On September 11, 1954, Hurricane Edna was the right cross delivered to New England in the one-two punch of hurricane landfalls that year. Eleven days before, Hurricane Carol had struck the same area with high winds that had toppled trees and cut off power to thousands. Now Edna brought torrential rains that turned creeks into […]
Gus presented a seminar on “Intraseasonal Variability of African Easterly Wave”. Abstract African easterly waves (AEWs) and associated perturbation kinetic energy (PKE) exhibit significant intraseasonal variability in tropical North Africa during boreal summer. Since AEWs are seed disturbances to Atlantic tropical cyclones, oscillations in AEW activity in West Africa directly impact tropical cyclogenesis in the […]
Track of 1919 Great Florida Keys Hurricane On September 10, 1919 a major hurricane roared through the Florida Keys, causing considerable damage on land and havoc at sea. Prior to its Keys landfall, the storm had brought substantial damage to the central Bahamas with many buildings destroyed and people left homeless. After the Keys, the […]
LIFE magazine photo of Dora’s storm surge inundating the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine, FL On September 10, 1964, Hurricane Dora made landfall near St. Augustine, FL. This was the first hurricane landfall in St. Augustine during the era of modern record keeping. It was the second in a quartet of hurricanes to affect […]
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 8 P-3 and 2 G-IV missions into Tropical Storm/Hurricane Cristobal. The agenda for the discussion was: Missions Overview (Reasor) Science Discussions 20140823I1 Tail Doppler radar (TDR) (Aberson) 20140824H1 TDR (Rogers) 20140824N1 TDR (M. Black/Dunion) 20140824I1 TDR (Sellwood) 20140825H1 TDR (Jun Zhang) 20140825N1 TDR (Aksoy) 20140825I1 TDR (Sellwood) 20140826H1 […]
Drs. Rob Rogers and Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan (Gopal) attended World Weather Open Science Conference (WWOSC-2014) and presented results of their research. Gopal presented a talk on “Global to Local Scale Hurricane Forecasting System” and Rob Rogers presented a talk entitled “Convective and Vortex-Scale Interactions during rapid intensification of Hurricane Earl (2010)”. The conference presentations are supported […]
NASA MODIS satellite photo of Hurricane Frances at its peak intensity On September 5, 2004, Hurricane Frances, the second hurricane to make landfall in Florida that record-breaking year, came ashore at Sewall’s Point. Frances had followed Hurricane Charley in striking Florida by 23 days and was followed in turn by Hurricane Jeanne, hitting the same […]
As Hurricane Cristobal picked up its northward motion while passing east of Wilmington, NC a NOAA P-3 collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance (section 1) during an Ocean Winds and Rain experiment (section 4). Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Cristobal sampled from […]
As Hurricane Cristobal continued it northward motion east of Cape Canaveral, FL a NOAA P-3 collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Cristobal sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 aircraft during the evening of […]
As Cristobal reached hurricane strength and continued it slow northward motion east of the Bahamas a NOAA P-3 collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Cristobal sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 aircraft during […]
