Hurricane Season 2007 #1

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Op vrijdag 23 februari 2007 00:34 schreef Party_P het volgende:
Gamede gaat madagascar keihard treffen. Ik vrees dat de natuur het daar zeer zwaar te verduren krijgt.

Inderdaad... gaat misschien als cat.4 aan land daar

Hier nog een plaatje van Gamede



Tropical Cyclone Gamede

Tropical Cyclone Gamede was spinning in middle of the Indian Ocean on February 21, 2007, when it was observed by NASA’s s QuikSCAT satellite at 5:03 p.m. local time (13:03 UTC). The nearest land to the storm system was Diego Garcia, several hundred miles north of the storm. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecast at the time did not call for the cyclone to be travelling anywhere near other significant land, so the storm poses no threat to population centers.

This data visualization of QuikSCAT’s observation shows Cyclone Gamede and its spiral pattern of winds. The image depicts wind speed in color and wind direction with small barbs. White barbs point to areas of heavy rain. Gamede appears as a well-formed spiral of winds centered around a strong eye with less wind at its center. This pattern is typical of tropical cyclones. Since the storm is in the Southern Hemisphere, the Coriolos effect which gives it its spinning shape turns clockwise, the opposite direction to hurricanes and typhoons which form in the Northern Hemisphere. According to the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Center, Cyclone Gamede had sustained winds around 45 knots (83 kilometers per hour; 52 miles per hour) at the time of the QuikSCAT observation.


En de overstromingen van Madagascar na de vorige orkanen zijn nog niet eens opgelost terwijl Gamede eraan komt



A string of tropical cyclones, including Cyclones Favio, Clovis, and Bondo, struck Madagascar from December to February 2007, dumping heavy rain on the island nation. The resulting floods left almost 25,000 people in need of assistance and destroyed an estimated 200,000 tons of rice, reported Reuters on February 19. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image of flooding in western Madagascar on February 21, 2007. Full of the region’s characteristic red mud, the Betsiboka River and surrounding rivers are bright blue instead of black or dark blue, as water usually is in this type of image. The lower image, acquired on December 16, 2006, shows the rivers before the cyclones struck. These rivers are prone to flooding during the rainy season, and the cyclones and seasonal rains pushed them well over their dry-season extent. By February 21, the Betsiboka was a wide blue ribbon surrounded by pools of water.

Topfoto i2Them2!

Welke twee zijn dat? Favio en Ganime of Ganime en die 3e?

die onderste link staat volgens mij ook ergens tussen die in de OP...
maar mooie foto van weerwoord.be

Tropical Cyclone Gamede was in the western Indian Ocean off the shore of Madagascar on February 26, 2007. This powerful storm had been moving southward parallel to the eastern coast of Madagascar for two days at this time, bringing heavy rains and strong surf to Madagascar and the two major Mascarene Islands of Reunion and Mauritius. The storm seemed to be staying away from settled areas, but reports from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and U.K. Accuweather noted strong surf on the coast and island shorelines, as well as heavy rain. This same area was brushed by Cyclone Favio just days before, as well as suffering a series of severe storms and cyclones in recent months. Unlike Favio, Gamede was predicted to continue on its generally southward track and not turn towards mainland Africa.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2007 11:21 schreef Party_P het volgende:
Madagascar heeft nog enigzins geluk. Gamede gaat erlangs en niet erover heen.

Inderdaad.. merkwaardige koerswijziging zeg
Mazzel voor Madagascar

En we hebben George ten noorden van Australië





[ Bericht 24% gewijzigd door Frutsel op 04-03-2007 16:02:31 ]

Indonesië krijgt mogelijk ook nog last van Tropical Storm Jacob..



Hebben ze nog niet genoeg modder en regen gehad de laatste tijd...

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Op woensdag 7 maart 2007 12:12 schreef Eveli het volgende:

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Ja en wat dacht je van die 2 aardbevingen en die vliegtuigcrash? Indonesië is wel goed de lul de laatste tijd.

Klopt... in het NWS topic over de Aardbeving had iemand het al bij gehouden Aarbeving op Sumatra: Zeker 70 doden

After crossing Australia’s Northern Territory and triggering floods, Cyclone George skimmed along the Australian coast, steadily gaining power. By the time the storm took a sharp turn towards shore and headed towards Port Hedland in northern Western Australia on March 8, 2007, the cyclone packed sustained winds of 200 kilometers per hour (127 miles per hour, 110 knots) with gusts to 250 km/hr (155 mph, 135 knots). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on March 8, at 10:55 a.m., local time (1:55 UTC). Though the storm lacks a distinct eye, the dense concentration of swirling clouds attests to the storm’s power.

