Clouds From Irene Over Citrus County, Florida
I was out pulling weeds around 8 pm EDT at my home in Citrus County, Florida when I saw cirrus clouds moving along at a fairly good clip. After taking a few quick photographs, I went to my computer to confirm what I suspected I was seeing. I consulted both an up-to-date satellite visible loop and an infrared loop. Sure enough, the cirrus I was observing marked the outermost segment of an outflow band from hurricane Irene.
Here is a photo as I faced the WSW. (The gray clouds are little fracto-cumulus at a much lower altitude than the very high cirrus).
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The graphic below shows the general direction of movement of both the inflow and the outflow of a hurricane in the northern hemisphere. This particular one is hurricane Ike of 2008.
Didn’t see the clouds, but they look beautiful. We really appreciate all your weather advisories, information, etc.
Thanks Mary,
I’ve been keeping a watch today using the visible satellite loop. Some of the low-level clouds here in Citrus County are going along with inflow but I see no outflow indicators. However, if you were to look eastward and up from a good vantage point there in Marion County you would see some outflow cirrus now (Friday afternoon around 5 pm EDT).
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