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30 March 2013
How To Tell If You Are About To See Baseball Size Hail.
I’m back in Oklahoma for a few days visiting with my daughter and her dog Sebastion (AKA Bashee). We had a nice thunderstorm cluster pop up to our northwest here in Oklahoma City, and I immediately knew that someone was about to get some very large hail. Take a look at the radar image above. I have red arrows pointing toward what meteorologists call a THREE BODY SCATTER SPIKE. This …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.