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Category 2 Earl Passes the Outer Banks, Heads for Cape Cod



Friday, September 3, 2010, 05:11 GMT



Hi, Dr. Rob Carver with your evening blog update. Earl continues to weaken, as he is now a category 2 storm. EarlAs of 11PM EDT, Earl is a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph. From the advisory, Earl is located at 33.8 N, 74.4 W, 115 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, NC and 570 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, MA. On average, Earl is currently moving north-northeast at 18 mph. Data from hurricane hunter flights show that Earl's pressure h...
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Welcome to Tropical Atlantic!
Where you can find model plots and reconnaissance data displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps.



Our site's features include a reconnaissance decoder for hurricane hunter aicraft with a live tracking system for Google Earth, hurricane model plots in Google Earth, a customizeable satellite page, decoded recon archive, distance calculator, satellite image overlays for Google Earth, media files from the NOAA-AOC, and various links to hurricane related content.


National Hurricane Center (NHC)

This is the official hurricane forecast center for the Atlantic basin. If you visit one site, this is the place to go to get the latest official information. When a tropical feature has reached depression status, the front page will feature what you need to look at. Take a look at the "Public Advisory" which will appear on the front page under the heading of the tropical feature for easy to understand language. The site also features the expected track of the storm.


2010 PREDICT and GRIP Projects

These two research projects have a lot of great data.

Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) - NSF / NCAR
Main: http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/predict/
Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) - NASA
Main: http://grip.nsstc.nasa.gov/


Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) Monterey Marine Meteorology Division: Tropical Cyclone Page

This is an excellent resource. It provides wonderful visible satellite images of current cyclones and developing disturbances. It has an incredible amount of other data. This is usually the first site you will want to visit to see if a storm is developing. Under the "Atlantic" heading in the left column, you will see something like "90L.INVEST," which is an area of disturbed weather that is being monitored. This is not something the NHC would be issuing advisories on, though you may see the area talked about in the "Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook" on the NHC's site. The NRL site, often referenced as the "Navy site," will usually have these areas of investigation listed before any other site. They do not always develop. When storm reaches depression status, then advisories will be written on the NHC's site. These areas of disturbed weather are numbered 90 through 99. When the number 99 is reached, we go back to 90.






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For 2010...



Alex
Bonnie
Colin
Danielle
Earl
Fiona
Gaston
Hermine
Igor
Julia
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter



If we ever run out of names again, like in 2005, we begin to use the Greek alphabet.






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