September 23, 2007
1530z
UNISYS Infrared Satellite.
I nearly resist to put a 'simple' infrared satellite up on this blog because it can look confusing, but, after a slur to amateur observers by CNN's John Roberts that evidently 'he can watch the color blogs too' it's better to distance from the insult if one is serious about 'the view' where I sit.
I don't see "Jerry" as an autonomous low pressure system. I see that as 'part' of a much larger sytem that is currently 'anti-cyclonic' in the Gulf of Mexico as well. If one looks at the infrared loop it is easily noted the circulation of the low pressure system is supported by equatorial water vapor but encompasses the entire air masse from the Gulf of Mexico to the low pressure known as Jerry. Not that Jerry won't resolve and dissipate and thus separating from the rest of the system, but, to my way of thinking that is simply an oscillation of a much larger air masse that indeeds has dimensions far beyond the current definitions of any weather prediction service.
In fact the "Jerry System" remains in oscillation between the Gulf the Atlantic to attempt to build up a head of steam to actually transfer heat to the ocean rather than the Arctic Circle. Proof that the oceans still have a capacity to accept heat if there was only enough tropospheric water vapor to support such dynamics in a storm severe enough to call a hurricane.
Also noted is the lowest temperatures today...in Montana (click on link)...at 12:35 PM the temperatures are approaching freezing with the lowest temperatures at 41 F currently. That is significant because I stated sometime earlier this summer season that in proof how very dangerous Climate Change is under HUMAN INDUCED Global Warming, that Earth had actually tried to 'recap' itself last winter. The snow fall and human/economic tragedy would substantiate that claim.
I am claiming the same thing this year.
If one notes this is the beginning of the Autumnal Equinox and already with Sol's direct rays now below the Equator we are noting very cold temperatures at this upper latitudes. Why is that noteworthy? Because under HUMAN INDUCED Global Warming; Earth does NOT have natural processes at work and while Earth's physics is working hard to 'rebalance' it's biotic nature, the effects of humans are undermining the planet's ability to rebalance. That means even with natural processes at work, humans will continue to cause gross emissions of carbon dioxide and hence continue to through Earth into an imbalance that endangers all life on Earth. There will come a point when the heat within the troposphere will surmount to levels no life on the surface or underground, due to air quality will be able to tolerate.
I'll be back in a few hours.
