beoumont wrote:abajan wrote:beoumont wrote:... Can anyone recall and point out any other Swirlaroos that developed eventually.
Would
Flora qualify as having developed from a swirlaroo?
Are you talking about Flora of 1963?
I don't think we'll ever know; as there were no satellites back then if I recall.
We had satellite images starting in 1960 with the launch of the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS), starting with TIROS-1 (A) launching in April of 1960. They were notorious for electrical or camera failure and had to be replaced yearly (the concept was to simply attach 2 television cameras. One with a wide-angle lens that could view an 800 mile swath of the earth at a time and the other had a 10x magnification. The satellite consisted of thrusts to decelerate the rpm from 136 to 12 when taking images and a 2-watt FM transmitter).
As for Flora, The system was first noted on TIROS satellite imagery in the tropical Atlantic southwest of the Cape Verde Islands on September 26th. The system grew in size on the 27th, before disappearing from the satellite's view over the next few days. However, the only image I could find was the one below, and it looks more like an out dated radar image and not from the TIROS satellite.