WKN Weer, Klimaat en Natuurrampen
Lees alles over het onstuimige weer op onze planeet, volg orkanen en tornado's, zie hoe vulkanen uitbarsten en hoe Moeder Aarde beeft bij een aardbeving. Alles over de verwoestende kracht van onze planeet en tal van andere natuurverschijnselen.
En inmiddels komt de Volgende Cycloon op het noordwesten af.
Cyclone HUBERT gaat ook ook categorie 3-4 bereiken
Cyclone HUBERT gaat ook ook categorie 3-4 bereiken
April 6, 2006 — Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma, all from the historic 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, were "retired" by an international hurricane committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which includes the NOAA National Hurricane Center, during their annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now retired, these five storms, part of last season's record-setting 27 named storms and 15 hurricanes, will not reappear on the list of potential storm names that is otherwise recycled every six years. (Click NOAA illustration for larger view of Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Click here for high resolution version. Please credit “NOAA.”)
Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma represent the type of devastating storm that is "retired" for causing a large loss of life and property. These names will not be used again for sensitivity reasons and to establish distinction within the scientific and legal communities.
For 2011, Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma have been replaced with Don, Katia, Rina, Sean and Whitney, respectively.
Since tropical cyclones were first named in 1953, 67 names have been retired (the first being Carol and Hazel in 1954), and with a total of five, 2005 has the most retired storm names in a single season (previous record: four in 1955, 1995 and 2004).
A synopsis of the newly retired storms:
Dennis began its path of destruction in early July while passing between Jamaica and Haiti and then crossing Cuba with estimated top winds of 140 mph. After tracking north across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Dennis came ashore on Santa Rosa Island, Fla., as a Category 3 hurricane on July 10 with top winds estimated at 120 mph. At least 54 deaths are directly or indirectly attributed to Dennis, including 15 in the U.S, most from within Florida.
Katrina became the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history with damage costs exceeding $50 billion and fatalities, directly and indirectly, topping 1,300. Katrina came ashore at Buras, La., as a Category 3 hurricane on August 29 with top winds estimated at 125 mph. Additionally, Katrina was a Category 1 hurricane when it first struck the U.S. near the Broward/Miami-Dade County line in Florida on August 24 after bringing tropical storm conditions to the northern Bahamas.
Rita made landfall in extreme southwestern Louisiana, near the Texas border, as a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 115 mph on September 24. Rita reached Category 5 strength with top winds estimated at 180 mph over the central Gulf of Mexico, where it had the fourth-lowest central pressure on record (895 millibars) in the Atlantic Basin. Rita produced a significant storm surge that devastated coastal communities in southwestern Louisiana, and its wind, rain, and tornadoes caused fatalities and a wide swath of damage from eastern Texas to Alabama. Rita also produced storm surge flooding in parts of the Florida Keys as the storm's center passed between the Keys and Cuba en route to the Gulf Coast.
Stan, in combination with other weather features, produced torrential rainfall in Mexico and Central America where the combined death toll is estimated to be as high as 2,000. Stan first crossed Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a tropical storm, then moved southwest across the Bay of Campeche and hit as a Category 1 hurricane about 90 miles southeast of Veracruz, Mexico, on October 4.
Wilma was an extremely intense Category 5 hurricane over the northwestern Caribbean Sea with estimated tops winds of 185 mph and the all-time lowest central pressure (882 millibars) for an Atlantic Basin hurricane. A slow-moving Wilma devastated coastal areas of the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico as a Category 4 hurricane. It later raced into South Florida—coming ashore near Cape Romano, Fla., at Category 3 intensity with top winds estimated at 120 mph on October 24—and inflicting extensive damage.
Names for the upcoming 2006 season, which begins June 1, include Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, William. On this list Kirk replaces Keith, which was retired following its impact on Mexico and Belize in 2000.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, 61 countries and the European Commission to develop a global network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
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Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma represent the type of devastating storm that is "retired" for causing a large loss of life and property. These names will not be used again for sensitivity reasons and to establish distinction within the scientific and legal communities.
