Hello friends of weathersicily.it. As usual we show you today’s data, Saturday 29 June 2024, provided by the radiosounding performed at Trapani Birgi.
The freezing point was detected at an altitude of 4862 metres.
The temperature recorded at 500 hpa is: -8.1 °C at an altitude of 5960 meters
The temperature detected at 850 hpa is: 24 °C at an altitude of 1576 meters
The temperature recorded at 700 hpa is: 13.6 °C at an altitude of 3241 meters
Radio soundings in Italy are processed by the Air Force. These are carried out every 12 hours by launching probes equipped with all the necessary instruments upwards in order to detect the various thermodynamic indices. In Sicily the area where this operation is carried out is Trapani Birgi airport. Thanks to all the values collected, a radio survey is developed; this is nothing more than a real table of numbers that summarizes all the data provided by the probe; through this you can also draw useful graphs to actually understand the weather up to 12-14 km high. The data provided by radio soundings are varied, the most useful are those of the temperature recorded at various altitudes to better understand the truthfulness and reliability of the isotherms predicted by the mathematical models in the previous hours.
