Tag Archive for 'latent heat'
November 10th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:22 AM
Can you find where Tropical Storm Ida ends and the mid level disturbance begins? If you can’t, don’t worry, your not alone. The mid level disturbance last night completely captured Tropical Storm Ida, which is rapidly weakening with winds down to 50 mph. Ida is currently centered just off the Mississippi coast moving north [...]
November 9th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
4:03 PM
Ida has weakened significantly this morning and is now a strong tropical storm approaching the Mississippi/Alabama coast line. The influence of the mid level disturbance to the west is apparent as strong southwesterly shear is tearing apart Ida and quickly weakening the tropical warm core mechanism of the storm.
The model guidance this afternoon has [...]
November 9th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:35 AM
Another round of model guidance and another host of solutions to consider. To say the model guidance throughout the life of Ida and the disturbances over the Plains were not very consistent would be an understatement. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that this will not be the first time we’ll be discussing the [...]
November 6th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:20 AM
Tropical Depression Ida is expected to exit the coast of eastern Honduras by this afternoon and slowly move towards the Gulf of Mexico through this weekend. The NHC expects Ida to strengthen back into a tropical storm this weekend and move towards the eastern Gulf Coast by the middle of next week.
Aside from the [...]
October 5th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:24 AM
I’ve been studying the pattern and the clues that we are seeing now to get a handle on what to expect for the rest of October and there are some very interesting features that are developing this morning. So let’s dive right into it!
First this morning I went to go check out the developments [...]
March 25th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
8:30 PM
An area of showers over western Pennsylvania and throughout much of the Tennessee Valley. The showers are supported by weak isentropic lifting associated with a warm front moving towards the Mid Atlantic.
Clouds will continue to increase over the forecast area, however the majority of the rainfall will hold off until later tomorrow morning [...]
November 8th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
Hurricane Paloma has intensified over the past several hours into a strong category 4 hurricane, which will cause havoc for much of Cuba in the coming 24 hours. As we move through the weekend, Hurricane Paloma will weaken into a tropical storm and continue to move into the central Atlantic under the influences of a [...]
October 14th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
The main discussions for individual tropical systems like TD 15 and TD Nana can be found on the tropical weather page.
It is interesting to see how a lot of these tropical systems are tracking into the central Atlantic over the next several days. The transfer of latent heat energy from the Tropics towards the central [...]