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conceise = conscious .. I think..

Alex, thanks for serving.. Go Navy, beat Army.. again!

A VLCC full of birthday candles eh.. cracked me up Oz

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Nassau, Bahamas

Local Time: 4:15 PM EDT (GMT -04) Your time: 4:15 PM EDT (GMT -04)
Lat/Lon: 25.0° N 77.5° W (Google Map)

Current Conditions


Nassau, BS (Airport)
Updated: 46 min 42 sec ago
82 °F / 28 °C
Mostly Cloudy
Humidity: 70%
Dew Point: 72 °F / 22 °C
Wind: 5 mph / 7 km/h / 2.1 m/s from the SSE
Pressure: 30.04 in / 1017 hPa (Falling)
Heat Index: 87 °F / 31 °C
Visibility: 6.2 miles / 10.0 kilometers
UV: 5 out of 16
Clouds: Few 1800 ft / 548 m
Scattered Clouds 5000 ft / 1524 m
Mostly Cloudy 24000 ft / 7315 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 23 ft / 7 m


Hmmmm.... when the wind switches around to steady from the SSE, it's just one more sign that summer's on its way...

Storm i thought that the columbian heat low was permanent and stays there all year round.

Quoting StormW:


No. Just a flareup in the ITCZ due to the divergent flow aloft. The NHC hadn't shown any waves analyzed on the current surface map...another thing you'll notice...the Colombian Heat Low is gone. Don't know if this is temporary or not.

If the heat low is not there during hurricane season, then what?

RE: #96 and #125 -

Holy run on sentence Batman!

Seriously, Alexwhomever you are...there are 2 keys right next to "M" that you might want to consider making use of.

I found a very intesting little website for amateurs on weather, eathquakes, etc; although it may even be interesting enough for some of the experts. Take a look at it, it is really very informative and quite good graphics. Not as good as xcool's, but really good. Enjoy

Link

Thanks indianrivguy i am very proud to be serving the red, white and blue.

Quoting CycloneOz:


Carbon fiber construction, robust design, and ball bearings from hell!

The other qtn, of course, is why they haven't done that already.

I also remember seeing some comment about power outages being the reason why some stations stop reporting. But isn't it kinda... illogical... to make equipment designed to read severe wx dependent on external power sources?

Sorry greyelf i'm not that good with punctuation.

Grey,

Unfortunately he's not the only one... I could call some names, but the list would take a while to compile.... lol

Okay storm that makes sense.

Thanks Baha,

You will probably start seeing a little more of me around this blog in the next few months.

will check back in later.

enjoy your Friday afternoon.

Quoting seflagamma:


then you are a rare exception! lol

Been doing great; busy with family and garden and the other blogs. I just "check in" here every now and then in "off season".

In a sick sort of way, after last year's "nothing" year, it is sort of exciting to be gearing up with what could be another 2004/2005/1995 LOL

But us weather geeks are sort of "sick" in that way. LOL

Hope the regulars come back, though. It may have been a slow season last year, but fun nonetheless. It is always nice to welcome the "newbies" they often have a lot to offer, but it is nice to chat with old friends, and I use the word "old" in the most complimentary manner. Really does look like it shaping up to be active in more ways than one.

Quoting StormW:


You noticed the lack of development in the Caribbean in 2009?

If that is not there, look for the opposite.

It might come back.

www.eumetsat.int


Welcome to EUMETSAT

Wow patrap i didnt think anyone would post this at the beginning of april.

BAH!!!
96F again, no rain, thick haze and smoke.
Who is in charge around here? (11n61w)
grumblegrumblegrumble
BBL

I'm sorry pottery maybe next week?

Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential




SST's

patrap thats alot of potential energy already not good hopefully we wont get any in there.

Cycloneoz you think im him if you do you are sadly mistaken.

Quoting CycloneOz:
Sung to the tune of "Xanadu" by ELO & Olivia Newton John

A blog...of weather upon the sea
Of hurricanes that come to be
It's a necessity

But now
Refresh your screen to see
He's back and it's unreal
We're talkin' JFV

A thousand posts are flyin'
And there he is
A ban beatin' whiz
An everlasting pain
And you see with me
It's JFV

JFV. JFV
(we know you are here)
It's JFV
JFV, JFV,
(we know you are here)
It's JFV

JFV, your grammar and wording will shine
For you, JFV

Xanadu? Ralph, puke, vomit, etc....your words are better. But Olivia is still very hot..Saw her on the Today show.

Quoting StormW:


Let's hope. If you remember, most of the season last year we saw the yellow and greens near South America in the Caribbean...pretty brisk easterlies...follow this:

ECMWF

I see no(L) senor. Iz mui bueno. Verde nada.

Quoting CycloneOz:


The only reason I can think of that we do not yet have weather instruments that can withstand extreme conditions is that the market is too small.

Inexpensive plastic devices work fine for "normal" weather. Unfortunately (I guess,) the Earth is a wonderful planet that features day after day of "normal weather."

If our weather was extreme all the time, we would've designed and put to market super-WX stations that could withstand the extremes.

Good weather = inexpensively made WX stations.

Capitalism IS BOSS!

Good points, I agree. But it doesn't solve our problem of insufficent data, does it?

Maybe a "dataset" worth of the more expensive, sturdier instruments could be set up in the potential path of a landfalling hurricane? Sort of like an earthbound dropsonde.... that would be a compromise of sorts.

Link

link above is to my blog i have updated the tropical section check it out leave some comments as to what you would like added if anything

Aright guys i have to go but i will be back after dinner see ya and it was good meeting all of you!

Baha~ I think one problem of the portable PWS that you can leave in a storm is one step closer to being solved... At least for real time weather observations. That little WeatherPlug I've been testing is working out great. It's become available to the public today. It uses 5 watts & total replaces the personal computer needed to upload. One of those, a battery pack, internet & the sturdiest PWS you can find (the real expense) would be the best bet at the moment.

With this configuration & my Tycon which has everything on one stick..next time I've got to hunker at hurricane house..I'm probably taking the whole thing over there & putting it up. Unlike here, there is a battery pack & alot less trees to destroy it with..

The weather here around the Caribbean is just wierd right now.. the Columbina low has been weak all winter, we didn't get our usual NE trades so SST's are still REALLY high and we have mid-summer like moisture over the windwards.. if it were not for the shear from strong upper level easterlies I wouldn't be surprised with at a storm already...this season looks scary..all the boaters here are planning to head north..even ones that have been here for over a decade..

Quoting sailingallover:
The weather here around the Caribbean is just wierd right now.. the Columbina low has been weak all winter, we didn't get our usual NE trades so SST's are still REALLY high and we have mid-summer like moisture over the windwards.. if it were not for the shear from strong upper level easterlies I wouldn't be surprised with at a storm already...this season looks scary..all the boaters here are planning to head north..even ones that have been here for over a decade..

Yeah... Thats pretty spoooky. Has there ever been a winter with similar conditions?

Afternoon all.

Storm, you have WU Mail. I apologize for how much I rambled.....didn't mean to when I started lol.

Quoting Levi32:
Afternoon all.

Storm, you have WU Mail. I apologize for how much I rambled.....didn't mean to when I started lol.

Good to see you, Levi!

So whats the deal with the NOAA AOML site? They haven't updated the SST map in about 4 days.

Quoting SevereHurricane:


Good to see you, Levi!

You too, SH :)