Archive for 2009

>Now that Bill is off the tropical chart and soon to join forces with another low off Iceland on it’s way to my part of the world as nothing more than a source that brings us another round of rain and breezy conditions, at the very most, Bill’s remnant low brings us wet and windy […]

> Image courtesy of the NHC Latest from the NHC http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/231816.shtml http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT3+shtml/231448.shtml? NOTICE THAT IT TAKES BILL’S REMNANTS 3 DAYS TO GET ACROSS THE NORTH ATLANTIC, YET 10 OR MORE DAYS TO GO FROM AFRICA TO THE LEEWARDS!! SHOWS YOU HOW FAST THOSE WINDS ALOFT RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC DOESN’T IT.. Nova Scotia, Prince Edward […]

> Katrina at peak intensity Left by Katrina Houston fleeing category 5 Rita Top photo coutesy of Weather Underground. Rest of the photos courtesy of Wikipedia Since covering hurricanes there have been eight hurricanes that have reached the rarifed category 5 threshold. Few storms anywhere on earth manage to top the magic maximum sustained winds […]

> http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hhc/watl/hh3.watl.20090821.gif Current 500mb Geopotential HeightsImage sources: http://wxmaps.org/pix/hemi.00hr.html Hurricane Bill which looked to be on it’s way back up to category 4 status last night with a well defined eye and mesovortices reported circling the eye, has all but collapsed. Long and short of it, Bill is struggling these past 6-12 hours. It comes and […]

> http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hhc/watl/hh3.watl.20090821.gif Current 500mb Geopotential HeightsImage sources: http://wxmaps.org/pix/hemi.00hr.html Hurricane Bill which looked to be on it’s way back up to category 4 status last night with a well defined eye and mesovortices reported circling the eye, has all but collapsed. Long and short of it, Bill is struggling these past 6-12 hours. It comes and […]

>I have been meaning to do this for about a month now but with other weather and events taking priority, it has waited until now. I want you to check out my winter fore for 2009-10 which I wrote BEFORE the release of AccuWeather’s winter forecast on Jul 14. Note the striking similarities between these […]

> Bill’s recent satellite presentation shows a stronger better organised hurricane once again with some better defined features such as the eye and strong, deep convection and extremely high, cold cloud tops that make up the eyewall hot towers which is wrapped entirely around the eye rather than only in some quadurants. This increase in […]

> This time around it was Minneapolis that got the scare. Back in 2007 it was right in the heart of Brooklyn, New York which in fact was the second tornado touchdown in Long Island with one near Islip, NY about a week or two earlier. The year before, an area very close to O’Hare […]

>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 […]