QuikSCAT "confirms" RECON @ 50kts.

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QuikSCAT "confirms" RECON @ 50kts.

#1 Postby ncweatherwizard » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:42 pm

http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/dataimages21 ... MBds19.png

Swath cuts off part of storm, but one 50kt barb is present.
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#2 Postby Derek Ortt » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:47 pm

I cannot tell for sure, but that may be 2 seperate vectors. A 50 KT vector is typically represented by a triangle
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#3 Postby ncweatherwizard » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:07 pm

You're right, it is two vectors--I got caught by a quick glance trying to pull my forecast together--my fault there.
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#4 Postby Derek Ortt » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:15 pm

Alex is likely a 40KT storm based upon everything that I've seen.

That QS's should be a bit easier to read though and I wish the raw data was more easily available (I can get it, I just dont want to write the fortran program to read it... wait, I think someone at the office has just wrote it)
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