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#1 Postby tailgater » Sun May 29, 2005 6:46 pm

NDBC seems to have added or moved a couple of bouys, 1 in the BOC(TG) and 1 in the northwestern Caribbean. I think there's one missing in the GOM though. :D
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#2 Postby cycloneye » Sun May 29, 2005 6:48 pm

tailgater wrote:NDBC seems to have added or moved a couple of bouys, 1 in the BOC(TG) and 1 in the northwestern Caribbean. I think there's one missing in the GOM though. :D


http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/West_Caribbean.shtml

Very important both of those locations when things heat up.
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#3 Postby dhweather » Sun May 29, 2005 8:35 pm

They are adding six data buoys this year.
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#4 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun May 29, 2005 8:43 pm

They should add 20 or more new ones into the western Atlatnic. With another 6 ot 7 for the gulf. They should also put a few off the cape verdes. Then a few more over the caribbean.
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#5 Postby dhweather » Sun May 29, 2005 8:50 pm

They are only a million bucks or so a pop, perhaps Accuweather can
chip in to help pay for this - since they want more control over it.
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#6 Postby tailgater » Sun May 29, 2005 8:52 pm

While we are dreaming, how about a good radar on tip of Yucatan peninsula, Jamaica and in the Bahamas.
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#7 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun May 29, 2005 8:53 pm

Also a good radar off the cape verdes!!!
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#8 Postby dhweather » Sun May 29, 2005 8:54 pm

Those are another million a pop, plus training and such, so Accuweather
can doll out, oh, say $20 million to get this done. Not in taxes, in cash, because that is what it takes to build these things.
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#9 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun May 29, 2005 9:05 pm

If we had a good radar off the cape verdes with a few buoys. I would not at all be surprized if we got 2 or more tropical depressions. Maybe even tropical storms addeds a year. Because some of those systems make alot of Gulf of Mexico tropical storms like like summer thunderstorms.
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#10 Postby weatherwindow » Sun May 29, 2005 10:51 pm

did you notice that the french placed a couple of bouys east of guadeloupe....those could really come in handy for people like luis and msbee among others........rich
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#11 Postby tallywx » Sun May 29, 2005 11:51 pm

It seems like Jamaica used to have a radar of acceptable quality, but ominously, this was the last image ever snapped from that radar:

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As for the tip of the Yucatan, Cancun radar still covers that pretty well:

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#12 Postby tailgater » Mon May 30, 2005 6:53 am

tallywx I did say a good radar on the tip of the Yucatan, one like they have in San Juan would be just fine. Those radar sites in Mexico are hard for me to access at times and are in need of updating.
Do you remember which storm that was on Jamaican radar. Was that Ivan :?:
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#13 Postby TampaFl » Mon May 30, 2005 7:06 am

Yes tailgater, that was Hurricane Ivan.


Robert 8-)
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#14 Postby AussieMark » Mon May 30, 2005 8:22 am

I am glad it was Ivan and not Gilbert.

As that would mean they were running with no radar for the last 16 years :lol:
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#15 Postby tailgater » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:44 pm

Looks like they will be ready for invest 92, another buoy on line between Jamaica and Honduras. :new-bday:
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