Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / October 2005

We paid about $100 for this weather station and plan on buying the
optional rain gauge for $20.  Anyone know if these are any good.
I did a search and it looks like stations with similar features are at
least $40 more.  Never had a weather station before so am definitely

Many weather stations are now automated.  However, are mercury barometers
still being used in non-automated weather stations - professional stations
which hourly report ground observations?  Or have these mostly been replaced
by electronic barometers?

TROPICAL STORM ALPHA DISCUSSION NUMBER   2
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NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT SAT OCT 22 2005

Warmest summer in 400 yrs: NASA
Source: Copyright 2005, Times of India
Date: September 28, 2005
NEW YORK: Caught in a "vicious" circle of global warming, the polar ice

I know i'm late with this, but i am just totally shocked that hurricane
Wilma reached a lower pressure than Gilbert's 888 mb in 1988.   Wilma
hit 882 mb!   - i never thought what was a tropical depression a few
days ago, late in the season, would smash Gilbert's pressure record.

I've seen this kind of thing in satellite photos before. There's a
storm
forming in the Gulf of Alaska, what I'm assuming to be a cold winter
storm,

Tropical Depression #25 will become RECORD BREAKING Tropical Storm
ALPHA later today.
The festering mass already bigger than WILMA was when it became a
hurricane has been showing an eye-spot on the satellite pictures for

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=alX6FUekFwZ0&refer=top_world_news
...  Mexico's National Water Commission said on its Web site waves at
Cancun swelled between 16 feet and 26 feet as of 2 p.m. local time and
a measuring station on Isla Mujeres, just off the coast ...

Florida Keys prepare for Hurricane Wilma
(CNN) -- Officials ordered non-residents in the Florida Keys to evacuate
Wednesday in advance of Hurricane Wilma, a dangerous Category 5 storm that's
days away from its projected landfall near the island chain.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/190502.shtml
HURRICANE WILMA SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER  15
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1 AM EDT WED OCT 19 2005

Hurricanes grow stronger over warm waters and correspondingly lose
strength over cool waters. Hurricanes typically need an ocean
temperature of about 80º F, 26º C, to form. This page shows the
cooler waters following Hurricane Bonnie caused Hurricane Danielle

I'm pretty new to thermal sensing and such, but I have a friend who
wishes me to make/aquire 3 types of temperature sensors, all with
greater than .1 degree celsius accuracy.
1) Ambient temperature

I predict that Earth's climate in 2010 will be very similar to the
climate of Venus now.
Our only chance : We have to escape to Mars...

COUNT THEM YOURSELF: Science anybody can do themselves. No 'experts'
required to explain anything.
Atlantic cyclones 1851-2005
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How many tropical storms and hurricanes have had any significant impact on
the U.S. mainland so far in this hurricane season 2005?  I have lost track
probably because of the effects of Katrina and Rita.