Piney Point lighthouse On August 23, 1933 a category-1 hurricane made landfall at Norfolk, VA. Its center travelled up Chesapeake Bay and caused a large storm surge up its tributaries including the Potomac River. Combined with heavy rains, $27 million in damage was caused, much of it in the Washington, DC area, and some thirty […]
Eye of Hurricane Beulah as seen from U-2 jet On Aug. 23, 1963, Project STORMFURY (a joint Weather Bureau/U.S. Navy hurricane modification program) carried out the first of a two-day seeding experiment on Hurricane Beulah. At the time Beulah was nearly a thousand miles southeast of Bermuda and heading north. Eleven aircraft carried […]
As part of the NASA/FIU Hurricane and Remote Sensing Summer Education and Research Internship Program HRD scientists briefed FIU students from Prof. Haiyan Jiang’s class on HFIP (Dr. Frank Marks), IFEX 2013 (Paul Reasor), NOAA Education Opportunities (Shirley Murillo), and use of observations to improve understanding and forecasts of hurricanes (Dr. Robert Rogers). The four presentations […]
On Aug. 21, 1873 the weather service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps issued its first warning for a hurricane. A long-tracking Cape Verde-type storm, it was initially detected by ship and warnings were posted from Cape May, NJ to New London, CT. Warning signal flags were hoisted at harbors and Coast Guard stations along […]
OPERATIONS NOAA P-3: Today, Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Our P-3, NOAA43 is currently flying over the eastern part of the Gulf of America to sample a cold region just northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula that is of research interest. NOAA43 will drop ocean measuring expendable instruments such as (AXCPS, AXBTs and AXCTDs) to sample the ocean. […]
Aug. 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Alicia on Galveston and Houston. Major damage was done to downtown Houston as the glass cladding of many skyscrapers was shattered by wind-blown debris. The hurricane ultimately killed 21 people and caused about $2.6 billion in damage making it the costliest storm since Hurricane […]
There were two presentations at the August Modeling meeting: Ligia Bernardet (DTC), HWRF V3.5 new release Weiguo Wang (EMC), New diagnostics for HWRF The two presentations from August’s meeting are available on the anonymous ftp site as a zip archive at: ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/blog/meetings/2013/modeling/20130815.zip
OPERATIONS Thursday, Aug 15, 2013 All tasked NOAA flight missions have been cancelled for AL92. We will continue to monitor the tropics. ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest information about tropical cyclones and other weather systems, please visit the NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center web site at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov To access updates on IFEX and other HRD activities via Facebook, […]
On August 16, 1943 information from an Army Air Force flight into a hurricane east of Miami was relayed in ‘real time’ to the Miami Hurricane Warning Center and the information was used to update their analyses. This was the first time that a hurricane ‘fix’ was used to inform meteorologists preparing warnings.
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