Nice MODIS image of the ash cloud from Mt Redoubt. In this image it is heading SE, away from Anchorage.
-HLG
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Mt Redoubt Ash
Nice MODIS image of the ash cloud from Mt Redoubt. In this image it is heading SE, away from Anchorage.
-HLG
Monday, March 30, 2009
TRMM Image From MS Tornadoes and Red River Floods
The first image shows measurements of rainfall rates from TRMM during the storms that caused the recent MS tornado outbreak. The white crosses are the locations of known tornadoes.
The second image shows snowy Fargo and the record flooding on the Red River of the North.
-HLG
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tonga Volcano Shows Lava at Surface
MODIS catches the Tonga "undersea" volcano with lava flowing at the surface.
-HLG
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Cute little TC in Mozambique Channel
TC "IZILDA". Not much to look at, but a reminder the southern season is weakening and the sun is heading north! - HLG
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Mt Redoubt Blows It's Top
Coold MODIS image showing ash plume, heading in general direction of Anchorage.
-HLG
Friday, March 20, 2009
Stratospheric intrusion vorticies
From the CIMSS Site - "RUN AWAY!!!!"
Actually, an outstanding write-up on what a fellow meteorologist called
"Stratospheric Pooking."
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/2169
BB - GWA "Please save our planet!"
Actually, an outstanding write-up on what a fellow meteorologist called
"Stratospheric Pooking."
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/2169
BB - GWA "Please save our planet!"
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Weather Channel in HD?
I recently upgraded my cable to the HD package and was stunned to find the Weather Channel is not broadcast in HD. What gives? We have a local radar-all-the-time in HD, but no Weather Channel? I WANT MY WCHD!
-HLG
-HLG
"Global Warming" Team May Freeze To Death at North Pole!
It would be tragic, but certainly ironic! - HLG
Explorers On Global Warming Expedition Stranded in North Pole by Cold Weather
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 AP
Three global warming researchers stranded in the North Pole by cold weather were holding out hope Wednesday as a fourth plane set off in an attempt deliver them supplies.
The flight took off during a break in bad weather after “brutal” conditions halted three previous attempts to reach the British explorers who said they were nearly out of food, the Agence France-Presse reported.
“We’re hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice,” expedition leader Pen Hadow said in e-mailed statement. “Waiting is almost the worst part of an expedition as we’re in the lap of the weather gods.”
Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels began an 85-day hike to the North Pole on February 28 to measure sea ice thickness, the AFP reported.
With bad weather hampering supply flights, the team is was down to half-rations, battling desperate sub-zero temperatures and unable to proceed, the AFP reported.
"It'll be a relief to get our new supplies," Hadow said in a statement Wednesday. "Until (the plane) does arrive, we need to conserve energy and can't really move on."
The expedition now expects to arrive at the North Pole in late May. -AP
Explorers On Global Warming Expedition Stranded in North Pole by Cold Weather
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 AP
Three global warming researchers stranded in the North Pole by cold weather were holding out hope Wednesday as a fourth plane set off in an attempt deliver them supplies.
The flight took off during a break in bad weather after “brutal” conditions halted three previous attempts to reach the British explorers who said they were nearly out of food, the Agence France-Presse reported.
“We’re hungry, the cold is relentless, our sleeping bags are full of ice,” expedition leader Pen Hadow said in e-mailed statement. “Waiting is almost the worst part of an expedition as we’re in the lap of the weather gods.”
Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels began an 85-day hike to the North Pole on February 28 to measure sea ice thickness, the AFP reported.
With bad weather hampering supply flights, the team is was down to half-rations, battling desperate sub-zero temperatures and unable to proceed, the AFP reported.
"It'll be a relief to get our new supplies," Hadow said in a statement Wednesday. "Until (the plane) does arrive, we need to conserve energy and can't really move on."
The expedition now expects to arrive at the North Pole in late May. -AP
Undersea Volcano in Tonga
Image like none I have ever seen. This volcano is blowing up under the ocean near Tonga, and you can see the steam cloud and the sediment in the water column. Too cool! - HLG
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Pre-Post "IKE" ASTER Image
I found an image I hadn't seen before from NASA's ASTER satellite, of the Upper Texas Coast, pre and post "IKE". -HLG
Ice on Superior
Within the next few seasons, maybe a decade or so, the lake will freeze solid, as the sun goes dim. When the big lake is frozen solid, and doesen't melt in the summer the long winter will officially begin. - HLG
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Dust in the North and Dust in the South
The ice is coming back soon! Two hundred year downturn in solar activities. The magnetic poles will shift, and there will be massive dust storms to reinforce the cooling. Have a nice day. - HLG
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Distinguished MIT Professor of Meteorology
This gentleman is taking a lot of heat in the press for scientifically challenging Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW similar but not the same as Global Warming Alarmist GWA; see Dr BB) I think his resume demands that he be given scientific respect.
