The official tropical weather thread - 2012

[hustla_ambition101]

There is an eerie still this morning though

[Hook]

it won't be anything super duper dread today...today's gloom before dawn felt the same as yesterday's IMO

[Hook]

What do u call a Tropical Storm without eyes?

Isaac

*tee hee hee*

K, so once we start getting westerlies, seas in the gulf gonna get a little choppy, but we're not seeing anything to suggest storm surges. We now starting to see some very mild westerly winds in Piarco.

There's a sigmet out for Isaac BTW. Invest 96L has a 90% chance of development and isn't Joyce yet (or even in our FIR for that matter) so there's no sigmet out for it yet...but soon.

The necessary updates, sigmets,, bulletins etc. will be issued when warranted.

[crazybalhead]

I implore you to turn any rain northwards sir. For your own good. Thank you. You have been warned.

[nervewrecker]

If that storm without eyes had a last name hu..n.............. uuummmmmmm........nevermind.

[Mr. Red Sleeper]

96L seems to be following suit.
Am i correct in my assumption?

[Hook]

No. There's a pic of the forecasted track on a previous page.

[Habit7]

Miami going to get though...

stay tuned to 24hr coverage of Wild Tropical Weather

[firstchoicett]

The wind is picking up in Couva.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

"SIGMET, or Significant Meteorological Information, is a weather advisory that contains meteorological information concerning the safety of all aircraft."

For those who didn't know

[eekipoo]

"SIGMET, or Significant Meteorological Information, is a weather advisory that contains meteorological information concerning the safety of all aircraft."

For those who didn't know

Haha good thing you clarified that, if not somebody on 2nr was going to interpret that as " Trinidad going and get hit by a storm or Tsunami"

[Hook]

"SIGMET, or Significant Meteorological Information, is a weather advisory that contains meteorological information concerning the safety of all aircraft."

For those who didn't know

Haha good thing you clarified that, if not somebody on 2nr was going to interpret that as " Trinidad going and get hit by a storm or Tsunami"

How is that even possible, right after reading the gawddamn information bulletin where it says we aren't?

[eekipoo]

"SIGMET, or Significant Meteorological Information, is a weather advisory that contains meteorological information concerning the safety of all aircraft."

For those who didn't know

Haha good thing you clarified that, if not somebody on 2nr was going to interpret that as " Trinidad going and get hit by a storm or Tsunami"

How is that even possible, right after reading the gawddamn information bulletin where it says we aren't?

Didn't you all have to release a separate statement recently just to say Trinidad was not going to be hit by a Tsunami or storm even though all the Informational Bulletins that were circulating said that it was not. Wait and watch it going to happen again. Bess you start to type it up from now.

[Hook]

boi! we better eh!

anyway, for the weather-savvy ones among us, u can get access to the upper air sounding data here in whatever format is useful to you
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Now, not that there can sometimes be difficulties with the launch and sometimes it has to be aborted. We had an okay sounding this morning.
The line on the right is temperature and the line on the left is dew pt. depression.
Note the heights where there are inversions (points of stability, though mild in this case) and where the two lines are closest kinda gives a rough indication of how moist the atmosphere is at that level (possibility of cloud formation).

[crazybalhead]

Hook, I'm confused, you mean you actually do something besides smoke cigs and look at drum tutorials on youtube whole day?

[Hook]

yes...I work hard for the money...however small the money is

[nervewrecker]

whats the blue units on the y-axis?

above that 10970 mark the lines usually get any closer? I dont really expect much moisture so far up there in most cases.

[TRAE]

Leaving north like now!

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

getting a little west wind here in Chaguanas

WeatherBug reports winds at Piarco are blowing from the WNW at 14 KM/h with gusts at 19 KM/h

[streetbeastINC.]

very calm east...Schiquito- mins from manzan..Arima was calm as well jsut came from there.was expecting at least some downpours.

[Hook]

^^^ I kinda glad we eh gettin' nutn...dunno if Diego could handle a reprise flood

whats the blue units on the y-axis?

above that 10970 mark the lines usually get any closer? I dont really expect much moisture so far up there in most cases.

oh shux sry...those are heights in millibars or hectopascals...starting from mean sea level
the 10970 etc. is actual height in metres (oh and yeah, not much moisture at those heights)

why I said we got an "okay" sounding is because it terminated early, around 240-something millibars (many times it terminates at pressures in the single digits - in excess of 30,000m/100,000ft), so there's no data up there, no tropopause level etc. and some winds are missing ...hopefully we get really good data 2nite

[Mr. Red Sleeper]

In every office theres an annoying "meteoroligist" as we all know.
Our 1st runner up for the distinguished title, just came into the office holding a copy of the above pic, still saying that " when the top band that by porto reeco right now, turns like all hurricanes do, he sorry for Tobago and the north coast. Diego an dem goin to get it tonight fuh shore shore shore!!!"


F!idiots

[rfari]

In every office theres an annoying "meteoroligist" as we all know.
Our 1st runner up for the distinguished title, just came into the office holding a copy of the above pic, still saying that " when the top band that by porto reeco right now, turns like all hurricanes do, he sorry for Tobago and the north coast. Diego an dem goin to get it tonight fuh shore shore shore!!!"


F!idiots

hey hook. can i haz this screenshot with a met office stamp on it please? bossman say i hadda come rell good to leave office today

[Hook]

No. It's not our satellite or our image.

It's just hot and cloudy up east anyway. Hardly any rain in Piarco all day.

[rfari]

[Mr. Red Sleeper]

WUK IYMC

lol

[hustla_ambition101]

At least today was cool

[rfari]

I cut out. Buh outside hot and humid jed

[SR]

everybody's weatherman

[crazybalhead]

^^^ I kinda glad we eh gettin' nutn...dunno if Diego could handle a reprise flood

whats the blue units on the y-axis?

above that 10970 mark the lines usually get any closer? I dont really expect much moisture so far up there in most cases.

oh shux sry...those are heights in millibars or hectopascals...starting from mean sea level
the 10970 etc. is actual height in metres (oh and yeah, not much moisture at those heights)

why I said we got an "okay" sounding is because it terminated early, around 240-something millibars (many times it terminates at pressures in the single digits - in excess of 30,000m/100,000ft), so there's no data up there, no tropopause level etc. and some winds are missing ...hopefully we get really good data 2nite

LOL...WUT???