Posted on 08/28/2005 11:04:05 AM PDT by Howlin
If you or your family is in the path of Hurricane Katrina, if you would like to, please "sign in" here so that we can keep track of our people as this storm progresses, especially after the storm has passed.
Excellent idea, H!
She's just about perfect, isn't she?
And now she's annular.
His battalion has only been down there a week. What a welcome.
(philadelphia, pa) ;)
This is too cool, Spiff!
Excellent idea (the map)--thanks so much! Now we can see where some of our fellow freepers are.
Pretty spiffy there, Spiff!
What does annular mean in regard to a hurricane?
Hey sweet lady, you in the path of this thing? Hope you're ok!
I am in Indiana, so I am safe! Prayers up for all who are in harms way!
Prayers for the safety of all in its path. Thanks for this thread.
I am getting my kids secure, then i am going to ride it out. I'll let you know if I made it.
Two of wife's cousins in The Big Easy, plus beaucoup amis. We're watching closely but can't even get through since all ckts are busy.
Secured as best we can, 30 miles inland from Gulfport, MS. This one looks to be bad. Will check in and out as long as we have power. GOD watch over us all.
LLS
however there are times when hurricanes can reach continue higher then normal hurricanes and become Annular.This allows a storm to carry on getting stronger beyond the point where hurricanes would normally begin a EWRC event.All long lasting category-5's are likely to be Annular.Hurricane Isabel also became annular and managed to keep its apperance as one for nearly 24hrs.It lasted about 42hrs as a category-5(the 3rd longest in record)before finally weakening as upper atmopsheric condtions weakened the system.The strongest ever atlantic hurricane in terms of windspeed was the 1935 labor day hurricane,the only hurricane that had 200mph winds suspected with pressure down to 892mbs.To reac hthat strength I highly suspected it also had perfect condtons over it with hot SST's from the Gulf stream nearby and it probably was also Annular considering its pure power and deepness.Annular hurricanes are often called doughnut storms due to a lack of feeder bands and a large circle shape,also the main feature of these storms is the large outflow coming from all quadrants of the storms,showing that each quadrant was similar in terms of strength,another sure sign that Isabel was a Annular storm,here is the image of Isabel when she was Annular,notice those individual vorticies in there as well:
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/pub/goes/030913.isabel.gif
gator, are you sure? Are you directly in the projections?
Stay safe.
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