Determining Cloud Tops

[AggieMike88]

Today's weather (rain, 600-1000 ft ceilings, light to moderate wind) got me wishing I was training for my IFR since it would have been a good day for it.

It also got me wondering how how you figure out where the top of the clouds would be. I'm thinking the Skew-T applies here, correct? If so, what am I looking for in the temp and dewpoint lines to answer this?

 

[Jim Logajan]

You need some training in this area. They are called stratocumulus. A big difference that you don't understand.



Unfortunately your knowledge is lacking and that's why I responded to your post. It's amazing when I take my own spare time to help pilots get a better grasp of a complex subject and it's turned back against me. What a shame. This will be my last PoA post.

Well you know, there are a bunch of guys here, one midlife mark comes to mind, who won't pay a penny for education.

They get, what they deserve. And think they "get it".
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad. You readin' this, "no heat"?

So now you chase off a real expert. ptui on you...you self satisfied self appointed expert....Scott really is an expert, so go **** in your own pot, not the communal one.....

Wow - guess I missed some non-weather exchanges on this thread.

Hard to make sense of what went on since it looks like scottd may have removed some of his posts. All I can tell is that after 8 years being a member of PoA it looks as of it took one (possibly two) posts by others for him to decide to no longer post here. A single trigger seems unlikely. Hopefully nothing bad is happening in scottd's life that magnifies a small affront into a large one.

While he may no longer post here, perhaps he still reads these threads.... Perhaps his business training wasn't as deep as his meteorology training, else he would not have made the mistake (in my opinion, obviously) of letting one or two critic(s) out of thousands of members get him annoyed enough to leave what should be a rich ground.

It is not only reasonable, but ethical (yes!) and standard advertising mechanism to use online teasers. I, and many others, have to as a matter of economic survival write free technical material that is placed on the internet. It is intended to attract prospects by leveraging two types of psychological influence: authority and reciprocity. It shows (we hope) that we are authorities on the subject, and because the reader gets something for free, the reader feels compelled to reciprocate somehow. Hopefully by patronizing our business.

Since a lot of people find themselves employing that marketing strategy without realizing it, after the realization takes hold when it is pointed out, I think they should simply continue on as they were. Not stop it.