Great Video!

[al79philly]

Paris Hilto.... just kidding.

NASA has a video showing the satellite from Jun1 - present. On it, they show the progress of the SSTs and the storm tracks. Really cool.

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a0 ... index.html

[al79philly]

Watch the SSTs in Katrina's wake... wow

[Jim Cantore]

I'm just waiting for it to load now

[Loring]

thats an animation, not a video



but good find. i DL'd the 80M version, not sure if it was worth it, however. 20M probably looked just as good.

[Loring]

Rita and Dennis did the same thing with the SSTs. i didnt notive that on the first watch, good catch.

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

That video's crazy. Twenty storms...Vince is the only one that didn't end up in the western half of the Atlantic. What struck me is that not only could I immediately pinpoint a wave that would eventually become named as soon as I saw it come into view, but even the ones that pop up out of nowhere can be tracked as some small bundle of moisture first. Forecasting is alot easier in hindsight! It's especially neat when you identify something like Bret, Gert, Jose, Cindy, Harvey, etc. days before it forms.

Also, it seems like we saw alot of "twinning" - one wave will spawn two storms, or one storm will launch a chain reaction directly resulting in the next storm. Nate and Ophelia both just kind of pop out of this one tiny disturbance, and Phillippe and Rita pretty obviously spawned from the same piece of energy.

The SST map is also cool. I like how Dennis, Emily, Katrina, and Rita all left blue scars across the Gulf that slowly heal over a few weeks, and how after that Sept.-10th peak, Maria, Nate, and Ophelia all plow through the Atlantic like erasers leaving nothing but Autumn in their wake.

Video needs to be updated for Wilma though. Great find!

[mtm4319]

I also notice that Philippe's track is quite a bit different than the NHC's... NASA shows it racing NNE through the North Atlantic, while the NHC said it veered toward the west late in its life.