For 2011, Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma have been replaced with Don, Katia, Rina, Sean and Whitney, respectively.
Since tropical cyclones were first named in 1953, 67 names have been retired (the first being Carol and Hazel in 1954), and with a total of five, 2005 has the most retired storm names in a single season (previous record: four in 1955, 1995 and 2004).
A synopsis of the newly retired storms:
Dennis began its path of destruction in early July while passing between Jamaica and Haiti and then crossing Cuba with estimated top winds of 140 mph. After tracking north across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Dennis came ashore on Santa Rosa Island, Fla., as a Category 3 hurricane on July 10 with top winds estimated at 120 mph. At least 54 deaths are directly or indirectly attributed to Dennis, including 15 in the U.S, most from within Florida.
Katrina became the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history with damage costs exceeding $50 billion and fatalities, directly and indirectly, topping 1,300. Katrina came ashore at Buras, La., as a Category 3 hurricane on August 29 with top winds estimated at 125 mph. Additionally, Katrina was a Category 1 hurricane when it first struck the U.S. near the Broward/Miami-Dade County line in Florida on August 24 after bringing tropical storm conditions to the northern Bahamas.
Rita made landfall in extreme southwestern Louisiana, near the Texas border, as a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 115 mph on September 24. Rita reached Category 5 strength with top winds estimated at 180 mph over the central Gulf of Mexico, where it had the fourth-lowest central pressure on record (895 millibars) in the Atlantic Basin. Rita produced a significant storm surge that devastated coastal communities in southwestern Louisiana, and its wind, rain, and tornadoes caused fatalities and a wide swath of damage from eastern Texas to Alabama. Rita also produced storm surge flooding in parts of the Florida Keys as the storm's center passed between the Keys and Cuba en route to the Gulf Coast.
Stan, in combination with other weather features, produced torrential rainfall in Mexico and Central America where the combined death toll is estimated to be as high as 2,000. Stan first crossed Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a tropical storm, then moved southwest across the Bay of Campeche and hit as a Category 1 hurricane about 90 miles southeast of Veracruz, Mexico, on October 4.
Wilma was an extremely intense Category 5 hurricane over the northwestern Caribbean Sea with estimated tops winds of 185 mph and the all-time lowest central pressure (882 millibars) for an Atlantic Basin hurricane. A slow-moving Wilma devastated coastal areas of the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico as a Category 4 hurricane. It later raced into South Florida—coming ashore near Cape Romano, Fla., at Category 3 intensity with top winds estimated at 120 mph on October 24—and inflicting extensive damage.
Names for the upcoming 2006 season, which begins June 1, include Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby, Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene, Isaac, Joyce, Kirk, Leslie, Michael, Nadine, Oscar, Patty, Rafael, Sandy, Tony, Valerie, William. On this list Kirk replaces Keith, which was retired following its impact on Mexico and Belize in 2000.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation's coastal and marine resources.
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, 61 countries and the European Commission to develop a global network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
Relevant Web Sites
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Ik las hier dat ze in Australie een andere orkaanschaal gebruiken, dan die ze in de VS hanteren. Categorie 3, in Australie, is op de Amerikaanse schaal categorie 2. Knap verwarrend dan....
Das wel lekker dan... idd Hier nog een leuke foto van Monicaquote:Op woensdag 19 april 2006 21:26 schreef aloa het volgende:
Ik las hier dat ze in Australie een andere orkaanschaal gebruiken, dan die ze in de VS hanteren. Categorie 3, in Australie, is op de Amerikaanse schaal categorie 2. Knap verwarrend dan....
dus het wordt een Categorie 5 in de baai na het stukje land wat je hierboven weergeeft.
Hoe zit het met de bevolking van Australie in het deel erna? Darwin is de grootste stad lijkt me, dat ligt echter ten westen... die zullen flink wat wind en regen krijgen... maar de oostkust van Northern Territory lijkt de volle laag te krijgen
Nu 'pas'... het australische seizoen loopt eigenlijk tot mei... terwijl er inderdaad in April een 'piek' kan zijn... Zie openingspost...quote:Op zondag 23 april 2006 02:05 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
cat 5 nu al in april ?
