ATL: MATTHEW - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[Chris_in_Tampa]

You can get imagery every three hours from GOES West full disk:
http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeswestfullir.html
You can get through 0Z (8pm EDT) right now. Not very good.

[sponger]

Did we get rapid scan before blackout???

[CrazyC83]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

[1900hurricane]

Microwave take the wheel!

[ronyan]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

Ship reports and sometimes reports from other countries.

[drewschmaltz]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

Well sonny boy your mother and I had to get up on our rooftops and jump up to see if one was commin'.

[CrazyC83]

Microwave take the wheel!

Clearly an ERC underway there. I'd be VERY cautious about lowering the intensity for now though given the extremely limited data.

[Evenstar]

Guess you can say the satellite data comes and GOES.

Thank you for the anxiety-busting guffaw. I was starting to freak out a bit.

[sma10]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

... the hard way

[jlauderdal]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

dogs and cats ran for cover...the shutters went up

[SouthFloridawx]

Guess you can say the satellite data comes and GOES.

Thank you for the anxiety-busting guffaw. I was starting to freak out a bit.

Maybe it needs more cowbell?

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[Nate-Gillson]

Good news: GOES-13 is operational again.

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconus.html

[TJRE]

no words

[Michele B]

This makes me imagine...before the satellite era, how did people find out of incoming hurricanes?

Oh! I CAN ANSWER THIS!!!

When I was a little kid, I remember getting the storm's COORDINATES from the local "weatherman" once or twice a day during the newscast (which lasted THIRTY MINUTES TWICE A DAY!!!), and then you would go to a map....a grid, if you will....and PLOT the coordinates they said the storm was at. Your daily newspaper would also publish the COORDINATES on a little mini-grid, so you could see if it was approaching your city.

There was NO "radar image" to actually see it for yourself. You just plotted out the eye's coordinates and kept track of its general motion.

Well, this WAS the '50's and '60's, so it was pretty crude. But I LOVED doing it!

I think if I had it to do over, I might have gone to school and become a meteorologist myself.

[drewschmaltz]

What if the satellite comes back and darned if this thing isn't heading north at Cuba as a raging .. Tropical Storm. Models: 1 Humans: 0

See below

[Alyono]

the eastern blob is growing in size as of 0130 UTC. I got a partial satellite image

[toad strangler]

no words

Here's to hoping Matthew loses the mullet once in real open water.

[CFLHurricane]

Microwave take the wheel!

Matthew so powerful it breaks satellites!

[pgoss11]

the eastern blob is growing in size as of 0130 UTC. I got a partial satellite image

What exactly is that growing blob?

[Michele B]

the eastern blob is growing in size as of 0130 UTC. I got a partial satellite image

In the image embedded above by TJRE, it almost looks like the blob is forming ITS OWN EYE.

WTH???????