Yesterday I had to drive to PDX so I missed the very strong Hatch winds. But I dropped by the Hatch mid day to check out the wind just as the 10+ day fire went crazy just west of Stevenson and also made a lunge towards Hood River. From the Hatch I could see helicopters…
Below is an animation of the wind patterns of Hurricane Harvey on Friday Aug. 25 as modeled by the ECMWF.
SC Offshore Water Temperatures, Currents, and Fish Tim Kent 5/25/17 Spring is here, signaling the annual run of Dolphin fish off the Southeast Coast. This fishery provides a large economic impact to coastal communities and coincides with warm water from the Gulf Stream shifting over the continental shelf where it interacts with cooler shelf water….
So, San Diego isn’t exactly known for its wealth of wind. This is especially true in the summer. But today is an exception! Just how has this happened? We’re seeing strong NW flow across the far outer waters of the bight. There is high heat in the inland areas as offshore flow prevails. A…
Mysterious E/ENE undercut in spite of solid W/SW’rlys around Duxbury 5/9 Tim Kent 5/16/16 A day like many other spring days with Low pressure spinning well to the North of the region scheduled rotate a short wave through the region late morning or early afternoon. High pressure set up in the Great Lakes, producing solid…
Last week in my blog I made a tentative guesscast that strong NW wind would return this coming Sunday. I am sticking to my guesscast with winds beginning to build late this coming Saturday and peaking Sunday & Monday. In the top image you see the pacific as depicted by the GFS…
Analysis of WSW’rly Low Level Jet along the Long Island Sound the morning of 10/20/15 Tim Kent Forecast for the day called for moderate to strong SW/WSW’rly flow early on for much of the New England region, but with back door frontal boundary infringing on the region in the afternoon, potentially increasing clouds and chances…
Type Watch as a ring of hurricanes and former hurricanes corral the North Pacific High. Looking at the model animation you can see that a herd of hurricanes and former hurricanes curve past Hawaii and head towards the Gulf of Alaska. Without going in to details at this time let me just say…This is not…
Unusual hurricane pattens in Hawaiian and Cabo Verde Islands. Take a look at the animation below of the 4 hurricanes currently transiting Hawaiian waters south of the North Pacific High. Never in recorded history has there been 4 hurricanes at the same time in these waters. Meteorologically speaking having 4 hurricanes at the same time…