Interesting Story
I ran across this and thought you might like to see it. Apparently, researchers have developed a long-range hurricane computer model to forecast the activity during the entire hurricane season. The model uses wind patterns over much of the northern hemisphere to try and predict if the hurricane season will be an active one.These are exciting times in meteorology, and hopefully this will aid in the preparation process. But, I would caution you that seasonal hurricane forecasting is difficult at best, and generally doesn't offer much in the way of specific information.
Here's the article, check it out:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7574069/
posted by WTOK Weather Staff @ 5:38 PM
3 Comments:
Josh...you beat me to the article and website...very interesting info
Josh, what are these storms gonna do here at 2:30 in the morning when everyone is asleep. You know, those storms that are gonna stay north of Highway 82? Hope its not too bad.
Well, anonymous, they are going to stay north of Highway 82.
The storm that affected parts of our area was separated from those storms. It was formed because of an outflow boundary that those storms produced.
If you don't believe me, here's the satellite image:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/g12.2005111.1015_MGM_ir.jpg
I'll be the first to admit that no one expected that one storm to fire 150 miles south of the big cluster.
But, it wasn't "too bad" - it wasn't even severe. Thank goodness. You keep hours more strange than mine! Hope you got some sleep.
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