ATL : TROPICAL DEPRESSION IDA

[Aric Dunn]

But where do you get the higher power image?

here are the descriptions.. and im not sure where to get the other channels offered.

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/IMAGES/ssmisdoc.htm

[jinftl]

Landfall on western tip of Cuba seems more and more of a possibility...Ida is now on a bee line for the tip.

AT 700 PM EST...0000 UTC...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM IDA WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 19.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 84.4 WEST OR ABOUT 165
MILES...270 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA.

IDA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH...17 KM/HR.

[HURAKAN]

Hi Hurakan, and thanks for this latest. Can you explain why those two microwave satellites (there's one just before yours) at the same frequency and time have two different images?

The one posted before mine is 85 GHzH while mine is 85 GHzH weak. Aric is correct.

NRL: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_ho ... egreeticks

[KWT]

Yep indeed, seen countless times what can happen with that as you say.

I'm a little surprised a hurricane watch hasn't been issued for far west Cuba, I know they may just go right to a hurricane warning but still I thought they may have tried to have done that, ah well!

[gatorcane]

If you look at the WV loop of the CONUS, in the far left-hand side of the image are hints that the trough is starting to take shape and is heading eastward. The race is on between this trough and Ida. Note the ridge between Ida and the trough with the inverted U shape in the clouds over the Central CONUS:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/loop-wv.html

[Aric Dunn]

yeah they wont upgrade till recon gets out there... which for cuba wont help .. lol

[Normandy]

The damage reports from Nicaragua show what even a category 1 storm can do if it bursting. Especially an RI event landfall.

Just speculation on my part, but considering how great Ida looked when she made landfall I'd venture to say she was pushing Category 2 status. We'll never know tho unfortunately. Interested to see the recon tonight.

[Sanibel]

Landfall on western tip of Cuba seems more and more of a possibility...Ida is now on a bee line for the tip.

Think the NNW has already begun jinftl. No eyewall on Cuba. Shoot the Channel clean.

[HURAKAN]

The good news is that part of Cuba is mostly uninhabited. It's actually part of one of Fidel's favorite resting areas. He has a house there.

[Aric Dunn]

Landfall on western tip of Cuba seems more and more of a possibility...Ida is now on a bee line for the tip.

Think the NNW has already begun jinftl. No eyewall on Cuba. Shoot the Channel clean.

it will probably cross the far western tip or close to it.. also cuba radar wont load for me..

[jinftl]

Going to be close....Ida is 165 miles south-southeast of the tip.

Landfall on western tip of Cuba seems more and more of a possibility...Ida is now on a bee line for the tip.

Think the NNW has already begun jinftl. No eyewall on Cuba. Shoot the Channel clean.

[cycloneye]

18z HWRF has landfall as a cat 1 at big bend.From FSU site.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/hwrftc2. ... =Animation

[bahamaswx]

The damage reports from Nicaragua show what even a category 1 storm can do if it bursting. Especially an RI event landfall.

When Michelle passed over here back in 2001 I was absolute amazed to see her satellite appearance at the time after the fact. Absolutely disgusting looking storm (even for a cat1), but definitely put up 80+mph winds which were quite impressive.

[cycloneye]

The good news is that part of Cuba is mostly uninhabited. It's actually part of one of Fidel's favorite resting areas. He has a house there.

No mountains there right?

[Blown Away]

18z HWRF has landfall as a cat 1 at big bend.From FSU site.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/hwrftc2. ... =Animation

Not really the Big Bend area that is to the east. The HWRF makes a direct landfall in Panama City.

[tgenius]

So basically no rain in Miami, and more of the gusty wind.. That's a win in my book!

[Aric Dunn]

So basically no rain in Miami, and more of the gusty wind.. That's a win in my book!

the rain is coming dont worry.. lol

[Bocadude85]

So basically no rain in Miami, and more of the gusty wind.. That's a win in my book!

the rain is coming dont worry.. lol

Im not sure we will get much of anything on the SE Fl coast..

[tgenius]

So basically no rain in Miami, and more of the gusty wind.. That's a win in my book!

the rain is coming dont worry.. lol

After the other storms that were supposed to drop rain on Miami didn't, I'm not holding my breath

[Aric Dunn]

The damage reports from Nicaragua show what even a category 1 storm can do if it bursting. Especially an RI event landfall.

When Michelle passed over here back in 2001 I was absolute amazed to see her satellite appearance at the time after the fact. Absolutely disgusting looking storm (even for a cat1), but definitely put up 80+mph winds which were quite impressive.

Michelle

ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/hursat/ ... 76-MIC.mpg