sctvman Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Cantore is doing live reports from the Battery even though it is a sunny afternoon here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metagraphica Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Time sensitive. Watching the visible satellite loop here: http://www.aviationw...tiple&itype=vis Does any one else see the arc/semi-circle that moves through the clouds from the southeast to the northwest in the eastern half of the images? It's especially noticeable moving over the eastern part of N. Carolina but if you watch carefully it looks it is a full semi-circle and even looks like it impinges on the northeast side of Alberto. Gravity wave?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 So the motion between the 2 center passes is around 170° at 6 kts. Still heading SSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebreaker5221 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Time sensitive. Watching the visible satellite loop here: http://www.aviationw...tiple&itype=vis Does any one else see the arc/semi-circle that moves through the clouds from the southeast to the northwest in the eastern half of the images? It's especially noticeable moving over the eastern part of N. Carolina but if you watch carefully it looks it is a full semi-circle and even looks like it impinges on the northeast side of Alberto. Gravity wave?? It's hard to tell what you're talking about with an image that zoomed out. It's usually an outflow boundary when you see thick, asymmetyric single- or double-wave cloud patterns, especially when emiating from earlier convection. Gravity waves are generally associated with a cloud pattern with 3+ equally-spaced, almost symmetric waves, particularly before convective initiation. I only see outflow boundaries here unless I'm missing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metagraphica Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 It's hard to tell what you're talking about with an image that zoomed out. It's usually an outflow boundary when you see thick, asymmetyric single- or double-wave cloud patterns, especially when emiating from earlier convection. Gravity waves are generally associated with a cloud pattern with 3+ equally-spaced, almost symmetric waves, particularly before convective initiation. I only see outflow boundaries here unless I'm missing something. I see the outflow boundary from the T-storm on the Virginia - N. Carolina border. This was a much larger effect. I don't know how to make the animation go back in time or if it's available somewhere else...but I grabbed one screen from it and added an approximate arc where I was seeing it. Much easier to see it in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solak Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Nice catch on that arc, whatever it is. It's still visible on the WeatherTAP visible loop, and now arcs from the Tidewater area of VA down into SC. (don't know how to save the loop from there ) If it was an outflow, we didn't have anything noticible here in the area SE of Raleigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DopplerWx Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Just met Cantore on the battery, sun is shining and there is a nice breeze. Seemed to be enjoying his "field assignment". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Some thoughts on Alberto, getting the blog started up again this year http://philstropicalweatherblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/tropical-storm-alberto-meandering-invest-92e-might-be-a-player-for-the-east-pacific/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Not uch rain or wind. If it hit's Lan it will be a "What Storm" kind of like Don. Nice swirl in the clouds, looks pretty on te visible satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McGuirk Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Alberto looks like the ULL associated with a trough of low pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 One thing I noticed from here to GA is the number of buoys out of operation. Not good. partially due to the big gale in October 2011, but still it leaves a big gap in wave data/wind data to our south. Storm is making the arc now. Still very cool to see so early in the year. Hopefully this isn't like last years snow season this freak early event is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Solid. http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/products/storms/2012AL01/AMSUPLOT/2012AL01_AMSUPLOT_201205211353_TANO.GIF http://t.co/TOeeAhSB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Solid. http://rammb.cira.co...211353_TANO.GIF http://t.co/TOeeAhSB LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Still TS Alberto at 5... and I didn't know yachts helped NHC DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT CONFIRM THATALBERTO IS STILL A TROPICAL STORM. MAXIMUM SFMR-OBSERVED SURFACE WINDS WERE 37 KT AND PEAK 1000 FT FLIGHT-LEVEL WINDS WERE 39 KT. IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT SEVERAL YACHTS FROM THE VOLVO OCEAN RACE HAVE BEEN SAILING NOT FAR FROM...OR THROUGH...THE CENTER OF ALBERTO...AND HAVE ALSO MEASURED WINDS OF TROPICAL STORM FORCE. ONE OF THE YACHTS MEASURED A PRESSURE VERY CLOSE TO THE ESTIMATED CENTRAL PRESSURE OF THE STORM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isohume Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Looks like crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McGuirk Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Looks like crap. It is crap. People are having boating races into the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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