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Do you have a saved weather images folder?


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I save most stuff to my desktop to post then delete it, but I've gathered a random collection over the years. I'm sure I deleted some great stuff too.. seems I saved mostly hurricane, t-storm, snowstorm imagery -- models/sat/radar/etc.

Some of it is the obvious stuff, some is really random. Here's a selection.. I'll return with others later.

I'll start with random instead of the big ticket stuff, my collection really starts in 2004.. guess that's when I started being good about saving stuff.

Hermine (2004)

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June 4, 2005

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Early Ernesto track (2006)

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Light snow in ORH -- WHY? (2007)

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Olga (2008)

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Shuttle launch (2009)

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Hermine -- why not again (2010)

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Fires in Mid-Atl (2011)

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This just might be the farther east a TC or STC has ever occurred in the SPAC basin. 130W!

The POES images I have of this are from 2-5 APR and were created in 2002 from an HRPT reader but I'm not sure this is the year the cyclone formed. IIRC this storm affected Pitcairn Island. It looks like it's well into the XT transition process here, but you can still see a pretty concentrated. well-organized central convective mass. After another couple days, the convection was waned and was stipped away, leaving a very tightly wound naked vortex.

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I found a neat writeup on the above system....it actually had a life as far east as 124.0W! Unfreakingbelievable!!!

http://www.australia...03/summ0210.htm

SOUTHEAST PACIFIC CYCLONE OF APRIL, 2002

A cyclonic storm system formed in the Southeast Pacific in the

vicinity of Pitcairn Island in early April, 2002. No tropical or

subtropical cyclone warnings were issued on this system, although

the New Zealand Meteorological Service did issue gale warnings in

association with the LOW. The system was accompanied by some

organized deep convection and at one point somewhat resembled a

subtropical or even tropical cyclone. The author was present in

several discussions at the AMS Hurricane and Tropical Meteorology

Conference in San Diego in which the system was referred to as

"the unnamed Southeast Pacific tropical cyclone" in early April.

I later asked Dr. Karl Hoarau of Cergy-Pontoise University near

Paris, who has had considerable experience in working with Dvorak

analysis, to see if he could locate some images of the storm and

render an opinion regarding its intensity and classification. Karl

sent me the results of his analysis and a track for the cyclone

several months ago. These are included below following a brief

synoptic history of the cyclone. A special thanks to Karl for taking

time to study the storm.

A weak LOW was located approximately 325 nm east of Pitcairn Island

around 1800 UTC on 31 March. The system moved slowly southwestward

and gradually intensified with winds reaching gale force (1-min avg)

around 1800 UTC on 2 April when it was centered about 225 nm south of

Pitcairn. Motion then became southerly, and the system reached its

peak intensity of 55 kts at 1800 UTC on 3 April when located about

400 nm south of Pitcairn. It subsequently moved southwestward and

weakened quickly. (All the intensities referred to above were taken

from Karl's track.) Following is Karl's discussion of the cyclone

(slightly revised and edited):

"This tropical cyclone formed from an upper trough related to a cold

front. Despite a moderate northerly vertical wind shear, the stage of

tropical depression was reached on the morning of April 1st. The

depression was moving southwestward at 7 kts. The satellite picture

showed a fully-exposed LLCC situated 0.5 deg north of the overcast with

outflow good on the western side of the tropical depression. During

the night of April 2nd, the shear increased and the distance between

the LLCC and the CDO reached 0.8 deg. As a result, the MSW diminished

to 25 kts. Under the influence of the subtropical ridge, the depression

was moving west-southwestward at 11 kts. In the afternoon, the shear

lessened a little and the intensification resumed. So, the minimal

tropical storm intensity of 35 kts was reached at 1800 UTC. The storm

still had a shear pattern with a fully-exposed LLCC located 0.3 deg west-

northwest of a 110 nm diameter CDO. The cloud top temperatures were in

the range of -60 C to -66 C. The tropical storm had by then curved its

track towards the south at 4 kts. QuikScat data showed winds of 40 kts

on the morning of April 3rd. In the evening, the maximum intensity of

55 kts was reached when the storm was centered near 31S, 130W, over SSTs

of around 26 C. The convection had expanded and the LLCC was located

0.5 deg into the eastern part of the CDO with cloud top temperatures

of -65 C to -69 C. The system exhibited a single polar outflow channel.

Shortly afterwards the cyclone underwent a dramatic weakening due to the

entrainment of dry air and westerly shear. By 1200 UTC on 4 April the

fully-exposed LLCC was not associated anymore with a convective overcast.

So, within 18 hours after peaking in intensity the severe tropical storm

had weakened to a tropical disturbance."

NOTE: SAB rendered a rating of T2.5/2.5 at 03/0752 UTC, but on the

next bulletin at 03/1452 UTC assigned a subtropical rating of ST2.5/2.5.

In an e-mail Karl stated that he disagreed with the 1452 UTC rating from

SAB--he feels it was still tropical with a T-number of 3.5.

Below is the track which Karl prepared for the cyclone:

DATE TIME LAT LON MSW (1-min)

(UTC) (kts)

--------------------------------------------

02 MAR 31 1800 24.7 S 124.0 W 20

02 APR 01 0000 25.0 S 124.3 W 25

02 APR 01 0600 25.5 S 124.8 W 30

02 APR 01 1200 26.2 S 125.6 W 30

02 APR 01 1800 26.8 S 126.6 W 30

02 APR 02 0000 27.3 S 127.7 W 25

02 APR 02 0600 27.7 S 128.7 W 25

02 APR 02 1200 28.2 S 129.7 W 30

02 APR 02 1800 28.6 S 130.1 W 35

02 APR 03 0000 28.9 S 130.2 W 40

02 APR 03 0600 29.7 S 130.2 W 40

02 APR 03 1200 30.6 S 129.9 W 50

02 APR 03 1800 31.2 S 130.2 W 55

02 APR 04 0000 31.8 S 130.8 W 45

02 APR 04 0600 32.4 S 131.6 W 30

02 APR 04 1200 33.1 S 132.6 W 25

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