The official tropical weather thread - 2012

[hustla_ambition101]

Arima getting dark

[rfari]

Overcast in rima. Lvl cobo just fly east. West looking grim

[gt4tified]

Overcast in rima. Lvl cobo just fly east. West looking grim

Spies of Saruman? Don’t take the pass of Caradhras!

Overcast and gloomy in central.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

today looks to be nice and hot.

[hustla_ambition101]

today looks to be nice and hot.

until around 10-11am when the darkness starts rolling in, some of the hot mornings are giving way to overcast conditions later in the day

[shake d livin wake d dead]

today looks to be nice and hot.

I'm beginning to regret this statement atm.

[S_2NR]

why allyu hatin on rain so? trinidad always hot. i welcome the cool weather

[uncle sam]

today looks to be nice and hot.

until around 10-11am when the darkness starts rolling in, some of the hot mornings are giving way to overcast conditions later in the day

Right on Cue!

[toyolink]

Today Mc Bean was quite nice since rain kept away and sun with temps being quite comfortable.
Hope this pattern holds for a few days with clean-up activities about to begin.

[maj. tom]

Heavy persistent downpour in Macoya for the last hour with some high wind gusts. No end to a grey horizon to the east. Something's coming...

[hustla_ambition101]

^^^OMG

[xtech]

http://www.barbadosweather.org/RadarPro ... mation.php

at least Barbados Doppler up and running

[cinco]

maritime roundabout flooding

[crazybalhead]

^^^ Shocking. That's the last thing I expected. Next thing, some fool will say the bottom of french Street flooding!

[cinco]

OMG da flood is gone !!!!oenoneeleven111fivehundred!!!!!
PANIC!!!!!

[TRAE]

st. augustine --- rel rain

[Hook]

Before I go into yet another tirade about misuse/misinterpretation of the infrared images, compare it to the visible image for a minute.




Note that in the visible image, the cloud shapes are wispy and don't have build-ups looking like "pimples" embedded in the cloud mass. The IR image gives you cloud temperature and does not necessarily indicate the depth or vertical extent of the cloud.
Note as well that in the inverted "C" that the images show, the low cloud mass is moving east to west, as per our prevailing winds and the colourful mass is moving west to east. This is another indication that it's mostly a patch of high cloud with no depth. High clouds tend to move opposite to the flow of low clouds, as there is usually a "backing" of the winds in the upper levels due to cold air convection.

Now click on either or both of these links and toggle between the wind levels. See what I just mentioned? Now select HDW-High.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/flash-vis.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/flash-avn.html

Note the direction of the high winds and the fact that there is a 40-50kt jet near our location. It means there would be a tendency of the jet to shear off the tops of the build-ups/cumulonimbus clouds. If the jet stays, it would hamper the development of thundershowers and any precipitation would be of the rainy type instead of the showery type as the stratified clouds set in.
All things being constant, it looks like more cloud than rain.

Now get back to work.

[crazybalhead]

ALL HAIL WEATHERBANTON!!!!

[MonsterPower]

thank u hookinton .. learnt sumtin today .....


now whats the 4 day forcast ?

[Hook]

ALL HAIL WEATHERBANTON!!!!

it does get on my nerves jed

Check 30W 25N in both images, for example.
The IR image shows a small patch of blue and white cloud temperatures, but the Visible image barely has anything. You can't base your "forecast" on just one piece of evidence.

There are lots of images and information is available on those same NOAA websites, just use the tools provided and make more educated decisions, that's all.

And I'll tell y'all the story about our radar. A year ago, lightning hit an electricity pole near the radar site, which by whatever freak of nature, burned three boards in the million dollar UPS and STILL managed to burn boards in each stage of the radar. Looks like an act of God, because that's not supposed to happen - and don't blame our technicians either, foreign engineers from the vendor installed it and trained our guys.

Government rules pertaining to acquisitions et al requires us to get THREE invoices before a purchase is made, however some knucklehead pencil-pusher in ministry/accounts couldn't seem to understand that you CANNOT get THREE invoices if there is only ONE vendor for a particular product.
Finally nailed that concept into their skull, purchase orders were made, fine, they say they'll allocate the funds, fine. While we wait on the red tape to clear, let's do what we can on the radar site in the meantime.Then ministry declared that kilometer limitations for our technicians (traveling officers)are to be enforced, so some months, in between monitoring/maintaining the automatic weather stations, there is no provision for getting to and from the radar site without going over your limit for that month, so it has to be held over to the next month.

Then we get cast into a new ministry which technically only exists on paper, and our portfolio is being handled in part by Forestry, part by MPU and part by MOEWR...so of course all business needs to be halted because nothing can be purchased yet.

And now you know. Trinidad is what's keeping Trinidad from progressing.

Here's the 4-Day Weather outlook that was issued yesterday.

[MonsterPower]

sucks to work for the gubment dey hook ....


thanks for the forecast

[Hook]

Breds, I see it take 8 weeks to change a switch for the a/c because of red tape with invoices and the fact that works/inspectorate has to send people to wire it in, just because it's a gubment building 8 weeks of working with the windows open because of "protocol"...dem lucky d ppl in here love the science oui

[MonsterPower]

yuh wah ah wuk to buss stones?? no red tape but plenty yellow stone

[Hook]

[MonsterPower]

hook man .... planned out a full day for workers and hadda give dem rain off.... cant work in the mud . mountain top here only good for offroading right now.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

poor weather these days,cyah paint.

[toyolink]

This persistent 'on and off' showers going on a couple weeks now have now created an environment of slush,mud and full septic systems.
Floods may not have happened but the conditions are truly horrid.
Driving in this type of weather means no clean vehicles and more importantly,will continue to account for many accidents.
BTW,to those folks who monitor our weather risk and on whom we rely for warnings,......many thanks,I certainly appreciate your efforts to keep us safe.

[Hook]

4-Day Weather Outlook issued yesterday.

[streetbeastINC.]

sick piece of weather SE of us....... hope it dissipates...

[Hook]

Yeh, today's not a good beach day if you're hoping to tan.