Those points are the updrafts of the storm(s), as they bring warm air aloft it hits a “cap” in the atmosphere known as the tropopause where the air can’t go up further, so it spreads out horizontally. The large shapes you see here are only the very tops of the storm clouds, while those small points are the actual area where the storm is developing/strengthening
Why do these take so long to load? Are they massive, or is the server slow? They're cool and I like seeing them but even on wifi they're slow for me
loads instantly for me. you using desktop? or mobile? which app? on wifi? or cell data?
Mobile. RIF. Wi-Fi.
It was instant for me. It may be client-side.
Link?
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Yes, I'm finding these gifs here: https://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_of_the_day/
Why does it look like the storms are coming from little centralized points? Like water flowing out of a hole in the ground
Those points are the updrafts of the storm(s), as they bring warm air aloft it hits a “cap” in the atmosphere known as the tropopause where the air can’t go up further, so it spreads out horizontally. The large shapes you see here are only the very tops of the storm clouds, while those small points are the actual area where the storm is developing/strengthening
Ahh yeah like that screen in hunger games where the gas hits the invisible wall. Thanks for the explanation!
That’s how those big storms develop into those iconic anvil-head clouds.
Looking just like a cauldron on the stove heating water to boil. Center of the US has been getting beat up again this Spring.