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Great hurricane pics and radars thread

#1 Postby cycloneye » Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:09 pm

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... uis-ir.gif

This pic of the 1995 season is a great one with those 4 storms and hurricanes at the same time in the atlantic.

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... 82kmir.jpg

This is the crazy hurricane Lenny in 1999 crazy because it came from the western caribbean sea to the east and the big thing about Lenny was about the power of it a cat 4 in late november.

I am trying to get more pics to show them but as you know my computer crashed in january and I lost many of those pics but what can I find I will share them in this thread.

If anyone has great hurricane pics to share you can post them here too. :D
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#2 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Apr 10, 2003 3:38 pm

Thank you for the link, Luis. 8)

I remember when there were four tropical storms and hurricane in the Atlantic, that was quite impressive. I watched The Weather Channel very often back then, (only had access to the internet at the computer lab at the college, in the town I grew up in).

I taped some of the Tropical Updates, back when Dennis Smith was on weekday afternoons. I believe I recorded over this particular tape at least once over the last 7 2/3 years.

I also remember Hurricane Lenny moving west to east in the Caribbean Sea, talk about a rare tropical cyclone, not only did it "move the wrong way" -- it was a very intense system, too.
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Hurricane Andrew before making landfall in south florida

#3 Postby cycloneye » Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:45 pm

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... n12rgb.jpg

I found this impressive pic of what was a cat 5 hurricane Andrew.
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#4 Postby ColdFront77 » Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:41 pm

Luis, thank you very much for posting the link to this "textbook hurricane." I put it in my Favorites. :D
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Hurricane Floyd east of Florida

#5 Postby cycloneye » Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:53 am

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... -4kmir.gif

Another impressive pic of another big cane Floyd and Tom I have many pics but I have to find them slow because of my computer crash in january but this thread will be full of pics of many hurricanes I can assure you. :D
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#6 Postby isobar » Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:29 pm

Awesome pic of that Looney Lenny! Another one that brushed close by you, cyc!

Keep 'em coming. These are great!
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Hurricane Georges before making landfall in PR

#7 Postby cycloneye » Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:54 pm

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... -g8vis.gif

Isobar this one didn't brush Puerto Rico but made landfall and crossed the island from east to west.Thankfully the eye is not so visible in that pic and that is because it weakened before it crossed the Leeward islands to a cat 2 cane from a strong cat 4 150 mph that it had east of Guadaloupe but anyway it caused extensive damage and 4 deaths here as it made landfall as a cat 3 115 mph as it gained some strengh just before the landfall.
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#8 Postby isobar » Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:17 pm

At the time that image was taken, you must've known it was heading straight for you and would engulf the entire island. A tense situation, I'm sure. I remember reading your experience with Georges over at TWC Storm Stories thread. Quite remarkable!
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#9 Postby isobar » Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:26 pm

Here are a couple of my favorites:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gifs/1992andy.JPG

Closeup IR image of Andrew making 1st landfall.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/extremes/1999/august/hurricane-camille_pg.gif

The best pic of Camille I've found.
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The best I found of Camille

#10 Postby cycloneye » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:21 pm

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... e-vis2.gif

Isobar this pic of Camille was the best I found but remember that at that time 1969 the quality of the sat pics was not so great as it is today.
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#11 Postby isobar » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:15 pm

Good one! She's about to make landfall right there. I do wish the present satellite technology was available back then.
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#12 Postby Stormsfury » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:27 pm

Just thought I'd include this ...

This is on my website of various images of hurricanes saved (from NCDC and other sources on the net)...almost 20mb worth of images ... enjoy!
http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Trop ... mages.html

Also if anyone is interested ... I have a VERY LARGE FILE NOT AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE YET ... almost 10 MB (cable speed or higher recommended) of the 1995 Parade of Storms Loop --- it's about a 3 week time frame loop ... if anyone is interested, please drop me a line ... (if enough responses, I'll post in the above section)... otherwise... I'll try to create a special page just for the loop ...
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#13 Postby cycloneye » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:45 pm

Thanks StormsFury for sharing those pics from your site and I can remember very well Hugo and Luis.

About the parade of storms loop I would like to see it but as you said let's wait for more responses.
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#14 Postby ColdFront77 » Fri Apr 11, 2003 6:57 pm

I understand, Luis. Too bad you lost all the links to the tropical information you once had. I appreciate you posting the links for those of us who want to at least view them once. :)

I am looking forward to others you find. I may look too among reading and posting here and visiting other websites.

Mike, I would also love to see the three week loop of the "parade of hurricanes" in the Atlantic Basin in August 1995. It sounds very exciting. :D Thank you very much.
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#15 Postby isobar » Fri Apr 11, 2003 8:27 pm

Cool collection of images, SF.
Count me in for the '95 parade, if it's not too much trouble.
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Radar of Georges making landfall in PR

#16 Postby cycloneye » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:02 am

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/georges88d.html

Isobar yes I was prepared for Georges well before that pic that I posted. 5 days before the eventuall landfall I knew that it would be a threat to PR because of the low latitude track and bermuda high strong to the north to not let it go away from the caribbean.

But take a look at this radar loop of Georges as it makes landfall in PR and look at the eye from right to the left of the loop and you will see that it weakens(110 mph) before it makes landfall but it gains strengh after it departs the island in the mona channel and the mona island can be seen in the center of the eye.
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#17 Postby pojo » Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:41 pm

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/archi ... ili_rk.jpg

This is Hurricane Lili at peak intensity. CIMSS (UW-Madison) archived pic.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/archi ... ITCH1C.GIF

Hurricane Mitch Colorized IR image. Gorgeous coloring of the Infamous Hurricane that killed thousands in Nicaragua and Honduras. CIMSS Archived satellite pic.
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#18 Postby cycloneye » Mon Apr 14, 2003 9:23 am

This is the big Gilbert in 1988 when it had 888 mb pressure the lowest pressure in the atlantic so far in history.

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... -n9rgb.jpg
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#19 Postby isobar » Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:00 pm

Cyc, that loop of Georges is amazing! He wasted no time re-intensifying over the open water.

If my geography of PR is correct, San Juan is on the NE coast? Looks like you were right in the northern eye wall where the strongest winds were.
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#20 Postby isobar » Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:04 pm

Beautiful shots of Mitch and Gilbert at nearly the same location 10 years apart. Thanks for posting.
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