The official tropical weather thread 2020

[The_Honourable]

Sando getting a 2nd treatment

[bluefete]

I hear rain real falling in St. Julien and Penal.

[bluefete]

Trinidad and Tobago Weather Center
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A Riverine Flood Alert (Yellow Level) goes into effect at 11 PM tonight through 3 PM tomorrow for Central and Southern Trinidad.
Note that smaller streams and tributaries have already broken its banks across the island, including the Gandia River

[pugboy]

Raining hard in many places now, ground waterlogged
Runoff flooding likely But saving grace is we on a low tide now.

[2WNBoost]

Heavy rain, strong gusts and lightning in Petit Valley

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Lightning

[dredman1]

Tunapuna - real dark for 20 mins now. No rain but level thunder (and lightning)

Screenshot 2020-08-21 at 12.17.29 PM.jpg

thanks to maj.tom for the link to the lightning mapper
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis ... f_the_day/

What sector is that exactly. Not getting that loop when I click the link.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Tunapuna - real dark for 20 mins now. No rain but level thunder (and lightning)

Screenshot 2020-08-21 at 12.17.29 PM.jpg

thanks to maj.tom for the link to the lightning mapper
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis ... f_the_day/

What sector is that exactly. Not getting that loop when I click the link.

See below

GOES-16 satellite which has a lightning mapper module...

The link took some digging to find but you can actually access all these weather satellites now. GOES-17 and Himawari-8 too.
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis ... f_the_day/
Look on the left and you will see SLIDER links to the major hemisphere sats.

Then you have to zoom in, select Product (in this instance GeoColor), add overlay if you want (lightning is CIRA Group Energy Density). It takes a while to load. Use Chrome for best results. Then when you get the image loop on the screen at the speed you want, at the time step and # of images you want, you can click the download option and let it process as a gif. Your browser may seem like it freezes up, but don't click anywhere at all until it finishes processing. Then right click on the image and save it. Right click once and wait for the menu because it's a lot of processing...

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

In the latest sign of a climate emergency, two hurricanes are expected to hit the Gulf of Mexico simultaneously for the first time in recorded history next week. 'This is a very rare, very dangerous situation for the entire Gulf Coast,' said CBS meteorologist Ella Dorsey

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Duane I was reading about this in truth

https://www.livescience.com/two-hurrica ... exico.html

This is very serious, and could they merge into one and become a super hurricane? it is said that If the two storms get to within 190 miles of each other, they'll collide or merge into 1 megastorm. Not unlike how 2 black hols can collide and merge into one super black hole far more deadly and threatening.

But what can and will be done about climate change? some of the biggest polluters like China aren't going to do anything about it, even if USA and Europe went completely renewable energy would that stop it? highly doubt it.

These are the 4 biggest polluters in CO2 emissions

1 China 10.06GT
2 United States 5.41GT
3 India 2.65GT
4 Russian Federation 1.71GT

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Remember that movie..."the perfect storm" hollywood mc

[dredman1]

Tunapuna - real dark for 20 mins now. No rain but level thunder (and lightning)

Screenshot 2020-08-21 at 12.17.29 PM.jpg

thanks to maj.tom for the link to the lightning mapper
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis ... f_the_day/

What sector is that exactly. Not getting that loop when I click the link.

See below

GOES-16 satellite which has a lightning mapper module...

The link took some digging to find but you can actually access all these weather satellites now. GOES-17 and Himawari-8 too.
http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis ... f_the_day/
Look on the left and you will see SLIDER links to the major hemisphere sats.

Then you have to zoom in, select Product (in this instance GeoColor), add overlay if you want (lightning is CIRA Group Energy Density). It takes a while to load. Use Chrome for best results. Then when you get the image loop on the screen at the speed you want, at the time step and # of images you want, you can click the download option and let it process as a gif. Your browser may seem like it freezes up, but don't click anywhere at all until it finishes processing. Then right click on the image and save it. Right click once and wait for the menu because it's a lot of processing...

Darn - No wonder I wasn’t seeing it.

Thanks (and to maj. tom too)!

[killercow]

Imagine being struck by a hurricane...

and then less than 48 hours after, being struck by another hurricane...

I hope this scenario changes.
Hope for the best, cater for the worst...

[pugboy]

Stiff rain in pos

[ST Auto]

Raining in sando a couple hours now

[maj. tom]

Trouble on TX and LA coasts. Big trouble. (Katrina was 25 - 30 feet surge).

Hurricane Laura to trigger catastrophic storm surge of up to 20 feet

Forecasters said that storm surge of this magnitude posed the greatest threat to lives and property along the Gulf Coast, while also warning that time was running out to get to safety


Data from an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that Hurricane Laura is now a Category 4 storm, the first storm to reach such an intensity in the Atlantic basin this year. Laura's maximum sustained winds are around 140 mph. The storm is located about 200 miles south-southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Port Arthur, Texas.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurrican ... ura/799307

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Probably just ah lil rain

[sMASH]

some serious clouds over,,, lookin like fyzo or siparia or somewhere that direction. like one dread cumulonimbus

[redmanjp]

Probably just ah lil rain

maybe but we are into the peak of the season so storms go start marching across the ocean- the heat would give them fuel

[bluefete]

Sahara dust around for a few days.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Still there

[ST Auto]

We go get a lil rain

[screwbash]

it so dam hotttt. i feel we go get a earthquake soon.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

aye these days real nice eh, feels like dry season.

But when so we could expect rain? I need to plant a plum tree a common plum cause I just plant 6 governor a few months ago.

[cornfused]

Repeat after me Earthquakes are not caused by the heat of the sun.The uneducated who put that phrase into our speech should go back to a school, if they ever went.

The earth is made of different tectonic plates. When these plates shift they cause earthquakes.

[maj. tom]

Even if they had even a remote relation of causation, the "sun being so hot" is just local weather.

But they're not related. Scientists have collected a lot data with SOHO and other satellites and the USGS confirmed that there is no relation between solar activity and earthquakes. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com ... /grl.50211

[Gladiator]

Repeat after me Earthquakes are not caused by the heat of the sun.The uneducated who put that phrase into our speech should go back to a school, if they ever went.

The earth is made of different tectonic plates. When these plates shift they cause earthquakes.

Yeah I hear yuh.... but coincidentally when you hear one of them people say that... it does have a damn earthquake soon after... LOL

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[brickman]

Been getting some strong winds in pos all night.

[goalpost]

Place clear in Arima, but hearing thunder