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
A snap shot of Karl;
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/84/37928713.gif
lighting up the night life;
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/895/201009150222goes11visir.jpg
Now Julia’s up to a Cat 4, too! Unique!
The power of a storm depends on having a small, tight eye, not a big one.
Dumping heat is a bad thing. Warming is good for man and beast. Bring it on!
Cooling increases the contrast between tropics and poles, causing wilder weather. Warming reduces the gradient, and makes for bland weather and climate.
So Igor and Julia are signs that Catastrophic Non-Anthropogenic Cooling is under way (CaNAC)! “Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!”
Richard Holle says:
September 14, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I was wondering what would it mean as today it is showing (part of it at -14) a counterclockwise direction.(westward).
Enneagram says:
September 15, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Reply; at that time of day you may be seeing the primary pressure of the solar wind pushing the atmosphere ahead of it (if so will stop in late afternoon, and the moon goes over head) Just as the compressive pressure of the daily solar wind drives the trade winds East to West. The moon and the southern jet stream are both South of that position, making this possible.
If on the other hand if the moon is starting back from Maximum South already, it will cause a Northward flow up the lee side of the Andes, for the next few days, maybe it is starting already.
I’ll just watch and learn, most of my focus has been the USA and the NH by extension, with occasional glimpses South here when I notice big changes.
Thin warm water temps and wave height mixing? Sample depth 1 meter
Water temps;
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=41044&meas=wtmp&uom=E&time_diff=-3&time_label=ADT
Wave height;
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=41044&meas=sght&uom=E&time_diff=-3&time_label=ADT
Buoy ahoy!For you wave watchers, bets on will it make it through are being taken.
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/28/igor33markup2.jpg