Richard Heatwave Berler

Sunday 4:24 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: A warm dry airmass remains in control of south Texas weather. Tiny shower dots southeast of Cotulla to south of Freer, not expecting them to reach much further west, we will remain dry. Incredibly warm far north in Ontario/Quebec!

@extremetemps.bsky.social Perhaps first time temperature at lakeside has stayed at or above 70F all night long during an October (will not hold through midnight tonight). Downsloping from held lakeside >67F over the hill at the airport. 2nd image shows arrival of warmth last night at lakeside.

Sunday 8:25 am: More very warm October weather. Rising air as sea breeze approaches may support cumulus clouds at ~8,000’ altitude. Further lifting would find the rising air cooler/denser than surrounding air, and air would stop rising. Cumulus will not grow tall, no rain, 90’s.

Nearby Superior…

Saturday 10:39 pm: Another Sky Harbor special this Saturday!

Saturday 3:44 pm: Unusually warm October weather from Colorado and Minnesota southward. Cloud level (~7,000’ altitude) wind flow seen on satellite image. Air not buoyant enough for more than an isolated cloud to reach high enough to produce a shower, not expecting, will watch.

Kahn’s book had originally been in the Kelly Air Force Library!

Saturday 9:51 am: Lifted air will form cumulus at ~6,000’ altitude during the afternoon, air buoyant enough for some clouds to grow to to 15-20,000’ altitude as sea breeze approaches end of afternoon/sunset. Cannot rule out isolated small shower, but almost everyone dry. 90’s pm.

Saturday 12:23 am: I was surprised when taking an overview of this evening’s radar/satellite imagery that a small shower (that I was not expecting) occurred with the arrival of the sea breeze ~7:30-8 pm in south Laredo! I am not expecting this with sea breeze Saturday.

Tornadoes with simultaneous implementation of Doppler radars and video, then cell phone cameras…

Friday 6:17 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: 92F as far north as Fargo, North Dakota earlier today. Weather systems that could change our weather continue to track well away from Texas. Similar weather Saturday to what we had today. We reached 94F.

One more memory comes to mind…(watched from afar in Laredo) a most remarkable hour when hot air made a dramatic, but fleeting appearance at Sky Harbor on May 20, 2009 while the airport over the hill was in the warmth all afternoon:

YouTube video by Rick Shefchik Colder By The Lake

Eric Eskola worked at CBS Duluth at the time (‘70’s). Perhaps you would get a laugh out of this song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmGb...

Congratulations! I hope you have a successful and fulfilling career, you will continue to be amazed at how the science and its observational tools (and communication platforms!) will advance during your career!

Friday 8:48 am: Sea Breeze showers may form near the Texas coast, but lifted air as far inland as us would become cooler than surrounding air, not buoyant to maintain a tall rain cloud. Partly cloudy, mid 90’s for our area.

Thursday 4:13 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Dry warm air remains in charge of the weather over the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley and south into south Texas. More sunshine with low afternoon humidity Friday, only a slow trend to slightly more moist, but still dry air Sunday.

Extratropical! Baroclinic system now.

The transition to extratropical was in progress as the center passed Bermuda. Note the transition To lowering temperature and dewpoint upon the passage of the center:

Thursday 8:07 am: Hot dry weather today, plenty of sunshine, only small cumulus clouds in our skies today. Mid/high 90’s pm.

Thursday 12:55 am AST/3:55 UTC: Strongest winds now moving into Bermuda on west side of exiting center.

Thursday 2:55 UTC/Wednesday 11:55 pm AST: note altimeter reading graph!

@fredmkaplan.bsky.social

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I found Fail Safe, the book and movie quite riveting…,partly inspired by Herman Kahn’s work. The movie came out 2 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, at the height of the rush to build Bomb shelters and practice ”Duck and Cover” in the classroom.

@fredmkaplan.bsky.social when I was 8, I wrote JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I’ve had an interest in the science, and the handling of the arsenals by the militaries and heads of state ever since.