The top of this storm seems incredibly high and the eye huge.
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly (click here) captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, "Early morning shot of Hurricane #Joaquin from @space_station before reaching #Bahamas. Hope all is safe. #YearInSpace."
In addition to the crew Earth observations from the space station, NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking the progress of this powerful storm.
Image Credit: NASA
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly (click here) captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, "Early morning shot of Hurricane #Joaquin from @space_station before reaching #Bahamas. Hope all is safe. #YearInSpace."
In addition to the crew Earth observations from the space station, NASA and NOAA satellites are tracking the progress of this powerful storm.
Image Credit: NASA
Last Updated: Oct. 2, 2015
Editor: Sarah Loff
The vertical slice (click here) through Joaquin (bottom image), was acquired on September 29, 2015, with the cloud-profiling radar on the Cloudsat satellite. The instrument sends pulses of energy toward Earth and records the strength of the signals that bounce off ice and water particles.
Dark blues represent areas where clouds and raindrops reflected the strongest signal back to the satellite radar. These areas had the heaviest precipitation and the largest water droplets. The blue line in the center of the image is the freezing line; ice particles formed above it, raindrops below it.
For reference, the top image shows a natural-color view of the storm acquired on the same day with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The red line is the south-to-north track that CloudSat took over the storm.
Joaquin is the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season—on track with what forecasters had said would be a quiet season. The outlook delivered in May 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called for a 70 percent chance of a below-average season in the Atlantic Ocean.
This is where Joaguin stalled and leaned into the Gulf. This storm haunts me. It haunts me more than Katrina. I knew what I was looking at, but, Joaquin is different. Its' oscillation and the break out into a Von Karmen vortex is very worrisome.
Immediately after Joaquin another Von Karman came in from the west coast. The cyclones are many.
The so called El Nino is bad news and if the dynamics of Joaquin is a result of it; Earth is under severe stresses. This is an El Nino on a hot planet. And the loft of Joaquin in that photo by Scott Kelly is incredible. How high is a storm going to go? The higher the loft the more room there is to expand it's energy. What is that doing to the tropopause and the stratosphere for that matter? Is that where the heat and water vapor is going?
The vertical slice (click here) through Joaquin (bottom image), was acquired on September 29, 2015, with the cloud-profiling radar on the Cloudsat satellite. The instrument sends pulses of energy toward Earth and records the strength of the signals that bounce off ice and water particles.
Dark blues represent areas where clouds and raindrops reflected the strongest signal back to the satellite radar. These areas had the heaviest precipitation and the largest water droplets. The blue line in the center of the image is the freezing line; ice particles formed above it, raindrops below it.
For reference, the top image shows a natural-color view of the storm acquired on the same day with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. The red line is the south-to-north track that CloudSat took over the storm.
Joaquin is the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season—on track with what forecasters had said would be a quiet season. The outlook delivered in May 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called for a 70 percent chance of a below-average season in the Atlantic Ocean.
This is where Joaguin stalled and leaned into the Gulf. This storm haunts me. It haunts me more than Katrina. I knew what I was looking at, but, Joaquin is different. Its' oscillation and the break out into a Von Karmen vortex is very worrisome. Immediately after Joaquin another Von Karman came in from the west coast. The cyclones are many.
The so called El Nino is bad news and if the dynamics of Joaquin is a result of it; Earth is under severe stresses. This is an El Nino on a hot planet. And the loft of Joaquin in that photo by Scott Kelly is incredible. How high is a storm going to go? The higher the loft the more room there is to expand it's energy. What is that doing to the tropopause and the stratosphere for that matter? Is that where the heat and water vapor is going?
