For the purpose of this discussion, I must make the case that vertical weather affects local weather conditions and horizontal weather affects planetary weather conditions. By the end, I will have explained the source and cause of one of one of vertical weather’s most impressive manifestations, the tornado. I will also discuss horizontal weather’s most impressive manifestation, the hurricane.
Florida weather has a particularly interesting weather situation. An ocean and a gulf surround it with no point more than 100 miles from water. It has plentiful vegetation, the primary source of natural humidity. And I used to live there.
The weather in Florida is largely repeatable and displays vertical and horizontal weather components nearly every day, especially in the summer. It even snows there, I have pictures from the last time in 1978.
Topics
About tornadoes – The types of tornado, source of tornado energy and tornado genesis
Bottom driven tornado – Tornadoes powered solely by ground air buoyancy
The dust devil – Nature’s simplest model
The isolated vertical weather tornado and fire tornadoes –
Top driven tornado – Tornadoes powered by rising thunderstorms
Inflow squeezing – Shaping the below ground level tornado wall
Thunderhead driver – Power source for top driven tornadoes
Combination tornado – The true killer tornado
Fortunate limits – Even tornadoes have their limits
Stagnation level – How ground energy is stored for tornado use
The chimney – The mechanism that holds the tornado together
Rain and hail effects – Self limiting and guiding tornadoes
Anvil – actually flat top clouds
Visible barrel cloud – The visible proof of the top driven tornado
Invisible wall cloud – Not all tornadoes are visible
Localized weather fronts in Florida
Morning solar energy
Evening solar energy
A question of two answers
Why are there no daily tornadoes in Florida
Vertical weather in Florida’s Peninsula
The dailies – daily occurring morning and evening winds
Glare factor – reduces solar heating of water in morning
Plant photosynthesis and respiration
Surface are and heat capture
Black body heat capture
Localized weather fronts in Florida
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