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Originally Posted by xFF
(Post 14215125)
By the way, since that's the case, why is it that the hurricane hunters just don't fly above until they get to the eye, and then use a tight corkscrew descent to get in, measure the pressure, and go out the same way? Eyes are some miles across, right? Or do they get valuable info flying through the storm on the way in/out?
Dr. Jeff Masters over at Weather Underground used to do it, and he wrote up his account of flying into Hurricane Hugo in 1988, which you can read here. |
Originally Posted by Steph3n
(Post 14215130)
Pretty sure they get valuable info within the storm. they also use propjobs that take a lot longer to get in and out...or many of them are props in any case.
Inside the Gulf, Katrina's cloud tops were something like 50k feet above sea level. The highest recorded tops were at something like 62,000 feet. |
Originally Posted by xFF
(Post 14213948)
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Amazing how much shake there is in the bottom of a bag.
Of frosted mini-Wheats, that is. |
Raining like a cow pissin' on a flat rock here at the call center now. ^
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Originally Posted by Mackieman
(Post 14215184)
Dr. Jeff Masters over at Weather Underground used to do it, and he wrote up his account of flying into Hurricane Hugo in 1988, which you can read here.
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Originally Posted by Starwood Lurker
(Post 14215268)
Raining like a cow pissin' on a flat rock here at the call center now. ^
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High of 98 today
Tomorrow's forecast high-79 Guess that explains why it got dark at 4 pm |
Originally Posted by Hartmann
(Post 14215185)
Inside the Gulf, Katrina's cloud tops were something like 50k feet above sea level. The highest recorded tops were at something like 62,000 feet.
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Originally Posted by xFF
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That's all the way to the bottom of the stratosphere, where weather ceases. I didn't think they were always relatively low, but really didn't know.
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Originally Posted by bdjohns1
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The front that blew through Iowa and northern Illinois the week before last had tops around 53K.
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Originally Posted by xFF
(Post 14215341)
That's all the way to the bottom of the stratosphere, where weather ceases. I didn't think they were always relatively low, but really didn't know.
MISR stereo-height estimates (not shown here) indicate that the highest clouds reach 18-19 kilometers above the surface of the Earth.. |
Originally Posted by Hartmann
(Post 14215399)
I thought the stratosphere was something like 6 miles above earth's surface to 31 miles above earth's surface? There is definitely weather at 6 miles.
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Strange. I just went through a half bag of washed and peeled mini carrots. Time to go balance that out with something unhealthy - Blue Bell ice cream. @:-)
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Originally Posted by photog72
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Strange. I just went through a half bag of washed and peeled mini carrots. Time to go balance that out with something unhealthy - Blue Bell ice cream. @:-)
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