You say ee-gor, I say eye-gore, lets call the whole thing off.
Below, a look into the eye of hurricane Igor, right down to the ocean surface!
For some perspective, here’s the entire image, not just the eye:
Click image for full-size picture. Warning: 1.5 MB 4,096px × 4,096 pixels. Image from the Aqua satellite, Sept 13th, 1641Z
Here are some other views, not as large:
IR: http://ggweather.com/igor/igor_ir.jpg
Water vapor: http://ggweather.com/igor/igor_wv.jpg
Meanwhile, all the track models at http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~acevans/models/ point to Igor not making landfall on the CONUS:
h/t to Jan Null at Golden Gate Weather Service http://ggweather.com
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When I see an eye that big I have to think of Marty Feldman … so Eye-gore for me. So much the better if this storm develops a hump (what ‘ump?)
“…what hump?!”
@Paul Coppin – I see them really well in the next comment’s video… WOW!
@richard Holle – Thanks for that YouTube, that is just amazing. The eye is so well defined. I love looking at images like this, as opposed to being in it. Though, as Kevin says, sorry Bermuda.
What hump?
Why not just call it The Orifice of Gore, the only calm place before the shit hits the fan.
“kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 14, 2010 at 1:46 am
Well now, there’s a bonanza for the off-shore wind turbines! Can’t wait to see the numbers as they harvest the energy from that!
(Are there environmental protection rules mandating the recovery of wind turbine debris to protect ocean habitat, going from wreckage on the surface all the way to the sea bed? Just wondering…)”
Had not thought of that one. Excellent point. Would be fun to see how fast those blades could turn before they took off for the Kennedy compound. Oh! I forgot, no turbines allowed within sight of there.
Eye-Gore is changing climate as it goes, making it’s own gravy.
The policy for combatting Hurricanes is the same as should be for all climate change: Adapt or get out of the way.
There’s a lesson to be learnt there.
Well I vote for EE-gore because I love Mizzourah and mules & donks.
Found some stuff on stratosphere warming some were wondering about a while back.
http://www.ozonelayer.noaa.gov/science/basics.htm
…Stratospheric ozone (sometimes referred to as “good ozone”) plays a beneficial role by absorbing most of the biologically damaging ultraviolet sunlight (called UV-B), allowing only a small amount to reach the Earth’s surface. The absorption of ultraviolet radiation by ozone creates a source of heat, which actually forms the stratosphere itself (a region in which the temperature rises as one goes to higher altitudes). Ozone thus plays a key role in the temperature structure of the Earth’s atmosphere. Without the filtering action of the ozone layer, more of the Sun’s UV-B radiation would penetrate the atmosphere and would reach the Earth’s surface…
We received 6″ of rain from the t-storm that went into Texas. Some north-bound armadillos went through too.
How could anybody that had anything to do with supervising the maintenance on wind generators allow them to be placed with in the distance salt spay would drift downwind from the sea is beyond me.
To place them out in the open waves is going to be a massive corrosion problem, that will shorten the usable life time more than half, not to mention the problems of the ever increasing constant maintenance preformed from boats tossing in the waves.
I have been involved in the ongoing maintenance of many types of electronics and motors, for many years, and I would not apply for the job due to the huge amount of stressful work needed to done soon. (Not a job for the Maytag mann)
It looks like a Sunspot….a Terra-spot!
rbateman says:
September 14, 2010 at 9:55 am
Adapt or get out of the way
There’s a lesson to be learnt there.
You are a sage, but they won’t like it, mommy taught them not to go outside to avoid catching a cold.
Too true, Blue . .
The rot on every piece of these medieval items will be astonishing within a year.
