Everytime I Dew that thing I Dew!!

Sky Watch "Friday" time, ALREADY???!! Please visit Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Louise and Fishing Guy's SKY WATCH BLOG to participate in Sky Watch Fridays, which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! Dot, the mother of this fabulous blogging event, was really onto something when she brainstormed this baby!!! And a huge thank you to newly "retired" Tom, the one who brought the concept to full bloom. It is so fascinating to see skies from all over the world!!! This week, in light of one of the searches the resulted in complete Dew-ness, I decided to show, in fact, what a Dewdrop looks like in autumn down her in my neck of the woods...

I feel that a SWF post about dew is long over-dew. Anyways... dew is formed when a warmed surface is radiationally cooled and the moisture in the air condenses, much like when you get condensation on the outside of a glass of an iced beverage. Warm air is quickly cooled and the moisture vapor is condensed into its liquid form. In the case of the outdoors, it rests on grass, leaves and so forth, and this condensed moisture is called dew. Now, depending on the temperature it is cooled to, the dew could freeze, which would then be called frost (in my case, a dewdropcicle). For more information about Dew, feel free to check out this link.

Aside from that, tropically, we now have a quite beautiful Tropical Storm Paloma, having gained Tropical Storm status early this morning and then continuing to strengthen and organize throughout this morning. Based on satellite presentation alone, I would guess that Tropical Storm Paloma is on course for rapid intensification to a hurricane prior to a landfall in Cuba. You can click on the image to the left to view the loop. The forecast discussion mentions the chance of southwesterly shear having an impact, but they are still forecasting a category 2 hurricane at landfall.It is late in the season, but here she is anyway... must be a fashion statement.

As for severe weather, yesterday's round of severe weather produced a lot of sizable hail and damaging winds, but there were no reported tornadoes. I saw some really great shots of lowerings in the clouds on TWC this morning, but nothing more... Today, a slight risk exists as the tail of that powerful low pressure system sweeps its tail through Louisiana and eastern Texas. The quite impressive low is tearing things up with wind and hail on the eastern side while the western side of that circulation is dealing with a ferocious blizzard, which has generated more than 30" of snow in the Dakotas. Brrr... Oh and, I don't think I have mentioned anything about the coastal low off the Atlantic coast, which has been dropping flooding rains on the Carolina coast for a couple of days now. As for here... NOTHING.

Update 3:45PM

400 PM EST THU NOV 06 2008...
PALOMA STILL STRENGTHENING...

Have a great day!
~Dewdrop