NOAA’s P3 hurricane hunter aircraft took off at 1 PM ET (1700 UTC) from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, in Lakeland, FL to fly into Hurricane Maria. In this mission, we plan to test and release an unmanned aerial system called Coyote. We also have a unique instrument called the Doppler Wind Lidar. This instrument uses laser […]
OPERATIONS Friday, 22, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: The P3 is tasked to fly an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Coyote/Doppler Wind Lidar (DWL) research mission into Hurricane Maria. Take off is scheduled for 1:00 PM ET (1700 UTC) from Lakeland, FL. Four HRD scientists will be on this flight. G-IV: No flights are scheduled. Saturday, 23, Sept. 2017 […]
OPERATIONS Thursday, 21, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: No flights are scheduled. G-IV: The G-IV will ferry back to Lakeland, FL from Barbados. Friday, 22 Sept. 2017 NOAA42: The P3 is scheduled to fly into Hurricane Maria with a take-off time of 1:00 PM ET (1700 UTC) from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Lakeland, FL. Three HRD scientists will […]
The jet will fly today and continue collecting data around Hurricane Maria. This flight is scheduled to take off at 1:30 PM ET (1730 UTC) from Barbados. Below is the flight track. The dots on the track indicate the dropwindsonde locations. The dropwindsondes measure pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and wind direction, twice a […]
OPERATIONS Wednesday, 20, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: No flights are scheduled. G-IV: The G-IV is tasked by NHC for a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Maria. This flight took off at 1:30 PM ET (1730 UTC) from Barbados. No HRD scientists are on this flight. Thursday, 21, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: No flights are scheduled. G-IV: The G-IV […]
Just a few weeks after Hurricane Andrew struck south Florida as a category-5 hurricane, the US suffered another devastating blow by a major hurricane, this time Hurricane Iniki in the Central Pacific Ocean. The 1992 central Pacific season was especially active, with 11 storms in the basin, probably due to the concurrent El Niño event. […]
OPERATIONS Tuesday, 19, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: No flights are scheduled. G-IV: The G-IV is tasked by NHC for a synoptic surveillance mission around Hurricane Maria. This flight took off at 1:30 PM ET (1730 UTC) from Lakeland, FL and will recover in Barbados. No HRD scientists are on this flight. Wednesday, 20, Sept. 2017 NOAA42: No flights […]
NOAA’s Gulfstream hurricane hunter jet took off from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, FL to fly around Hurricane Maria around 1:30 PM ET (1730 UTC). The jet will collect data around Maria to learn more about the environment that surrounds it. Below is the planned flight track. This flight will land in Barbados. The dots on the […]
On 16 August, 1977, a tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa. It wasn’t until nearly two weeks later that the wave developed enough convection and a surface circulation, and was designated a tropical depression in the middle of the Gulf of America. The system slowly moved west-southwestward, but rapidly intensifying into a category-5 […]
On 24 August, a tropical wave moved westward off the African coast, gradually becoming organized enough to become a tropical depression a week later almost 200 n mi east southeast of Barbados. Within 12 h, it became Tropical Storm Felix about 60 n mi south of Barbados. A period of rapid intensification commenced, and Felix […]
