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Last Updated: 1:35 PM GMT on July 12, 2009 — Last Comment: 4:32 PM GMT on July 12, 2009

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Posted by: Orcasystems, 3:03 AM GMT on July 08, 2009

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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)

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Tropical Update; El Nino is here
Posted by: Weather456,12:04 AM GMT on July 12, 2009

Solid as a rock

There is a very deep layer anticyclone located over Northern Texas, with anticyclonic flow dominating much of the Southern United States. Water vapour imagery showed most of the moisture remains on the periphery of the high with drier conditions at the heart. This dry and hot weather pattern has been lingering for the past weeks with stations across the state reporting rainfall as low as 20% of average and temperatures 5F above average. No wonder they referred to it as the death ridge. The ridge is expected to linger over the area for atleast the next 4 days but shifting west between 5-7 days. Little moisture is also expected across the state for the next week which is not good news, since drought is exceptionally high across the state. The ridge is a normal feature of the subtropical summer as it moves north from the Eastern Pacific during June and early July. It is also a feature of the North American Monsoon Season.

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The 6 lost Hurricane Hunter missions, Part IV: Hurricane Janet, 1955
Posted by: JeffMasters,1:07 PM GMT on July 10, 2009

The only Atlantic Hurricane Hunter flight to go down occurred on September 26, 1955. Snowcloud Five, a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune weather reconnaissance airplane flying out of Guantanamo, Cuba, was lost in Hurricane Janet, 300 miles southwest of Jamaica. Snowcloud Five was part of the Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four (VW-4), based at the Jacksonville, Florida Naval Air Station. Carrying a crew of nine and two reporters from the Toronto Daily Star, Snowcloud Five took off at 0630 local time, and performed its initial penetration into Janet at an altitude of 700 feet. At the time of the crash, Janet was a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds. The aircraft sent back this transmission, then was never heard from again:

NAVY RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT 5U93, OBSERVATION NUMBER FIVE, AT 1330 GMT (8:30AM EST), MONDAY, LOCATED AT LATITUDE 15.4 DEGREES N, LONGITUDE 78.2 DEGREES W. OBLIQUE AND HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY 3-10 MILES, ALTITUDE 700 FEET, FLIGHT WIND 050 DEGREES (NE) 45 KNOTS (52 MPH). PRESENT WEATHER LIGHT INTERMITTENT SHOWERS, PAST WEATHER SAME, OVERCAST AND SOME SCUD BELOW, SURFACE PRESSURE 1,003 MILLIBARS (29.62 INCHES), SURFACE WINDS 050 DEGREES (NE), 45 KNOTS (52 MPH). BEGINNING PENETRATION. ......................................... (read more)

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