Tropical Depression Emily Reforms, Rain for the Bahamas
As of 11PM EDT, Tropical Depression Emily was located at 27.4N, 78.2W, 70 miles NNE of Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. It was moving north at 8 mph with sustained winds of 35 mph and a minimum central pressure of 1011 mb. No watches or warnings are in effect for Emily at this time.
Figure 1 IR satellite view of Emily taken at 1200AM EDT, August 7, 2011
The remnants of Tropical Storm Emily were recognized as a tropical depression after analysis of surface observations, satellite imagery, and Hurricane Hunter flights showed that Emily had achieved a closed circulation again. However, at this time, it is not expected to do much beyond raining heavily (1-3 inches, 6 inches in isolated regions) over the Bahamas. As Figure 2 shows, NHC forecasts Emily to move north and then sharply eastwards before dissipating as it merges with a front. The westerly wind shear associated with this front will be the likely cause for Emily's second demise.
Figure 2 Official track forecast of Emily.
As Figure 3 shows, the concerns for rain from Emily is justified based on past behavior. Satellite estimates shows that on August 4, 3-5 inches of rain fell just south of Hispaniola, with 1-2 inches falling on the southern Dominican Republic.
Figure 3 Satellite-estimated precipitation (mm) for Thursday, August 4 using the CMORPH techniques. Data provided by the Climate Prediction Center
If the situation warrants, we will have a new blog entry Sunday. Otherwise, we will resume the normal posting schedule on Monday.
Thanks for reading,
Dr. Rob Carver
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True!
Although the SAL is there, and pretty minimal actually, there is a pool of dry air associated with that and 92L will be hard pressed to find enough moisture to do anything over the next few days.
Just sayin', LOL....
Fire and drought are not good together. Hope you're not in one of the drought areas. We're under a burn ban and I've a National Forest north and west of me. Of course the house fire when I lost everything last November has me a bit fire-shy.
Please God no.
Lol...Don't get Neapolitan stirred up. :-)
Black smoke is indicitive of a petroleum products. Something you usually see in a structure fire, tires etc,.
Grey or white is wood, grass, etc.
A mix is both.
Black-black smoke is extremely dangerous for your lungs. If your seeing that stay inside unless you have an emergency.
GOTTA LAUGH. Getting 29 mph winds and 45 mph gusts here in Stuart, FL from thunderstorms and had just a breeze from Emily!!!!!!!
Steamy = white? That means sombody's putting water on it. Goes back to dark grey? That water is evaped; oils in trees and you're back to burning carbon.
Imagine the tailpipes of any 60s or 70s muscle car.
OMG....please be over Emily. Retire the name out of 2011's boring version.
He is right about this thick black smoke means somthing other then brush and or trees maybe a house fire?
Mucinex- our woods are pine and thick palm, and palmetto. They burn BLACK. Google-mapped the area, no structures, just woods. Just odd to have thunder on one side of me, and a fire on the other.
***reaches for Seagram 7***
Lol. Yeah, it is a bit early. But we haven't seen a big fishcast or the fishcasters so far this year. A little variety is always fun.
Besides, I think it was the GFS this morning had something going in at Cancun at 384hrs. So you never know.;)
Nobody came
Yep, pine in particular is a b!@ch that way. Still bad for you. Good luck!:)
The thought of drinking your own urine might be disgusting to some people, but one Texas town thinks it might be the best option in the face of one of the state's worst droughts ever.
Big Spring, Texas, home to the Colorado River Municipal Water District, will be experimenting with reprocessing wastewater produced by the town's 27,000 residents, according to Discovery News. Sewage that is typically fed into a creek will be captured by a plant the district has just broken ground on.
"We're taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water," district manager John Grant told Discovery News.
While the system will be recycling residents' urine along with other components of their waste, it's not nearly as direct as NASA's urine recycling system, according to Space.com. On the last shuttle mission, astronauts experimented with a Forward Osmosis Bag that processed astronauts' urine and sweat, creating potable water in microgravity.
When asked about that process, Grant told Discovery News, "I don't think I could sell that one."
However, with the continued drought in Texas, who knows what measures locals may have to resort to. Reuters has reported that the triple-digit heatwave that's gripping much of the U.S. has been anchored in Texas and has limited the state to just 40 percent of its normal rainfall for this time of year.
In addition, the lack of moisture on the ground has limited the area's capacity to create clouds, thus making daytime rainfall almost impossible, and perpetuating the drought.
According to the Associated Press, a U.N. climate panel plans to release a report in November examining the link between climate change and extreme weather events.
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Lol, that would be something. Julia actually attempted something similar last year, never made it though.
lol i would have to agree with this guy this isnt going to sell eaisly
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Why not? The Japanese are synthesizing meat from human feces. No joke. Once the Chinese get a hold of the recipe, beware of Walmart.
: )
It's kinda eeeeewwwww but great idea.
1938 Around here...
P~~~ 101 plus heat index here
Struggling with loneliness, well you are not alone, and yet you are alone, so very alone...
Actually that technology has matured quite nicely. That's what the astronauts on the International Space Station drink.
+1billion lol
May I suggest such advice should be in a private email?
But where does their water come from? Just sa...(never mind)
(edit: forgot the LOL) - LOL
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Noway; why? did their food supplies get that contaminated that they must go through such extreams.
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