SST's

Guest · #1 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:21 am

What are the current SST's in the GOM and BOC?

chadtm80 · #2 Postby **chadtm80** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:34 am

http://www.storm2k.org/Weather-Central/ ... ic_SST.htm

http://www.storm2k.org/Weather-Central/ ... co_SST.htm

Guest · #3 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:55 am

Ok - I forgot you had them on the site. Now how do you convert C To F in temperatures?

Patricia

chadtm80 · #4 Postby **chadtm80** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:59 am

http://www.futuresource.com/weather/cfcalc.asp

Guest · #5 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:03 pm

So would you say the temps in the GOM are in the upper 80's or lower 90's - hot enough for tropical development?

jabber · #6 Postby **jabber** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:12 pm

Way hot enough to support development. SST's are not the issue, upper winds are.

ticka1 wrote:So would you say the temps in the GOM are in the upper 80's or lower 90's - hot enough for tropical development?

#7 Postby **wx247** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 12:32 pm

Yes... you need to look at shear and other images. SST's are definitely more than capable of handling a tropical system. Everything else just has to come together.

ColdFront77 · #8 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 2:34 pm

Chad, thank you for the link to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit to Celsius.

1.8ºF = 1ºC

212ºF = 100ºC
..32ºF = ....0ºC
-40ºF = ..-40ºC

Sea surface temperatures above 79ºF (26ºC) is warm enough for tropical
development.

JetMaxx · #9 Postby **JetMaxx** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 4:09 pm

Ticka, current SST's off the Texas coast are between 85-89°F....warm enough to support a cat-5 hurricane (per the Nexlab site).

God Bless,
Perry

ColdFront77 · #10 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 4:30 pm

Absolutely right, Perry. The central and eastern Gulf of Mexico, Bay of Campeche and western Caribbean are very warm as well with temperatures between 80ºF and 86ºF.

#11 Postby **wxman57** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:38 pm

When considering potential for TS development, we generally look for SSTs of 27C (80F) or greater. With that in mind....

Here's a higher resolution SST map of the Gulf/Caribbean, and it has a Fahrenheit scale on the side:

http://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/ ... index.html

And here's an east coast map:

http://128.160.23.54/products/K10/eastcoastk10.gif

And another nice detailed SST map:

http://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/ ... index.html

And yet another SST map with ocean current info:

http://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Metoc/ ... index.html

And a full-tropics map from the Navy:

http://www.navo.navy.mil/LIBRARY/Specia ... index.html

And, I suppose, I should post the main Navy web site with lots of ocean data:

https://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?ocean

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