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> 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 […]

>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 […]