critters, huh. well, i usually sort of shake my head at it, 'cause mine are nuts no matter what the weather is doing... but i will relate what my brother has to say about all that. a great historian is he, or at least a history major. he likes to play the roman army priest of Mars: equivalent to today's chaplain, only a pagan heathen. and of course, how better to prophesy than to read the auguries in a sacrificial goat's entrails. to quote my brother: "Mars will favor us on the field today. We shall meet the enemy head on and tear through their ranks... they will rout in fear as their leader shall fall quickly. Says so right here on the liver... oh yes, and partly cloudy, high sixty six... steady breeze out of the northwest."
the kid keeps telling me that i'm just a modern day soothsayer with my weather addiction... i usually just tell him something about how stratocumulus lines show up very well on shortwave infrared imagery at night, or how an asymmetric wind field makes a storm do little cycloidal kinks on its track. we've agreed to disagree.
by the way, read the 1030 TWO. nhc sees that steady convective burst near 24/66. not an invest on it... if that's still looking like it does by daylight tomorrow that'll be coming. nothing yet of the feature we're watching for further west... models don't really resolve it until about monday. 92L still has a broad turning and spotty convection. it's getting over water warmer.. could be a watcher again if it persists.
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