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Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:53 pm to slackster
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Yeah that is true but you then have a southwest wind that pushes water out as the storm passes through. I was just trying to give him an idea of how little room for error there may be but that a storm that stays out to water is obviously better.
No worries, that's what happens when a structural guy (me) tries to rehash things he learned in hydraulics a decade ago.
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Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:54 pm to slackster
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Explain it to me like I'm 5.
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I click on Forecast Models, Global, GFS, then...?
Click GFS, then pick "Western Atlantic" for the Region, then Lower Dynamics, Surface Pressure
Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:54 pm to Tiger in NY
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your phone getting blown up
Yep starting about an hour ago. Now under hurricane warning
Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:54 pm to rds dc
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Click GFS, then pick "Western Atlantic" for the Region, then Lower Dynamics, Surface Pressure
Thank you kind sir. I figured the region was the thing messing with me, but I didn't feel like going through every option.
ETA: The fact that you have to select different regions to get different map options sucks, but on a free website I'll still take it.
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Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:55 pm to NorthEndZone
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Definitely intensifying...
You see the term "hot towers" thrown around a lot but that surely looks like legit hot towers going up in the eastern eye wall.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:55 pm to NorthEndZone
Yikes.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:57 pm to rds dc
What's a "hot tower"? Sounds like some sex position
Posted on 10/5/16 at 10:58 pm to rds dc
Humane Society here asking the public to shelter their dogs for the night 
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:00 pm to Tiger in NY
LINK
It's a sign of a hurricane intensifying. Basically a cloud expanding vertically due to increased energy or latent heat.
It's a sign of a hurricane intensifying. Basically a cloud expanding vertically due to increased energy or latent heat.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:02 pm to TennesseeFan25
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Additionally, consider what that must have been like before all of this early warning and weather tracking. You go to sleep one night and wake up to that kind of beast at your doorstep with no other warning. Holy cow...
Somewhat related to that. Anyone else ever heard stories from family members talking about the occasional "fall cyclones."
I have heard family stories passed down which include this reference. Always assumed it was referring to tropical storms/hurricanes.
Even as a kid it made me wonder about people being impacted by hurricanes without the benefit of radar, etc. Of course they were much more in tune with natures signs than we are but still that would leave very little warning.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:02 pm to Tiger in NY
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What's a "hot tower"? Sounds like some sex position
In the correct usage, it refers to an overshooting top in the eye wall. The eye wall is made up of a bunch of rotating thunderstorms, when the updraft is particularly strong, the cloud can rise above the anvil level (where clouds typically flatten and fan out). This is another sign that intensification is underway.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:02 pm to rds dc
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You see the term "hot towers" thrown around a lot but that surely looks like legit hot towers going up in the eastern eye wall.
For those who don't know what this means - like me
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A hot tower is a tropical cumulonimbus cloud that penetrates the tropopause, i.e. it reaches out of the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere, into the stratosphere. In the tropics, the tropopause typically lies at least 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) above sea level. These towers are called "hot" because they rise high due to the large amount of latent heat released as water vapor condenses into liquid and freezes into ice.
Hot towers are also known to form when a tropical cyclone is about to undergo an explosive intensification.
And quite possibly my favorite caption I've ever seen:
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Hot Tower in Hurricane Bonnie 1998. Altitude of clouds are exaggerated.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:03 pm to NYNolaguy1
Hot water vapor rises fast and freezes, and the static energy from this causes this "hot tower" plume? Is that the gist?
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:04 pm to Tiger in NY
and then you have Nicole
lol
lol
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:05 pm to slackster
Heck of a simulated IR image...
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:07 pm to Tiger in NY
GFS suggesting some Fujiwara action @ 102 hours.
Between Fujiwara and hot towers this thread probably needs an NSFW added to the title.
Between Fujiwara and hot towers this thread probably needs an NSFW added to the title.
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:10 pm to slackster
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GFS suggesting some Fujiwara action @ 102 hours. Between Fujiwara and hot towers this thread probably needs an NSFW added to the title.
Throw in some civil liberties chat and you can talk dirty to me all night
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:12 pm to slackster
We started with the Fujiwara maneuver and then finished in a hot tower
Posted on 10/5/16 at 11:16 pm to slackster
Some updated storm surge maps from the NHC now that we have the 11 PM EDT advisory:
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