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Last Updated: 12:28 AM GMT on November 15, 2009
— Last Comment: 11:16 PM GMT on November 14, 2009
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532. Weather456 10:28 PM GMT on November 14, 2009 Hide this comment. Quoting stormwatcherCI: Good evening, how are you feeling ? Heard you were sick . I'm still a little shaken but not stirred. The blog looks so unfamiliar. ****************************************************************************************  ****************************************************************************************  ****************************************************************************************  AOI  AOI Present Satellite picture ... Atlantic Seaboard. Florida to Nova Scotia Present Satellite picture ... Caribbean & Surrounding Islands Present Satellite picture ... Gulf of Mexico Present Satellite picture ... BOC, Western Carribean & Pacific Side Present Satellite picture ... Mid Atlantic, East of Martinique Present Satellite picture ... Cape Verde to Gulf of Guinea Present Satellite picture ... Large overall Coverage Weather in ORCA's neck of the woods (Pacific Northwest) Since the pictures are refreshed very often during the day, if you check often, ensure you refresh your cache, or the picture when you load it. Hurricane Hunter Pictures can be updated as often as every 15 minute. I can see this TS BUSTED FORECAST ALIBI being very well used next season.. or even this one :) **************************************************************************************** ORCASystems Critter and Weather Cam SWMBO Critter and Weather Cam Hancock Wildlife Foundation Live Streaming Video Cameras (Eagle Cams) ****************************************************************************************Tropical News of the Day Tropical Cyclones: Physics, Energetics and Mechanics Posted by: Weather456,11:24 AM GMT on October 25, 2009 Today I will present an overview of the formation, development, maturity, decay of tropical cyclones using the power of physics, energetics and mechanics, and answer some of those not so obvious questions. Why do we need warm sea surface temperatures? A pre-existing disturbance is always needed to initiate development, whether it is a tropical wave, tropical low, surface trough, upper low, or sometimes a frontal boundary and extratropical cyclone. We often here that cyclones need warm sea surface temperatures but why? I mean water is water regardless of the temperature. The main reason why we need warm sea surface temperature lies in the fact that warm water is more energetic than colder waters. Tropical cyclones need warm moist air and the only source of such air is from the ocean. Temperature is simply the degree to which molecules move and evaporation can only occur if water molecules can escape the sea surface and enter the air and in order for that to occur; you need the temperature to be high. How does a tropical cyclone cools the sea surface? A tropical cyclone's winds causes upwelling of colder sub-surface waters but there is another process by which tropical cyclones remove heat from the ocean – evaporation. Evaporation is the process by which water molecules change from a liquid state (water) to a gaseous state (water vapour). Now the molecules in the liquid state are bonded closer than in the gaseous form and this pretty obvious if you ever boiled water. Now remember when I said warmer temperatures cause molecules to move faster, well to get those molecules spread out from the liquid form to the gaseous form you need energy (heat of evaporation). The heat comes from the surrounding ocean, which is referred to as latent heat. (more) ....................................................... (read more) Record storm surges hit Mid-Atlantic coast Posted by: JeffMasters,4:22 PM GMT on November 13, 2009 Record storm surges have caused major flooding along the North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware coasts over the past 24 hours, thanks to the powerful winds of a slow-moving Nor'easter energized by the remains of Hurricane Ida. Norfolk, Virginia, suffered its highest storm surge on record last night, when a surge of 5.96 feet hit the Sewells Point tide station. The previous record was 5.62' during Hurricane Isabel of 2003, with the Chesapeake-Atlantic Hurricane of 1933 close behind at 5.61'. Last night's peak surge did not hit at high tide, and the storm tide--the combination of surge plus the tide--peaked at 7.74' above Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW), slightly below the 7.89' storm tide of Hurricane Isabel. ........................ (read more) ****************************************************************************************Links & Information ORCASystems - Bringing you the Power of Nature, this site will allow you access to this Blogs mirror site, in the event of a WU Failure, or if you just want quick access via a Internet webpage from Work. ORCASystems - Home weather Station Page SWMBO'ed - Check your Guns at the Door. The Ark: Sort of a Cyber Cafe, for some of the Funnier (aka. Stranger) people on the Blog. CatastrophicDL Blog ... Emergency Preparedness Planning Hurricane & Tropical Weather 101 ... Hurricane forecasting tutorial MetEd ... Excellent Weather Education Site, Free Experimental forecast Tropical Cyclone Genesis Potential Fields TROPICAL ATLANTIC ... e-WALL : THE ELECTRONIC MAP WALL Global Ships Locater Also check the Recommended Links: on the right hand side of this Blog. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions. If you have a link that would be helpful for people learning about weather, please pass it along to me. Check the Comments Section for the Daily Comedy.These Jokes Are Not Here To Offend AnyOne With All That Is Going On In This World If You Can't Take A Few Minutes Out Of Your Life For A Little Laughter Then You Need To Get A Life Use common sense if you are going to post a Joke, if you know someone who might be offended by the Joke.. then there is a good possibility that someone on here will be offended. If you post something offensive.. I will have to remove it and probably ban you for a day or two (worst case permanently).. 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