SST'S and Anomalies in Atlantic and Pacific

[benny]

this is just a note that I haven't seen on here...The SST plots that are most useful for diagnosing proper SST are the ones at a diurnal minimum time... ie 12z or so in most of the Atlantic basin. SSTs at peak heating are not particularly important as they are extremely shallow and will just disappear the next time the sun goes down. also strong winds associated with a tropical cyclone will quickly dissipate any heating that isn't reflective of a deeper ocean layer than can be affected by daytime heating.

[gatorcane]

[cycloneye]

:eek:

Please post something constructive not no word posts.If you dont know I remind you that with our new policy at storm2k we are trying to clean the forum from meanless posts and control the polls that it has been out of control until I and the staff changed it 2 weeks ago with the new policy.

[gatorcane]

Please post something constructive not no word posts.If you dont know I remind you that with our new policy at storm2k we are trying to clean the forum from meanless posts and control the polls that it has been out of control until I and the staff changed it 2 weeks ago with the new policy.

Sure, I won't post just expression from now on, I did not know the full policy...That is hot in the Caribbean already and just getting warmer, what do you think?

[artist]

benny- where would we find that info? thanks for posting .

[CHRISTY]

WARMING UP....

[HurricaneHunter914]

By late May red will be covering all of the caribbean.

[CHRISTY]

By late May red will be covering all of the caribbean.

yep!

[weatherwoman132]

can someone have a picture, like the one above, of april 5, 2005, and april 5, 2006 together, I want to compare them

[HurricaneHunter914]

I bet the 2005 one will be way warmer then this years.

[benny]

artist,

Most SST plots try to represent the SSTs at the diurnal minimum. However if you look at a plot of say 21 or 00z in the Atlantic.. the SSTs are just too warm compared to reality. I think that information was on a NOAA daily SST page.

[Javlin]

Christy......Someone might correct me but it seemed the MDR region was alittle warmer maybe at this time last year.I am thinking that later this month some better ideas about the upcoming season might start to develop.Synoptic patterns seem slow to change and the ridging in the Atlantic seems to want to hold.Benny you gave an explanation in another thread about radiation cooling of water.I think I got it just had to shift my mind over to molecular movement to see it.Thks.

[artist]

thanks benny

[MiamiensisWx]

Not much change, although waters have cooled slightly in some areas of the Atlantic. Weak La Nina is persisting and may be trying make a bit of a small resurge.

[CHRISTY]

the cool waters of the eastcoast have shrinked....

[benny]

The MDR was considerably warmer at this time last year. No subtropical ridging was the root cause. .2C above normal is still pretty warm though... especially if it holds or warms.

[gatorcane]

If you look at this loop, you can see some areas in the Atlantic are warming substantially over the past 2 weeks:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html

1) MDR region and waters off the coast of Africa between 50W and 15W
2) Gulf Stream Current off the SE coast of the U.S
3) Central GOM

An area that has surprisingly not warmed but have actually cooled is

- The Bahamas and waters north of the Greater Antilles from 75W to 50W

[Coredesat]

Most of the cool anomalies in the central Pacific appear to be gone, although there's some new cooling off the coast of South America.

[meteorologyman]

Here are the temperatures from JUNE-July (2005) have not found one in April to compare for today

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/o ... igure3.gif

[meteorologyman]

oops never mind that is wind shear