Hurricane and Tropical Storm
Information
Hurricane Weather pages, updated 12/6/07
Current GOES 8 satellite image
Radar Loop showing coastal area from Georgia to Virginia.
National Hurricane Center, Home Page, has a new web site and server.
Radar Loop , showing coastal area centered at New Orleans, LA.
More than you ever wanted to know?
A lot of the hurricanes we experience come across the Atlantic boiling off the
coast of Africa with days to more than
a week to gain strength and be tracked. These storms take advantage of the
west moving North Intertropical
Convergence Zone and North Equatorial Current, lot of warm most air and warm
water to gain power from.
So looking upstream to see where these storms start can be
useful.
Always remembering that weather systems have no real beginning or end, since
they travel around the globe,
yet a lot of the moisture that we see moving off the west coast of Africa comes
from the Indian Ocean.
EUMETSAT
satellites, they are two, Met-9
at 0° Long (prime meridian), West Africa, and Met
7 at
057°E Long. These will give you a good view of of the conditions upstream
from Indonesia through the
Indian Ocean, over Africa and then into the Atlantic, and also cover all of
Europe. The EUMETSAT
system is to the Europeans as the GOES satellites are to us. If you go to
the EUMESAT
main link
you will find that the Met 9 images can be broken into sectors each covering one
ninth the total area
of the full disk image, close up views.
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