(Meteorologist)

Sat Aug 18 2007 05:13 AM

Re: Dean

For those of you who are new to storm tracking....use water vapor with EXTREME caution. Water vapor is a poor choice for looking at storm structure...it only images a relatively thin slice of the atmosphere centered around 600 mb. If you are trying to look at mid and upper level features (such as ULL, etc) WV is a fine choice...for discerning storm features is it a very poor choice. As far as sats are concerned, Vis is king, but at night use IR instead of WV.

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