Yup, they both have frequent thunderstorms in the summer due to orographic lift and monsoonal moisture. But while the sierras de Cordoba has a more subtropical climate with dry mild winters, the sierra nevada has a higher elevation and latitude, which combined with the Mediterranean climate of California gives snowy winter storms.
@@1.4142 If you are right, there are still times that in the highest areas of the mountains of Cordoba there are snowfalls, but my favorite time to travel to that place is in the summer when those spectacular vertical developments occur, which sometimes produce hail storms.especially when I travel to the city of Cordoba which is where I live
@@matice535 I agree. Summer thunderstorms are awesome! Spring is just beginning here. While our weather is pretty mild, the central and southern US is seeing a lot of severe weather (High risk tornado outbreak ongoing today).
0:04 it’s crazy how 1 cumulus cloud can form a whole cululonimbus just by its self without any help, how does this happen? Moisture in the air? Wind spreading the cloud apart? INVISBLE CLOUDS?
Here is how a thunderstorm starts: Daytime heating from the sun creates a layer of buoyant warm air close to the ground. Because this is less dense than the cool air above, it is buoyant and wants to rise up to reach equilibrium, similar to how a hot air balloon works. The bigger the difference in temperature, the more instability there will be, and the faster an updraft will accelerate upwards. This instability is measured with Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE). However, this warm air can't rise on its own because there is usually low level convective inhibition (CIN), negative buoyancy close to the ground. Thus, the air parcel needs a boost in order to overcome this and reach the level of free convection (LFC), where it can rise freely. This can come in the form of lifting mechanisms such as - Frontal boundaries - Dry lines - Outflow boundaries - Orographic Lifting (mountains redirecting wind upward) - Low pressure system - Differential heating along soil, vegetation, soil moisture, land cover boundaries - Gravity waves As warm air rises, it cools in contact with the cool air. Warm air "holds" more water vapour than cold air because its molecules have a higher kinetic energy, preventing condensation, so warm air will contain more water vapour before becoming saturated.The cooling of the updraft forces water to condense, as cool air can't hold as much water vapour. The height at which this parcel of air condenses is called the lifting condensation level (LCL), and can predict the height of cloud bases. Moist air is necessary to form clouds. The rising updraft condenses into a cloud full of liquid water droplets, and stops as it hits the equilibrium level (EL), where the parcel of warm air becomes cooler than the air around it and is no longer buoyant. When this happens, the updraft spreads out to form an anvil cloud. At a certain altitude, ice crystallizes and acts as nucleation sites for supercooled water to bind to, forming graupel. As graupel falls, it bump into more water droplets and coalesces to form bigger and bigger hail, often melting to become raindrops. These can be pushed back up by the updraft until they gain enough mass to fall to the ground as rain and hail. This rain pulls air down with it, forming a downdraft. This gives us three necessary ingredients for thunderstorms: 1. Moisture 2. Unstable temperature difference with height (warm air below cool air) 3. Lift
@@itzrenzo8960 Yeah, put simply: Thunderstorms need three ingredients: 1. Less dense air below denser air. Moist warm air is less dense than dry cool air, so it will rise up. 2. Moisture. There needs to be enough water vapour in the air so that it will condense into water droplets and form clouds as the updraft rises. 3. Lifting mechanism. Warm air often can't rise on its own because of a temperature inversion close to the ground. We need things like differential heating, outflow boundaries, and fronts to jump start the cloud's journey upwards. In california, we have mountains that redirect the wind upwards.
I wish. These are just plain old garden variety storms. They can form into small MCS's and become severe warned. However, as you will see when I post more videos, california does get a few low-topped cold core supercells and even tornadoes in the winter.
Impressive time lapse package! Keep it up! Big like!
Thanks a lot!
@@1.4142 see
beautiful time-lapse i watched my friend
beautiful video
Interesting seeing the time lapses!
Nice video
Es un clima muy parecido al de las sierras de Cordoba Argentina!!
Yup, they both have frequent thunderstorms in the summer due to orographic lift and monsoonal moisture. But while the sierras de Cordoba has a more subtropical climate with dry mild winters, the sierra nevada has a higher elevation and latitude, which combined with the Mediterranean climate of California gives snowy winter storms.
