Les Crossan wrote:
All you wanted to know about CAPE but were too afraid to ask!

Off Martin's website....

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.w...opics.htm#CAPE

Keep your camera handy Rob you're lucky to have all that flat ground
there

les

Rob wrote:
Can anyone give an explanation as to what the Lifted Index and CAPE signify?
I've looked at the FAQ and I can't seem to find it. Or have I just not
looked hard enough??
--
Rob Overfield
Hull
http://talkingtoomuchagain.blogspot.com

Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk

I've never rated CAPE and LI as all that useful, and as Martin
implies in his website they are there simply because they are easy to
calculate from an ascent. The presence of high CAPE does not mean in
itself that severe storms are likely but that if they do occur they may
well be severe. The mechanism that triggers the release of the energy
is the really difficult thing to forecast and involves subtle things
like convergence lines.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.