WHERE HURRICANES, TORNADOES, LIGHTNING, BLIZZARDS, AND FLOODS ARE NO MATCH!
I’ve uploaded the preliminary draft version of the webpage from my Hurricane Hunter’s flight in August into Hurricane Bill. The link is below. Missing is more description about the Hurricane Hunters and the video. But I have uploaded photos and some commentary too.
2009 Hurricane Bill Hurricane Hunter Flight
Sun, October 4 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, tropical storm coverage, web updates » No Comments
South American trip to Chile might mean an absence from blogging
August 30th, 2009 at 6:46pm EDT
In just a few days I’ll be departing for an 11 day trip to Chile to take in some skiing and other adventures. I have never been to South American before and have no idea what (if any) access [...]
Sun, August 30 2009 » Jason personal, summer 2009, tropical storm coverage » No Comments
Unknown if I will be able to chase this tropical storm (Hurricane?).
August 25th, 2009 at 3:52pm EDT
Danny went from 92L to a Tropical Storm directly, skipping the Tropical Depression stage. This was in part due to the winds being high enough, but only was able to get the proper structure before it got it’s [...]
Wed, August 26 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, summer 2009, tropical storm coverage » No Comments
Hurricane Bill mission with the Hurricane Hunters from the US Air Force Reserve was great fun.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:16pm EDT
Aug. 23rd, 2009 at 5:24am EDT view out of the WC-130J (flying Jennie) left side rear window at convection is the distance.
I got a quick call and approval to cover one of the United States [...]
Mon, August 24 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, Press, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, summer 2009, tropical storm coverage » No Comments
National Hurricane Center has put a high likelihood of 90L getting upgraded to tropical depression status within the next 48 hours. Typically, when a system looks this good, and is upgraded, the system reaches this tropical cyclone (TD) status well within the 48 hours, but things are always based on statistics, so 50% is [...]
Thu, August 13 2009 » Hurricanes 2009 » No Comments
Did we just get punk’d for saying this system was going to reach Tropical Storm status?
August 12th, 2009 at 4:55pm
Well, thank god I realized it might just be a rumor….because the 5pm update (see partial quote below) shows that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) did not upgrade the storm. Here is a portion of [...]
Wed, August 12 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, summer 2009 » No Comments
TD#2 to become Tropical Storm Ana at 5pm according to a few reliable sources. Full blog shortly there after, with updates on the tropical wave behind future TS Ana.
Wed, August 12 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, severe weather coverage » No Comments