It looks like the piercing sight of the Other Gore, though his rosy cheeks are lacking.
kadaka & Jim G.,
I live near The Wild Horse Wind Farm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horse_Wind_Farm
You can walk upright in a wind that will shut it down. See the end of the first paragraph at the above link. They shut down at sustained wind speeds of 56 mph (90 km/h). That seems to be standard procedure.
http://www.suite101.com/content/wind-turbines-designed-to-operate-over-range-of-wind-speeds-a274396
“Cut-out speed of 25 m/s – a 56 mph gale-force wind
Braking System Stops and Parks the Rotor
At cut-out speed the generator is disconnected from the grid, rotor blades are pitched to feathered position (parallel to wind flow), and the braking system is actuated to stop and park the rotor.”
“John F. Hultquist says:
September 14, 2010 at 12:22 pm
kadaka & Jim G.,
I live near The Wild Horse Wind Farm:”
I have heard that the base of one of these wind turbines is a good place to collect eagle feathers. Any truth in that? The green people will not like that, but the less raptors the more sage chickens, something else they have not figured out!
Enneagram says:
You had asked about what the spring in South America would be like, take a look at the lunar tidal effect pulling air over the Andes, at the same time as the tropical air mass sweeps down the East side. In the USA the mixing of this rapid influx of the tropical air mass produces the peaks in tornado production.
It is in the lee of these high mountain ranges, the Andes and Rockies, that the lunar declinational effects are most noticeable, repetitive and assistive in forecasting severe weather that results. Scroll down for SA;
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_east_enhanced+12+-update+3600
Nice pic from yesterday for wallpaper use here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45770
Does anyone know the instrument resolution of the Aqua satellite? In the banner on the large image is has a “qkm” …whatever that means. I know, on Polar & Geostationary metsats, the Visible channel is 1km. Now, on the upcoming GOES-R, the Visible resolution will be 1/4 km with much faster normal update times.
Jeff
Richard Holle says:
September 14, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Thanks, I’ve just seen it crossing the andes in two points, at about -2 SL and about -12. These systems rarely cross the high altitudes of this mountain chain.
Enneagram says:
September 14, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Reply;
What I find most interesting is the transfer of the Pacific air mass over the top of the mountains from about -12 degrees to -30 degrees, these flows mostly only occur during declinational culmination when the extent is around 22 to 25 degrees, both on the down side like now, or on the upside of the increasing angle of the 18.6 year period.
This tends to increase the total zonal flow component of the global circulation, and may be one of the patterns to study, in the process of further defining the increase and decay of the polar vortex intensities.
Richard Holle,
Very nice video. Thank you!
I’ve been in the eye of a typhoon when I lived on Okinawa, back in the ’60s – beautiful, calm weather, cloudless blue skies! A lot of typhoons go through there, though I don’t remember any as strong as a Cat 4 (IIRC, 100 knot winds were considered quite strong).
As for eagle feathers, they do come down from time to time when hit by a turbine. But its usually with the whole bird. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe85OaacwB8
Its very sad. But greenies, like climate people have a religion about it. I mentioned it on a nephew’s post on facebook, and some guy comes back and says they’ve designed them to avoid that. I don’t see how they could. Solid rotating item hits bird at normal speed is going to result in very hurt bird. So I posted a link to the above video. Anyway, the video and the gif of Igor is magnificent.
E.M.Smith says:
September 14, 2010 at 5:01 am
I think the answer is no. New England was hit a few times in the 1950s which was toward the end of the warm AMO.
In general, we’re more impacted by nor’easters. Some bring lots of snow.
Fascinating picture.
Eyes that present multiple swirls like this, are indicative of the most violent hurricanes.
Sort of like the reverse of it smaller cousin the tornado: In the rare EF4s and 5s, you will see multiple suction vortices rotating at break neck speed around the center of the cyclone.
In this type of cyclone, in the violent CAT 4’s and 5’s multiple swirls or “vortices” can be seen within the real estate of the eye itself.
Interesting….though my my point may be simplistic here.
Regardless, Igor is a monster and a beast!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
A heads up from the pros, I just find em for ya.
this bouy should have rapidly building seas imminently and then get plastered late tommorrow
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41044