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What is Causing the Rain?
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The satellite photos are actually showing large areas of low clouds across the west Atlantic and north Caribbean. Look closely at the images below and you'll see a slightly lighter colored shading over the north 1/2 of the island and the ocean to the north. This is cloud cover:
The reason for the low clouds and rain is cold air following in behind a strong cold front. The air over the Caribbean is laded with moisture. If it is cooled the moisture condenses out and clouds and rain are the result.
This cold front passed through the same day Odette crossed the island and eventually absorbed Odette. You can see the trailing edge of this front southeast of Puerto Rico in this image, and the large bright white blob along the front to the northeast is the low pressure area that once was Odette. This is the same cold air mass that caused the weekend blizzards across the eastern United States.
Tom (aka XR)
The reason for the low clouds and rain is cold air following in behind a strong cold front. The air over the Caribbean is laded with moisture. If it is cooled the moisture condenses out and clouds and rain are the result.
This cold front passed through the same day Odette crossed the island and eventually absorbed Odette. You can see the trailing edge of this front southeast of Puerto Rico in this image, and the large bright white blob along the front to the northeast is the low pressure area that once was Odette. This is the same cold air mass that caused the weekend blizzards across the eastern United States.
Tom (aka XR)
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Wish I Knew!
The wet weather is really slowing down a couple of construction projects here.
Bottom line is that anytime a strong surge of cold air falls through this area this time of year we have to wait at least a few days for the air mass to moderate, or warm, a bit so the moisture in the air from all these oceans nearby can be absorbed back into atmosphere. When that happens at least the days can be sunny with the rain chances increasing again at night as the atmosphere cools.
Then it's just waiting for the next system to drop cold air across the island for the next surge of rain. Eventually as we pass the equinox and days get longer, the trailing edge of the cold air systems moving off the coast of North America will stay north of us, and we will once again be increasingly in the Easterly trade winds for more and more of the time, and the sun will be out normally.
Then we start talking about tropical waves again. LOL.
Tom (aka XR)
The wet weather is really slowing down a couple of construction projects here.
Bottom line is that anytime a strong surge of cold air falls through this area this time of year we have to wait at least a few days for the air mass to moderate, or warm, a bit so the moisture in the air from all these oceans nearby can be absorbed back into atmosphere. When that happens at least the days can be sunny with the rain chances increasing again at night as the atmosphere cools.
Then it's just waiting for the next system to drop cold air across the island for the next surge of rain. Eventually as we pass the equinox and days get longer, the trailing edge of the cold air systems moving off the coast of North America will stay north of us, and we will once again be increasingly in the Easterly trade winds for more and more of the time, and the sun will be out normally.
Then we start talking about tropical waves again. LOL.
Tom (aka XR)
I've just got back to the UK a few hours ago, and I tell you, I wish I was still in the warm rain over there rather than the freeeeeezing cold here
This reminds me of San Francisco not Cabarete
Fog, drizzle, and right now light rain between the foothills here and the ocean. Can't see the beach 3 miles away. 1.05" since yesterday, now 75 degrees though.
Ocean? View from Xanadu 11:45AM on December 8, 2003
Tom (aka XR)
Fog, drizzle, and right now light rain between the foothills here and the ocean. Can't see the beach 3 miles away. 1.05" since yesterday, now 75 degrees though.
Ocean? View from Xanadu 11:45AM on December 8, 2003
Tom (aka XR)
I think it's caused by
clouds and moisture, plus a little wind. It doesn't take a meteorologist to tell you that it will pass. So quit bitchin and remember, you chose to live in this place. If it sucks too much, you can come up to my zone and we'll go skiing.
clouds and moisture, plus a little wind. It doesn't take a meteorologist to tell you that it will pass. So quit bitchin and remember, you chose to live in this place. If it sucks too much, you can come up to my zone and we'll go skiing.
Good thing is that when it rains in the DR you don't have to shovel it I have never seen so much rain. Most people I have spoken to haven't either.
Maybe the DR is turning into one big rain forest
I have never seen so much rain. Most people I have spoken to haven't either.Maybe the DR is turning into one big rain forest
Re: Wish I Knew!
Sorry if I'm splitting hairs here, but by "equinox" you actually do mean (winter) solstice, right? (which occurs around Dec. 20 - 21st). Or did I misunderstand and you're referring to the March 22 - or thereabouts - (spring) equinox?
XanaduRanch said:
Sorry if I'm splitting hairs here, but by "equinox" you actually do mean (winter) solstice, right? (which occurs around Dec. 20 - 21st). Or did I misunderstand and you're referring to the March 22 - or thereabouts - (spring) equinox?
The Druids will be a dancing
The Winter solstice will be sometime this weekend, I guess.....
I have a few runes to carve and a bat or two to kill. Need some frog's hair and the teeth of a goose....
"I burn my candle at both ends
It will not last the night.
But ah my friends and
oh my foes,
It gives such a lovely light"
HB
The Winter solstice will be sometime this weekend, I guess.....
I have a few runes to carve and a bat or two to kill. Need some frog's hair and the teeth of a goose....
"I burn my candle at both ends
It will not last the night.
But ah my friends and
oh my foes,
It gives such a lovely light"
HB
The sun is shining ...
... and the rains wandered off - just like the Druids, and this thread.
Closed.
... and the rains wandered off - just like the Druids, and this thread.
Closed.
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