An illustration visualizing the form of a space hurricane observed in 2014 satellite data. Image by Qing-He Zhang/Shandong University
March 5 -- About seven years ago, a hurricane churned high above the North Pole. Up to 500 tropical storms occur in the North Pacific Ocean each year - the biggest reservoir of tropical cyclones on the planet, among them Sandy, Irene, Tom, Katrina, and Patricia. Wind and rain adds force to wind-driven storm waves, and cold enough water in precipitation sampling rocksts effectively amounts to a cloud belt.
Geophysical-scale modeling from 2014 satellite data revealed a new feature of high-latitude cyclones over the North Pacific -- a convective 'merial circulation pattern. On a decadal basis, and more often than not for large Pacific Ocean hurricanes, this convection pattern simulates hurricane-force surges -- like the two sweeping Pacific hurricanes that battered the U.S. and Japan in 2011 and 2012 -- knocking an eye wall sealing off their enveloped domains.
A hurricane dragging an eye wall, or eye wall halo, underneath it during and after ascents. Image by Qing-He Zhang/Shandong University
March 12 -- New satellite data snapshot the 1700 shoreline locations of Japanese cities Ishikari (Magenta) and Aoba (Green). Also noted in (see ~15)
March 17 -- Although many climate-change proponents on social media made a lot of noise regarding the March 13 passage of the House International Relations Committee (HIRC) HR 3821, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SJC) HR 3839, the 2016 version of the Indian Ocean Treaty (IO) Facebook-page made a lot of noise capturing the Senate version of HR 3839 with this image [read our analysis]
PART 2: 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Climate Change or Just a Subversion of Biblical Natural Law?
January 25 -- The Atlantic—and most of the rest of the U.S. 's hurricane season—was blistered by a highly-varying low pressure system, currently forecast to grow stronger with potential for significant along the New England coast. Over a span of just ~1 week, Hurricane Irene is now out-pacing the number of days since the 2014 event. On the American coast, Shannon (Feb. 8, 1962) and Floyd (Feb. 23, 1988) claim the prize for the longest stretches without a active hurricane. If any Atlantic hurricane year before 2004 had just four or six named storms * ensemble members * passing through, recent years course-shifted the ratio to ~7:1.
Forecast alignment from 1959 - about 1 week before each
March 5 -- About seven years ago, a hurricane churned high above the North Pole. Up to 500 tropical storms occur in the North Pacific Ocean each year - the biggest reservoir of tropical cyclones on the planet, among them Sandy, Irene, Tom, Katrina, and Patricia. Wind and rain adds force to wind-driven storm waves, and cold enough water in precipitation sampling rocksts effectively amounts to a cloud belt.
Geophysical-scale modeling from 2014 satellite data revealed a new feature of high-latitude cyclones over the North Pacific -- a convective 'merial circulation pattern. On a decadal basis, and more often than not for large Pacific Ocean hurricanes, this convection pattern simulates hurricane-force surges -- like the two sweeping Pacific hurricanes that battered the U.S. and Japan in 2011 and 2012 -- knocking an eye wall sealing off their enveloped domains.
A hurricane dragging an eye wall, or eye wall halo, underneath it during and after ascents. Image by Qing-He Zhang/Shandong University
March 12 -- New satellite data snapshot the 1700 shoreline locations of Japanese cities Ishikari (Magenta) and Aoba (Green). Also noted in (see ~15)
March 17 -- Although many climate-change proponents on social media made a lot of noise regarding the March 13 passage of the House International Relations Committee (HIRC) HR 3821, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SJC) HR 3839, the 2016 version of the Indian Ocean Treaty (IO) Facebook-page made a lot of noise capturing the Senate version of HR 3839 with this image [read our analysis]
PART 2: 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Climate Change or Just a Subversion of Biblical Natural Law?
January 25 -- The Atlantic—and most of the rest of the U.S. 's hurricane season—was blistered by a highly-varying low pressure system, currently forecast to grow stronger with potential for significant along the New England coast. Over a span of just ~1 week, Hurricane Irene is now out-pacing the number of days since the 2014 event. On the American coast, Shannon (Feb. 8, 1962) and Floyd (Feb. 23, 1988) claim the prize for the longest stretches without a active hurricane. If any Atlantic hurricane year before 2004 had just four or six named storms * ensemble members * passing through, recent years course-shifted the ratio to ~7:1.
Forecast alignment from 1959 - about 1 week before each
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