Rick DeLuca
Meteorologist at WDRB-TV (Louisville, KY)
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2 days ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
One year ago, representatives from NASA and about 30 other U.S. government agencies gathered for a special meeting to simulate and address a threat looming in space. The threat was not an asteroid or aliens, but our very own life-giving Sun. The inaugural Space Weather Tabletop Exercise was supposed to be a training event, where experts could work through the real-time ramifications of a geomagnetic storm, a global disruption to Earth’s magnetic field.
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2 days ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
Have you ever tried to hold one of those inflatable beach balls under water? It's not easy. That's because a beach ball is buoyant due to the fact that it weighs less than the water it displaces when submerged. Thunderstorms are also buoyant so think of storms as the beach ball and you as the capping inversion or atmospheric lid.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
Previous Next Up What is hail?Hail is a form of precipitation consisting of solid ice that forms inside thunderstorm updrafts. Hail can damage aircraft, homes and cars, and can be deadly to livestock and people. How does hail form? Hailstones are formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
The cloudy, rainy and cooler pattern Derby weekend can be explained in two words... omega block! Blocking patterns occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather systems from moving through. When the blocking pattern is in place other systems are forced to go around it. Blocking patterns can remain in place for several days, resulting in long spans of persistent weather for locations under the block.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
Storms on Oaks caused an interruption for an hour or so, but rain on Derby could be downright annoying. Rain appears like a really good bet for the first post at 11 am. That rain will be steady, perhaps even becoming heavy at times during the early afternoon. Don't lose hope. After 5 pm, there is a chance that rain becomes much lighter or showers even taper off for a couple hours later on meaning it could be dry for the 151st Run for the Roses at 6:57 pm.
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