The GOES visible loop today shows the smoke travelling far out to sea. This image is from MODIS yesterday. -HLG
Friday, April 24, 2009
Fires in South Carolina
The GOES visible loop today shows the smoke travelling far out to sea. This image is from MODIS yesterday. -HLG
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Good Weather and GIS Resource
ESRI publishes a good newsletter on GIS and Meteorology. It it the best I know of, and the only one I know of in fact. Latest issue has some good infor on GIS data avialable from NWS. - HLG
http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/atmosphericfront/atmospheric-front-spring09.pdf
http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/atmosphericfront/atmospheric-front-spring09.pdf
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
TC "BILJI"
Looks like the Bay of Bengal is getting active, nearly one year after the surprisingly stong TC "NARGIS" killed tens of thousand in Burma. This storm wasn't very strong in wind-speed, but produced massive rainfall over Bangladesh. Two images here from MODIS, and TRMM. -HLG
U of L Atmospheric Sciences Program
The University of Louisville is now offering a BS degree in Atmospheric Sciences, and has opened a state-of-the-art lab in the Physics Dept for the new students. Go Cards!!
http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=1410
- HLG (Would've had Atmos Science Degree if they had it in the 80s)
http://php.louisville.edu/news/news.php?news=1410
- HLG (Would've had Atmos Science Degree if they had it in the 80s)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sea-Levels will soon be dropping
As the Antarctic Ice Sheet starts to grow again, thus cooling the entire Southern Hemisphere, followed by nothern. This will only be compounded as the solar ouput continues it's multi-century decline. Have a nice day. - HLG
Report: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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A composite map of Antarctica showing areas of greatest warming in red. The Wilkins Ice Shelf lies off the peninsula in the top left corner.
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
Antarctica has 90 percent of the Earth's ice and 80 percent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilization of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.
However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades."
Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally," Allison said.
Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
Click here to read the full story from News.com.au.
Report: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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NASA
A composite map of Antarctica showing areas of greatest warming in red. The Wilkins Ice Shelf lies off the peninsula in the top left corner.
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
Antarctica has 90 percent of the Earth's ice and 80 percent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilization of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.
However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades."
Australia Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally," Allison said.
Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Center shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years.
A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
Click here to read the full story from News.com.au.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
AZ Dust Storm
During the blizzard on the plains last weeekend there was a very strong dust-storm in northern Arizona. Very nice MODIS image of the dust. - HLG
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Help Uncle Al!
If it warms up any more I will give in to the Global Warming Alarmists! We are freezing are butts off in the warming burst of 40 degrees with 20 knot winds out of NW! - HLG
Dr Gray Agrees with Dr BB
In calling for a toned-down Hurricane Season 2009. Dr BB is calling for considerably less than Dr. Gray, however.
I am going out on a limb and predict there will only be two hurricanes, no major ones, in the Atlantic this year, and a paltry 6 named storms.
-HLG
Six Hurricanes, Two Major, Forecast for 2009
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Print ShareThis FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Hurricane experts at Colorado State University have scaled back their prediction for the Atlantic and now say this will be an average season with 12 named storms, including six hurricanes. They say two of them could be major.
Researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach had earlier predicted an above-average season with 14 named storms — seven of them hurricanes and three major.
Gray said Tuesday the forecast was dialed down because of improved chances of El Nino conditions that suppress hurricane formation.
This is Gray's 26th year of forecasting hurricanes.
His predictions are watched closely by emergency responders and others but critics say such long-range forecasts have little practical value beyond focusing public attention on the danger.
I am going out on a limb and predict there will only be two hurricanes, no major ones, in the Atlantic this year, and a paltry 6 named storms.
-HLG
Six Hurricanes, Two Major, Forecast for 2009
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Print ShareThis FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Hurricane experts at Colorado State University have scaled back their prediction for the Atlantic and now say this will be an average season with 12 named storms, including six hurricanes. They say two of them could be major.
Researchers William Gray and Phil Klotzbach had earlier predicted an above-average season with 14 named storms — seven of them hurricanes and three major.
Gray said Tuesday the forecast was dialed down because of improved chances of El Nino conditions that suppress hurricane formation.
This is Gray's 26th year of forecasting hurricanes.
His predictions are watched closely by emergency responders and others but critics say such long-range forecasts have little practical value beyond focusing public attention on the danger.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Dangerour Radar out of BR, Louisiana!
Wicked relative velocity radar out of BR at this time (04-02-09 1334 CDT) - HLG
Take cover Southern Hancock/Harrison Counties, MS!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Mt. Redoubt in Hi-Res
Nice GEO-EYE image of Mt Redoubt, AK blowing it's top. I saw reports this week the ash from the biggest erruption to date went up around 25,000 feet.
-HLG
WHERE DID THE BABES GO???
I'm waiting to see if TWC really sticks with the new format. Cantore in the morning? Are we ready for this? Heather Tesch moved to the weekend slot? Captain Nicole doing live interviews with dolphins? REALLY??? Was Marshall Seese the glue that kept the morning crew together?
I guess I became spoiled. Back in the old days, they used to move the TWC meteorologists around all the time - so one person wouldn't become entrenched in one spot - except for Father John Hope. I can even tell the public now that three of the four weather studs appeared on TWC for a brief moment. It didn't last.
Now I have to find something else to watch in the morning. Please let me know when Nicole and Heather join forces again.
BB
I guess I became spoiled. Back in the old days, they used to move the TWC meteorologists around all the time - so one person wouldn't become entrenched in one spot - except for Father John Hope. I can even tell the public now that three of the four weather studs appeared on TWC for a brief moment. It didn't last.
Now I have to find something else to watch in the morning. Please let me know when Nicole and Heather join forces again.
BB
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