OPERATIONS Thursday, 16 October 2014 G-IV: Is tasked for a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Ana. The aircraft will depart Honolulu at 1730 UTC and recover there about 8 h later. NOAA43: Is tasked for the 1130 UTC reconnaissance fix for Hurricane Gonzalo. The aircraft will depart St. Croix at 0930 UTC and recover in MacDill […]
The 3rd North Pacific Ocean and Marginal Seas (NPOMS-3) workshop was convened by WMO/IOC Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) to discuss the “Application of Regional Ocean Observations for Increasing Society’s Understanding and Forecasting of Typhoons“, 6-8 October 2014 at Japan’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) in Kyoto. University of Kyoto Graduate School in Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) was […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 15 October, 2014 G-IV: Is completing a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Ana. The aircraft departed Long Beach at 1730 UTC and will recover in Honolulu about 8 h later. NOAA43: Is in St. Croix preparing for operational reconnaissance missions into Hurricane Gonzalo. Thursday, 16 October, 2014 G-IV: Is tasked for a synoptic surveillance […]
You can read the article at http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article2684450.html.
On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel made its devastating landfall near Myrtle Beach, SC. Hazel had already ravaged islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas and would go on to wreak a path of destruction up the eastern United States and into Canada. It left over a thousand people dead and nearly 400 million of dollars […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 G-IV: Is ferrying from MacDill AFB to Long Beach in preparation for flights around Tropical Storm Ana. Wednesday, 15 October, 2014 G-IV: Is tasked for a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Ana. The aircraft will depart Long Beach at 1730 UTC (1:30pm local time) and recover in Honolulu about 8 […]
On October 12, 1974, an Air Force C-130 Typhoon Chaser plane, with its six man crew, was lost during reconnaissance of Typhoon Bess while over the South China Sea. This was the last such reconnaissance flight to go down in a tropical cyclone and the only C-130 to suffer such a fate. By most measures […]
October’s Science meeting had 2 presentations: Jason Dunion: Hurricane Edouard: TC Diurnal Cycle Jun Zhang: The spin-up of Hurricane Earl (2010) in a HWRF forecast The presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2014/science/HRD_Scimeet_20141009.zip
Roger presented a seminar on “Why do model tropical cyclones intensify more rapidly at low latitudes?” An audio recording plus the PowerPoint of the presentation are available on the anonymous ftp site: audio file: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2014/Smith_HRD_seminar_20141006.mp4 PowerPoint: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2014/Smith_HRD_seminar_20141006.pptx
Watch the episode at http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/09/specials/build-tomorrow/#hurricane_hunters.
