Sea Breeze convergence combined with strong daytime heating to produced scattered to numerous showers across the southern slopes of Puerto Rico.
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The episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
Sea Breeze convergence combined with strong daytime heating to produced scattered to numerous showers across the southern slopes of Puerto Rico.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Juan, PR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 6, 2:53 PM AST, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 253 PM AST WED NOV 6 2013 .DISCUSSION...UPPER TROUGH IS PASSING OVER ISLANDS ON ITS WAY SOUTH. EXPECT ROBUST CONVECTION OVER PR INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON TO BE SHORT LIVED AS COMPARED TO YESTERDAY DUE TO RAINING ITSELF OUT AND DUE TO THE APPROACHING CONVERGENT FLOW AT UPPER LEVELS. AVAILABLE PRECIPITABLE MOISTURE IS NOT YET DROPPING BUT IT WILL TONIGHT AS THE NORTH FLOW DEEPENS. MODIFICATIONS MADE TO GRIDS WERE RELATIVE MINOR. DRY ADVECTION TO BEGIN TONIGHT AND CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL DAYS. RESULTANT CONVECTION WILL BE ISOLATED/SCATTERED. && .AVIATION...SHRA ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOSTLY DISSIPATE BY 06/23Z...LEAVING VFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE LOCAL TERMINALS WITH ISOLD TO SCT PASSING SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. WIND WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE ACROSS PR OVERNIGHT WITH TIST.TISX AND TNCM/TKPK HAVING WINDS FROM THE EAST TO EAST SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 KTS. && .MARINE...BUOY 41043 CURRENTLY SHOWING 8.9 FT WHICH IS ALMOST 3 FT HIGHER THAN MODELS INDICATE IT SHOULD BE. BELIEVE THE SUDDEN RISE IS DUE TO SEVERAL OUTFLOWS FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST OF THE BUOY...WITH LOCAL SWELLS ARRIVING WELL AHEAD OF THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES NOTED ON VISUAL SATELLITE IMAGES. IF THIS IS TRUE THEN THE BUOY WILL SOON RETURN TO AROUND 6-7 FT AND MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MODERATE SWELLS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. MODELS ARE SHOWING THESE RISES WELL AT BUOY 41046. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 75 86 75 87 / 20 20 20 20 STT 76 87 77 87 / 30 30 30 30 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...NONE. VI...NONE. COASTAL WATERS...NONE. && 25/54
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 524 AM AST WED NOV 6 2013 AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-070930- SAN JUAN AND VICINITY-NORTHEAST-SOUTHEAST-EASTERN INTERIOR- NORTH CENTRAL-CENTRAL INTERIOR-PONCE AND VICINITY-NORTHWEST- WESTERN INTERIOR-MAYAGUEZ AND VICINITY-SOUTHWEST-CULEBRA-VIEQUES- THE NEARSHORE AND OFF SHORE ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 524 AM AST WED NOV 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE ADJACENT ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT WILL COMBINE WITH GOOD VENTILATION ALOFT AND LIGHT STEERING FLOW TO PRODUCE SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE INTERIOR AND WEST SECTIONS OF PUERTO RICO THIS AFTERNOON. THIS COULD LEAD TO URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN LOCALIZED AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... RAINFALL REPORTS OF TWO INCHES OR MORE AND/OR FLOODING REPORTS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-070930- ST. THOMAS ST. JOHN ADJACENT ISLANDS-ST CROIX- NEARSHORE ATLANTIC AND ADJACENT CARIBBEAN COASTAL WATERS- 524 AM AST WED NOV 6 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Small creek affecting state route PR-505 in Barrio La Yuca in Upper Parts of Ponce.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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