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March 2-3 Disco, Part III


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So looking at the vertical velocity does not give a better indication of where thunder may occur, as compared looking at modeled qpf or sim radar? Why do we have the mid and upper level tools if we can discern everything from looking at sim radar and qpf plots?

 

the point is that you really need to look at models from both a "bottom up" and "top down" approach -- i wasn't advocating for one over another but you shouldn't think that looking at 700 uvv's is going to give you the full picture -- for example, thunder can't really be discerned from only vertical velocity (nor sim radar), obviously you need uvv to get thunder but you also have to consider the microphysics needed for lightning initiation and the necessary instability

 

i understand the need to try to find simple tools to attempt to try to improve your forecasting skills -- I think we're just talking two different languages here

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