Super sped up satellite feed of the entire hurricane season, with each storm named and its' path traced. Wow.
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Fixed. Thanks. It's worth it.
Holy shitfuck, there was a little comic relief there for a minute with those goofballs Harvey and Irene and then Katrina sort of wiped that smirk off my face. I was on the Delaware beach for what I can see now from that map was the effects of Ophelia.
Irene was especially interesting I think. I guess the colors in the Atlantic signify water depth? Or is it temperature? Probably amounts to about the same thing. Anyway, you can see it especially with Irene that there is some sort of trench (okay, I'm guessing but I'll bet that's what it is) off the coast that really protects the South Eastern coast (Carolinas, Georgia.) Irene builds up heading right for the coast, but as soon as it hits the shallow/cooler water right next to the coast it turns away.
Happens to a few others as well, but Irene is where you can see it. If you can blow up the video (in Quicktime go to View -> double size) you can see it better.
I'm assuming the colors signify temperature. The warm streak running up the Atlantic seaboard is the Gulf Steam. The colder water just sucks the power out of the tropical storms.
Another factor forcing the paths is the prevailing winds. In the temperate zones there's a west to east flow that pushes storms out to the Atlantic (rotation of the earth and such). In the tropical zones, that pattern is broken, allowing storms to zoom across the ocean.
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- jim 11-09-2005 2:49 am
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- bill 11-09-2005 3:04 am [add a comment]
Fixed. Thanks. It's worth it.
- jim 11-09-2005 3:07 am [add a comment]
Holy shitfuck, there was a little comic relief there for a minute with those goofballs Harvey and Irene and then Katrina sort of wiped that smirk off my face. I was on the Delaware beach for what I can see now from that map was the effects of Ophelia.
- jimlouis 11-09-2005 6:22 pm [add a comment]
Irene was especially interesting I think. I guess the colors in the Atlantic signify water depth? Or is it temperature? Probably amounts to about the same thing. Anyway, you can see it especially with Irene that there is some sort of trench (okay, I'm guessing but I'll bet that's what it is) off the coast that really protects the South Eastern coast (Carolinas, Georgia.) Irene builds up heading right for the coast, but as soon as it hits the shallow/cooler water right next to the coast it turns away.
Happens to a few others as well, but Irene is where you can see it. If you can blow up the video (in Quicktime go to View -> double size) you can see it better.
- jim 11-09-2005 6:30 pm [add a comment]
I'm assuming the colors signify temperature. The warm streak running up the Atlantic seaboard is the Gulf Steam. The colder water just sucks the power out of the tropical storms.
Another factor forcing the paths is the prevailing winds. In the temperate zones there's a west to east flow that pushes storms out to the Atlantic (rotation of the earth and such). In the tropical zones, that pattern is broken, allowing storms to zoom across the ocean.
- mark 11-09-2005 6:52 pm [add a comment]