Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Total disagreement on Typhoon "Praprioon"
And not the fact that The Phillipines has a name, and the Chinese have another, but the only thing Japan and US (JTWC) agree on in their forecasts is the name "Praprioon". Japan all week has had this thing coming straight for Okinawa, and the US insists on the big turn out to sea. Right now the typhoon is stalled, and will go one of these two directions, but sitting on pins and needles on this turn in Okinawa. - HLG
Monday, October 1, 2012
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Bolaven Strongest Typhoon to Hit Okinawa in over 50 years.
Massive
Typhoon Bolaven slams Okinawa, heads for Koreas
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 26, 2012 --
Updated 2105 GMT (0505 HKT)
Typhoon Bolaven is
expected to make landfall near Okinawa on Sunday.
Tokyo (CNN) -- A massive typhoon crossed over Okinawa on Sunday, bringing
winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in
decades.
Typhoon Bolaven, with
wind gusts that reached as high as 259 kilometers per hour (161 mph), is the
strongest to strike the region in nearly 50 years. And with a cloud field of
2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), it is 20 times larger than Okinawa's length.
"It's been very,
very severe," said storm chaser James Reynolds, who was on the
northwestern coast of the island during the worst of the storm.
Tree branches were flying through the air amid torrential rain, he said.
Speaking to CNN early Monday
morning on Okinawa, Reynolds said, "It's been a long and rough
night."
"The eye of the
typhoon actually crashed ashore just after dark. ... Like the rest of the
population we all just kind of holed up in the strong and sturdy buildings
which make up Okinawa," he said.
The infrastructure on
Okinawa is designed to withstand violent storms. "Everything's made of
solid concrete," said Reynolds.
The last storm of this
scale was Typhoon Naha in 1956.
At 3 a.m. Monday local
time (2 p.m. ET Sunday), Bolaven had winds of 194 kilometers per hour, with
gusts at 240 kilometers per hour, CNN International meteorologist Jennifer
Delgado reported.
Bolaven could make
landfall at the Korean peninsula on Tuesday morning, or potentially in South
Korea on Monday night, Delgado said.
In the meantime,
rainfall totals in Okinawa could top 500 mm (20 inches) in 24 hours, said CNN
International meteorologist Tom Sater.
Bolaven is "roughly
the size of France to Poland in land mass," said Sater.
Storm surges were
expected to be a major problem for Okinawa. More than 400,000 people in the
area live at elevations less than 50 meters (164 feet).
"The large
battering waves on both sides of Okinawa are going to be a threat to people
living near the water," Reynolds predicted. "But I think the worst
has passed now. The storm is moving away and unfortunately it's the people in
the Korean peninsula who look like they've got to prepare for the incoming
storm."
Taiwan, meanwhile, could
be in for a pounding due to something called the Fujiwhara effect.
Typhoon Tembin made
landfall in southern Taiwan a few days ago, and was expected to work its way
toward Hong Kong. But Bolaven, which is much stronger, has stopped Tembin's
movement toward Hong Kong and has been spinning it around. Tembin is likely to
make a second landfall in southern Taiwan, also on Tuesday morning.
"As Typhoon Bolaven
moves northward towards the Yellow Sea, it will drag Tembin toward the China
coast very near Shanghai," said Sater. "That's an amazing change in
direction."
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Major Typhoons Tembin and Bolaven in same MODIS Image
Amazing how these two typhoons have stayed just far enough apart the Tembin was able to clock up to 120 kts, and Bolaven is so large, but assymetric still, it's development continues to major typhoon status. Okinawa will get a direct hit from Bolaven, then somewhere in western Korea. Meanwhile Tembin will stall just south of Taiwan for days!. - HLG
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"Virtual Fujiwara" Heading towards Shanghai Region
These two typhoons have been up and down in the models, with which one will become dominant. They are definitely feeling each other, now forecast to be very similar intensities when one goes in north side of Shanghai, and the other on the south-side, just a day apart. The southern storm is larger area, but just an amazing site in the Pacific. - HLG
Monday, July 23, 2012
Looks like Macau took direct hit from Cat 4 Storm
Intense typhoon Vicente slamming Hong Kong
After rapidly intensifying earlier today, typhoon Vicente is battering Hong Kong and locations in Southern China.