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is a Harvard trained atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has published over 200 books and scientific papers. He was the lead author of Chapter 7 (physical processes) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC on global warming (2001). He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists
- HLG
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is a Harvard trained atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has published over 200 books and scientific papers. He was the lead author of Chapter 7 (physical processes) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC on global warming (2001). He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists
- HLG
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Ship and Buoy Reports in Google Earth Format
Hey Weather Bloggers,
Check out the cool tool (where was Dr BB on this?) for observing Ship and Buoy reports in Google Earth. It is the sixth one down the list, and one of the award winners! They are all pretty cool if you get the time.
http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&cat=featured
-HLG
Check out the cool tool (where was Dr BB on this?) for observing Ship and Buoy reports in Google Earth. It is the sixth one down the list, and one of the award winners! They are all pretty cool if you get the time.
http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&cat=featured
-HLG
Monday, March 9, 2009
Where's Nicole?
Hi. Klingfree from Carriere, MS. 1st time poster. Love the blog.
OK, I don't have any slick pictures or screen grabs from the Wx Channel, but I do have a burning question ... "Where's Nicole?". It seems that our friends at the Wx Channel are still reeling from Marshall Seese's retirement late last year and haven't settled into any kind of a morning routine. The one constant has been Heather Tesch, but low and behold, I saw her on doing her weather thang Sunday morning. What's up with that??? And now, this morning, I tune in to see the Coast's good friend Jim Cantore chatting with Heather and her sidekick of the day during the "Bad Hair Day" segment. This is bordering on ridiculous. Now, to top it all off, I haven't seen my favorite travel analyst (not to be confused with my favorite traffic reporter Randi Rousseau), Capt. Nicole Mitchell since the week before last. Could it be that the Wx Channel put her on the sideline??? Can anyone tell me what is going on??? Stop the carousel in the co-anchor chair, and STOP THE INSANITY!!!
OK, I don't have any slick pictures or screen grabs from the Wx Channel, but I do have a burning question ... "Where's Nicole?". It seems that our friends at the Wx Channel are still reeling from Marshall Seese's retirement late last year and haven't settled into any kind of a morning routine. The one constant has been Heather Tesch, but low and behold, I saw her on doing her weather thang Sunday morning. What's up with that??? And now, this morning, I tune in to see the Coast's good friend Jim Cantore chatting with Heather and her sidekick of the day during the "Bad Hair Day" segment. This is bordering on ridiculous. Now, to top it all off, I haven't seen my favorite travel analyst (not to be confused with my favorite traffic reporter Randi Rousseau), Capt. Nicole Mitchell since the week before last. Could it be that the Wx Channel put her on the sideline??? Can anyone tell me what is going on??? Stop the carousel in the co-anchor chair, and STOP THE INSANITY!!!
TC "HAMISH"
I never could find a good image of Dr BB's TC "GABRIELLE", but there is a new one off the NE coast of Australia. Looks like a willy-willy (Aussie slang for a hurricane)to me! -HLG
DR BB'S 2009 ATLANTIC HURRICANE FORECAST
After months of research, running dozens of models, analyzing the stars and asking my dog - I've compiled all the information and am ready to make a bold, startling prediction about this year's hurricane season.
My prediction is that it will be an average year - 10 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 2 storms of Cat 3 or higher. All my data and evaluation can be found at - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastprofile.shtml.
Like others, I will be reevaluating my prediction throughout the year, and changing the numbers if it looks like this prediction is out to lunch.
Media outlets - please refer to my publicist for interviews regarding my prediction.
Happy Hurricane Season.
BB
My prediction is that it will be an average year - 10 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 2 storms of Cat 3 or higher. All my data and evaluation can be found at - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastprofile.shtml.
Like others, I will be reevaluating my prediction throughout the year, and changing the numbers if it looks like this prediction is out to lunch.
Media outlets - please refer to my publicist for interviews regarding my prediction.
Happy Hurricane Season.
BB
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Crazy Ship Tracks and Utah Dust Storm
Have nothing in common, but are cool pics. I still haven't been able to find a nice image of DrBB's TC "GABRIELLE", but stay tuned.
The ship tracks are in the North Pac.
Utah dust storm is in Utah, USA
-HLG
US Killer Satellites?
Will they be attacking the weather-birds next???
Russian General: Satellite Collision Was U.S. Plot
Thursday, March 05, 2009
That satellite collision 500 miles above the Earth last month? All a Yankee plot, says a Russian general.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, identified as the former chief of Russia's military space intelligence, tells the Kremlin-run RIA Novosti press agency that the cosmic crack-up may have been a test of U.S. space-weapon technology.
Officially, a defunct Russian satellite collided with an American telecommunications bird, one of 66 owned and operated by the Iridium company which relay signals to and from satellite phones on Earth.
