JH writes:

My dreams usually have realistic vorticity production terms, so it's good to 
hear about one that doesn't.
	

MR writes:

Most of us dream about weather, but only Mark Branson would analyze the weather
in-dream to the extent of assessing convective precip in non-convective cloud 
systems.
	  

CR writes:

I had a dream I was eating grapefruit-sized hail, and when I woke up, my
updraft was gone.
          

Duff the Dust Devil writes:

Most of my dreams are about getting stretched out too much-sometimes I also
dream I move into subsiding, irrotational flow, but I quickly wake up before that happens. 
Usually that happens right when I'm first falling asleep though.
          

JH writes:

Looking back at the comments page for Mark Branson's entry, I erred... for
some reason I was thinking that Mark's dream of giant hailstones involved
a giant tornado as well (wishful thinking, I'm certain), thus my comment
about a "realistic vorticity production term."

I was about to retract this comment.  However on second thought I will
stand by it and defend it.  Mesoscale rotation is associated with an
enhancement in the vertical perturbation pressure gradient, and a larger
gradient will enhance updraft strength and thus contribute to the growth
of larger hailstones.  Such rotation and associated pressure gradients are
unlikely to be associated with a stratus deck, so I maintain the
importance of the vorticity production term in this dream.
	  

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