The Cat. 3 hurricane is stabilizing with movement north.

September 10, 2017
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

Key West

Longitude 24.5551° N

Latitude 81.7800° W

Irma

22.10 -77.70 09/09/11Z 140 924 HURRICANE-5
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

The change in velocity is due to it's impact on land. In the open water, Irma will increase it's wind speed.

Jose

16.90 -59.30 09/09/11Z 135 938 HURRICANE-4
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

NOAA satellite shows a storm that is following the Cuban coastline.

September 9, 2017
1615 UTC
NOAA Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for six-hour loop - thank you)

The storm has lost velocity. It will regain some when the 'eye' emerges from Cuba.

September 9, 2017
1430z
NOAA Water Vapor composite satellite of north and west hemisphere.

The earthquake map for the North American continent over the past seven days.

The quakes across the Caribbean Plate can't possibly be that consistent and false.



Mexico is still receiving aftershocks in the 4 to 5 Richter range.

September 9, 2017

The race to rescue those trapped in the rubble continues, (click here) more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake struck off Mexico's southern coast.

The 8.1 magnitude quake left at least 61 people dead, according to officials.

Another 200 people were injured, President Enrique Peña Nieto said, as he declared a national day of mourning.

Meanwhile, the feared category one Hurricane Katia, which struck Veracruz on the east coast on Saturday, has been downgraded to a tropical storm.

The US National Hurricane Center reported Katia had been rapidly weakening ever since making landfall, but local officials are worried the storm could still cause landslides and flooding....

The Mexican earthquake ranks among the strongest in history.

September 8, 2017
By Becky Little

Humans have been recording earthquakes for nearly 4,000 years. (click here) From the ones we know about, the deadliest by far happened in China in 1556 A.D. On January 23 of that year, a powerful quake rocked the province of Shaanxi as well as the neighboring province of Shanxi, killing an estimated 830,000 people.

Historical records often refer to this as the Jiajing Great Earthquake because it occurred during Emperor Jiajing’s reign during the Ming dynasty. The approximate death toll comes from local annals that also tracked 26 other earthquakes in the region. In those records, the description of the Jiajing earthquake is starkly different from the others: they describe leveled mountains, floods, fires that burned for days, and a drastically altered landscape. The annals estimated that some counties had lost about 60 percent of their population....

...After the development of the Richter scale in the 1930s, scientists theorized the Shaanxi earthquake was probably between a 8.0 to 8.3 in magnitude—not the strongest one ever recorded, but certainly significant. The most powerful quake was the 9.5-magnitude Valdivia Earthquake that struck in Chile in 1960, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). That quake created a tsunami, which together killed an estimated 5,700 people. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami registered a 9.3 magnitude....

September 9, 2017
1230.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

Land doesn't even phase it. Cuba is being beaten up. There are people that perished.

The diffuse nature of Irma's appearance is typical when these storms cross land.

The assessments are taking place at the same time, however, it is now published in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Instead of the reading stating 06z, it now states 11z. There is five hours difference.

Irma 
21.30 -72.40 09/08/00Z 145 920 HURRICANE-5

21.70 -73.80 09/08/06Z 135 925 HURRICANE-4

22.00 -75.30 09/08/12Z 130 927 HURRICANE-4

22.10 -76.50 09/08/18Z 135 925 HURRICANE-4

22.10 -77.70 09/09/11Z 140 924 HURRICANE-5 

22.50 -78.80 09/09/20Z 135 930 HURRICANE-4

The waters are very hot in the Florida Current. It explains the westward movement and the sustainability of Irma.

Numerous eddies (click here) are evident on both sides of the Florida Current by warm water being wrapped around cold cores of waters. Smaller eddies are also evident along the western Florida Shelf. The eastern edge of the Loop Current is also seen in both images.

Jose is already upon the islands.



Jose

15.60 -53.90 09/08/00Z 105 966 HURRICANE-3
16.00 -55.30 09/08/06Z 110 957 HURRICANE-3
16.30 -57.10 09/08/12Z 130 942 HURRICANE-4
16.60 -58.30 09/08/18Z 130 940 HURRICANE-4
16.90 -59.30 09/09/11Z 135 938 HURRICANE-4
17.50 -60.30 09/09/20Z 130 940 HURRICANE-4

Katia

21.50 -95.10 09/08/00Z 75 982 HURRICANE-1
21.30 -95.40 09/08/06Z 80 977 HURRICANE-1
21.00 -95.80 09/08/12Z 85 975 HURRICANE-2
21.00 -96.50 09/08/18Z 90 972 HURRICANE-2
20.60 -97.20 09/09/11Z 65 988 HURRICANE-1
20.30 -97.50 09/09/20Z 35 1001 TROPICAL STORM

September 9, 2017
1230.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)