May 12, 2008
1526 gmt
Africa-Europe Satellite
May 12, 2008
1527 gmt
Western Hemisphere Satellite
The heat is significant everywhere. The southern hemisphere is exceptionally hot, but, the tropical northern hemisphere is starting to spawn storms across the Atlantic from Africa. Hurricane propagation.
May 12, 2008
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite Western and Northern Hemisphere
And that brings us back to the Artic Oscillation. It will be delivering all kinds of bad news beginning with the West Coast.
May 12, 2008
0530z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Western and Northern Hemispheric Satellite.
May 12, 2008
0530z
UNISYS GOES East Enhanced Infrared Satellite
NC - Vast Devastation on coastal plain (click here)
May 12, 2008
0530z
UNISYS USA Enhanced Infrared Satellite
May 12, 2008
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UNISYS Mid-Atlantic Enhanced Infrared Satellite Image
Posted: Today at 11:02 a.m.
Updated: 16 minutes ago
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Strong winds raked western North Carolina on Monday and knocked out power to thousands following a severe weather system that spawned seven tornados a day earlier.
"We've got a lot of trees down in the mountains," said Doug Outlaw, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office. "It really got going late yesterday and just increased overnight."
Duke Energy and Progress Energy reported more than 21,000 customers were affected by power outages Monday morning.
Outlaw said wind speeds reached an estimated 60 mph in the mountains and higher in mountain gaps where the wind was funneled. He said a roof was lifted off a house at Lake Lure as wind charged through a gorge at the end of the lake southeast of Asheville....
May 11, 2008
Maryville, Tennessee
Photographer states :: WIND FOR FIVE DAYS - Wind hit on Friday afternoon and is still here in the East TN Valley.
Returning home from Asheville (North Carolina) yesterday (Sunday) the wind in the mountains was moving trucks and cars around on the high roads.
Returning home at 6 PM Sunday night the phone was ringing with reports of a tree down in a home we own in Maryville, TN (less than 7 miles from where we live) and numerious trees down in that neighborhood.
Driving over we found a 100 year old oak in our yard down. It fell across our drive, power and phone lines and on top of a neighbor's Volvo parked at the top of our driveway. The tree blocked a side street and the top branches cut into the same neighbor's flowers in there front yard.
Police and utility crews told us they had been clearning trees since 1 AM Sunday morning and the wind had never stopped.
Today it is sunny but more of the same still in the area.
