13.00 -35.40 09/17/06Z 35 1007 TROPICAL STORM
13.00 -36.70 09/17/12Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
13.20 -37.30 09/17/18Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
13.60 -38.50 09/18/00Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
14.10 -39.80 09/18/06Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
14.10 -40.60 09/18/12Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
15.00 -42.30 09/18/18Z 30 1007 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
My only thought about this Tropical Depression is that it occupies a space in the open ocean. It is still 'a thing' and it is a worry to me.
Harvey was once dropped from surveillance by the National Hurricane Center. I don't really blame them, they have limited resources and personnel. They attend to overt pending danger.
Harvey was a monster and it reminded me of a tornado without debris. Tornadoes can be invisible except for it's disruption of whatever is in it's path. The only reason most tornadoes are visible is because of the debris it pulls into it's circulation. I think of Harvey out of surveillance by the National Weather Service as a hurricane without visible water vapor in it's content. The turbulence never left and the size was unimaginable and it became a monster. The reason Harvey was not populated with water vapor is because the surface of Earth is dry. I know that sounds like a ridiculous statement given the perdicament of the USA this hurricane season, but, there is still drought in areas of the country.
Current Large Incident Fire Map (click here)
Additionally, there are significant fires in the northwest and California
September 4, 2017
Acrid yellow smoke (click here) clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire races down the Columbia River Gorge toward Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana's Glacier National Park.
Wildfires are chewing across dried-out Western forests and grassland, putting 2017 on track to be among the worst fire seasons in a decade.
A snowy winter across much of the West raised hopes that 2017 wouldn't be a dried-out, fire-prone year, but a hot, dry summer spoiled that....
...By Thursday, more than 76 large fires were burning in nine Western states — including 21 in Montana and 18 in Oregon, according to the interagency fire center.
And as a reminder about the cost of the climate crisis:
September 14, 2017
By Laura Zukerman
Salmon, Idaho (Reuters) - The costs of fighting U.S. wildfires (click here) topped $2 billion in 2017, breaking records and underscoring the need to address a U.S. Forest Service budget that mostly goes to fires, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Thursday.
“Forest Service spending on fire suppression in recent years has gone from 15 percent of the budget to 55 percent – or maybe even more – which means we have to keep borrowing from funds that are intended for forest management,” Perdue said in a written statement.
The Forest Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, could be spending that money on logging, prescribed burns or insect treatments, measures designed to reduce the fuel load of forests primed to burn, he said....
There was some movement in the US Congress under President Obama to set up an autonomous budget for fighting wildfires so preventive measures could go forward. The autonomous budget is still very necessary.
