THE CURRENT GENERATION OF MODELS OFTEN HAVE PROBLEMS HANDLING MESOSCALE FEATURES

• DO A MESOANALYSIS OF SURFACE AND UPPER AIR DATA IF TIME ALLOWS.
• LOOK AT SATELLITE AND RADAR AND TRY TO IDENTIFY MESOSCALE FEATURES. ALSO TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT IS CAUSING THE CURRENT PRECIPITATION.
• IDENTIFY SURFACE BOUNDARIES
  • (FRONTS, DRY LINES, OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES, SEA BREEZE FRONTS, LAND USE BOUNDARIES, ETC.

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