OPERATIONS Saturday, 22 August 2015 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) research mission around Danny. Take off time is scheduled for 1730 UTC (1:30PM local) from Barbados and recovering there eight hours later. No HRD scientists will be on-board. NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly an operationally tasked Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) mission. This […]
On the night of August 22nd, 2000, Typhoon Bilis mad landfall on southern Taiwan at its peak intensity. Its 160 mph (258 km/hr) maximum sustained winds took over 70 lives and brought over US$650 million in damages to Taiwan and mainland China. Bilis formed four day prior to landfall east of the Philippine Islands. It […]
NOAA’s G-IV hurricane hunter jet is getting ready to take off from Grantley Adams Int’l Airport in Barbados to fly around Hurricane Danny. The proposed flight track is shown below. They will depart at 1:30PM local time and fly an eight hour mission around Danny. The goal of this flight is to capture as much data as they […]
OPERATIONS Friday, 21 August 2015 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) research mission around Danny. Take off time is scheduled for 1730 UTC (1:30PM local) from Barbados and recovering there eight hours later. No HRD scientists will be on-board. NOAA43: Is scheduled to fly a pre-storm ocean survey research mission ahead of Danny. […]
NOAA’s P-3 hurricane hunter aircraft will take off from Grantley Adams Int’l Airport in Barbados to fly a pre-storm Ocean Survey mission. The P3 will depart at 10:00AM local time and fly a nine hour mission. The proposed flight track is shown below. This mission will collect data to understand how the ocean and atmospheric play a role in the […]
Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX) Field Program Director Robert Rogers and HRD Director Frank Marks briefed the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) personnel on IFEX plans for 2015 and HFIP progress. Dave Jones from StormCenter Communications was also at AOC and presented ideas on how NOAA could use their geospatial collaboration tools during the field program in […]
OPERATIONS Thursday, 20 August 2015 G-IV: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL to Barbados in preparation for future missions into Danny. NOAA43: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL to Barbados in preparation for future missions into Danny. Friday, 21 August 2015 G-IV: Is scheduled to fly a research mission. Take […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 19 August 2015 G-IV: No flight missions are scheduled. NOAA43: No flight missions are scheduled. Thursday, 20 August 2015 G-IV: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL to Barbados in preparation for future missions into Danny. NOAA43: Will ferry from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL to Barbados in preparation for future missions […]
NOAA Hollings Scholarship recipient Joshua Wadler from the University of Oklahoma won the award for Outstanding Oral Presentation in NOAA’s Weather-Ready Nation Goal at the recent NOAA Science and Education Symposium in Silver Spring Maryland on 30 July. The Hollings Scholarship Program provides recipients with awards that include a 10-week, full-time internship position ($650/week) plus a […]
Early on the morning of August 17th, a major hurricane came roaring ashore at Galveston, Texas. It brought heavy destruction to a city still struggling to recover from the devastating storm which nearly destroyed Galveston 15 years prior. This second hurricane also tested the seawall built after the first storm. The second storm of the […]
