Pete L wrote:

On 24 Aug, 17:37, Graham P Davis wrote:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/a....8.24.2009.gif

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Ok, so Bill picks up his energy from the warm water with the resulting
cold 'mark' - but how come sea temps are still above normal around
Newfoundland? He passed through that way and the strong winds, I would
have thought, must have stirred up the surface waters and brought up
colder stuff. Any ideas?

The SST anomalies are produced twice-weekly. Although the product has a date
of the 24th, they appear to be based on nighttime SST's for 18-22nd. If they
were based on the 100Km resolution they'd be based on 230100-240000Z data
but they are 50Km and therefore earlier. See the methodology -
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satel...logy.html#ssta -
and the age of the observations at -
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/s...al_fields.html

I suspect that the next chart will have the rest of the track. If it
doesn't, I'll have to think again.

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