurricane Olaf has strengthened to 150 MPH winds and is beginning to change direction to the WNW.


The hurricane is moving at 10 MPH with a well defined eyewall.

 No microwave blast patterns are apparent in this loop on the core or on the periphery of the storm except one large ring of watervapor - likely the result of a microwave targeting the core much earlier in the day.

 The jet stream is being interrupted over California.

 A division between the moisture field of the Low over Southern California and the moisture field in the Jet Stream itself moving clockwise around high pressure could be the result of a low and a high moving toward each other and generating a venturi effect and offshore winds.

 Light to moderate Santa Ana winds are starting to blow in some of the foothill communities.

There is a high pressure zone stationed offshore of California to block a North Pacific storm front which is gradually moving East closer to the upper level low over the State, and this condition will create an offshore wind pattern.

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