Request in for IR Floater refocus, but.....

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Request in for IR Floater refocus, but.....

#1 Postby dixiebreeze » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:26 am

it probably won't happen until Monday morning, given no one works on weekends at the floater headquarters. :roll: Why do the tropics always start jumping on weekends??!! :roll:

Looks to me like the Caribbean wave might make Frances status before the COA wave -- depending on increasingly favorable winds.
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#2 Postby dixiebreeze » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:30 am

Actually, Floater 2 can't be refocused until the COA wave is much farther west.
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#3 Postby Rainband » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:32 am

The wave in the caribbean looks really sheared right now. Time will tell if it get better organized :wink:
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#4 Postby Derek Ortt » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:44 am

one floater will likely be placed on estelle due to the threat to hawaii
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#5 Postby wx247 » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:05 pm

Derek Ortt wrote:one floater will likely be placed on estelle due to the threat to hawaii


I hope they do!!
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#6 Postby Thunder44 » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:05 pm

I've seen the floaters changed on weekends too.
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#7 Postby kevin » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:18 pm

Floater headquarters????
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#8 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:23 pm

Kevin, it is the "headquarters" that moves the satellite images, so that we see a system
in a specific area of the the Atlantic Basin and eastern Pacific as it moves along.

The National Hurricane Center has two of them on their website for the visible, infrared,
shortwave IR, Dvorak IR and water vapor images and loops.
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#9 Postby dixiebreeze » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:27 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:Kevin, it is the "headquarters" that moves the satellite images, so that we see a system
in a specific area of the the Atlantic Basin and eastern Pacific as it moves along.

The National Hurricane Center has two of them for the visible, infrared. shortwave IR, Dvorak IR and water vapor images and loops.


Correct, ColdFront, "headquarters" was a rather ambitious term :lol:
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