Rita Birth To Death

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Rita Birth To Death

#1 Postby hicksta » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:11 am

Anyone have a slideshow of her from begging to end?
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#2 Postby skysummit » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:23 am

hicksta wrote:Anyone have a slideshow of her from begging to end?


I don't have a slideshow, but here's a montage of her:

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#3 Postby skysummit » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:26 am

Here you go...here's a Enhanced IR movie from beginning to end:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/archi ... ita-ir.avi
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#4 Postby cjrciadt » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:32 am

skysummit wrote:Here you go...here's a Enhanced IR movie from beginning to end:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/archi ... ita-ir.avi

Thanks, she wound up double time to her sub 900mb peak.
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#5 Postby Seele » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:55 am

Here's a good Quicktime movie from NASA:

http://www.nasa.gov/mov/134674main_050919-24.rita.mov

They also have one of these for Katrina a quite a few good images on their site:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_2005.html
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#6 Postby f5 » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:52 pm

what a monster
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#7 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:43 pm

Rita was certainly a monster storm; that infrared loop is very
wild
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#8 Postby truballer#1 » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:47 pm

can't belive we had 2 extremly strong cat 5 canes. don't beleive something was stronger then katrina. thouught we wouldnt see another katrina like storm in a long time, but rita apperead in 2 weeks!
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