@@1.4142 If you are right, there are still times that in the highest areas of the mountains of Cordoba there are snowfalls, but my favorite time to travel to that place is in the summer when those spectacular vertical developments occur, which sometimes produce hail storms.especially when I travel to the city of Cordoba which is where I live
@@1.4142 Now here in Latin America winter is coming so I will no longer be able to enjoy these events but hey :(
@@matice535 I agree. Summer thunderstorms are awesome! Spring is just beginning here. While our weather is pretty mild, the central and southern US is seeing a lot of severe weather (High risk tornado outbreak ongoing today).
@@1.4142today tornado alley in the south of united state, enjoy the summer brother
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Man this is beutiful how did you make this
Thanks, these are recordings from tower cameras from around California. The link to the website is in the description.
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0:04 it’s crazy how 1 cumulus cloud can form a whole cululonimbus just by its self without any help, how does this happen? Moisture in the air? Wind spreading the cloud apart? INVISBLE CLOUDS?
Here is how a thunderstorm starts:
Daytime heating from the sun creates a layer of buoyant warm air close to the ground. Because this is less dense than the cool air above, it is buoyant and wants to rise up to reach equilibrium, similar to how a hot air balloon works. The bigger the difference in temperature, the more instability there will be, and the faster an updraft will accelerate upwards. This instability is measured with Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE).
However, this warm air can't rise on its own because there is usually low level convective inhibition (CIN), negative buoyancy close to the ground. Thus, the air parcel needs a boost in order to overcome this and reach the level of free convection (LFC), where it can rise freely. This can come in the form of lifting mechanisms such as
- Frontal boundaries
- Dry lines
- Outflow boundaries
- Orographic Lifting (mountains redirecting wind upward)
- Low pressure system
- Differential heating along soil, vegetation, soil moisture, land cover boundaries
- Gravity waves
As warm air rises, it cools in contact with the cool air. Warm air "holds" more water vapour than cold air because its molecules have a higher kinetic energy, preventing condensation, so warm air will contain more water vapour before becoming saturated.The cooling of the updraft forces water to condense, as cool air can't hold as much water vapour. The height at which this parcel of air condenses is called the lifting condensation level (LCL), and can predict the height of cloud bases. Moist air is necessary to form clouds. The rising updraft condenses into a cloud full of liquid water droplets, and stops as it hits the equilibrium level (EL), where the parcel of warm air becomes cooler than the air around it and is no longer buoyant. When this happens, the updraft spreads out to form an anvil cloud. At a certain altitude, ice crystallizes and acts as nucleation sites for supercooled water to bind to, forming graupel. As graupel falls, it bump into more water droplets and coalesces to form bigger and bigger hail, often melting to become raindrops. These can be pushed back up by the updraft until they gain enough mass to fall to the ground as rain and hail. This rain pulls air down with it, forming a downdraft.
This gives us three necessary ingredients for thunderstorms:
1. Moisture
2. Unstable temperature difference with height (warm air below cool air)
3. Lift
@@1.4142 I don’t understand but cool
Man based on the information I got: low pressure and boyont air make big cumulonimbus?
@@1.4142 can you explain it more simple
@@itzrenzo8960
Yeah, put simply:
Thunderstorms need three ingredients:
1. Less dense air below denser air. Moist warm air is less dense than dry cool air, so it will rise up.
2. Moisture. There needs to be enough water vapour in the air so that it will condense into water droplets and form clouds as the updraft rises.
3. Lifting mechanism. Warm air often can't rise on its own because of a temperature inversion close to the ground. We need things like differential heating, outflow boundaries, and fronts to jump start the cloud's journey upwards. In california, we have mountains that redirect the wind upwards.
Is there any supercells with hook echo signature passed through this location?
I wish. These are just plain old garden variety storms. They can form into small MCS's and become severe warned. However, as you will see when I post more videos, california does get a few low-topped cold core supercells and even tornadoes in the winter.
So fast
Sorry about that, my more recent videos are slower.
Beautiful footage, but the stuttering ruins it:(
True. In the future, I will take the time lapse with higher frame rates to make it smoother and edit out the pauses.
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