{"id":9086,"date":"2010-11-12T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/12\/will-we-have-a-hurricane-named\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T23:23:21","slug":"will-we-have-a-hurricane-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/will-we-have-a-hurricane-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Will we have a hurricane named Moe, Larry and Curly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the current Atlantic Wide satellite image from the National Weather Service:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/satellite.shtml\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-4c3afad5d01f5ede9131c3f0c16b856d-vis-l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0ec31987e016ac60e4903cf59dd837a8-vis-l-thumb-500x214-58008.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-0ec31987e016ac60e4903cf59dd837a8-vis-l-thumb-500x214-58008.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look in the lower third, left side of this image, north of the South American continent, south of Haiti.  You can see a blob of clouds that, especially when you look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssd.noaa.gov\/goes\/flt\/t1\/flash-vis.html\">this animation<\/a>, is building in strength and organizing, and has a reasonable chance of some day becoming a tropical cyclone (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/have_atlantic_hurricane_season.php\">this is discussed briefly here<\/a>) .<\/p>\n<p>But while everybody is looking at that, what about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssd.noaa.gov\/goes\/east\/tatl\/flash-vis.html\">this?<\/a>  Specifically, that giant rotating low pressure system off the Carolinas.  Isn&#8217;t that impressive?  It is, of course, acting like a large extra-tropical low, and is doing nothing like one expects in the formation of a tropical cyclone.  But sometimes &#8230; things happen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of the old Three Stooges routine.  One stooge holds up his hand and says &#8220;See this?&#8221;  The other stooge looks at it and says &#8220;Yeah, so what?&#8221; And the first stooge whacks the second stooge on the side of the head with his <em>other<\/em> hand, saying &#8220;Look out for THIS!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the current Atlantic Wide satellite image from the National Weather Service:* Look in the lower third, left side of this image, north of the South American continent, south of Haiti. You can see a blob of clouds that, especially when you look at this animation, is building in strength and organizing, and has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/will-we-have-a-hurricane-named\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will we have a hurricane named Moe, Larry and Curly?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/p5fhV1-2my","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086"}],"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=9086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}