Sunrise Freezing Rain Deformation Zone
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Sunrise Freezing Rain Deformation Zone
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The clouds always have a story to tell. The combination of stretching deformation zones and gravity waves in the stable layer of the warm frontal surface revealed the atmosphere relative wind direction and relative wind speeds too.
A close look at the meteorology of the situation reveals that the rotation painted into the cirrus was a vorticity minimum - the atmosphere was spinning cockwise viewed looking down from space. This means that the col of the associated deformation zone was further to the north which in turn implied that Singleton Lake would not get anything but virga for quite a while. When precipitation did finally arrive it would be in the form of an hour or two of freezing rain folowed by rain. The heavier precipitation would be further to the north. This is what happened and it was all foretold in the clouds. The graphics below that I constructed for COMET explains how the sense of rotation of the cloud patterns can reveal exactly what portion of the conveyor belt conceptual model is poised to cross your forecast region. The warm front is a katabatic or inactive downstream from the col in the deformation zone. This means that the warm air is descending above the frontal surface and precipitation must therefore be minimal - except freezing rain is never to be challenged...
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