Maximum sustained winds have reached almost 140 mph (120 knots), the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center predicts the storm, moving over very warm waters (30-32 degrees C or 86-90 F) and beneath favorable upper level winds, will maintain intensity until coming ashore in Southern China at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning (Hong Kong time), the equivalent of 8 p.m. tonight in the eastern United States.
Live radar plainly shows Vicente’s intense outer bands lashing Hong Kong with a well-defined eye just to its southwest. The storm’s strongest winds and most severe tidal surge are likely to occur southwest of the city in southern mainland China, but squally, hurricane-type conditions are possible in the city itself.
The government of Hong Kong has issued its highest level typhoon warning for the city - known as the number 10 signal. Such a designation is reserved for storms expected to produce hurricane-force winds.
Reuters provided the following information about actions that go into effect when a typhoon of this severity moves into the city:
Financial markets, schools, businesses and non-essential government services close when any No. 8 or above signal is hoisted, posing a disruption to business in the capitalist hub and former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
The Hong Kong Observatory said it expected the No. 10 signal to remain in force overnight, meaning markets could be shut down in the morning.
Activation of the No. 10 signal is a rare occurrence according to the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO).
Friday, July 20, 2012
TS Khanun Causes Mostly Minor Damage in Korea
Khanun Causes Korea Flooding, Damage
By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist
Jul 19, 2012; 9:26 PM ET
Some flooding and damage has been reported on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of Tropical Storm Khanun.
One person was killed in South Korea when parts of a house collapsed amid heavy rain and high wind, the Korea Times website said on Thursday.
By late Thursday, local time, Khanun was a weakening tropical depression aimed for the east coast of North Korea.
Hundreds of flights were grounded as Khanun made its way northward, passing over the city of Seoul. City streets saw some flooding, the Times said.
Rainfall in the area was at least 3 to 5 inches, according to weather data available to AccuWeather.com.
Even higher rainfall was observed in North Korea, where Sariwon registered more than 8 inches.
Water releases from the Hwangang Dam along the North-South border prompted campers in the south to evacuate, the Times said.
Khanun will dissipate over the western Sea of Japan
- Accuweather
Monday, July 16, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
"NATURE" reports globe has been COOLING for past 2 thousand years!
Two Millennia of Global Cooling?
Andrew Bostom
Notwithstanding the latest hysterical claims from the sadly politicized climate scientologists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), insisting 2011 was somehow "a year of extreme weather," serious investigators at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have just published a sobering analysis in Nature Climate Change which reconstructs 2000 years of climate within northern Europe.
Utilizing tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees in northern Scandinavia, the investigators created a sequence dating back to 138 BC. The density measurements are closely correlated with the summer temperatures in a targeted region on the edge of the Nordic taiga, enabling them to create a temperature reconstruction of unprecedented quality. Their high-resolution representation confirmed temperature patterns in the Roman and Medieval Warm periods, but also demonstrated the cold phases that occurred during the Migration Period and the later Little Ice Age. (See image, below)
In addition to depicting these cold and warm phases which were not influenced at all by anthropogenic warming, but rather "by solar output and (grouped) volcanic activity changes" - the new climate reconstruction curve also reveals a striking if unexpected phenomenon. Professor Dr. Jan Esper of the investigative team provided this apt summary assessment of the main findings:
We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low. Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy, as they will influence the way today's climate changes are seen in context of historical warm periods.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/two_millennia_of_global_cooling.html#ixzz20MwMe3gP
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Strongest East Coast Derecho in Recent Memory
Derecho
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A derecho ( /dəˈreɪtʃoʊ/; Spanish pronunciation: [deˈɾetʃo]) is a widespread and long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms. Generally, derechos are convection-induced and take on a bow echo form of squall line, forming in an area of divergence in the upper levels of the troposphere, within a region of low-level warm air advection and rich low-level moisture. They travel quickly in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the windis sustained and increases in strength behind the front, generally exceeding hurricane-force. A warm-weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially during June and July in the Northern Hemisphere, within areas of moderately strong instability and moderately strong vertical wind shear. They may occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as during the daylight hours.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Bring Back Lt Mitchell: Shame on The Weather Channel!
