Archive for August, 2009
> http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=0 Tropical Storm Claudette is born as predicted and ready to leave the playing field as it crosses over the Fla Panhandle tonight as a flood productor and less a wind producer.. As for Ana, like I keep preacher, this system is likely a depression now, it’s weak, and almost gonna “looking” but that […]
> http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/vis-l.jpg With the concentric banding and wrapping around of clouds in towards the center and a look of what could be early signs of eye development all points to Bill becoming a hurricane possibly this afternoon or tonight as pressures continue to drop and wind speeds rise… Ana struggles and could drop down to […]
>http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes These images are from NASA and show the cold cloud tops and convection as well as a live visible satellite of TD. 4. This beautiful sat image shows the strong core convection of this system and this to me looks like Tropical Storm Claudette… The ball of convection, tall, cold cloud tops and with, […]
>Tropical Update: TD 2 fights shear but still becomes Ana, whilst TD 3 is going to a Cat 3 Hurricane
> http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/natl/wv-l.jpg OK, There is a lot to cover in the Tropical Atlantic basin, things are becoming busier and more interesting. Several things have struck me. 1) After TD 2 was looking extremely poor and almost deemed dead in the heart of the Atlantic and embedded, surrounded and tortured by African dust that was spread […]
> Image courtesy of NHC http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml For latest check out National Hurricane Center Discussions…. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/151434.shtml? TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE DISCUSSION NUMBER 1NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL0320091100 AM AST SAT AUG 15 2009SATELLITE IMAGERY AND QUIKSCAT DATA INDICATE THAT THE BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN ATLANTIC HAS FORMED A WELL-DEFINEDCIRCULATION AND SUFFICIENTLY […]
> Minneapolis finally managed to top 90 yesterday with a nice warm, August-style air mass in place from the Rockies to Atlantic. Yesterday we had heavy rain, non-stop ALL DAY, today, winds have picked up throughout the course of the day and winds are howling out of the west, southwest right now, you can just […]
>I shall present a post later, discussing in detail to situation with not only newly born tropical storm Ana but other features that pose just as much threat as the now named system. Check out the latest public update and discussion http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT2+shtml/151432.shtml http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT2+shtml/151455.shtml? BTW right back in July I stated that no system would be […]
> Hurricane Rita in 2005 as a catagory 5 storm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HurricaneRita21Sept05a.jpgDespite, Ike and Gustav of last year we haven’t actually seen a catagory 3 landfall on US soil since Hurricane Wilma struck South Florida in October 2005. All of the stronger hurricanes of 2008 struck the US as Catagory 2 though possible debate as to […]
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