The NOAA Hurricane Hunters took off at 4PM EDT today from Lakeland, FL for their final reconnaissance mission into Tropical Storm Cristobal. Due to the asymmetric nature of precipitation in the storm, coordination of dropsondes and tail Doppler radar played an important role in providing adequate measurement coverage throughout the entire circulation. These data were […]
Tropical Storm Cristobal became the Atlantic Hurricane Season’s third named storm and has already produced damaging and deadly flooding in Central America. The system’s center emerged over water and quickly returned to tropical storm strength. Due to the storm’s location and characteristics, preparations were swiftly coordinated with the National Hurricane Center, Environmental Modeling Center, and […]
Check out the slides at ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/hrd/blog/seminars/2020/NHC_sUAS_June2020b_USE.pptx.
On June 2, 2000, President Bill Clinton declared June “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” The month was chosen to remember the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, NY. Patrons of a gay bar, Stonewall Inn, fought back against a police raid, sparking three days of riots. It is considered to be the start of the gay liberation […]
The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins today, and HRD has released its annual Field Program Plan in suppler of the Intensity Forecasting EXperiment (IFEX). IFEX has been developed in partnership with NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center and the National Hurricane Center. Its goal is to better our understanding and prediction of hurricane intensity change by […]
During his participation with Leadership Competencies Development Program, Rob Rogers was working with NOAA’s Budget Formulation and Execution Team, which received commendation from NOAA leadership. Ben Friedman, Department of Commerce Deputy Undersecretary for Operations states that the team has gone above and beyond to minimize and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 to NOAA’s budget. Despite […]
You can see the paper at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JD031647.
Summary: Radio Occultation (RO) is a technique used to gather information on atmospheric temperature and moisture by seeing how signals from satellites change as they travel through the atmosphere. This study looks at how RO data from a proposed satellite system might improve weather model forecasts of where hurricanes will go (called track forecasts) and […]
Multiple climate factors indicate above-normal activity is most likely Read the news at https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/busy-atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted-for-2020 or watch the video summary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD4wtMj73s. Hurricane preparedness is critically important for the 2020 hurricane season, just as it is every year. Keep in mind, you may need to adjust any preparedness actions based on the latest health and safety guidelines […]
Summary: Objects on land and the land itself cause wind to be weaker at the surface than above due to friction. In hurricanes, the strongest wind occurs where friction is no longer important, near the top of a region we call the boundary layer. Some people live close to the surface, but others live in […]