Suit alleges Weather Channel Star was fired for military service
Meteorologist Nicole Mitchell said Monday that her contract was not renewed in 2010 because the Weather Channel’s management didn’t want to deal with the time she took off to serve in the Air Force Reserves, where she is a captain and “Hurricane Hunter.” While the channel’s former management, Norfolk, Va.-based Landmark Communications, embraced her role in the military, featuring her weather-related duties on the air, she said that started to change when the Weather Channel was sold in 2008 to NBC Universal and two private equity firms, Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group.
Video below is courtesy of our news partner Fox 5 Atlanta
“I don’t think it was so much they were anti-military,” Mitchell said after a news conference Monday at her attorney’s office, a couple of miles from the Weather Channel’s headquarters. “But we were taken over by outside companies that weren’t internally managing, if that makes sense. And so they never got to know some of us. Our managers weren’t meteorologists anymore, so I think it was just easier for them to feel inconvenienced than to look at the benefits.”
The lawsuit states that in March 2009, NBC News Vice President Elena Nachmanoff called Mitchell in for a Sunday meeting with a “hair consultant,” even though Mitchell had a military service weekend scheduled for months. It claims that Nachmanoff was “perceptibly angry” that Mitchell didn’t come in. After Mitchell missed a second weekend assignment for “makeup consultation” in June 2009, she was removed from “Your Weather Today,” which she had been on for four years.
Mitchell’s contract with the Weather Channel was not renewed in 2010, which she says was a direct result of her military service, which is a violation of the 1994 Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination or retaliation against service members because of their military obligations.
“In our business, those contracts are just renewed time after time, as long as their happy with you as an employee,” she said. “Georgia is a right-to-work state, there’s no requirement to renew anyone’s contract. But, just like new management couldn’t come in and say, ‘We don’t really like black people, we’re not going to renew their contracts’ — you can’t do that, you can’t do it for discriminatory reason. So, for the same reason, you can’t say, ‘We’re not going to renew her because she’s in the military.’ ”
Along with her attorney — Lance LoRusso, known for his work as legal counsel for the Georgia Fraternal Order of Police — Mitchell’s defenders Monday included representatives from the Reserve Officer’s Association.
Lynn Hogue, a retired Army lawyer who is now a law professor at Georgia State University, said no specific reasons were ever given for Mitchell’s dismissal.
“She had stellar evaluations,” he said. “What other inference could you possible draw than that the renewal was based on the inconvenience caused by her military service?”
Mitchell, who started with the Reserves 20 years ago just out of high school, said she filed the lawsuit not just for herself, but for those in the military who don’t have the same resources she does.
“It’s popular right now to say ‘We support the troops’ and ‘We’ve got your back,’ but if you’re going to say it, you should mean it. We need to make sure employers are doing the right thing, if not because it’s right, which is why you should do it, at the very least because it’s the law.”
While he didn’t say how much money they were seeking, LoRusso said that Mitchell is entitled to money she would have gotten had her contract been renewed, as well as attorney’s fees and expenses.
A Weather Channel statement said the company can’t comment on pending litigation, but that the channel and its owners are committed to creating an atmosphere in compliance with the Uniformed Service Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
“As with many situations, there is more than one version of what occurred,” the statement said. “We disagree with many of the assertions in the plaintiff’s press statements and intend to vigorously defend the matter in the arbitration process.”
The Weather Channel was started in Cobb County in 1982 and currently has 800 employees at its headquarters on Interstate North Parkway in the Cumberland area.
Bain has been under attack by President Barack Obama’s campaign recently because of its co-founder, presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, while Obama himself attended a fundraiser last month in New York that was hosted by Blackstone’s chief operating officer.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal - Weather Channel star I was fired for my military service
Sunday, April 29, 2012
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Japan has strongest non-tropical wind storm in half century
Japan’s Strongest Storm Since 1959 Slams Into Tokyo Region
By Chris Cooper, Kiyotaka Matsuda and
Stuart Biggs -
Apr 3, 2012 7:54 PM GMT+0900
The weather agency issued a tornado warning for the Tokyo area after the storm dumped as much as 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) of rain an hour in central Japan as it crossed from the southwest, with winds gusting up to 140 kilometers (87 miles) an hour. An 82-year-old woman died after being knocked over by the wind and hitting her head, national broadcaster NHK reported.
As many as 11,500 households have lost power because of the storm in Toyama and Ishikawa prefectures, Hokuriku Electric Power Co. (9505) said in a statement. At least 60 people have been injured in 17 prefectures, NHK reported, showing a golf driving range destroyed in Hiroshima in western Japan.
