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Hominid 0
My understanding of the occluded front was wrong. This particular occluded front was what is called a warm occluded front. Cool air having caught up with where warmer (less cool) air is already pushing up against even colder air, pushes under the warm air, but over the colder air to the east. Net effect is that the two warmer (least cold) of the three air masses are pushed up over the coldest air to the east. This cools the warmer air masses and causes precipitation.
At 4am on hijack day, the warm air got to Idaho. ... It occluded (caught up with and overwhelmed) a mild cold front there. It pushed up over the cold air. This cooled the incoming warm, humid air further, causing it to produce more precipitation across the base of the Idaho stovepipe and northwestern Montana (the shading there on the 4am surface chart for the 24th).
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From Wash Post:
Other accounts say they arrived by helo.
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SEAL Team Six parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness Wednesday and rescued an American woman and a Danish man from an outdoor camp where they were being held by Somali pirates, the official said.
Other accounts say they arrived by helo.
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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.
Hominid 0
I took a copy of surface chart for the 25th, cleaned off most info other than locations, added some locations for which I could find atmospheric pressure for 8pm on jump night. Then added the pressures for stations I could identify in Georger's image 6b, plus some from Weather Underground. Then estimated isobars for 8pm on jump night. Could add some of the other info typically on a surface chart.
I can't say I blame him for not keeping up with the thread.
Tom
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