Starting in July of 2006, the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) project ran a major field campaign, gathering weather and ocean data from western Africa and nearby waters. The main purpose was to document the inter-seasonal and inter-annual variability of the African Monsoon, where hot, dry air from the Sahara and warm, moist air for […]
In the July 1831 edition of the American Journal of Science and Arts, William C. Redfield published an article in which he proposed that the winds of an 1821 hurricane were circular in nature. While others before him had proposed that such storms were large vortices, he presented evidence of tree falls after the 1821 […]
On July 1, 1971, The Navy’s Typhoon Trackers (VW-1) were disbanded. In the wake of the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam, serious cutbacks to defense spending (the so-called “Peace Dividend”) led the armed services to scale down non-combat activities, such as weather reconnaissance. The Air Force still maintained their “Typhoon Chaser” squadrons, so the Joint […]
On June 30, 1991 the Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (the Hurricane Hunters) was disbanded. Economic pressures on the Air Force had forced it to cut back on non-combat activities, and that included weather reconnaissance. The squadron traced its origins back to the formation of the 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in 1944, when weather […]
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On August 27, 1976, NOAA’s new Orion P-3 research aircraft (NOAA 42) took off from Acapulco, Mexico and flew a mission into Hurricane Bonny. This was the first flight into a hurricane for this plane that had been acquired by the US Dept. of Commerce the previous year to replace the old DC-6 research planes […]
Sonia Otero, a CIMAS Senior Research Associate working at HRD was recognized by AOC for her software engineering leadership during the development of the Airborne Atmospheric Measurement and Profiling System (AAMPS), the principal aircraft data system used on the NOAA G-IV and WP-3D aircraft, from 2007-2016.
The purpose of the observation team meetings is to bring together the people who use observations in their research on a regular basis to discuss issues they’re having, provide updates on observations they’re analyzing or collecting, and any other information that may be of interest to the broader group. These meetings are also an excellent […]
On June 21, 1791, a devastating hurricane struck the western tip of Cuba. Torrential rains cause the rivers in Havana to overflow. Flooding was noted all the way to El Cerro. Nearly 3000 people were reported drowned.
On June 9, 1966, Hurricane Alma struck the Florida panhandle, making it the earliest hurricane landfall on the continental United States since 1825. Alma began as a tropical depression forming over Nicaragua on June 4th from an upper-level trough building down to the surface. It began to move northward, over Honduras and into the western […]
