0115 UTC
NOAA Water Vapor Satellite of North America (click here for a 24 hour loop - thank you)
The image shows a central pressure leaving the coastline of Cuba. As soon as Katia dissipated into land, Irma locked into it's water vapor trail to the Arctic Circle. The UNISYS image shows that better.
Irma
22.50 -78.80 09/09/20Z 135 930 HURRICANE-4
22.80 -79.80 09/09/12Z 110 941 HURRICANE-3
23.40 -80.50 09/09/18Z 110 933 HURRICANE-3
23.50 -81.00 09/10/00Z 105 933 HURRICANE-3
September 10, 2017
0230.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
NOAA Water Vapor Satellite of North America
September 9, 2017
0215 UTC
This is the last image of Katia being connected to the water vapor trail to the north Atlantic.
Up to this point the water vapor feeder system was south of Irma. With the transition into the water vapor heat transfer system to the northeast/north Atlantic; Irma began to move west and north into this water vapor trail.
The very rough air mass over the country was an Arctic insertion into the lower latitudes. While Katia and now Irma were sending hot water vapor to the north Atlantic and the Arctic Circle, the cold air displaced down to lower latitudes.
Hot air rises and cold air sinks. The hot air has to go somewhere. There is not infinite room for more and more hot air over the Arctic. The cold air sinks to lower latitudes as the hot air is transferred to cool it down. The climate over the Arctic Ocean is vastly different from 20 years ago. The heat transfers are instrumental in that climate change.
Jose
17.50 -60.30 09/09/20Z 130 940 HURRICANE-4
18.30 -61.30 09/10/01Z 125 945 HURRICANE-4
19.20 -62.40 09/09/18Z 125 945 HURRICANE-4
19.80 -63.40 09/10/00Z 115 944 HURRICANE-4
0230.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
September 9, 2017
0215 UTC
This is the last image of Katia being connected to the water vapor trail to the north Atlantic.
Up to this point the water vapor feeder system was south of Irma. With the transition into the water vapor heat transfer system to the northeast/north Atlantic; Irma began to move west and north into this water vapor trail.
The very rough air mass over the country was an Arctic insertion into the lower latitudes. While Katia and now Irma were sending hot water vapor to the north Atlantic and the Arctic Circle, the cold air displaced down to lower latitudes.
Hot air rises and cold air sinks. The hot air has to go somewhere. There is not infinite room for more and more hot air over the Arctic. The cold air sinks to lower latitudes as the hot air is transferred to cool it down. The climate over the Arctic Ocean is vastly different from 20 years ago. The heat transfers are instrumental in that climate change.
Jose
17.50 -60.30 09/09/20Z 130 940 HURRICANE-4
18.30 -61.30 09/10/01Z 125 945 HURRICANE-4
19.20 -62.40 09/09/18Z 125 945 HURRICANE-4
19.80 -63.40 09/10/00Z 115 944 HURRICANE-4