Bier enzo.quote:Op zondag 23 april 2006 02:09 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Nu 'pas'... het australische seizoen loopt eigenlijk tot mei... terwijl er inderdaad in April een 'piek' kan zijn... Zie openingspost...
Bier enzo.ff vrolijk meelurken. (was een verkapte tvp)
whehehe...grappug dat je dat zegt...quote:Op zondag 23 april 2006 02:15 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
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Bier enzo.
ff vrolijk meelurken. (was een verkapte tvp)
heb de lege grolsch voor me staan..
heb de openingspost vier keer gelezen voor ik eigenlijk beseft wat daar nu stond en dacht: kut..
en de vijfde keer dacht ik: ah toch wel piek in april...lol..
dus ik snap je
Experts Link Global Warming to Hurricanes 2005
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) -- The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Holland told a packed hall at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."
His conclusion will be debated throughout the week-long conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth.
Many of the experts gathered in the coastal city of Monterey, California, are federal employees. The Bush administration contends global warming is an unproven theory.
While many of the conference's 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame.
Some, like William Gray, a veteran hurricane researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, attributed the warming to natural cycles.
Gray said he believes salinity buildups and movements with ocean currents cause warming and cooling cycles. He predicted the Caribbean water will continue to warm for another five to 10 years, then start cooling.
More warming to come
Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date -- about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water -- is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
Adam Lea, a postdoctoral student at Britain's University College London in Dorking, Surrey, presented research based on British, German, Russian and Canadian studies that concludes half of the increased hurricane activity in the tropics could be attributed to global warming.
Holland, director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division of the federal research center, said tropical storm anomalies in the 1940s and 1950s can be explained by natural variability.
But he said carbon dioxide started changing traceable patterns in the 1970s and by the early 1990s, the atmospheric results were affecting the storm numbers and intensities.
"What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change," said Holland, a native of Australia. "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases."
Hurricane Katrina, which tore onto the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29, was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years and the costliest ever, with property damages estimated at $75 billion.
This year, the weather service's Tropical Prediction Center expects more hurricanes than usual, but not as many as last year's record 14.
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) -- The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Holland told a packed hall at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."
His conclusion will be debated throughout the week-long conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth.
Many of the experts gathered in the coastal city of Monterey, California, are federal employees. The Bush administration contends global warming is an unproven theory.
While many of the conference's 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame.
Some, like William Gray, a veteran hurricane researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, attributed the warming to natural cycles.
Gray said he believes salinity buildups and movements with ocean currents cause warming and cooling cycles. He predicted the Caribbean water will continue to warm for another five to 10 years, then start cooling.
More warming to come
Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date -- about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water -- is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
Adam Lea, a postdoctoral student at Britain's University College London in Dorking, Surrey, presented research based on British, German, Russian and Canadian studies that concludes half of the increased hurricane activity in the tropics could be attributed to global warming.
Holland, director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division of the federal research center, said tropical storm anomalies in the 1940s and 1950s can be explained by natural variability.
But he said carbon dioxide started changing traceable patterns in the 1970s and by the early 1990s, the atmospheric results were affecting the storm numbers and intensities.
"What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change," said Holland, a native of Australia. "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases."
Hurricane Katrina, which tore onto the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29, was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years and the costliest ever, with property damages estimated at $75 billion.
This year, the weather service's Tropical Prediction Center expects more hurricanes than usual, but not as many as last year's record 14.
HMM...kweetnie...... in Maart zat er ook al een cycloon in deze regio...quote:Op vrijdag 28 april 2006 08:39 schreef Light het volgende:
Is Mala nu eigenlijk de start voor het seizoen op het noordelijk halfrond?
