From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and “Earth’s thermostat”
A train of developing tropical low pressure areas stretch from the Eastern Pacific Ocean into the Central Pacific and they were captured in an image from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite on August 1. The train of five tropical lows include the remnants of Tropical Storm Genevieve and newly developed Tropical Storm Iselle.
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NOAA manages the GOES-West and GOES-East satellites. Data from the satellites are used to create images and animations from NASA/NOAA’s GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
System 91C
The western-most tropical low pressure area lies to the west of Genevieve’s remnants. That low is designated as System 91C. At 0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT), the center of System 91C was located near 12.0 north latitude and 167.3 west longitude, about 850 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. 91C has a low chance of developing into a tropical depression over the next couple of days.
East of System 91C lie Genevieve’s remnants. NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) issued the final warning on Post-tropical cyclone Genevieve on July 31 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT). At that time it was centered near 13.0 north latitude and 151.1 west longitude, about 1,255 miles east of Johnston Island. It was moving west.
Genevieve’s Remnants
At 8 a.m. EDT on August 1, Genevieve’s remnant low center was located about 500 miles south-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. CPHC noted the atmospheric conditions are only marginally favorable for its redevelopment over the next few days as it moves westward near 10 mph.
System 96E
Continuing east, System 96E is tracking behind Genevieve’s remnants. System 96E is another developing low pressure area with a minimal chance for becoming a tropical depression. The CPHC gives System 96E a 10 percent chance of development over the next two days. It is located in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,275 miles east-southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii. Satellite imagery shows the low is producing minimal shower activity. CPHC noted that upper-level winds are currently not conducive for development, but they could become a little more favorable in a few days while the low moves westward at around 10 mph.
Tropical Storm Iselle
Behind System 96E is the only developed tropical cyclone, Tropical Storm Iselle. Iselle is located east-northeast of System 96E. Tropical storm Iselle was born on July 31 at 2100 UTC (5 p.m. EDT). On August 1, Iselle’s maximum sustained winds were already up to 60 mph (95 kph). At 5 a.m. EDT (2 a.m. PDT/0900 UTC).the center of Tropical Storm Iselle was located near latitude 13.5 north and longitude 124.6 west. Iselle is centered about 1,160 miles (1,870 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico.
Fifth Area of Low Pressure
The fifth tropical low pressure area is east-southeast of Iselle. That area is a tropical wave that is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. That wave is located several hundred miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. The National Hurricane Center noted that environmental conditions are conducive for gradual development of this system during the next several days while it moves westward at 10 mph. NHC gives this low a 30 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression over the next two days.
How much heat does a “typical” pacific cyclone move into the upper atmosphere to assist in cooling the earth? Significant or not?
that’ll certainly cool things off…..
I wish they wouldn’t try to scare people and just say a “low”….instead of CYCLONE!!!
Lots of cooling clouds out there!
Bob Tisdale talks about this sort of stuff a lot. Are these systems close enough to the equator to give a boost to El Nino?
Reminds me of the Atlantic the year we ran through the alphabet
Like the ocean heat parasites they are, these systems are feeding off the dying remnants of Trenberth’s once-hoped-for Super ElNino. They transport the upper Sea surface heat via latent heat of evaporation and via convection transport and eject it as IR into space from the cloud tops in the stratosphere.
Sayonara ElNino 2014-15. We hardly knew ya’.
Gary Meyers says:
August 1, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Lots of cooling clouds out there!
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They’re much more than that. Each storm is effectively a heat escalator, transporting tropic heat skyward to be radiated quickly to space.
Check out the view of the pacific winds on the following link. They were much more impressive yesterday, I have been watching to see if the winds shift to help kick in the possible El Nino. http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-98.38,47.48,302
Sorry, Gary Meyers,.My response to you was very poorly, sent accidentally while under construction and didn’t convey what I wanted to say.
You are right, those are cooling clouds.
