Posts from — September 2011

Position: 20.4N 92.5W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East [090°] near 2 mph [ 4 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 75 kph].
Wind Gusts: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1003 mb ↓.

Currently about 135 miles [215 km] West-Northwest of Campeche, Mexico.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the coast of Mexico from Chilitepec to Celestun.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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A happy ninth blogiversary™ to Elayne at Pen-Elayne on the Web, one of the ‘early adopters’ who is still at it on a mostly daily basis.

Position: 13.4N 46.2W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [275°] near 23 mph [37 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 45 Miles [ 75 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1002 mb.

Currently about 1070 miles [1725 km] East of the Leeward Islands.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat, and St. Kitts.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 30.8N 70.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [340°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 80 mph [130 kph].
Wind Gusts: 105 mph [165 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 205 miles [335 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 70 miles [110 km].
Minimum central pressure: 982 mb ↑.

Currently about 325 miles [520 km] West-Southwest of Bermuda.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 11.6N 38.1W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [280°] near 18 mph [30 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.

Currently inland about 995 miles [1600 km] West-Southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 28.1N 67.2W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [315°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 105 mph [165 kph].
Wind Gusts: 125 mph [205 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 205 miles [335 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 80 miles [130 km].
Minimum central pressure: 963 mb.

Currently about 325 miles [520 km] South-Southwest of Bermuda.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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They cancelled the Tropical Storm Warning at 10PM CDT last night, so now all we have are:

 

Active Advisory: Tornado Watch,  Flood Warning, Areal Flood Warning,  Coastal Flood Advisory, High Surf Advisory, Coastal Hazard Statement, Flash Flood Watch,  High Wind Warning,  Special Statement (US Severe Weather) Active Notice: Local Storm Report

 

I feel so much better…

Position: 25.8N 64.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [315°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 135 mph [215 kph].
Wind Gusts: 160 mph [260 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 205 miles [335 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 60 miles [ 95 km].
Minimum central pressure: 946 mb ↓.

Currently about 450 miles [ 725 km] South of Bermuda.

Katia is a Category 4 as of 10PM CDT. I hope it does make the turn and there are no vessels anywhere near this storm. No one needs to deal with this.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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If you are a US resident I hope you enjoy this panicked and unsuccessful attempt to salvage the Democratic nomination for President by Grover Cleveland, the 22^nd and 24^th President. Having sent in Federal troops and marshals to break the Pullman Strike, Grover thought he could win back support from labor by giving them their own holiday before the bodies of the workers killed by said troops and marshals were cold in the ground, and to preempt the possibility of labor declaring May 1^st, the commemoration of the Haymarket affair, a day for labor action. [Zero wasn’t the first Democrat to attack the party’s base. Grover lost the nomination, BTW.]

It is rather unique, as it is the only holiday I’m aware of that was imported from Canada where it’s spelled Labour Day.

When I was young, Labor Day was the last day of summer vacation from school, but now schools start in early August, so it’s just a long weekend filled with annoying drunken boaters clogging up my little street with their trailers.

During a conversation with family in New York I discovered that most of the small towns in the Catskills and Adirondacks didn’t know that there would be flash flooding in the mountains as a result of Irene.

I just didn’t understand that, because I’m sitting down on the Gulf Coast and I knew that this was a major flood event in the making, just based on Irene’s size. North of NYC you start climbing into the old mountain ranges of the Northeast, and after the wettest August on record in the area, there would be massive runoffs. You see it in Haiti and Central America every time a tropical storm passes through.

After thinking about it, it occurred to me, that the information was available, as I was looking at it on the National Weather Service sites, but it wasn’t being delivered. These little towns and villages don’t have much in the way of local media because they aren’t large enough markets to support radio or television stations, so there really wasn’t much access to information for the people who live there.

For those who had television access, it was probably satellite, and they would be watching the NYC stations, which would have NYC weather. If you lived on the wrong side of the hill, you wouldn’t be able to get satellite reception.

Rural America really hasn’t been included in the ‘Internet Age’.

Position: 23.4N 61.0W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [310°] near 13 mph [20 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 105 mph [165 kph].
Wind Gusts: 120 mph [195 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles [280 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 45 miles [ 75 km].
Minimum central pressure: 965 mb.

Currently about 385 miles [ 620 km] North-Northeast of the Leeward Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 31.0N 91.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East-Northeast [060°] near 7 mph [11 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 990 mb ↑.

Currently inland about 55 miles [ 90 km] West-Southwest of McComb, Mississippi.

All Watches and Warnings have been discontinued.

No further advisories will be issued by the National Hurricane Center.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 20.3N 57.4W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [305°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph [110 kph].
Wind Gusts: 90 mph [145 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Minimum central pressure: 992 mb ↓.

Currently about 400 miles [ 640 km] East-Northeast of the Leeward Islands.

Katia is having upper level wind shear problems.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 29.4N 92.6W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [335°] near 2 mph [ 4 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 70 mph [110 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 260 miles [415 km].
Minimum central pressure: 988 mb.

Currently about 85 miles [140 km] West-Southwest of Morgan City, Louisiana.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Gulf Coast from Sabine Pass, Texas eastward to Destin, Florida [I just made the cut.]

Lee is creeping North and the pressure is falling. It is dumping rain on Louisiana and Mississippi, while merely pouring rain on Southern Alabama and the western end of the Florida Panhandle.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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