From October 9 through 15, 1780, a severe hurricane ravaged the eastern Caribbean islands and became the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. The storm was first detected when it began to affect Barbados on Oct. 9th, and struck with full fury near Noon of the following day. Winds were estimated by Dr. José Carlos […]
Dr. Joss presented a seminar “TCIMS: A New Technique for Remote Measurement of the Intensities of Tropical Cyclones”. Abstract: From the “Carnot engine” model for the global thermodynamics of tropical cyclones, as developed by K. Emanuel and his collaborators, one can derive a formula relating the central sea-level pressure, Pc, of the storm to the […]
The National Hurricane Center uses the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model to forecast where a hurricane will go, how strong it will be, how large it will be, and where the strongest winds are. This paper looks at how winds in the hurricane on the very small scale change and how these changes […]
On the morning of October 7, 1870, a devastating hurricane struck Cuba, bringing floods to the western end of the island. It then raked the Florida Keys with high winds, causing a large number of deaths. The storm formed somewhere in the eastern Caribbean Sea, but was not detected until it was south of Hispañola, […]
The paper can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD023107/full.
The G-IV hurricane hunter jet is in the central Pacific flying a synoptic surveillance mission. It took-off around 1730 UTC (1:30PM Eastern) from Honolulu, HI to fly around Tropical Storm Oho that is located south of the Hawaiian Islands. Here is the proposed G-IV flight track. The dots along the flight track indicate the dropwindsonde launch locations.
The paper can be accessed at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00093.1.
The G-IV hurricane hunter jet is over the Pacific and flying a synoptic surveillance mission. It took-off around 1730 UTC (1:30PM Eastern) to fly around Tropical Storm Oho. The data collected from this flight will go into our computer weather models to reduce the forecast uncertainty. Here is the proposed G-IV flight track. The dots along the flight track indicate the dropwindsonde launch locations.
On the afternoon of October 4, 1995, Hurricane Opal slammed into the Florida Panhandle. After days of idling in the southern Gulf of America, Opal had suddenly sprinted northward and intensified causing panic along the coast. The disturbance from which Opal formed had spent days drifting across the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea before forming a […]
In the early morning hours of October 2, 2005, during one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record, a weak Tropical Storm Stan came shore on the Yucatan’s Caribbean coast. Over the next several days as Stan moved slowly westward, it dumped heavy rains over Mexico and Central America and left a large death toll. […]
