| ShanaTX |
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| Tue Jul 24 2007 05:42 AM |
Rain bombs... is this a new term?
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KVUE says it's not an 'official' term but one that a meteorologist came up with to describe what we've been getting here in Texas this year.
I was just wondering if this is being used elsewhere and if you've heard of it before this year...
From KVUE
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On June 28, Marble Falls got close to 19 inches of rain -- sweeping cars, trailers and even people downstream. Joe Arellano, the meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service says it was rather unusual.
"I would classify it at least as a 100-year event -- getting 18 inches plus is not something we see very often," he said.
These extreme rain events -- or "rain bombs" -- started occurring in mid June. The first to be hit was Gainesville, Texas. At least six people died when more than 8 inches of rain fell there.
Ten days later Marble Falls was struck. On July 2, Corpus Christi picked up almost 10 inches of rain. People had to be rescued from roof tops. This past weekend, 10 to 15 inches fell upstream of D'Hannis.
The words "rain bomb" are not actually a meteorological term. They were used by a National Weather Service forecaster to describe what happened in Marble Falls and just caught on.
Thank you (I hope this is the right forum!!) (And I sure hope any TD, TS or H that occur are fishes this year!)
'shana
| cieldumort |
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| Wed Jul 25 2007 12:26 AM |
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Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term?
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"Bomb" is a description that is used fairly often in colloquial meteospeak. It can get applied to just about anything that could be loosely described as, well, a "bomb," with a "rain bomb" being one application of the word.
More formally, when discussing very heavy rain events, mets may describe them as "QPF Bombs" - or Quantitative Precipitation Forecast *Bombs*, when the models forecast and/or verify such events.
| ShanaTX |
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| Wed Jul 25 2007 02:28 AM |
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Re: Rain bombs... is this a new term?
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Oh... that makes sense
I was wondering because the local news is acting like it's a brand new term, used just this year for the crazy Texas weather...
Thanks
| Beach |
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| Fri Jul 27 2007 04:33 PM |
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Things to watch
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Folks here on the East Coast of Florida might get some big boomers this afternoon.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/watl/loop-wv.html
you can clearly see the Sea Breeze line of thunderstorms starting to form.
Here's the thing:
120NM out from the coast we have surface winds ENE
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41010
20NM out from the coast we have surface winds WNW
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41009
On the Intercoastal N
http://www.merrittislandweather.com/
With the days heating we should get a show along the coast.