The Winter Weather Events
of January 3-5, 2005

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6. Examine a movie from 4:00 am to noon on Tuesday Jan 4th, with BREF1 from Vance AFB (KVNX), Mesonet air temperatures and Mesonet wind observations.

  • What precip type is suggested by the radar echoes?
  • Where is the freezing line, in relation to the precip observed by the Vance radar?
  • What is happening to the Mesonet's wind observations north and west of the freezing line? Why is this?


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