Shershnev doesn't buy it. He thinks the American satellite was really one of the two used in the 2007 Orbital Express experiment, a NASA-Pentagon joint venture in which one satellite hooked up with and refueled another.
That program was officially shut down nearly two years ago. Shershnev thinks it may be still running, that Orbital Express has reached its goal to "develop technology that would allow monitoring and inspections of orbital spacecraft by fully-automated satellites equipped with robotic devices," and that it can now do even more.
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Big Communication Satellites Crash 500 Miles Above Siberia
According to RIA Novosti's paraphrase of the general's words, the U.S. may now be "capable of manipulating 'hostile satellites,' including their destruction, with a single command from a ground control center."
Russian General: Satellite Collision Was U.S. Plot
Thursday, March 05, 2009
That satellite collision 500 miles above the Earth last month? All a Yankee plot, says a Russian general.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, identified as the former chief of Russia's military space intelligence, tells the Kremlin-run RIA Novosti press agency that the cosmic crack-up may have been a test of U.S. space-weapon technology.
Officially, a defunct Russian satellite collided with an American telecommunications bird, one of 66 owned and operated by the Iridium company which relay signals to and from satellite phones on Earth.
Shershnev doesn't buy it. He thinks the American satellite was really one of the two used in the 2007 Orbital Express experiment, a NASA-Pentagon joint venture in which one satellite hooked up with and refueled another.
That program was officially shut down nearly two years ago. Shershnev thinks it may be still running, that Orbital Express has reached its goal to "develop technology that would allow monitoring and inspections of orbital spacecraft by fully-automated satellites equipped with robotic devices," and that it can now do even more.
Related StoriesRussia Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons, Defense Minister Says
Experts Ponder How to Get Rid of Orbiting Space Junk
Satellite Debris May Force NASA to Scrub Shuttle Launch
Europeans Launch Program to Track Orbital Space Junk
Experts: Satellite Collision 'Catastrophic' for Space Programs
Big Communication Satellites Crash 500 Miles Above Siberia
According to RIA Novosti's paraphrase of the general's words, the U.S. may now be "capable of manipulating 'hostile satellites,' including their destruction, with a single command from a ground control center."
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tropical Season?
We are up to our butts in Global Warming here!
Save the Tropical Season Alarmism! (Special sub-category of GWA)
-HLG
GABRIELLE
Ok. I'm sure HLG can come up with a better image - just wanted to show that hurricane season is right around the corner... when will the Studs and a Babe put their 2009 forecasts on the website?
BB
Monday, March 2, 2009
Real "Meteorology" News
Surprise Asteroid Makes Near-Miss of Earth
Monday, March 02, 2009
Wait! Did you hear that whooshing sound?
A small asteroid buzzed by Earth Monday, though only real astronomy geeks in the Pacific would have noticed.
The rock, estimated to be no more than 200 feet wide, zoomed past our planet at an altitude of 40,000 miles at 1:44 p.m. universal time — or 8:44 EST.
Dubbed 2009 DD45, it was discovered only on Friday by Australian astronomers.
Forty thousand miles may sound like a lot, but it's only about one-seventh of the way to the moon, and less than twice as far out as many telecommunications satellites.
Had 2009 DD45 hit the Earth, it would have exploded on or near the surface with the force of a large nuclear blast — not very reassuring when you consider humanity had only about three days' notice.
According to the Australian news Web site Crikey, the asteroid is likely to be drawn in by Earth's gravity, meaning it may return for many more near misses in the future.
AP via HLG
Monday, March 02, 2009
Wait! Did you hear that whooshing sound?
A small asteroid buzzed by Earth Monday, though only real astronomy geeks in the Pacific would have noticed.
The rock, estimated to be no more than 200 feet wide, zoomed past our planet at an altitude of 40,000 miles at 1:44 p.m. universal time — or 8:44 EST.
Dubbed 2009 DD45, it was discovered only on Friday by Australian astronomers.
Forty thousand miles may sound like a lot, but it's only about one-seventh of the way to the moon, and less than twice as far out as many telecommunications satellites.
Had 2009 DD45 hit the Earth, it would have exploded on or near the surface with the force of a large nuclear blast — not very reassuring when you consider humanity had only about three days' notice.
According to the Australian news Web site Crikey, the asteroid is likely to be drawn in by Earth's gravity, meaning it may return for many more near misses in the future.
AP via HLG
CAPITAL CLIMATE ACTION
Hey, HLG - AGW, hope to see you today at the mass civil disobedience gathering at the coal power plant in DC.
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/
All the GW headliners will be there - Gore, Hansen, that other guy... - and the weather will be perfect!
SAVE THE PLANET!!!
BB-GWA
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/
All the GW headliners will be there - Gore, Hansen, that other guy... - and the weather will be perfect!
SAVE THE PLANET!!!
BB-GWA
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