NVRC Pattern Contest - D2

Bill Glaze billglaze at triad.rr.com
Tue Aug 19 13:40:46 AKDT 2003


And, guaranteed to shake your teeth loose as high as 43,000 ft.  (Never been higher,
wish at times I could have gone to 90K.)
Bill Glaze

randy10926 at comcast.net wrote:

> SCATTERED
> The amount of sky cover for a cloud layer between 3/8ths and 4/8ths, based on
> the summation layer amount for that layer.
>
> ISOLATE
> To set apart or cut off from others.
>
> THUNDERSTORM
> Produced by a cumulonimbus cloud, it is a microscale event of relatively short
> duration characterized by thunder, lightning, gusty surface winds, turbulence,
> hail, icing, precipitation, moderate to extreme up and downdrafts, and under
> the most severe conditions, tornadoes.
>
> Clear as mud ain't it.
>
> Anyway isolated T-Storms are single clouds thatr are cut off from other T-
> Storms.  Scatter are part of a cloud base.
>
>
> > Question - What is the difference between scattered and isolated thunderstorms??
> > I have seen the terms being used but have never heard or seen their
> > definitions..
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: randy10926 at comcast.net [mailto:randy10926 at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:25 PM
> > To: Buff Miller; Henderson,Eric; robert gainey; John Ferrell; Lee Davis;
> > discussion at nsrca.org @nsrca.
> > Subject: NVRC Pattern Contest - D2
> >
> >
> > The contest is still on for this weekend.  Starts Saturday the 23rd at 0900.
> > Registration will be around earlier.  Weather looks OK for the weekend.
> >
> > Fri Aug 22            Isolated T-Storms       90°/67° 30 %
> > Sat Aug 23            Isolated T-Storms       83°/62° 30 %
> > Sun Aug 24            Sunny   79°/62° 20 %
> >
> > Club web site with flyer at http://www.1nvrc.com/ .
> >
> > Randy Hatfield
> >
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