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A strong Ida, now a tropical storm and down from Cat.2 hurricane will still have a high impact along the Miss, Alabama and Fla coastline tonight into tomorrow and the fear is that Ida will hit with sustained tropical storm-force winds and gusts likely surpassing hurricane-force..
Whilst this is a concern I personally am more worried about where Ida’s extra-tropical remants will go and it is likely that she will run the East Coast and bring as much of a punch about a day or two to the Northeast coast from the Virginia capes to Maine. I also believe that the wrap-around from Ida’s circulation will suck in colder air from Ontario and Quebec, and this coupled with copious amounts of available moisture from a warm Atlantic and even Gulf Stream interaction, I major wind and rain maker is highly possible along the coast with damaging gusts and coastal surge with significant beach erosion along the Jersey shore and Long Island shore all the way up through Rhode Island and Massachussets to Maine.. A major snowstorm that could bring 2-3 feet through the interior high country is also a high possibility with some orographic lift which could enhance snowfall inland.
A major weather story unfolds and could this signal the arrival of winter’s first real cold shot? If so, I believe the party won’t begin proper until December still despite the possibility of some very cold air that arrives into the fray mid to late November!
I have posted along with this article some photos from this mornings frost and freezing fog. Note as I headed into the hills just directly in front of our house, how the inversion is shallow, perhaps only 150 to 200 feet thick..
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
Today’s Extremes here at my House: High 45 degrees, Low 27 degrees
Conditions: Freezing fog which gave way to a chilly, filtered sunshine!
>I'm not sure that the Kelvin is much use outside the laboratory but the Fahrenheit is a completely arbitrary scale and I don't see why America persists with it. Gordy Brown ought to lean on Barack Obama and get the mess sorted.
I think the term 'freezing fog' is over-used, and dare I say, particularly during this heatwave…
>Thank you for your description my friend!
>I've looked at this issue of Fahrenheit. I'd like to see the Kelvin adopted, which measures temperature relative to absolute zero, where one Kelvin = 1 degree C. Lord Kelvin should be celebrated for his Glaswegian talent.
Freezing fog is composed of supercooled water droplets (i.e. ones which remain liquid even though the temperature is below freezing-point). One of the characteristics of freezing fog is that rime – composed of feathery ice crystals – is deposited on the windward side of vertical surfaces such as lamp-posts, fence-posts, overhead wires, pylons and transmitting masts.
Thanks for reading folks
>freezing fog for me, constitutes fog that is present within a "freezing air mass", i.e. below freezing at the surface! 27 degrees BTW is about -3C…
>I agree regarding fahrenheit. I see frost on my windscreen, it must be below 32 out there! It just doesn't seem right.
>How would you define 'freezing fog'?
Is it a fog which leaves a small layer of ice upon surfaces it touches? Is it just a fog which coincides with temperatures below O deg C?
I find it difficult to understand degrees Fahrenheit. It is an awful scale and I think Barack Obama should outlaw it, but I bet he'll meet staunch opposition from those Republicans – I smell a filibuster.