At the risk of drawing the wrath of the bandwidth mongers, I have started a new thread (sorry...I don't see any existing thread pertinent to my question).
It has been almost 3 1/2 hours since the last vortex message came out (2008Z is the last I have seen). I have gone to the NHC website and viewed the recon schedule for today. As somewhat of a novice on the technical issues, could someone please clarify when we can expect recon to be back in the storm sending new data?? I am hopelessly lost in trying to translate the garbled recon supplementary data.
Thanks in advance,
Lou
Recon Schedule Question
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For their flight plans, check out http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAREPRPD_last.shtml? and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAREPRPD.shtml?
For the latest observations, check out http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/weather_interface.html and use http://www.hurricanehunters.com/recco.htm to decode RECCO obs and http://www.hurricanehunters.com/explvort.htm VDM obs.
When you get to the Texas A&M Weather Page, type KNHC for the station; select any time period, click the radio button next to Raw Data and choose 5. Reconnaisance in the drop-down menu.
Other than that, I get my knowledge about their flights from experience. They'll fly at either 24,000 or 18,000 feet enroute to the system and then drop to 10,000 feet when they are heading into the heart of the system. Once they drop to 10,000 feet, it's usually between 45 to 75 minutes before the VDM will be posted. Typically they make 4-5 VDMs per mission.
For the latest observations, check out http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/students/weather/weather_interface.html and use http://www.hurricanehunters.com/recco.htm to decode RECCO obs and http://www.hurricanehunters.com/explvort.htm VDM obs.
When you get to the Texas A&M Weather Page, type KNHC for the station; select any time period, click the radio button next to Raw Data and choose 5. Reconnaisance in the drop-down menu.
Other than that, I get my knowledge about their flights from experience. They'll fly at either 24,000 or 18,000 feet enroute to the system and then drop to 10,000 feet when they are heading into the heart of the system. Once they drop to 10,000 feet, it's usually between 45 to 75 minutes before the VDM will be posted. Typically they make 4-5 VDMs per mission.
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