Neal Dorst discusses the 1926 Miami Hurricane with Channel 12 News in Palm Beach
The full story can be viewed at http://www.cbs12.com/weather/features/hurricane-guide/stories/hurricane_video/vid_79.shtml.
45th Anniversary of Super Typhoon Viola
Nimbus satellite picture of Super Typhoon Viola near its peak intensity On July 26, 1969, Super Typhoon Viola reached its peak intensity with 145 mph winds as it passed north of Luzon in the Philippines. It weakened as it moved south of Taiwan and was a minimal typhoon with 80 mph winds when it struck Guangdong […]
405th Anniversary of the Sea Venture’s hurricane encounter
Bermuda’s Coat of Arms and Motto On July 24, 1609 the English ship Sea Venture encountered a hurricane while en route to resupply the Jamestown colony in Virginia. The ship had recently been constructed for the specific purpose of carrying colonists and supplies, but it was launched before its caulking had properly set. Running into […]
Jason Dunion talks about Saharan air and the hurricane season with the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
The article and a video can be accessed at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-saharan-dust-vs-hurricanes-20140718,0,1390206.story
HRD Scientists brief NOAA Aircraft Operations Center personnel on IFEX 2014, MacDill AFB, FL – 10 July 2014
Intensity Forecast Experiment (IFEX) Field Program Director Paul Reasor and HRD Director Frank Marks briefed the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) personnel on IFEX plans for 2014 and HFIP progress. The presentations are available in a .zip archive on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2014/AOC_IFEX_brief_20140710.zip
HRD seminar – Bryce Tyner, North Carolina State University – 15 July 2014
Bryce presented a seminar on “ Sensitivity to the Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme for High-Resolution Simulations of Irene (2011) ”. Abstract Turbulent transport associated with large eddy circulations (LECs) in the hurricane boundary layer (HBL) are not well understood. With the rapid growth in computational capabilities, it is now possible to resolve these LECs and […]
Eric Uhlhorn talks about COYOTE drones in hurricanes with Fox 13 News in Tampa
HRD’s Eric Uhlhorn discusses the possible deployment of the COYOTE drones in hurricanes on Fox 13 in Tampa. http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/26014606/hurricane-hunters-new-tool-drones
520th Anniversary of Columbus’ first encounter with a Hurricane
On July 16, 1494, Christopher Columbus ran afoul of a hurricane while sailing south of Cuba during his second voyage to the New World. Having established a new colony on the north coast of Hispañola in April, Columbus sailed westward along what he thought was a peninsula of China for the next four months. After […]
HRD Monthly Science Meeting of July 2014
July’s Science meeting had 4 presentations: Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio: An Extreme Event in the Eyewall of Hurricane Felix Robert Nystrom: Storm-Relative Correlation Structures Joseph Patton: Extratropical Transition of Hurricane Sandy Robert Rogers: Deep convection and its role in RI The presentations are available on the anonymous ftp site at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2014/science/HRD_SciMeet_20140710.zip
HRD Debrief for missions into Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur – 11 July 2014
HRD researchers discussed the results from the 5 P-3 and 4 G-IV missions into Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur. The agenda for the discussion was: Missions Overview (Reasor) Science Discussions N42: TDR (Rogers/Bucci) N43: TDR (Aberson/Zhang) G-IV: TDR/ET (Gamache/Aberson) Field Program Issues Slides from the debrief are available at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/seminars/2014/arthur_debrief.pptx
