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>Tornado touches down just south of downtown MSP on heels of storms that down hundreds of trees in Central Park, NY, Bill’s track adjusts, west

Written by on August 19, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Tornado touches down just south of downtown MSP on heels of storms that down hundreds of trees in Central Park, NY, Bill’s track adjusts, west

>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 […]

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>Hurricane Bill becomes dangerously powerful

Written by on August 19, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Hurricane Bill becomes dangerously powerful

>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 […]

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>Bill becomes a Major Hurricane

Written by on August 18, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Bill becomes a Major Hurricane

> 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 […]

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>It’s 90s from Miami to Montreal! Very warm nights too!

Written by on August 18, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>It’s 90s from Miami to Montreal! Very warm nights too!

> 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 […]

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>Latest on Hurricane Bill: Now Category 2 but soon to become Category 3

Written by on August 18, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Latest on Hurricane Bill: Now Category 2 but soon to become Category 3

> 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 […]

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>Mark Vogan issues tropical weather forecast for next few days

Written by on August 17, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Mark Vogan issues tropical weather forecast for next few days

> 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 […]

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>Please take the time to sign my guestbook!

Written by on August 17, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>To the right and scroll down.. It would be great to hear from you… -Mark

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>Claudette breezes ashore

Written by on August 17, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 1 Comment
>Claudette breezes ashore

> 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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>Claudette soon to come ashore

Written by on August 17, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>Strong winds and driving rains are rotating on onshore batterng coastal and inland areas with the classic beating on a tropical storm. 50 mph sustained core winds to soon make landfall. Some power outgages and minor damage reported.

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>Claudette named and ready to leave the playing field

Written by on August 16, 2009 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments
>Claudette named and ready to leave the playing field

> 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 […]

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