Though Cyclone George was a very weak storm when it passed over Australia’s Northern Territory on March 1 and March 2, 2007, it brought widespread rain and high tides to the region. The rain and tides triggered floods along the coast and in river systems, which are shown in the top image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on March 8. The lower image, taken on February 15, 2007, shows the area before the storm came ashore. In these images, made with visible and infrared light, water is black or dark blue. Most striking in the March 8 image is the dark pools of water along the coast and coastal inlets. The wetlands that jut in from the northern shore have expanded into wide, triangular rivers. To the southwest, the Daly River and nearby wetlands are also flooded.

Signs of flooding are also visible in the Indian Ocean. Though sunlight reflecting off the water makes the color hard to distinguish, the water near shore is blue, not black as it was in February. When flood water drains into the ocean, it carries sediment from the run-off. The sediment scatters light, lending the water the blue color seen here. Clouds in this type of image are pale blue and white

At least three people are feared dead and up to 20 injured, after a powerful cyclone hit north-west Australia.

Cyclone George packed winds of up to 280km/h (170 mph), damaging homes and disrupting power in the remote town of Port Hedland.

A local mining company closed its iron ore operations, and some offshore oil production was also suspended.

Officials say the cyclone is the worst storm to hit the region since Cyclone Vance in 1999.

Cyclone George, which forecasters said may have been a maximum level five storm as it crossed the coast, hit a mine construction camp owned by Fortescue Metals Group, based about 100km (62 miles) south of Port Hedland.

It destroyed many temporary housing units at the camp, where workers were staying while building a railway
At least one person is known to have died, but Western Australia Premier Alan Carpenter said there were unconfirmed reports that three people had been killed at the site.

An emergency team has recently been able to reach the camp and evacuate the injured, according to the metals company, but rescue attempts are still being hampered by continuing strong winds.

Storm damage

The storm also tore off roofs, felled trees and cut power lines to at least three towns in the area, according to emergency officials.

"We had our patio start to lift, we had fences being pushed over, trees being snapped, everything flying around," Port Hedland resident Steve Fitzgibbon told a local radio programme.

Cyclones are a regular feature in northern Australia during the summer months.

Cyclone Tracy killed 65 people in the northern city of Darwin in 1974.

Jacob heeft ook een rare bocht gemaakt en doet ook nog even Noord-West Australië aan... waar George net heeft huisgehouden

Madagascar krijgt mogelijk ook nog een nieuwe storm voor de kiezen

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.ed(...)/images/xxwvmet5.GIF

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.ed(...)t5wv/met5wvjava.html

wat een naam weer zeg
Indlala... tis net zon teletubbie

Nog een plaatje van Jacob dan...

CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland, - On the heels of El Niño, its opposite, the cooling weather pattern in the east-central equatorial Pacific known as La Niña is expected to arrive soon, according to government forecasters. La Niña conditions in the Pacific typically mean a greater than normal number of Atlantic hurricanes.

Photo: Dolphins play in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. (Photo courtesy NOAA)

In a weekly update, scientists at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center said that as the 2006-2007 El Niño has faded, surface and subsurface ocean temperatures have rapidly decreased.

Recently, cooler than normal water temperatures have developed at the surface in the east-central equatorial Pacific, indicating a possible transition to La Niña conditions.

La Niña conditions occur when ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific become cooler than normal.

These changes affect tropical rainfall patterns and atmospheric winds over the Pacific Ocean, which influence the patterns of rainfall and temperatures in many areas worldwide.

Typically, across the United States during the spring and summer months, La Niña conditions do not significantly impact overall inland temperature and precipitation patterns,but La Niña episodes often do have an effect on Atlantic and Pacific hurricane activity.

"Although other scientific factors affect the frequency of hurricanes, there tends to be a greater than normal number of Atlantic hurricanes and fewer than normal number of eastern Pacific hurricanes during La Niña events," said NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher.

"During the winter, usual La Niña impacts include drier and warmer than average conditions over the southern United States," he said.