Sustained winds in Tokyo may reach 90 kph during its evening peak, Takeo Tanaka, head of the weather advisory office at the Japan Meteorological Agency, said in a telephone interview. That would make it the strongest storm to hit the capital since 1959, when Tokyo was buffeted by winds of 97 kph, data from the weather agency show.
“People should try to avoid going out,” Tanaka said. “It’s very unusual for Tokyo to have such strong winds when there’s not a typhoon,” he said, referring to the tropical storms that regularly strike Japan between May and October.
Grounded Planes
All Nippon Airways Co. (9202) and Japan Airlines Co. (9201), the nation’s two largest airlines, canceled 566 flights, stranding more than 68,000 passengers. All Nippon scrapped 336 flights, affecting about 38,000 people, the airline said in a faxed statement, while Japan Air (9201) canceled 230 domestic flights that had 39,500 passengers. Both airlines warned that international services may also be disrupted.East Japan Railway Co. (9020), the largest railway operator in the Tokyo region, canceled some trains due to strong winds, according to its website. Express services on the Chuo line, linking western suburbs with the city center, were scrapped, while regular services were running at 70 percent frequency, the operator said. Some expressways were also closed in the capital.
Leaving Early
Bullet train services linking Tokyo and Osaka were also disrupted, Central Japan Railway Co. (9022) said on its website.The weather agency issued warnings for waves as high as 10 meters (33 feet) on the northwest coast of Honshu and up to 8 meters along the Pacific coast hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami last year. After passing Tokyo, the storm is forecast to dump heavy rain on the disaster-hit Tohoku region.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (MOTZ) issued an advisory for companies to send employees home where possible to avoid transport disruption, the first time such a warning has been issued for a storm that isn’t a typhoon, a spokesman said.
Sony Corp. (6758) advised 16,000 employees in Tokyo to leave work early to avoid the storm, spokesman George Boyd said in an e- mail. Nissan Motor Co. (7201) ordered employees at its headquarters in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, and other facilities in Kanagawa prefecture (KANZ) to leave work at 2 p.m. today, spokesman Toshitake Inoshita said by phone.
JVC Kenwood Corp. (6632), also based in Kanagawa, sent workers home, the company said in a statement on its website. Fujitsu Ltd. (6702) said it gave 25,000 employees the option to leave work early, the company said in an e-mailed statement.
No Baseball
Professional baseball games were canceled in Yokohama, Tokyo and Saitama, north of the capital, Kyodo News reported. Some schools in Tokyo closed at lunchtime.Today’s storm, caused by a low pressure front that formed over the Sea of Japan, differs from the typhoons or tropical storms which form over warm water in the Pacific and develop into a cyclone with surface wind circulation, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Typhoon Talas killed 67 people in September, the nation’s deadliest storm in seven years.
“Usually the low pressure systems develops east of Japan but this is unusual because the low pressure system has developed in the Sea of Japan,” Masashi Kunitsugu, at the weather agency’s typhoon center, said in an interview. “It usually develops after passing the islands of Japan.”
Oil Refineries
The storm dumped heavy rain overnight on Japan’s southwest island of Kyushu before moving northeast toward Osaka and Tokyo.Cosmo Oil Co. (5007) halted oil barge berthing at its refineries at Chiba and Yokkaichi, west of Tokyo, Katsuhisa Maeda, a company spokesman, said by phone earlier today. The refiner may also stop loading and unloading barges at processing plants at Sakai, south of Osaka, and Sakaide on the island of Shikoku.
JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp., Japan’s largest refiner, stopped barge berthing at its Marifu refinery in western Japan, as well as its Negishi refinery in Yokohama, according to a company official who declined to be identified citing the company’s internal policy.
Idemitsu Kosan Co. (5019) stopped berthings at its Chiba, Aichi and Tokuyama refineries, spokesman Kei Uchikawa said.
West Japan Railway Co. (9021) canceled bullet train services on the Sanyo Shinkansen line between Osaka and Hakata station in Kyushu, the company said on its website.
To contact the reporters on this story: Chris Cooper in Tokyo at ccooper1@bloomberg.net; Kiyotaka Matsuda in Tokyo at kmatsuda@bloomberg.net; Stuart Biggs in Tokyo at sbiggs3@bloomberg.net
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