• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Storms in Iraq / Pakistan

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A nice MODIS AQUA picture of storms over southern Iraq and Pakistan on the 29th May.

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http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?ArabianSea - for full pictures.

The 1000mb winds show just enough moisture transport from the Gulf / Indian Ocean - the storms still must have been high based as 900 to 750 winds were unimpressive. I actually have a feeling that these storms would look right at home here in Australia in our moisture starved but often unstable spring. Supercells they are NOT.

The 300mb ties in nicely with the sat pic too, with better anvil blowoff towards the jet.

CAPE was around 1000-1500, but over 3000 just offshore. I have a feeling that more moisture got inland then the 06Z analysis shows.

I look at MODIS almost daily and when I see interesting storms will often look at the analysis and there are common threads. Boundaries is probably the biggest, especially outside the tropics - I don't need to tell you guys that I suppose.

29050506Zwinds.gif


29050506z300.gif


Let me know if you like this sort of post and I'll post more occasionally.
 
YES! keep posting this stuff please! I'll be looking at it all the time. I've see high based Cb's here a lot, and they really kick up the dust too.
 
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