Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / August 2006

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http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=5382&campaign=486
Environmental Defense Critique of Landsea Paper
Posted on: 07/31/2006
Christopher Landsea (of the National Hurricane Center) and his colleagues

I have a discrete multivariate Kalman filter.  I have 30 variables (or
fields or inputs)  I can track them every day.
However, two things can happen:
1-    One of these variables can become irrelevant in the state equation

Hurricane Debbie, Anybody? Place your bets.
Lots of loud mouth talk. Lets see who wants to bet on if this is Hurricane Debbie?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATWDAT+shtml/070623.shtml?
TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION...AMD          

G'day mates,
There are currently three good blows in the NW Pacific:  Typhoon
Saomai and tropical storms Bopha and Maria.
If you have a squiz at some of the images at the JTWC, you can see all

The Hotter It Gets, The Hotter It Gets
By Kim Krieger
AAAS ScienceNOW Daily News
3 August 2006

    Has Wahington DC ever been hit by a hurricane?
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Is there any known kind of lightning flash that doesn't have
accompanying thunder?
I was camping out a few nights ago, and for about 45 minutes, during
the night, I saw intermittent lightning flashes, but saw no lightning