While us poor saps in the US are wallowing over an inactive May period, it seems our neighbors to the south may actually be getting in on the action. The synoptic scale disturbance associated with the subtropical jet has looked most impressive over the last 24 hours or so. Yesterday it appeared an outbreak of supercells occurred in northern Mexico. Granted that region is high up and very desolate, so probably not serving as a great place to chase, but I bet some of the sights out there along the Mexican highway 45 corridor from Chihuahua to Ciudad Juarez were something given what visible satellite looked like yesterday afternoon:
Some of those were deviant movers to the right of the flow. Unfortunately the radar sites in that region of Mexico were down yesterday, so there was no radar imagery of any of those storms.
Today, the system appears to be well wrapped up and looks like a typical winter or spring time Norwegian cyclone over the Plains/Midwest, just displaced 15 degrees latitude south!
Awesome dry conveyor belt depiction and ventilation on the poleward side of it.
It's too bad the Mexican raob network is so unreliable. I bet there were some good looking soundings for severe weather. Just look at today's 12Z sounding from Del Rio. How often do you think they get a profile like that?
Something you definitely don't expect to see in May.
Some of those were deviant movers to the right of the flow. Unfortunately the radar sites in that region of Mexico were down yesterday, so there was no radar imagery of any of those storms.
Today, the system appears to be well wrapped up and looks like a typical winter or spring time Norwegian cyclone over the Plains/Midwest, just displaced 15 degrees latitude south!
Awesome dry conveyor belt depiction and ventilation on the poleward side of it.
It's too bad the Mexican raob network is so unreliable. I bet there were some good looking soundings for severe weather. Just look at today's 12Z sounding from Del Rio. How often do you think they get a profile like that?
Something you definitely don't expect to see in May.
