Anyone have any idea why?

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Anyone have any idea why?

#1 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:44 pm

What the heck is going on with this loop?? Been like this for a few weeks now :oops: :oops:

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ge ... olor=white
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#2 Postby southerngale » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:46 pm

I don't know but dern, that's irritating!!
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#3 Postby Stormsfury » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:47 pm

I suppose you're talking about the blackout east of the Cape Verde Islands. Unfortunately, that is something I cannot answer, for I do not know.
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#4 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Aug 07, 2003 4:48 pm

Ya thats what i am talking about.. Driving me crazy, i like to use that one
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#5 Postby wxman57 » Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:52 pm

I know he answer/reason. The clue is in the one image that shows Africa. Take a look at the time - 1745Z (basically 18Z). The image is a composite image of GOES and Meteosat. The Europeans don't want to share their Meteosat images except for every 6 hours. So that loop will only show the right half at 00Z, 06Z, 12Z, and 18Z. Now <b>some</b> web sites post the images more often than every 6 hours - until they get caught.

Hope they're enjoying the heat and fires over there! :grr:
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#6 Postby Stormsfury » Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:09 pm

I've been lucky to find many different sites on my own and through others with a lot of links to other sources for those views.

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/TropicalWeather.html

I've compiled a ton of them here on my Tropical Weather Page.

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#7 Postby wow » Thu Aug 07, 2003 7:14 pm

wxman57 wrote:I know he answer/reason. The clue is in the one image that shows Africa. Take a look at the time - 1745Z (basically 18Z). The image is a composite image of GOES and Meteosat. The Europeans don't want to share their Meteosat images except for every 6 hours. So that loop will only show the right half at 00Z, 06Z, 12Z, and 18Z. Now <b>some</b> web sites post the images more often than every 6 hours - until they get caught.

Hope they're enjoying the heat and fires over there! :grr:


Those stupid Europeans! Why don't we have a satellite of our own to take snaps of the area?
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