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2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Re: 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Thats the funny thing about the internet: anyone an be an instant expert on anything.
 
Re: 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season

For you hurricane experts- question for you- how have the dust storms from the sahara affected the hurricane generation off the coast of Africa?

The reason I ask is that, 1) so far, all TD's have formed west of Puerto Rico, and 2) while in PR two weeks ago, they were still having dust from the Sahara darken the sky.

It was kind of wierd to see that- just this brown haze, which isn't normal for the area- Puerto Rico being so small, and constantly being "flushed" with wind off the coast.

While we were ther, too- there was a big "front" - can't recall what they called it, but it sat over the island and dumped a bunch of water. And that's been going on for the greater part of a month...

it was as if they were getting the rain from hurricanes, but without all the wind.

Strange.
 
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alfablue said:
For you hurricane experts- question for you- how have the dust storms from the sahara affected the hurricane generation off the coast of Africa?

The reason I ask is that, 1) so far, all TD's have formed west of Puerto Rico, and 2) while in PR two weeks ago, they were still having dust from the Sahara darken the sky.

It was kind of wierd to see that- just this brown haze, which isn't normal for the area- Puerto Rico being so small, and constantly being "flushed" with wind off the coast.

While we were ther, too- there was a big "front" - can't recall what they called it, but it sat over the island and dumped a bunch of water. And that's been going on for the greater part of a month...

it was as if they were getting the rain from hurricanes, but without all the wind.

Strange.
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1. It's still very early in the hurricane season. Typically, those "cape vedre" storms don't start developing until later in the season. dust coming off Africa will affect those storms as it infuses dry air into the system and breaks it apart. the farther south the dust storms go, the more it will hamper tropical system formation. Maybe I'm not too familiar with it but dust that far east is unusual, but then again, I'm not an expert in that sort of thing. (I wouldn't call myself an expert in anything really)

The rain that you are talking about, I will re-post from a weather blog I read that can explain that. This is info from that regarding what is now TD3.

Intensity Forecast for 97L
One factor potentially aiding development of 97L will be the Madden-Julian oscillation, which currently favors upward motion over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. The Madden-Julian oscillation is a pattern of enhanced rainfall that travels along the Equator from west to east. The pattern has a wet phase with large-scale rising air and enhanced thunderstorm activity, followed by a dry phase with large-scale sinking air and suppressed thunderstorm activity. Each cycle lasts approximately 30 - 60 days. When the Madden-Julian oscillation is in its wet phase over a hurricane-prone region, the chances for tropical storm activity are greatly increased.

That is briefly why it was so wet.
 
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Chickens@NU said:
1. It's still very early in the hurricane season. Typically, those "cape vedre" storms don't start developing until later in the season. dust coming off Africa will affect those storms as it infuses dry air into the system and breaks it apart. the farther south the dust storms go, the more it will hamper tropical system formation. Maybe I'm not too familiar with it but dust that far east is unusual, but then again, I'm not an expert in that sort of thing. (I wouldn't call myself an expert in anything really)
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Did you mean "that far west"? Otherwise you appear to be right on just about everything. When I lived in Florida, the dust storms didn't happen every year, but did happen often enough to not be unusual.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
His wife's name is Bonnie. So that must be part of it.
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The headlines are making the rounds of our friends. "Bonnie an Unpredictable Threat." Facebook bait. "Bonnie Lumbers towards the Coast." Um... I won't be passing that one on.
 
Re: 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season

It's hard to believe that it's been 5 years this week since I was headed to Ft. Lauderdale to cover a relatively minor storm named Katrina.

Driving north and west along the Gulf Coast after the storm battered South Florida, my cameraman and I were well aware of what we would face in the days ahead.

We were at the Holiday Inn on the beach in Gulfport the day before Katrina made landfall, but we evacuated to Mobile, which was bad enough.
 
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