GOES-8 is deactivated

[cycloneye]

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2217.htm

Can all of you imagine what will all of us and the forecasters do if there were no sattellites and how would we track the storms? We may haved depended on antique things such as birds flying and how they behave and other old methods to forecast storms.Goes-12 will replace it with new tools to make the pics better.

[dixiebreeze]

Luis, I am continually amazed at all of the tropical resources available to the public. I know it's good PR, too, for the NWS, etc., but I sure am happy they do it. Hard to imagine life without our satellites, radar and other weather watching sites.

[Guest]

We bid fairwell to GOES-8!! It's been our eagle eye in the sky!!

[vbhoutex]

I'm old enough to remember when all we had was indications a storm was building or coming from looking at the sky. The only other resources were ship reports. Finally, satellites came around in the 60's. check any of the Camille sat pics posted in this forum elsewhere is you want to see the quality compared to what it is now. To this day I can usually tell you what is going on in the GOM just by watching the sky, especially during 'cane season.

[Guest]

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, a environmentalist & a prominent figure in the Miami area who spent a lifetime trying to save the Everglades & passed away in 1998 @ the age of 98 spoke of erie red sunsets &/or sunrises & a lack of wildlife prior to a hurricane's landfall.

She said she knew when she saw the sky that color & heard the deafening silence of the wildlife, which usually flourishes where she lived that something ominous was about to take place.

[stormchazer]

The internet has been a boom for us weather enthusiast. All the tools just a mouse-click a way!