Sunday, August 19, 2018: NOAA42: The P3 will fly an NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)-tasked operational mission into Hurricane Lane in the Central Pacific, with a takeoff from Honolulu, Hawai’i at 4 PM HST (10 PM EDT). Three HRD scientists will be on board. The flight track for this mission is shown below. The P-3 will […]
You can read the paper at https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0061.1.
Saturday, August 18, 2018: NOAA42: The P3 will ferry from Long Beach, California, to Honolulu, Hawai’i, in preparation for missions into Hurricane Lane. No HRD scientists will be on board. NOAA49: The G-IV will ferry from Lakeland, Florida, to Honolulu, Hawai’i, in preparation for missions around Hurricane Lane. No HRD scientists will be on board. […]
In the early morning hours of August 18, 1983, Hurricane Alicia made landfall at San Luis Pass, Texas, just southwest of the Galveston area. Its 115 mph (185 km/hr) winds slammed the high rises of Houston leaving billions of dollars in damage in its wake. Like many tropical storms that form during low-activity years, Alicia […]
Friday, August 17, 2018: NOAA42 will ferry from Lakeland to Long Beach, California, in preparation for missions into Tropical Storm Lane. No HRD scientists will be on board. ……………………………………………………………………. For the latest information about tropical cyclones and other weather systems, please visit the NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center. To access updates on IFEX and other HRD activities […]
Summary: When hurricanes become strong, they sometimes form a second eyewall around the main eyewall. This second ring of strong winds and heavy rain means that strong, damaging winds could cover a larger area than before. However, it also means that the storm might temporarily weaken. Understanding and predicting this process is therefore very important. […]
The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School highlighted HRD scientist Kelly Ryan. You can read about her science and other interests at https://cimasspotlight.com/2018/08/14/kelly-ryan/.
On August 16, 1943, information from an Army Air Force flight into a tropical storm east of Miami was relayed in ‘real time’ to the Joint Miami Hurricane Warning Center, and the information was used to update their analysis. This was the first time a center position of a tropical cyclone was ‘fixed’ by aircraft […]
On August 13, 1958, a team of University of Chicago scientists ran a computer forecast model on Tropical Storm Becky as the storm was on-going. Although not used for the official subjective forecast, the computer runs were a “proof of concept” demonstrating that Numerical Weather Prediction was possible for tropical cyclones. The team, consisting of […]