… poorly worded… dang, did it again. i hate this “new” small footprint keyboard.
also this is an example of a wavelet set on a large scale. just like the surfer learns to read much smaller wave sets coming in to shore in order to pick and position on a good one for a brief ride.
their formation needed the right ocean atmosphere interacting conditions, a warmer than average SST and the atmospheric kickup. the SST kick may be a ElNino upwelling remnant, and the atmospheric kick would be an Easterly trade wind strengthening. The latter is not favorable for more ElNino strengthening.
Alan, I’ve had those moments before as well. Keep laughing!
Have you sent this to Al? He would love it. With just a little bit of touch up, he could turn this into the spawning ground for his new and improved hurrmagedon! This could be just what he needs to resurrect his inconvenient truth.
If you look carefully thru http://earth.nullschool.net you can see about 12 low pressure systems streching all the way westward from the coast off Senegal to the Sea of Japan, almost 230 degrees of Earth circle!!!
Thin Air said:
“How much heat does a “typical” pacific cyclone move into the upper atmosphere to assist in cooling the earth? Significant or not?”
Not
Joel O’Brian said:
“[Storms] transport the upper Sea surface heat via latent heat of evaporation and via convection transport and eject it as IR into space from the cloud tops in the stratosphere.”
Ummm, if I may…-40F to -60F is not alot of heat to “eject it as IR into space” compared to what is at the surface. The tops of thunderstorms, especially tropical types (taller tropopause) are *COLD* not hot. The main thing these clouds do is wring out moisture and block the 80-90F heat at the surface from escaping to space. All the latent heat does is help the cloud to grow & wring out more moisture to fall as rain.
Jeff
Ahaaa!
So that’s where all the hurricanes were hiding………
We’re for it now….
Willis is there right now getting hammered and diggin it.
Willis, do you have internet? How’s it going?
Send pics.
Willis is far North of there! Vancouver to Oregon.
Beautiful image of the classic summer ITCZ releasing latent ocean heat atbthe tops of those storm clouds. A visualQQ reason this year will be an El Nada. All these storms are processing west with the prevailing trades, which have obviously neither weakened nor reversed, freeing ocean heat to escape as OLR as they go.
Joel O’Bryan says:
August 1, 2014 at 3:47 pm
Like the ocean heat parasites they are, these systems are feeding off the dying remnants of Trenberth’s once-hoped-for Super ElNino.
Rud Istvan said:
“[convection]…freeing ocean heat to escape as OLR as they go.”
no…convection *blocks* ocean heat from escaping as OLR. convection are areas of *low* OLR not *high* OLR. The cloud tops are COLD (-40F to -60F). Refer to my post just above.
All these ideas of latent heat and thunderstorms being ‘magical’ outlets of Earth’s heat needs to stop. It’s wrong and can be understood with a little critical thinking, basic knowledge of the atmosphere structure & understanding of Skew-T charts. Don’t let the colors of IR satellite pix fool you – the yellow/red of thunderstorm tops are COLD not hot.
Jeff
JKrob said, “Ummm, if I may…-40F to -60F is not alot of heat to “eject it as IR into space” compared to what is at the surface.”
Maybe not, but compared to space, it certainly is. Lots of heat at the surface of the ocean; almost no heat at the surface of the atmosphere — that’s one helluva temperature gradient for heat to roll “down”.
Steve Oregon says:
August 1, 2014 at 5:27 pm
> Willis is there right now getting hammered and diggin it.
He better not be – “I’m going north to be first mate delivering a fishing boat from northern Vancouver Island to southern Oregon.”
I recall that hurricanes leave a surface trail of cold water in their wake. If these things are doing a convoy across the Pacific, shouldn’t that take the steam out of the following systems?
Bye bye El Nino, really? Don’t these cyclones spin against the trade winds, thereby directly contributing to El Nino (pushing warm water east in the equatorial Pacific)?