Storms over Cuba

#1 Postby **Buck** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:49 pm

Quick! Check the current IR satelite imagery over the Caribbean...

Storms developed over Cuba... over ALL of Cuba in almost the exact shape of the island.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/WATL/IR4/20.jpg

Interesting!

Anonymous · #2 Postby **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:50 pm

Cool.

#3 Postby **Buck** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:52 pm

Yeah... i thought it was kinda neat. 8-)

#4 Postby **HURAKAN** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:57 pm

That's normal. It's the diurnal storms that form thanks to the heat of the day and other factors. The same happens in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Jamaica.

Recurve · #5 Postby **Recurve** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:38 pm

Not to pile on, but yes, we do see that almost every day on the local long-range radar, the daily heating causes convection that exactly follows the shape of the island. Sometimes the lower Keys get rain from outflow boundaries flung out from the Cuban convection.

Cuba is such a large island, it gets the land-heating effect that smaller islands miss.

#6 Postby **Buck** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:04 pm

I'm aware of what's causing this, but I had never noticed (which isn't saying much) it happening to the entire island. I guess I just don't look enough!

Recurve · #7 Postby **Recurve** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:56 pm

That's OK Buck, weren't saying you were a dummy. Some of us look at that convection too much, like when we're wishing for rain in the Keys.

Storms over Cuba

Storms over Cuba

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