Archive for August, 2009
>As you probably know before viewing this blog, Hurricane Bill is now a category 3 storm, though slightly weaker, it remains a dangerous and powerful hurricane, dry air may be responsible or an eyewall replacement for the weakening, but we cannot rule out possible restrengthening again later today or tomorrow.Double concern for East Coast.There are […]
> Today, from my office in the attic here in central Scotland and under the dominant trough and low. This has been the picture for weeks now! Today across southwest and south-central Europe under the high. Image: http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=8 A major heat wave is blistering western Europe with a 599dm broiler-plate ridge park directly over the […]
>The aftermath of the storm at Central Park West and 100th St. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/08/19/2009-08-19_more_than_100_trees_felled_as_freak_80mph_gusts_rip_through_halfmilewide_section.html#ixzz0OfnQqlPu This will be short unfortunately as it’s now 11.19pm and have been up since 4am and on the heels of a busy 7-day work week. Thankfully I can enjoy time off now until Monday and plenty of time will be […]
>This from The Weather Channel talks about NASA photo above Here is just a stunning, beautiful picture taken on Tuesday around lunch time by NASA’s MODIS Aqua satellite. As the sun rises on the Eastern Seaboard, uncertainly remains as people waken to a violent Atlantic hurricane looming 1,700 miles from The Outer Banks. The beautiful […]
> http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes After under going an eyewall-replacement cycle, which is when the inner core replenishes itself and is often a sign of an intensiifying system regrouped and formed a new eye and eyewall as the old eye shrinks inwards and then collapses, as the old eye closes in on itself, a new outer eyewall begins […]
> Images courtesy of The Weather Channel A strong ridge has built across much of the North American eastern flank and is pumping blazing heat and tropical humidity from Miami to Montreal with record or near record warm days and nights… Yesterday saw the late August sun and a favorable clockwise high pressure wind flow […]
> http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/vis.jpg All graphical imagery is courtesy of The Weather Channel. Thought models are becoming more in agreement with each other that Bill will recurve and take a classic re-route around Bermuda and towards the North Atlantic, I still would not relax quite yet as many a system has looked like recurving and many storms […]
> http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes Water temps (courtesy of Accuweather.com) It’s complications galore… Now that Claudette is off the field and wringing itself out presently over Alabama as a rainstorm and remnant low, we now turn our focus to what’s left in the Atlantic basin, two systems that are complicated in their own right as one encounters land […]
> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/08/17/weather.severe.storms/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Tropical Storm Claudette Coverage Landfall: Just SE of Fort Walton Beach, Florida Time: 1.10am Sustained Wind: approx 50 mph, higher gusts Nothing more than a tropical breeze and downpours, though when I say that, scattered power outages and minor damage was reported with downed trees and possibly some shingles torn from some exposed […]
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