"NOAA's ability to detect and monitor the formation, duration and strength of El Niño and La Niña events is enhanced by continuous improvements in satellite and buoy observations in the equatorial Pacific," Lautenbacher explained.

The observing systems currently at work include the TAO/TRITON moored and Argo drift buoys, as well as NOAA's polar orbiting satellites.

"La Niña events sometimes follow on the heels of El Niño conditions," said Vernon Kousky, research meteorologist at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. "It is a naturally occurring phenomenon that can last up to three years."

"While the status of El Niño/La Niña is of vital importance to our seasonal forecasts, it is but one measure we use when making actual temperature and precipitation forecasts," said Kousky.

La Niña episodes tend to develop during the four months from March through June, reach peak intensity during the December to February period, and then weaken during the following March to May period.

"The last lengthy La Niña event was 1998-2001, which contributed to serious drought conditions in many sections of the western United States," said Douglas Lecomte, drought specialist at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center.

In addition, atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the controversial theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center report that all the physical variables that converge to form hurricanes - wind speeds, wind directions and temperatures - feed off each other in ways that only make conditions more ripe for a storm.

The unsettling trend is confined to the Atlantic and does not hold up in any of the world's other oceans, researchers have also found.

James Kossin, a research scientist at UW-Madison's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, says the pattern emerged from a new dataset that correlates a variety of different satellite data over 22 years from 1983 to 2005.

"While we can see a correlation between global warming and hurricane strength, we still need to understand exactly why the Atlantic is reacting to warmer temperatures in this way, and that is much more difficult to do," says Kossin. "We need to be creating models and simulations to understand what is really happening here."

NOAA will issue the U.S. Spring Outlook on March 15, and its Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook in May. Both outlooks will reflect the most current La Niña forecast.

Krijgt Madagascar nu twee stormen tegelijk voor de kiezen?

Formation


Indlala



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en nog even een prachtige foto van de "eyewall" van Hurricane Katrina

Hier trouwens een prachtige 'gif' van beide stormen voor de kust van Madagascar.. .jammer dat ik hem hier niet kan laten zien...

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.ed(...)an/visirjava19S.html

Kewl Speedy!
Houdt hij die ook automatisch up-to-date of is en blijft dit die ene momentopname?

Slachtoffer orkaan Rita nu pas gevonden

In een huis in de Amerikaanse plaats Beaumont zijn na anderhalf jaar de resten van een slachtoffer van de orkaan Rita gevonden.

De man lag gewoon in zijn bed. Zijn huis was vrijwel niet beschadigd, maar er was sinds de verwoestende orkaan niemand binnen geweest omdat er twee grote bomen voor de ingang lagen.

De 51-jarige Texaan leefde een kluizenaarsbestaan. Buren namen aan dat de man was gevlucht voor Rita en de hulpdiensten controleerden alleen woningen die schade hadden opgelopen door de orkaan.

George and Jacob flood North West Australia



In the course of a week, the northern coast of Western Australia went from dry desert to riverine landscape under the onslaught of two successive tropical cyclones. Powerful Cyclone George roared ashore on March 8, 2007, with winds gusting up to 275 kilometers per hour (170 miles per hour). The storm caused extensive damage, including three deaths, reported the Australia Broadcasting Corporation News. The much weaker Cyclone Jacob came ashore just east of George’s landing point on March 12. The top image, captured on March 13, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite, shows the cumulative impact of the two storms on the DeGrey River basin.

The DeGrey River flows west through Western Australia before it turns north to empty into the Indian Ocean at Poissonnier Point east of the city of Port Hedland, the city most severely damaged by Cyclone George. On March 6, before both storms struck, the river was barely distinguishable in MODIS imagery. One week later, the river and its many tributaries cut a tangle of blue across the landscape. The heavy rain brought by the storms has also prompted plant growth. The land has gone from desert pink—the color of bare or sparsely vegetated land in this type of image—to the bright green of plant-covered land. The images were made with both infrared and visible light to highlight the presence of water on the ground. In this type of image, water is black or dark blue, where tainted with sediment, and clouds are pale blue and white.

Cyclone Indlala came ashore on the island of Madagascar on March 15, 2007, as a Category 3 storm, according to data provided by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The storm was the country’s sixth hit of the 2006-2007 storm season. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite shows Indlala draped over the northern part of the island. Bands of swirling clouds spiral around the eye of the storm.

