Weather?

Good Morning Russ. No Pictuers?? See Ya wedsday.

Meany, It was dark when I first posted. Since I've had to secure the patio furniture, do a little mopping and feed the dog
We've had heavy enough rain to shut down the internet so haven't been able to post photos. Since I took the photos the rain has been pretty consistent and heavy at times with major thunder boomers & lightning.

Nice shots of the local storm. Thanks

it looks the same here on the bay...

north looks worse then the south

lots of lightning...not too much water...enough to water the plants

the river in town is getting higher...lots of water in the mountains

the little road under the bridge washed away again...i didnt see that but my cocinera told me

Where The Weather "Is Coming From"

Summertime weather has a large alleyway of weather systems exiting equatorial Africa and heading west across the Atlantic. The systems are jam packed with moisture. Most pass over the very south of Mexico and keep going. Hurricanes form within this band. Some curl to the northwest due to an earthspin force called the "Coriolis Effect"

In the Pacific Ocean storms that form can keep heading west or curl toward the north as well. Just how much north is the question.

A hurricane spins counterclockwise drawing weather around in a curl. Some of the curls can be a thousand miles or more in diameter.

Imaging a storm to the west of Guerrero Negro some 500 miles. The storm cloud "curl" would cover the peninsula and even reach past the sierra madres de norte on the mainland.

It's spiralling counterclockwise. Spinning up air meaning warm air and moisture from the gulf of tehuantepec.

So the moisture is coming from the south, along the sierra madres on the mainland, and up the coastal areas of the mainland.

Sooner or later the bands of moisture curl around to the west and cross the peninsula. It all depends where the center of the storm is way out in the Pacific.

The storm centers generally can travel northward until they go over water that is less than 80 degrees in temperature. That is pretty much the magic number to support tropical weather systems. Less than 80 degrees, the storm dies of hunger.

Storms can "drag" sea surface water along with them. Off the coast of Baja California sixty eight degree water can be replaced with water ten degrees warmer as the storm passes. But the storm is destined to die and even a modest "chop" in the waves will mix the warm water with the normal temperature water once the storm has passed.

The immense "curl" of counterclockwise air around a hurricane sucks atmosphere up out of the south but without a doubt the air ahead of a tropical storm or hurricane will be very warm and not extremely humid; not until the rain bands of clouds appear. The bubble of hot dry air is a dead giveaway that something is approaching in tropical latitudes.

The two years of meteorology in college was a "minor" but was interesting and still serves to entertain as I age

One time years ago, the butterflies were so thick that they started clogging up my radiator. My truck started to run just a little warmer than normal. When we got home, I had the truck serviced and the cooling system serviced also. The Mechanic told me that the problem was all the butterfly bodies in the fins of the radiator were causing the overheating problem. Cleaned them out and no more problems. Some thing to check.