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| Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 8:52 AM GMT en Julio 10, 2010 | +4 |
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I think your mom and my mom know each other!
It is not included in the satellite sweeps from 22,300 miles up. Funny they are hovering in a position right near the N Pole though.
Thanks - I figured as much, but I wonder why? Don't need to track polar lows?
Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune
A helicopter takes off from Lakefront Airport as Navy blimp MZ-3A comes in for a landing Thursday. The blimp will be used in spotting oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Coast Guard trains spotters for Gulf oil blimp duty
Published: Saturday, July 10, 2010, 5:00 PM
The Coast Guard has begun training spotters to work aboard a slow-moving, 178-foot-long Navy blimp that will add another airborne tool to the search for petroleum slicks and distressed wildlife from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard's observers aboard the MZ-3A Airship, at least temporarily based at an airport near downtown Mobile, will help guide skimming vessels and wildlife rescuers responding to the massive crisis, officials said.
The all-white blimp, with a gondola that can carry as many as 10 people, cruises at a comparatively leisurely 55 mph at lower altitudes, and it can come to an almost complete stop if needed.
It's expected to be far more effective than the Coast Guard's HC-144 cargo airplane that often is used for Gulf flights. The plane has an average speed of 155 mph and flies at a minimum of 1,000 feet above the water, making it difficult to pinpoint oil or see animals on the surface of the water.
"This is another asset in the effort to respond to what is going on in the Gulf," said Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the spill response command in Mobile.
DeBruyne said Coast Guard members who will work on the airship must undergo a day of safety and observer training on the ground before beginning additional training in the air.
"They have to be qualified just to go up," he said. Training started Friday and was continuing Saturday.
Navy's MZ3A airship descends to land at New Orleans Lakefront Airport on Thursday to support the largest oil spill response in U.S. history.
Spotting oil from a blimp isn't as simple as it sounds: It can be difficult to distinguish between streamers of burnt-orange oil and masses of brown seaweed from the air, and the shadows of clouds sometime resemble dark patches of oil in the water. Also, dead or dying marine animals on the Gulf surface can appear as mere dots from aloft.
The airship, manufactured by Oregon-based American Blimp Corp., arrived in Mobile on Friday after a one-night layover in New Orleans. A crew from Integrated Systems Solutions Inc., the Maryland-based company that operates the blimp for the Navy, drove stakes into the ground around a truck that has a tall, red-and-white mast used for mooring the airship on the ground.
The blimp bobbed in the afternoon breeze before training flights began. DeBryune said it was unclear when the aircraft would begin operating over the Gulf.
The blimp can stay aloft and work for 12 hours at a time, far longer than airplanes or helicopters. The Coast Guard said it also is more economical because it can monitor a far larger area than conventional aircraft. Normally based in California, the blimp is being outfitted with additional sensing equipment and communications gear for its time in the Gulf.
Jay Reeves of The Associated Press wrote this report.
If oil flows unrestricted for too much longer, you won't need a blimp to find the oil slick. A lifeguard stand on the beach will do...
Big one
All one has to do is go to the source for info on DWH.
Yes, especially in the winter months. I know the AK satellite loops only cover up to 72N latitude. I am not sure why since is over the Polar region they cannot get a regular snapshot.
Thank You...
Date: 07/09/2010
I didn't know that either. That's interesting.
Covers most of AK. I guess the folks at prudhoe bay are on their own fro anything coming at them from the North across the arctic ocean.
Not really. We had a very strong Cat 2, a Tropical Depression and several very healthy tropical waves in the Atlantic Basin. The 2009 Hurricane Season started in early Aug 09. So compared to last year, we've been pretty busy.
Remember, we have near ideal weather conditions this year for an extremely busy Atlantic Hurricane Season. Very warm water in the Main Development Region (MDR), very high TCHP (Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential) and low wind shear, in a neutral phase in the ENSO, which means we're in between the El Nino & La Nina cycle, all which is an ideal situation for a very busy season.
Yea I suppose it is entirely possibly granted the season kicks into high gear soon.
Sad, but that appears to be true. Most Aleutian storms move in from the W or SW anyway.
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 2010
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
$$
FORECASTER BRENNAN
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 2010
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
$$
I forecasted you would be the first one to post that lol.
We're in La Nina now.
We have quite an array of NOAA polar-orbiting satellites at our disposal here in Alaska. It isn't a problem tracking polar lows.
Geostationary satellites can't see the pole because they are at a flat angle to them, like putting your eyes down to the edge of your desk and trying to see what what's on it. You can't. The large surface becomes a thin sliver that you can't see.
GOES-11 makes it up to 75N which covers Alaska just fine most of the time, unless something from the pole comes scooting down and then we supplement with polar-orbiting satellites. The polar-orbiting passes are also useful when higher resolution is required, since the GOES-satellite net decreases in resolution the higher up in latitude you go.
Good...love putting it on here.
Nope. I don't want to get into the gist of writing blogs and then having to maintain it once I start going for my degree.
I hope we get something soon. Don't you?
Is fine with me.
We gotz to get that DWH plugged and under control.
Folk in 4 States are hurting bad.
And the wildlife is hurting really bad.
I know I sure do.
Oops. Is it "official" from the National Climate Prediction Center yet?
Thank you Levi.
That is nice to know and thanks for the reason behind the missing data too!
I doubt that...
lol, you make it sound like were going to get absolutely bombed.
I don't see anything...either by models...SAL....shear...whatever reason. I see what the GFS shows, but it has virtually no model support...no NHC support for now IF they're saying nothing for the next 48 hours.
I've read updates from Crown Weather...listened to Weatherguy03's thoughts...read Accuweather's thoughts.
Slow time in the ATL. Maybe they'll be something in 7-10 days.
I don't really care if it finishes with 1 for the season. I'm always rooting for a slow season. Glad it's slow now so they can cap the oil spill....get the relief wells finished and working.
We already passed D-min in that area
I agree, good looking systems exiting Africa has a tendency to fall apart once they completely hit "open water". Besides no landmass is at imminent threat, either.
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