What’s really behind Madame Pele’s fortune or fury? Even if you do not compete as an athlete in distance triathlon racing, you may know the town of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii from the yearly Ironman broadcast of athletes from around the world slogging through a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike, and then a marathon run…
Have you ever heard a meteorologist talk about an “inversion”? Or maybe you read about a “low-level inversion” in a National Weather Service forecast discussion and wondered what that means? If so, you’re in luck. Let’s break down what a temperature inversion is, how it forms and “breaks”, and why it matters to wind sports…
This snapshot of wind observations combined with a radar image of storms moving through NJ from W to E is a good example of a gust front / outflow boundary increasing our wind speeds out ahead of approaching storms. A gust front / outflow boundary is simply a storm scale mass of cold / cool…