On the night of September 4, 1995, Hurricane Luis roared over the Lesser Antilles, bringing destruction to Antigua and Barbuda. Luis also brought strong winds to Guadeloupe and Dominica and was the strongest hurricane to make landfall during the very busy 1995 hurricane season. Luis formed near the Cape Verde Islands and took a week […]
Midday on September 2, 1985, Hurricane Elena came ashore near Biloxi, MS. But it had been anything of a direct path. Elena’s track had many twists that had vexed forecasters and emergency managers all along the northern Gulf coast. Elena began as a disturbance in the deep tropical Atlantic, but hostile conditions prevented it from […]
On the evening of September 2, 1935, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States on record roared through the Florida Keys, taking hundreds of lives. It would’ve come ashore virtually unannounced except for the unprecedented flight of an American barnstormer in the Cuba Army Air Corps (CAEC). The storm was a record breaker […]
The unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk will not fly today. The flight is postponed. It could possibly fly tomorrow depending on Fred’s status. Stay tuned. In the meantime, have you seen what the Global Hawk looks like? Here’s a picture of it in its hangar.
The unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk is taking off at 7AM Eastern this morning from Wallops Island, VA and will fly over Fred. It will collect data over the storm for 24 hours. The Global Hawk is part of NOAA’s Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT) field campaign. It will launch dropwindsondes as well as gather data […]
Early on Sept. 10, 1965, Hurricane Betsy came ashore in Louisiana, bringing devastating flooding to New Orleans. Betsy became one of the most expensive storms up to that date, and it’s erratic path leading up to that landfall caused considerable consternation for the public, forecasters and research scientists alike. Betsy formed from an Africa easterly […]
You can watch the report at http://wavy.com/2015/08/28/scientists-send-new-technology-high-above-hurricanes/.
As Tropical Storm Erika passed south of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (see the black lines outlining the two islands near the top of of analyses) a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line) superposed on a […]
As Tropical Storm Erika approached Guadalupe (see the black lines outlining the island in the center left of analyses) a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. This P-3 mission coincided with the end of the first SHOUT Global Hawk mission into Erika. The figure below depicts […]
As Tropical Storm Erika was 350 km east of the Leeward Islands (see the black lines outlining one of the island in bottom left of analyses) a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. The figure below depicts the aircraft flight track (P-3: yellow line) superposed on […]
