solrey
Senior Member.
The forecast discussion out of Nashville, TN from as far back as the 12th mentions the possibility of thunderstorms on the 18th.
Dutch claims skies were clear/cloudless in the areas where the radar anomalies occurred but he didn't provide any satellite images as evidence and I doubt he even looked, he just made it up. In fact I'm looking at a 24 hour satellite loop right now. Yesterday, Sun. 3/17, the entire CONUS from TX, OK, KS, NE, SD and ND all the way to the east coast was under considerable cloud cover which extended even farther west the day before.
Is he incompetent, lying or both?
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
324 PM CDT TUE MAR 12 2013
[..]
IN THE EXT FCST...WARMING TREND TO CONTINUE AS HEIGHTS CONTINUE
TO RISE AND SFC TEMPS REACH THE LOWER 60S FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
A COLD FRONT WILL THEN SETTLE SLOWLY SOUTHWARD AND STALL ACROSS
THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR RAIN CHANCES TO
RETURN FOR MUCH OF THE EXT PERIOD FROM SATURDAY AND BEYOND.
INSTABILITIES WILL INCREASE BY MONDAY AS A STRONGER SFC LOW MOVES
NORTHEAST WITH A TRACK TO THE NORTH OF TN. COULD SEE SOME TSTM
ACTIVITY MON INTO MON NT.
Dutch claims skies were clear/cloudless in the areas where the radar anomalies occurred but he didn't provide any satellite images as evidence and I doubt he even looked, he just made it up. In fact I'm looking at a 24 hour satellite loop right now. Yesterday, Sun. 3/17, the entire CONUS from TX, OK, KS, NE, SD and ND all the way to the east coast was under considerable cloud cover which extended even farther west the day before.
Most of the areas experiencing the RADAR pulses are CLEAR (with no cloud cover) .. a few are occurring inside the actual storms.. causing areas to “disappear” even though there IS precipitation at the location (disappearing in a sawtooth / square pattern) .
These recorded pulses occurred in the late PM on March 16, and early AM of March 17 ..
Is he incompetent, lying or both?