How do weather services get sky conditions above the surface?
Mxsmanic wrote in
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I would a55ume that they have planes in the air at some point and the
aircraft report the ceiling height of teh clouds and then they
estimate windspeed from observaton stations on the ground.
I'm just guessing. I knew a weather observer once.
That makes sense. I wonder how they estimate things like heights and
distances, though. I suppose experience would help to come up with
educated guesses for these, but one might still be way off. Certainly
experience would be useful in recognizing specific cloud types and
patterns.
One article I read (I think it was Wikipedia) mentioned just ten
radiosondes for the entire Caribbean, that's hardly what I'd call
high-resolution measurement. You could almost fit a hurricane between
radiosondes.
You are an idiot.
Bertie
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