On the afternoon of October 13, 1947, an Air Force B-17 aircraft penetrated a hurricane 415 miles (667 km) east of Jacksonville and dumped several pounds of crushed dry ice into the storm, just to see what would happen. This was the first attempt to modify a tropical cyclone by seeding it with freezing nuclei. […]
On the night of October 11, 1737, a severe tropical cyclone struck the port city of Calcutta (Kolkata) leaving an incredible trail of death and destruction. A storm surge was sent up the Ganges River, storm winds were felt 60 leagues (200 miles, 333 km) inland, and thousands of vessels were sunk. Initial reports from a […]
The Cyclone Workshop (1-6 October) provides a forum for discussions on current research topics in the field of synoptic and mesoscale meteorology. The Workshop is organized by and for researchers and operational meteorologists, and covers a broad range of topics including: extratropical cyclone lifecycles, global dynamics and energetics, severe local storms, tropical-extratropical interactions, tropical cyclone […]
OPERATIONS Saturday, 7, Oct. 2017 G-IV: The jet was tasked by NHC for a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Nate with a take off around 1:30 AM ET. This flight was canceled. NOAA42: The P3 was scheduled to fly an Analysis of Intensification Processes Experiment (AIPEX) research mission into Hurricane Nate. Take off was at 4:00 […]
NOAA’s hurricane hunter aircraft continue to gather data in and around Hurricane Nate. There are four flights scheduled for today; two for the G-IV and two for theP3. The first G-IV flight scheduled for 1:30 AM ET was canceled. The G-IV will fly this afternoon taking off at 1:30 PM ET. NOAA49 as the jet is also […]
Here are a few pictures of our 4 AM ET P3 flight crew during the Tropical Storm Nate mission.
OPERATIONS Friday, 6, Oct. 2017 G-IV: The jet was tasked by NHC to fly a synoptic surveillance mission around Tropical Storm Nate. This flight took off around 1:30 AM ET (0530 UTC) from Lakeland, FL. No HRD scientists were on this flight. NOAA42: The P3 was scheduled to fly an Analysis of Intensification Processes Experiment (AIPEX) research […]
On September 14, 1982, while NOAA42 was flying the first Synoptic Flow experiment, NOAA43 was taking the first Doppler radar readings from an aircraft in a tropical cyclone. The flight into Hurricane Debby was designed to fly several legs into and out of the eye, forming triangular areas where the radar scans would overlap from […]
NOAA’s hurricane hunter aircraft are set to collect data in and around Tropical Storm Nate. The G-IV took off at 1:30 AM ET. It will fly again this afternoon taking off at 1:30 PM ET. The jet flies around and ahead of Nate’s path. Its main goal is to gather data around the environment of Nate. […]
The G-IV jet is at it again. NOAA49 as its also called will fly around Tropical Storm Nate. This is the second flight for the jet in this series but the first one today. This flight took off at 1:30 AM ET (0530 UTC) from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, FL. It will fly […]
