July 18, 2008
1330z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite
On close examination, the tropical storm in the Caribbean Sea between the Dominican Republic and Curacao remains un-named. No clue why, it obviously has an 'center of ciruclation' that is an 'eye wall.' I guess the Hurricane Center ran out of money in their budget. The war and all that mess. No time for Homeland Security to 'name storms' that could kill people and damage property and international finance. 
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July 18, 2008
1330z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite GOES East
Currently, there have been nine East Pacific storms to spawn this season thus far with two currently active, one a Cat 2.
The Atlantic is a 'flyin' disaster, like, ahhhhh, where to do I begin ???????
First, I'll cover the Pacific a little more because it is 'communicating' with the oscillations in the Atlantic.
Noted two existing storms, there are actually three, but, one is a tropical depression. It is that TD 07E and TS Fausto that are 'interestingly' from the same neighborhood and supports the 'concept' of 'localized water vapor' availability for 'storm support.'
Noted that TD 07E is 'within' a vortex of water vapor that communicates with the Carribean Sea (The Gulf of Mexico is actually quite for the most part.) and is 'centered' over the Gulf of Fonesca bordered by Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. It makes sense the water vapor vortex would locate at this place as there are substantial rainforest in Nicaraqua which has been a political focus and effort by the Nicaraquan government. I congratulate them.
The downside to any current tropical region is the chronic rain, land/mudslides and flooding. Belize lost people, including children, in recent storms that visited there.
Originally posted on: Friday, July 18, 2008 by Haley Webb - MeteorologistLast updated on: 7/18/2008 6:24:58 AM
In the tropics, we have a few things to talk about.
Tropical Storm Bertha is still in the middle of the Atlantic, but of no concern to any land areas.
The next area has been moving through the Southwest Caribbean and now has gone ashore into Central America before it could get enough strength to become a depression. Even so, it could still bring heavy rains causing mud slides and flooding to Central America.
The next area is in the southern Caribbean and moving to the West at 20-25 mph. The west-northwesterly track will likely take this toward the Yucatan Peninsula.
There is still the possibility of it becoming a tropical depression in the next day or so.
The third area is the low pressure system that brought heavy rains here a couple of days ago. It has pulled to the northeast and is now just of the southern Georgia coast.
This system is drifting to the north-northeast and has the possibility of becoming a tropical depression as it stays over the warm Atlantic waters.
To say all efforts leading to the preservation of tropical regions is paramount is an understatement. Earth is seeking to maintain a coolness in the troposphere as only a water planet could through frequent storms that manifest into heat transfers, such as Tropical Storms and Hurricanes. Tornadoes haven't stopped, by the way. They are still maintaining a presence in Canada. Did I say Canada? Ah, yep, Canada.
SEVERE WEATHER
Mother Nature gives Alberta a rough ride (click here)
DAWN WALTON
July 18, 2008
CALGARY -- In tiny Burdett, Alta., trees were uprooted and snapped like matchsticks, windows were blown out of new tractors, irrigation lines were yanked from the ground and roofs were ripped off buildings, including a massive slice of tin torn from Ted Dykstra's trucking business.
Mr. Dykstra, who has lived in the hamlet in the southeast corner of Alberta since 1973, is no stranger to the region's wild summer weather, but he doesn't recall ever seeing anything close to Tuesday night's storm.
"The trees were flying by one way and then it went still and then they come flying by the other way. That's got to be a tornado," he said.
Environment Canada dispatched a team yesterday to survey the damage, concluding that an F1 tornado had touched down near Vulcan, southeast of Calgary, and that an unusual case of "straight-line wind damage" further to the south and east was caused by gusts reaching 180 to 200 kilometres an hour....
So, return to the GOES East water vapor satellite and take a closer look at TS Fausto, it is completely obvious that the northern and western hemisphere of Earth is dry and getting drier. TS Fausto is supporting a water vapor trail into the central continent of North America, eastward, progressing northeast to an upper tropospheric vortex located between Newfoundland and Greenland. The relationship between TS Fausto and that Newfoundland vortex is indirect. That vortex is what is facilitating the water vapor support of "Bertha" and the 'near shore storm' of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
There is a significant storm in the Caribbean and why this hasn't been named yet is beyond me to understand because it has a circulating 'eye wall.'
To conclude for now, there is another 'heat generated storm' coming off Africa from the same neighborhood as Bertha, noted in the lower right corner of both satellite pictures above and any satellite of 'The Tropical Atlantic' today.
