Tropical Tidbits from the Tundra 

Quoting Hawkeyewx:
Levi, you do a superb job of explaining the tropics. It certainly appears things may get interesting in the next couple weeks.

Thanks Hawkeye. That means a bunch coming from you.

Quoting SunnyDaysFla:
There is an obvious circulation with 93L, my question is "How can you tell that it is mid-level or lower level?"

The trick is knowing what types of clouds you are seeing on visible imagery. SSD has made it easier with their RGB enhancement, which turns most low clouds yellow, while higher clouds remain white. Milky-looking clouds are generally high-level clouds, and anything associated with the tops of strong thunderstorms, such as billowing cumulonimbus, is obviously high-level.

What you're looking for are clouds similar to the low-level cloud streets that you can see in the clear areas of the Caribbean, moving with the trade winds. Low-level clouds like that tend to form small lines or bands, and those will tell us what the winds near the surface are doing. Looking south of 93L, the low-level clouds between the thunderstorms and the coast of northern South America all look to be moving from the east or southeast, and thus no closed surface circulation has developed.

You're so funny Huri....lol :)

Quoting spartankicker:
Great insight here. I'm curious...what program do you use to record your videos and what program do you have that allows you to have a telestrator on the maps?

I record using screencast-o-matic.com, and my drawing tool is an OpenGL-powered annotation tool available in Compiz, a linux window manager. In Windows, the equivalent program that I used to use is called "Sketchit!"