SST'S and Anomalies in Atlantic and Pacific

[tailgater]

does anyone know what the cool down is being caused from?

Probably that part of the Ross Ice Shelf that broke off last year!
J/K

[bvigal]

I think Luis is right, there's plenty of time for things to change. After all, it's only March.

[stormtruth]

But what about the mayor of NO and state goverment? I remember how Nigin dragged his feet ,isnt he accountable? Afterall,with natural diasters,its the local goverment that calls the shots. Ask Ortt about Nigins response. (he didnt want to get outta bed even Max had to call him)

Yup. Them too. But the Bush administration was unbelievably slow and then they tried to pile all the blame on scapegoat Brownie. We got helicopters to the Pakistan quake in less than 24 hours.

I know that you are new in storm2k but to let you know our rules dont allow political statements so refrain from those.It's the second time I post this.Please refrain from political statements.This is not a political site but a weather community site.

ok!

[windycity]

sorry, only hurricane talk from me from now on.

[cycloneye]

I think Luis is right, there's plenty of time for things to change. After all, it's only March.

Fluctuations occur many times up and down in the waters temps so let's continue to watch what that BIG yes it looks big right now the pool of cool anomalies in the Eastern Atlantic and as I said it's March not August.

[windycity]

interesting,only wish those cool anomalies were in the loop current !!

[zoeyann]

Is there anything that would cause the anamolise SST's in the gulf to stabalize

[HurricaneHunter914]

A major hurricane going through the area probably but unlikely.

[zoeyann]

Unlikely that a major would help restablize or unlikely to see a major. I am opting for b

[windycity]

look what happened in 05,even with all of those majors,the waters barely cooled down.The GOMEX has me very nervous,even in a LaNina year.

[webke]

Here is a new article that links the strength and number of hurricanes to rising SST's.

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnatu ... e_sst.html

[webke]

Here are two articles concerning ocean currents and deep water upswelling, in the first at the bottom of the page click on deep water circulation and you see that of the coast of Africa is where deep ocean currents rise to the surface, the second article has interesting topics on the right side of the page that discusses ocean currents and the weather. What I was wondering is the cool down of the SST's off of Africa just a naturally occurence influenced by the ocean depths.

http://earth.usc.edu/~stott/Catalina/Oceans.html

http://www.lighthouse-foundation.org/in ... id=101&L=1

[Patrick99]

If the waters off Africa stay relatively cool. my guess is that there won't be much of a Cape Verde season (again) and waves will develop closer to home (again).

[Opal storm]

If the waters off Africa stay relatively cool. my guess is that there won't be much of a Cape Verde season (again) and waves will develop closer to home (again).

That's what I'm thinking.

[SouthFloridawx]

If the waters off Africa stay relatively cool. my guess is that there won't be much of a Cape Verde season (again) and waves will develop closer to home (again).

That's what I'm thinking.

There was not much of a cape verde season last year and look at how many stoms we got. Cape verde season isn't until the end of july anyway. Those waters still have time to warm up but, on the other hand they also have time to cool down. The GOM is still very warm and the caribean is still above average and that is where most of our storms formed last year.

[f5]

For those who are new we don't allow political statements yes i talk about FEMA, and the other players but i try to word it so it doesn't sound like inside the beltway politics .Sorry Cyclone Eye

[James]

That pool of cooler water seems to be spreading further west across the Atlantic.

[cycloneye]

That pool of cooler water seems to be spreading further west across the Atlantic.

Here is that cool pool area in the Tropical Atlantic how it looks.As I said before it's March not August.There is plenty of time until then to see how those waters between Africa and the Lesser Antilles will be.I know that many here will not like what I will say now but hopefully those waters stay cool all the way thru the peak of the season in August and September.

[benny]

cycloneye,

I would be very careful using that SST analysis over the tropical Atlantic right now. That analysis does not take into account that large African dust outbreak that is now occurring over the basin. African dust screws up the SST retrieval that most of that is based on. It is better to use a more conservative approach i.e. the graphics on:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/h ... week.shtml

you can see the same type of thing on the other satellite-based retrieval system:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/d ... 7.2006.gif

b

[KWT]

Very intresting Benny, if thats the case then I agree its best to use last weeks data before thats cleared up, though can anyone confirm??

This occuring now may not actually be a good thing as there is plenty of time for the situation to reverse again, for those who want a queit season, I'd have rather seen it occur during June.

Besides those SSTA are only relative to the normal temperature, which are usually high eonugh to mean that even if they are 1c below average, its still warm enough for tropical devlopment in good atmopsheric condtions.