Last 3 hours??

CocoaBill · #1 Postby **CocoaBill** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:13 pm

The last 3 hours looks very due west to me. :b?:

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

#2 Postby **wx247** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:17 pm

Yes... it is still south of 20º N.

Lindaloo · #3 Postby **Lindaloo** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:19 pm

I put my finger on the screen and it looks to be heading WNW. But then again, what do I know.

#4 Postby **cycloneye** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:19 pm

19.3n-58.3w to me now.

#5 Postby **wx247** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:20 pm

It is not moving directly west... slight north of west I think, but it is still south of 20º, which I think is significant.

#6 Postby **wxman57** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:36 pm

Well, perhaps my method is a bit more advanced than the finger-on-the-screen method. Take a look at this side-by side comparison I made. It definitely shows a WNW movement in the past 5 hours. You may be looking at a very short-term wobble in the past hour or two. That's understandable as it appears convection is now heavier on the south side, and the center would tend to wobble toward heavier convection:

http://home.houston.rr.com/wx/fabian.gif[img][/img]

ColdFront77 · #7 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:41 pm

Sure, the designation is WNW... but the northerly component isn't 33% by any means.

#8 Postby **wxman57** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:56 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:Sure, the designation is WNW... but the northerly component isn't 33% by any means.

I'm not sure what you mean, CF. A 285 degree WNW movement is 15 deg north of due west, or a northerly component of 16.6%. A 300 deg motion would be 33% northerly component. But that direction is on the upper end of WNW. Nobody said "officially" it was moving at 300 degees - yet, but the movement in the past 5 hours was sure closer to NW than WNW if it moved 0.3N and 0.6W over 5 hours.

weathergymnast · #9 Postby **weathergymnast** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 9:22 pm

It will pass very very close to 20 n 60 w. ^^; It will be close.

Lindaloo · #10 Postby **Lindaloo** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 9:24 pm

wxman57 wrote:Well, perhaps my method is a bit more advanced than the finger-on-the-screen method. Take a look at this side-by side comparison I made. It definitely shows a WNW movement in the past 5 hours. You may be looking at a very short-term wobble in the past hour or two. That's understandable as it appears convection is now heavier on the south side, and the center would tend to wobble toward heavier convection:

http://home.houston.rr.com/wx/fabian.gif[img][/img]

Well at least it worked and I was right.

Guest · #11 Postby **Guest** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 9:29 pm

LOL Lindaloo - I use a ruler to gauge how much its gone west or north. It gets the job done huh!

Patricia

SacrydDreamz · #12 Postby **SacrydDreamz** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:13 pm

weathergymnast wrote:It will pass very very close to 20 n 60 w. ^^; It will be close.

Right over top of it!!

ColdFront77 · #13 Postby **ColdFront77** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 11:11 pm

I understand what you're saying 100%, wxman.

I am considering the 33% being "two wests" and "one north" in WNW. Just a different way to interpret it. My apologizes.

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