{"id":8810,"date":"2014-05-20T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=8810"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:53:18","slug":"a-very-basic-mesoscale-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/05\/20\/a-very-basic-mesoscale-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Basic Mesoscale Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat.png\">I was checking out the NSSL-WRF Simulated Satellite Imagery compared to the actual IR Satellite and it verified pretty well.\u00a0 You can see low clouds over parts of Iowa and Nebraska and the idea of the vertically taller clouds is there..just not exactly in the same location.\u00a0 At this point I like the idea of the model.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8828\" alt=\"Simulated Satellite Imagery Compared to IR Sat\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat.png\" width=\"1698\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat.png 1698w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Satellite-Imagery-Compared-to-IR-Sat-500x266.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if I go with this model you can see below convection would initiate between 22-23Z over Central Iowa and S. Wisconsin bordering N. Illinois and then move East-Southeast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8836\" alt=\"Simulated Sat Imagery Convection\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection.png\" width=\"1698\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection.png 1698w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Simulated-Sat-Imagery-Convection-500x266.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This actually would be supported since the environment looks unstable that it is moving into.\u00a0 You can see on the Nearcast GOES Vertical Theta E Diff Mid Low that the high instability is from Central Iowa to N. Illinois and it looks like a boundary is there as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8837\" alt=\"Nearcast Instability\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability.png\" width=\"1698\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability.png 1698w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/05\/Nearcast-Instability-500x266.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now we shall wait and see if this actually occurs. My watered down mesoscale discussion &#8211; Vollmar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out the NSSL-WRF Simulated Satellite Imagery compared to the actual IR Satellite and it verified pretty well.\u00a0 You can see low clouds over parts of Iowa and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2014\/05\/20\/a-very-basic-mesoscale-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}