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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)
| # | Name | Date | Wind | Pres | Cat | |
| 1 | Tropical Depression ONE_E | 07-07 JUN | 30 | 1005 | - | Active |
| 2 | Tropical Storm ADRIAN | 08-08 JUN | 40 | 1001 | - | Active |
Tropical Depression Develops In Eastern Pacific (click here)
By Mark Dunphy - Tue Jun 07, 9:23 am
A low pressure system off the coast of Mexico looks set to develop into the Eastern Pacific’s first tropical depression of the season.
Located about 425 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico, System 91E is in a good spot for development: warm sea surface temperatures and low wind shear. Those are two factors needed to help a tropical cyclone develop....
But, that isn't all.
Tropical Storm Brews In The Caribbean (click title to entry - thank you)
Infrared imagery on June 5 at 19:47 UTC (3:47 p.m. EDT/12:47 PDT) from the AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite showed strong convection (purple) and thunderstorms in System 91E, about 425 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. Credit: NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen
Tropical Storm Brews In The Caribbean (click title to entry - thank you)
By Mark Dunphy - Mon Jun 06, 8:32 pm
Some of those thunderstorm cloud tops that stretch from Jamaica east to the area south of Puerto Rico are very high and very cold. The strongest cloud top temperatures are as cold as or colder than -63 Fahrenheit / -52 Celsius, which is an indicator of a lot of energy building those high thunderstorms.
The AIRS imagery is about 1700 kilometres (1,056 miles) wide, and the showers and thunderstorms associated with System 94L fill up that track from west to east, making this a huge area of low pressure. Interestingly enough, the National Hurricane Center noted that today, June 6, the area of lowest pressure is located about 130 miles south of Grand Cayman, and separate from the strongest thunderstorms.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that this system has a Medium chance of becoming the Atlantic Ocean season’s first tropical storm before the upper level winds start battering it. NHC is planning to send a hurricane hunter into the storm on Tuesday, June 7 to investigate....
As these storms develop and it looks as though it is frequently, the temperatures over the terrestrial USA will come down a bit. That does not thwart the threat of severe weather to continue, such as tornadoes and hail, but, it will not occur with as much ferocity. Hopefully. It is a very severe troposphere globally. Currently there is a severe drought in China and water is a delicate commmodity. Texas is also experiencing a sustained drought.
June 8, 2011
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by Connor Radnovich, Ofelia Madrid, William Hermann and Lindsey Collom - Jun. 7, 2011 08:16 PM
The Arizona Republic
Authorities moved to evacuate a major part of Eagar Tuesday afternoon, as winds fanned the mammoth Wallow Fire and threatened the eastern Arizona town.
By 7 p.m., residents in Eagar and nearby Springerville were experiencing rolling power outages and a few gas stations were out of fuel….
Just west of Yankton, S.D., about 350 miles from Kansas City, a swirling muddy problem is being unleashed our way at 130,000 cubic feet per second.
By TONY RIZZO
The Kansas City Star
Just west of Yankton, S.D., about 350 miles from Kansas City, a swirling muddy problem is being unleashed our way at 130,000 cubic feet per second.
The practical result of that problem manifested itself Tuesday in Parkville, where hundreds of volunteers toiled in the steamy heat to fill thousands of sandbags. They hope to shield the community’s downtown area from the expected rise of the Missouri River.
Like residents of towns up and down the river, the workers in Parkville had their eyes on the menacing brown water nearby while their memories went back to 1993 and the record flood levels that in some places soon could be equaled or surpassed….
This is the Climate Crisis. Deaths are occuring in astronomial numbers. Last year alone, 50,000 people died from the Moscow fires. China's population along the Yangtze River. Some rains are predicted for that area, but, they are severe downpours that are expected. That may create mudslides rather than relief from the drought.
Photo taken on June 5, 2011 shows rainwater permeating the fragmentary riverbed land after a heavy rainfall in Poyang Lake in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province. The water level of Poyang Lake here had risen by 0.14 meters to 10.01 meters by 8 a.m. Sunday thanks to a heavy rainfall from 10 a.m. Saturday, but the level is still at the historical low and seven meters lower than the past year. (Xinhua/Fu Jianbin)
China adds 1.2 bln yuan to drought-hit regions (click here)
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Tuesday said it had added 1.2 billion yuan (about 182.65 million U.S. dollars) to help five regions along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River make a success of disaster relief work.
"The emergency allocation is primarily meant to aid drought-stricken Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces in restoring agricultural production and fishing," said the MOF in a statement posted at its website.
The additional funding came after the MOF had previously injected nearly 1.14 billion yuan to the five provinces for efforts to combat drought there....
China adds 1.2 bln yuan to drought-hit regions (click here)
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Tuesday said it had added 1.2 billion yuan (about 182.65 million U.S. dollars) to help five regions along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River make a success of disaster relief work.
"The emergency allocation is primarily meant to aid drought-stricken Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces in restoring agricultural production and fishing," said the MOF in a statement posted at its website.
The additional funding came after the MOF had previously injected nearly 1.14 billion yuan to the five provinces for efforts to combat drought there....
