Definitive Guide to Skew-Ts and Hodographs - Part 6 - Hodograph Basics

[@joshuahobbs2613]

Good job…I have always loved weather, particularly severe weather. I have always noticed skew-t’s & hodographs on weather forecast models but had no clue where data came from. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Great job!

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Thanks so much!

[@aaronjones1469]

Thank you that helped me understand skew-Ts and hodographs a lot more. You do a great job explaining this things step by step. 👍

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful!

[@Decaturtornado]

Great videos Very informative. Each video is itself already a broken down segment from the whole concept and then you break it down even more. Its Apparent that you are highly educated and at the top of your game but just as well at teaching it.!!! I appreciate your time and effort that you have put in to making these easy to read educational videos

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Thank you so much; that means a lot!

[@beezlebub3955]

I can understand the basic meaning of hodographs just by looking at the hook characteristics, but this gives a much better understanding of how they’re come up with. I’ve always been very interested in weather, but I never went anywhere with it unfortunately. Maybe I will though, who knows, but I really appreciate what you’re doing with this series of videos on the subject 🤘👍

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Thanks so much; really glad to hear you've found the series helpful!

[@LegitChristian]

Thank you! Where do you find your graphs of obervations? This is so rich!

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Glad you enjoyed! Often at the bottom of the SPC soundings, you will see a hyperlink saying "[SITE ID] Tabular Data," where SITE ID is the code for the observation site. For archived data, you can also go to weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html and put in the date/location of choice.

[@LegitChristian]

@@ConvectiveChronicles Thank you. I am not certain about one thing. Would a hodograph ever have vector points in the bottom semi circle? In other words the area between 90 degrees to 270 degrees. If this is the case, where would the wind be blowing FROM?

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

@@LegitChristian Yes, that can happen (and does happen) often. Anything in the bottom semicircle, will have a northerly component to it...for example, a wind direction of 315 degrees would be a northwesterly wind (wind blowing from the northwest), and a wind direction of 45 degrees would be a northeasterly wind (wind blowing from the northeast). The vectors of both of these would be seen in the bottom semicircle.

[@LegitChristian]

@@ConvectiveChronicles Thankyou!

[@brettwright5510]

Learning more from you than I did at college lol

[@ConvectiveChronicles]

Hahahaha

[@paulstejskal]

This video illustration, even though it's about hurricane eye walls, also helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoW2dqOAltKenpI