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73º and rain...

Looks like NDBC will have to retrieve a wayward buoy, been drifting south Click here to see the latest position. (hint- copy the coordinates into Google Earth or Maps to see where it is now)

42035 went adrift on 09/13/2008 and the last report from its moored position was 1900Z. It is still transmitting valid observation data, which will continue to be reported here, but not from the location given above.

I hope you're getting some good sleep now Skye. Thanks for keeping us updated, hugs to yas and, as always, a special one for DF :)
You too Rain, thanks and hugs to wife!

Good Morning! (83.0°F)

An Ike wrap-up from The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA's Hurricane Resource Page, NASA Earth Observatory Natural Hazards, and ESA Earth Watching Today's Sat Pics O' The Day.






13 September 2008
HURRICANE IKE OVER TEXAS
Hurricane IKE made landfall at Galveston, Texas on 13 September 2008 at about 2:10 CDT ( 0710 UTC) as a destructive category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale with winds of 95 knots ( 110 mph). The image on the right used TRMM data captured about 4 hours later at 6:17 CDT (1117 UTC). It showed that IKE hadn't lost much of it's intensity. It was still a well organized hurricane with an eye that was clearly defined by TRMM's Precipitation Radar (PR) data. Large areas of moderate to heavy rainfall are shown surrounding IKE in the TRMM rainfall analysis


Hurricane Ike Attacks the Gulf Coast on September 12, 2008

NASA's TRMM spacecraft observed this view of Hurricane Ike on September 12, 2008 at 1035Z or 6:35 AM EST. At this time the storm was an extremely dangerous category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 90 knots (103 mph) and a pressure reading of 953 millibars. Hurricane-force winds were extending outward 120 miles from the center, while tropical storm-force winds extend up to 275 miles. Size matters when it comes to hurricanes. Larger storms produce a wider swath of wind damage and stir up the water that create a surge on a longer coastline. With Hurricane Ike, the wind field is exceptionally large and so is the destructive potential for storm surge. Surge flooding up to 25 feet is expected. The cloud cover in this animation is taken by TRMM's Visible and Infrared Scanner(VIRS) and the GOES spacecraft. The rain structure is taken by TRMM's Tropical Microwave Imager (TMI) and TRMM's Precitation Radar(PR) instruments. TRMM looks underneath of the storm's clouds to reveal the underlying rain structure. Blue represents areas with at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour. Green shows at least 0.5 inches of rain per hour. Yellow is at least 1.0 inches of rain and red is at least 2.0 inches of rain per hour.



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Hurricane Ike threatens the entire Gulf Coast on September 12, 2008. The blue region represents areas where the storm is dumping at least 0.25 inches of rain per hour and the green region is raining 0.5 inches of inches per hour. Yellow is 1 inch of rain per hour and red is 2 inches of rain per hour.



This image is the same as the above image with the cloud cover completely removed. The intense and far-reaching rain fuels this storm.



Hurricane Ike is an is exceptionally large storm. Hurricane-force winds extend outward 120 miles from the center, while tropical storm-force winds extend up to 275 miles




Hurricane Season 2008: Hurricane Ike (Atlantic Ocean)

CloudSat Scans Hurricane Ike Right After Landfall



NASA's CloudSat satellite's Cloud Profiling Radar captured a sideways look across Ike on Sept. 13 at 6:58 UTC (2:58 a.m. EDT), about 48 minutes after his eye made landfall in Galveston, Texas.

CloudSat didn't directly pass over the eye, but over the left side of the storm. The image shows that the section of the storm that CloudSat crossed over (the brightly colored red, yellow, blue and green clouds) is about 400km (250 miles) wide. Hurricane Ike. Click on thumbnail for full image. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Colorado State University/Naval Research Laboratory-Monterey In that section, the clouds extended from the surface to almost 20 km (~12 miles) high in the atmosphere, and these clouds were raining heavily everywhere, as shown by the surface signal that disappears (the bright white stripe at the bottom of the clouds). At the time of this overpass, the storm had just crossed from the ocean over to the land. This is shown by the blue line on the left changing into the brown line on the right just below the image.

The blue areas along the top of the clouds indicate cloud ice, while the wavy blue lines on the bottom center of the image indicate intense rainfall. Notice that the solid line along the bottom of the panel, which is the ground, disappears in this area of intense precipitation. It is likely that in the area the precipitation rate exceeds 30mm/hr (1.18 inches/hour) based on previous studies.


Hurricane Ike



Hurricane Ike was a strong Category 2 storm when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image at 12:05 p.m. CDT on September 12, 2008. The massive storm was already starting to pound the Texas and Louisiana coast with high winds and battering waves, even though the eye of the storm remained well off shore. The National Hurricane Center forecast that the storm’s center would come ashore immediately west of Houston late on September 12 or early September 13.

Ike had sustained winds of 165 kilometer per hour (105 miles per hour) with stronger gusts about the time this image was taken. The National Hurricane Center warned that the storm could intensify into a Category 3 storm before making landfall. Despite the strong winds, the real danger associated with Ike was coastal flooding and large, damaging waves. Ike could push water 20 to 25 feet above normal high-tide levels, burying coastal regions by more than nine feet of water as much as a mile inland, warned the National Weather Service.

The surge was expected to extend over a wider distance than usual because of Ike’s tremendous size, said the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane-force winds extended 195 kilometers (120 miles) from the center of the storm when MODIS acquired this image.

NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center MODIS Direct Broadcast system. Caption by Holli Riebeek.


Hurricane Ike (Atlantic Ocean), September 2008

hey Skye...5.2 inches of rain overnite with the 3.2 inches yesterday for a total of 8.4 inches and haven't checked the gage since 10 am...

10+ inches in the cellar...