The Art of Storm Chasing

And let me just level set.

I'm Dr. Marshall Shepherd from the University of Georgia.

I'm speaking with Mike Olbinski.

You've heard the term monsoon, and I'm gonna step up on a little soapbox for a second, because one of the things that [chuckles] actually has been-- I have several of these, by the way, things that kind of-

[laughs]

... kinda pet peeves of mine, and one is when people here in Atlanta say, "Bro, it's raining really hard.

It's a monsoon out there." And I know-

Yep

... people do use that term for when it's raining heavily, but let's do a little weather geek-out here, because I'm a-

Yes

... meteorology professor, in that a monsoon is actually defined as a reversal, wind reversal or w- wind shift that's driven by gradients or thermal differences between the land and the water.

And so I think many people are familiar with the Indian-

Yes

... or the Asian monsoon, but may not-

Correct

And by the way, that reversal of wind, particularly the summer or the warm season monsoon, does bring moisture in, and so I think that's what-

Yeah

... is responsible for a lot of the early rainfall.

I think that's, I think that's the definition means it's not just the reversal wind, but it brings about a rainy season.

It brings about-

Isn't that-

... a rainy-

... kinda part of it?

Ex- exact- When you, when you talk about the warm season component, but of course, there's the, when you talk about the Asian monsoon, as I teach in class, that, that monsoon reverses, and you actually have the winter monsoon, where you've got the flow offshore, and so then it becomes dry over the land.

So e- if you go and look at the-

And let me just level set.

I'm Dr. Marshall Shepherd from the University of Georgia.

I'm speaking with Mike Olbinski.

You've heard the term monsoon, and I'm gonna step up on a little soapbox for a second, because one of the things that [chuckles] actually has been-- I have several of these, by the way, things that kind of-

[laughs]

... kinda pet peeves of mine, and one is when people here in Atlanta say, "Bro, it's raining really hard.

It's a monsoon out there." And I know-

Yep

... people do use that term for when it's raining heavily, but let's do a little weather geek-out here, because I'm a-

Yes

... meteorology professor, in that a monsoon is actually defined as a reversal, wind reversal or w- wind shift that's driven by gradients or thermal differences between the land and the water.

And so I think many people are familiar with the Indian-

Yes

... or the Asian monsoon, but may not-

Correct

And by the way, that reversal of wind, particularly the summer or the warm season monsoon, does bring moisture in, and so I think that's what-

Yeah

... is responsible for a lot of the early rainfall.

I think that's, I think that's the definition means it's not just the reversal wind, but it brings about a rainy season.

It brings about-

Isn't that-

... a rainy-

... kinda part of it?

Ex- exact- When you, when you talk about the warm season component, but of course, there's the, when you talk about the Asian monsoon, as I teach in class, that, that monsoon reverses, and you actually have the winter monsoon, where you've got the flow offshore, and so then it becomes dry over the land.

So e- if you go and look at the-