Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / September 2005

I've noticed that the jet stream has been played down lately, or so it
seems.  It's not used on Washington DC's channel 4, not used in the
weather channel's weekly planner, and on web sites it's not shown as a
long green authoritative stream of air, but more as little pieces here

August was 4Th hottest in 126 Northern Hemisphere years.
The UN, after working very hard on John Bolton, finally got
him to go along with UN reorganization without a statement
on climate change.  The UN, thanks to America's Mr. Bolton,

How to avoid severe climate change discussed at CO2 conference
Physorg.com, September 21, 2005
The kind of devastation seen on the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina may be a
small taste of what is to come if emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

There are talks about the storms getting stronger.  I decided to do
some research about category 5 storms in northern hemisphere since
1950.  It is hard to get reliable data before 1950.  Also, it is almost
impossible to get data for southern hemisphere before 1990.  In

If we had prepared a rocket whose cargo contained aluminium sequin and
emptyed the cargo in orbit overhead of Katrina and Ophelia we would
have broken apart those hurricanes by starving them of heat energy.
They would have been downgraded.

    when reading weather information from www.wunderground.com, sometimes
it's derived from metar which is relatively simple to understand and it's
many descriptions of it on the Net. But other times it's derived from a
terrible messages that begin by "aaxx" and following five ...

How is the ridge of high pressure centered in the central gulf coastal
states related to the Bermuda high?   Is it a westward extension of the
Bermuda high?   Is this part of why it won't quit?
I saw a map that shows two separate centers of high pressure, the lines

I have some questions about the current heat wave that has affected Texas
adn other central and southeaster U.S. states for the past two weeks.
Both TV weatherman and a newspaper article explained that the high pressure
system that is creating our heat wave is caused by the fact ...

I seem to remember something about a meteorology conference in St. Louis,
Missouri next year, but I can't find anything on it. Does anyone know
anything about this?
Thanks.

I have read that cloud seeding is about 10% effective in causing rain.
This suggestion pertains to cloud seeding on a massive scale.  
What would be the result of seeding hurricanes with dry ice on an
unprecedented scale over the open ocean long before the storms posed

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/085121.shtml?3day
Any weather buffs wish to comment on the rarity of such an event?  Or
are such paths relatively common?
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Quick question:
Can anyone here tell me which hurricane this was and what year? I swear
I remember seeing a satellite loop of it on TV some years ago. At first
it looked like it would hit LA, then it moved towards FL, then it

I'm curious what you all think of the Webster/Curry/Holland/Chang
study on the increase in cat 4/5 hurricanes in the past 35 years.
I don't think you can "blame" this increase on sampling problems,
as the satellite signature of such storms is pretty clear.  And

Up until very recently, I could load up a link like the following:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/$$$ (where $$$ was a NWS office code) and
get 5 or 6 previous versions of a product along with the current
version.... However, now you can only access the current version.

Hurricane Katrina has shown us a small sample of the future
in a carbon rich atmosphere.  There are those who refuse to
see this.  Meanwhile, global mean surface temperatures
continue to rise.