Re: Africa could pop a nice wave in the next day or two
Posted by JAC on 8/4/2009, 8:41 am
Thanks Bobbi:

There are two thresholds to ID a hot-tower:
1) Rain-rate > 20 mm/hr.
2) Cu-Nimb's higher than 14.5 km (20 dbZ on radar).

I got the rain-rate from the Giovanni toolset.

Here is the link.

http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/realtime.3B42RT.shtml

Click on rain-rate, then create a box in the map in the area SW of CV; then hit GENERATE PLOT.

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