On August 15, 1951, Robert Simpson flew aboard an instrumented B-29 into the eye of Typhoon Marge. Marge was a large tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds estimated at 115 mph (185 km/hr) during the flight. Simpson had flown into several Atlantic hurricanes by this time, mostly on what he called ‘piggyback missions’ on Air […]
August’s science meeting consisted of 7 presentations: Xuejin Zhang – “The 2016 Basin-Scale HWRF (HB16)” Alan Brammer (University of Albany/SUNY) – “Exploitation of Ensemble Prediction System Information in Support of Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis Prediction” Erin Dougherty (University of Albany/SUNY)- “Hurricane Bonnie (1998): Maintaining Intensity during High Vertical Wind Shear and an Eyewall Replacement Cycle” Sim […]
Altug Aksoy is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about Monte Carlo simulations and the forecasts of Hurricane Sandy.
On August 13, 1956, an Air Force B-50 made the first research flight of the National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP) into Hurricane Betsy. The Project had been organized by the U.S. Weather Bureau in response to the devastating 1954 hurricane season. Congress had authorized funding in August 1955, and the Project team had gathered at […]
On August 10, 1856, a severe hurricane struck the Louisiana coast, cutting a channel through Last Island (Isle Dernière) and destroying the resort there. The storm was first detected near the Dry Tortugas the day before. It crossed the Gulf of America and rapidly gained strength. There were no measurements of the wind, but some […]
On August 10, 1831, an extremely severe hurricane struck the island of Barbados. Its high winds and 17-foot (5-meter) storm surge collapsed buildings, sank ships, and killed about 1500 people. It also caused damage to nearby Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia before visiting destruction on Puerto Rico within two days. The following day it began […]
On August 9, 1871, a severe cyclone (probably a hurricane) struck Kohala on the northern tip of the island of Hawai’i. From descriptions in the press, it appears the storm approached from the southeast with the eye passing over the village around 10 AM local time. The storm simultaneously affected the island of Maui, thirty […]
Gilbert Clark, 93, long-time hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, died on Monday, August 8, 2016. Clark was well-respected among hurricane scientists for his forecasting ability and his willingness to mentor meteorological students. He was also well-known to the public for his often trenchant observations about hurricanes in newspapers and on radio and television. […]
The P3 hurricane hunter aircraft will fly again into Tropical Storm Javier. They will take off at 1:00AM central time from Harlingen, TX for an eight hour mission. The science objective of this flight is to collect data with the Doppler Wind Lidar instrument. The Lidar can collect wind speed data in areas of thin or […]
The NOAA43 aircraft is ready to fly in the East Pacific into Tropical Storm Javier. They will take off at 1:00PM central time from Harlingen, TX for an eight hour mission. The science objective of this flight is to collect data with the the Doppler Wind Lidar instrument as well as the launch unmanned aircraft called Coyote. Below […]
