Dry Slot

Posted by: Bogon, 21:04 GMT le 05 juin 2013

It's only June, but already we have a blob to watch. Forecasts for the coming hurricane season are bullish, at least on the meteorological side. If you live along the Atlantic coast, or if you work for an insurance company, you may be thinking bear.

Most years I put up this tropical blog in August, when the hurricane season swings into high gear. This year I'm going to start early, mainly because I'm being lazy. There's too much going on in the real world for me to keep the rhythym going with my WU blog. Maybe things will settle down after a while, and I'll have excess CPU cycles for time sharing again. For now my plan is to sit back and watch the maps along with the rest of you. The majority of this page was cadged from last summer's tropical weather blog. I'll keep a weather eye peeled for newer information sources. Let me know if your favorite cool graphic isn't here, or if you find broken links etc.

These maps and charts are useful for tracking tropical storms and for evaluating your risk. You can click each image to visit the web site where the information originates.

National Hurricane Center

NOAA Satellite and Information Service
Tropical Atlantic Rainbow Loop (GOES 13 is operational.)

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Cooperative Institute for Meteororological Satellite Studies
Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC)
Total Precipitable Water - North Atlantic, Last 72 Hours

NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential
Depth 26°C Isotherm
NOTE: this image does not update automatically. Click for the latest edition.

Michael Ventrice
TRMM rain rates (shaded)
GFS 200hPa wind anomalies (vectors)
Kelvin filtered VP200 anomalies (contours)

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Infrared/200 HectoPascals Velocity Potential Anomalies

MJO
Forty Day Wheeler & Hendon Phase Chart

Forty Day Empirical Wave Propagation Forecast

Categories:Hurricane Forecasting Tropics

Updated: 03:10 GMT le 11 juin 2013

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The Porch of Indecision

Posted by: Bogon, 21:34 GMT le 11 mai 2013

Yesterday (Friday) I drove my mother-in-law to an appointment with her masseuse. MIL can still drive, but age is creeping up on her. She faces increasingly impaired mobility, which is one reason why she moved into an assisted living community this week. Three of her four daughters, including Wife, were involved in the move. Things have been a little crazy around here lately.

The appointment was in Graham, the county seat. It's not far. Graham shares...

Tiger Cat

Categories:Spring Destinations

Updated: 07:53 GMT le 28 mai 2013

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Flying Chaucer

Posted by: Bogon, 00:23 GMT le 02 avril 2013

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open ye,
(So priketh hem natu...

Spring Takes It Up a Notch

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Categories:Humor Climate Change

Updated: 22:38 GMT le 10 avril 2013

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Move to Amend

Posted by: Bogon, 14:28 GMT le 06 Mars 2013

From religion to politics: guess I just can't leave well enough alone.

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The Search for Inspiration

Posted by: Bogon, 15:25 GMT le 31 janvier 2013

In my never-ending struggle to keep things rolling here in the Dry Slot I've found that there are two ways to proceed. One is to sit by the keyboard and think. The other is to get up and go.

By now I have accumulated experience with both approaches. The first method is harder. It might not seem so at first. All you have to do is sit there and wait for inspiration to strike. Then with the hot idea burning a hole in your head, type it up, and Bob's yo...

Categories:Religion Humor

Updated: 18:03 GMT le 31 janvier 2013

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