Posted on 07/09/2005 8:57:33 PM PDT by Archangelsk
Watching hurricanes in their infancy and being born is like watching a train wreck. You just can't avert your eyes. Here are a couple of satellite captures from MEOSTAT-7 (Meteorological Satellite) and POES (Polar Orbiting Satellite) Composite that show where the next hurricanes are being brewed. (You can already see the rotation being formed on the most westerly tropical wave).
METEOSTAT vice MEOSTAT.
When I was in the Azores I watched a hurricane (I think Humberto) go up the east coast of the US, come over us as a low pressure center (45 knots and some rain) head on over to Spain and then down middle western part of Africa and come back into the south Atlantic and then it hit the Caribbean as another named storm.
It was so odd that we saved the meteosat pics for a forecast study. As far as I know the pics are still in the Lajes weather station somewhere (I say as far as I know because this was in 1995-96)
pretty cool
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