#2364 "May Moisture Pulses"

A warm conveyor belt is typically presented as a single and continuous surge of warmth and moisture. It in fact consists of multiple pulses of heat and moisture each with it own local maximum wind and enhanced deformation zone. The bands of separate deformation zone pulses all meld together at the extreme leading edge of the larger warm conveyor belt. Close examination might reveal distinct and separate lines like rings on a tree for quite some time until the bands of moisture mix into a single swath of moisture.

I liked the energy in these clouds and it needed to be recorded on a canvas. The curvature of the confluent asymptote and the direction of cloud drift made me point the thumb of my right hand downward. The gravity waves in the cirrostratus also gave the storm relative wind direction away. The satellite image confirmed what my right hand already knew. Singleton was under the anticyclonic companion of the warm conveyor belt. There would be more cloud and probably precipitation to the north with the cyclonic companion.

A sky reveals that a spring storm was on the way but that Singleton would miss most of the precipitation except that along the cold front as the system passed to the east.

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