Weet niet in hoeverre het Noordelijk Halfrond echt een 'begin' kent. Het Noord Indische Oceaanseizoen begint in April... met een piek in Mei... dus het zal hier wel 'beginnen' inderdaad.
Ze hebben wel bezuinigd op het aantal nieuwe letters in die namen....quote:Op zondag 9 april 2006 03:10 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
For 2011, Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma have been replaced with Don, Katia, Rina, Sean and Whitney, respectively.
Een ding dat ik niet snap van die NCAR knakker: Waarom hebben we als afgelopen seizoen zo heftig was dankzij global warming, nauwelijks iets gezien in de Pacific? Ik vraag me sterk af of afgelopen jaar globaal niet binnen de statistieken valt. Zeker aangezien het niet eens zo heel veel heftiger in de atlantische oceaan was dan in '50
Overigens lijkt het me volledig logisch dat een versterkt broeikaseffect meer convectie, verdamping en dus een krachtiger orkaanseizoen moet betekenen. Hoe dat precies uitpakt (meer orkanen, groter in oppervlak, krachtiger, wat dan ook) is een mooi onderzoekspad, en het kan ook best zijn dat het juist in de noordatlantiek versterkt, maar die uitleg hoor ik graag
Interessante theorie Thijs... zou het niet weten...
Misschien heeft het ook te maken dat de orkanen in de Atlantische oceaan meer 'kans' hebben om uit te groeien en dichter bij land zitten waar de media er boven op springt. Grote Oceaan is veel groter. Je hoort er gewoon minder over. Sommige Typhoons van vorig jaar die richting Japan, China en Taiwan trokken waren echte monsters en je hoorde er nauwelijks iets over.
Nog een kleine 30 dagen en dan begint 'officieel' het Atlantische seizoen
Misschien heeft het ook te maken dat de orkanen in de Atlantische oceaan meer 'kans' hebben om uit te groeien en dichter bij land zitten waar de media er boven op springt. Grote Oceaan is veel groter. Je hoort er gewoon minder over. Sommige Typhoons van vorig jaar die richting Japan, China en Taiwan trokken waren echte monsters en je hoorde er nauwelijks iets over.
Nog een kleine 30 dagen en dan begint 'officieel' het Atlantische seizoen
Taiwan merk je in de comuterprijzen
mwah da's de media-aandacht, en die is absoluut gefocust op de amerikaanse kust. Van Stan hoorde je ook veel minder dan van Rita (of zelfs Ophelia in het begin). Maar ik ga ervan uit dan een topinstituut als NCAR naar de cijfers kijkt, en niet met de hype meeloopt.
mwah da's de media-aandacht, en die is absoluut gefocust op de amerikaanse kust. Van Stan hoorde je ook veel minder dan van Rita (of zelfs Ophelia in het begin). Maar ik ga ervan uit dan een topinstituut als NCAR naar de cijfers kijkt, en niet met de hype meeloopt.
Hier trouwens nog twee foto's van Myanmar, waar Typhoon Mala toesloeg en zware overstromingen veroorzaakte. (Iets wat dus ook nauwelijks in het nieuws kwam)
Forecasters : Major Hurricane Season Brewing in the Atlantic click
May 8, 2006
Associated Press
CTV, Canada
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door francorex op 08-05-2006 23:02:24 ]
May 8, 2006
Associated Press
CTV, Canada
Een mooi overzichtsplaatje, hurricane seizoen 2005quote:REDERICTON -- In what could signal a frightening new fact of life in the age of global warming, Canadian and U.S. forecasters are warning that another major hurricane season is brewing in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 2006 hurricane season officially opens on June 1, and already scientists are telling people living in eastern North America that numerous storms are predicted, with as many as five major hurricanes packing winds of 180 km/h or greater.
"It's kind of comparable to what we were looking at last year at this time," says Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist with the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, N.S.
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Sorry Frutsel, mijn fout. Het plaatje is een overzicht seizoen 2005.quote:Op maandag 8 mei 2006 22:34 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
dan lijkt Florida aardig gespaard te worden...