According to Reuters AlertNet news service, Madagascar’s emergency response resources were taxed to their limit in early March 2007 as a result of extensive flooding in the North, drought and food shortages in the South, and three previous hits from cyclones in the preceding few months: Bondo in December 2006, Clovis in January 2007, and Gamede in February. The arrival of Indlala interrupted emergency relief efforts and worsened an already difficult situation.

Forecasters: Active Atlantic Season

MIAMI (Reuters) - The Atlantic hurricane season will be exceptionally active this year, according to a British forecasting group, raising the possibility that killer storms like Hurricane Katrina could again threaten the United States.

London-based forecaster Tropical Storm Risk on Tuesday said the six-month season, which begins on June 1, was expected to bring 17 tropical storms, of which nine will strengthen into hurricanes with winds of at least 74 miles per hour.

Four of those are expected to become more destructive "intense" hurricanes, TSR said.

The long-term average for the Atlantic is for 10 storms to form during the hurricane season and for six of those to reach hurricane strength.

The United States emerged unscathed from the 2006 season after it spawned a below-average nine storms, of which five became hurricanes. Experts had universally -- and erroneously -- predicted 2006 would be a busy year for Atlantic storms.

None of the hurricanes hit the United States, bringing welcome relief to beleaguered residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast, where Katrina killed 1,500 people, swamped New Orleans and caused about $80 billion in damage the year before.

But TSR said current and projected climate signals indicate that Atlantic basin and U.S. landfalling hurricane activity will be 75 percent above the 1950-2006 average in 2007.

TSR had predicted in December that Atlantic basin and U.S. landfalling hurricane activity would be just 60 percent above average this year. It raised the projected activity level because of the sudden dissipation in February of last year's El Nino weather phenomenon

An unusual warming of the eastern Pacific waters, El Nino events tend to suppress Atlantic storm activity.

Other experts, including hurricane forecast pioneer Dr. William Gray and his team at Colorado State University, have also warned that the 2007 hurricane season is likely to be busier-than-average.

The relative calm of last year's hurricane season, which forecasters had mistakenly predicted would be busy, came on the heels of a record 28 storms and 15 hurricanes in 2005 and only a slightly less furious season in 2004.(Reuters)

Veel doden op Madagaskar door cycloon

ANTANANARIVO - De cycloon Indlala die vorige week een spoor van vernielingen trok over het eiland Madagaskar heeft tientallen levens geëist. Tienduizenden mensen in het noorden van het land zijn verdreven door het natuurgeweld, meldde de regeringsfunctionaris verantwoordelijk voor rampensbestrijding vrijdag.

„Ik heb nog nooit zo veel schade gezien”, aldus Jacky Randimbiarison. Twee mensen zouden nog worden vermist. In het district Ambanja stortte een hele berg in op twee dorpen. De nederzettingen zijn begraven onder duizenden tonnen steen. Twintig mensen onder wie zes kinderen kwamen om in een school.

Het Internationale Rode Kruis heeft een noodoproep gedaan voor bijna 500.000 euro aan giften. Het geld is nodig voor het lenigen van de eerste nood. Honderdduizenden mensen zouden getroffen zijn door het natuurgeweld.

Tropical Cyclone Kara

Tropical Cyclone Kara

Tropical Cyclone Kara was poised just offshore of the Pilbara coast of Western Australia on March 27, 2007. Kara was not a particularly severe storm, but was hitting in the same area that Cyclone George, a much more powerful storm, and Cyclone Jacob, a smaller Category 2 storm similar to Cyclone Kara, had struck two weeks earlier.

This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on March 27, 2007, at 10:25 a.m. local time (02:25 UTC). The storm was a tropical cyclone with a circular shape and distinct eye at its center. According to the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Center, Cyclone Kara had sustained winds of 145 kilometers per hour (90 miles per hour) at the time this image was acquired.

21P is inmiddels 'geupgrade' naar BECKY

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Op woensdag 28 maart 2007 12:35 schreef highway101 het volgende:
Dat is volgens mij bij Vanuatu en New Caledonia, een eind ten oosten van Australië

Jep, op zo'n beetje dezelfde lokatie als waar van de week die aardbeving was.

Toeval? DE ---> TRU

En we hebben weer twee nieuwen

TROPICAL STORM KONG-REY


TROPICAL STORM JAYA


Hmm..weer Madagascar