Sunday, August 27, 2017

Sustaining velocity because of sustained tropospheric heat.

28.50 -97.20 08/26/06Z 85 963 HURRICANE-2
28.90 -97.30 08/26/12Z 65 984 HURRICANE-1
29.10 -97.60 08/26/18Z 55 990 TROPICAL STORM
29.30 -97.30 08/27/00Z 45 994 TROPICAL STORM
29.20 -97.70 08/27/06Z 40 998 TROPICAL STORM

Harvey REQUIRES a fall of about 10 more millibars to encourage dissipation. Cureently, Harvey's' feeder system extends from the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) to just below the Arctic Circle. Once it reaches the Artic
Circle the system can be considered a complete heat transfer system to dissipate the heat.

It's just that there is so little ice in the Arctic Ocean this year there is nothing to encourage quicker resolve. It's physics, folks. The oceans are hot. The Gulf of Mexico is ridiculously hot. There is no place for the heat to go.

August 27, 2017
1130.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)   

For all those Martians that are still on Earth, that is why there are chronic tornadoes. No atmospheric water vapor to dissipate the heat into clouds to rain down on Earth to transfer the heat to Marian soil and oceans. I suppose once Mars reaches the habitable zone around Sol the polar ice caps will melt and it will be easier to live there. 

That, however, is a very, very long wait.