{"id":8686,"date":"2010-09-01T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/01\/as-predicted-gaston-has-emerge\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T22:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:16:34","slug":"as-predicted-gaston-has-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/as-predicted-gaston-has-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane News and Coolest Pictures EVAH!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As predicted, Gaston has emerged from from the ITCZ as a named tropical storm in the eastern Atlantic. Unlike Fiona, Gaston will reach hurricane status, and in fact, there is a pretty good chance that Gaston will be a major hurricane. What matters, of course, is where it goes. In any event, formation of a hurricane and nearing land will not happen until Labor Day or later.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Earl, which during the night Thursday and early morning Friday will be turning with 100 knot winds off the coast of the Carolinas, is getting some special attention from NASA. Here’s a picture NASA published just a few minutes ago:<\/p>\n

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AIRS infrared image of Hurricane Earl on Sept. 1, 2010, shows the temperature of Earl’s cloud tops or the surface of Earth in cloud-free regions. The coldest cloud-top temperatures appear in purple, indicating towering cold clouds and heavy precipitation. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech <\/em><\/div>\n

In case you wanted to see wind speed and vector data from within the hurricane, we have that for you as well:
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MISR image of Hurricane Earl captured on Aug. 30, 2010. The left panel of the image extends about 1,110 kilometers (690 miles) in the north-south direction and 380 kilometers (236 miles) in the east-west direction. Earl’s wind speeds are shown in the right panel. The lengths of the arrows indicate the wind speeds, and their orientation shows wind direction. The altitude of a given wind vector is shown in color. Image credit: NASA\/GSFC\/LaRC\/JPL, MISR Team <\/em><\/div>\n

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And here is yet another image of Earl:<\/p>\n

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AIRS visible-light image of Hurricane Earl on Sept. 1, 2010. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech <\/em><\/div>\n

And, the coolest thing of all is this animation:
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Animation depicts a vertical cross-section of Hurricane Earl as seen by NASA’s CloudSat satellite on Aug. 31, 2010. CloudSat captured Earl’s intense cumulonimbus clouds and eye, along with cloud-free regions. The storm’s most intense convection and precipitation are shown in shades of orange and red. Image credit: NASA\/JPL\/The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University\/NOAA <\/em><\/div>\n

More information on the NASA products here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As predicted, Gaston has emerged from from the ITCZ as a named tropical storm in the eastern Atlantic. Unlike Fiona, Gaston will reach hurricane status, and in fact, there is a pretty good chance that Gaston will be a major hurricane. What matters, of course, is where it goes. In any event, formation of a … Continue reading Hurricane News and Coolest Pictures EVAH!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1190],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2g6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}