| "Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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| "Simon S" wrote in message
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| | Very Active Tropical Storm season in the Atlantic. Isabel has already
| | been upgraded to a Hurricane. Seems to be following the a similar
| | track as Fabian.
| | Isabel is the 13th storm this year compared with 14 for the whole
| | season last year:
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| | http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...003/index.html
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| | The question is with all this energy being push north and being
| | absorbed by the Jet Stream what effect will the UK get later in the
| | year. Could this cause more severe winter storms?
|
| Hi Simon,
|
| "energy being push north and being absorbed by the Jet Stream"
|
| How do you mean ?
|
| As has happened in previous years when hurricanes have taken tracks
| towards the UK, we get heavy rain and strong winds.
|
| Joe

"Simon S" wrote in message
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| "hi Joe" if something is wrong correct it don't put it in ""...
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| Hurricanes do much more than just give us wet and windy weather they
| can drag warm air over the uk as might happen this week. They are also
| a major mechanism for energy to move from tropics to polar regions.
|

post rearranged to prevent illogical top posting

Some interesting reading for you here Simon on extratropical cyclones and their
fickle nature. This one retrogressed and formed a hurricane within the central
area of the original low. You may have seen the film or read the book "The
Perfect Storm" -

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellit....html#DISCUSSI
ON

Joe

"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:17:31 +0100, Jon O'Rourke wrote:

PS Keep your eye on Exeter rather than Bracknell :-)

Better tell topkarten, the still have it as "UKMO (Bracknell)". B-)



I'm sure they're not alone ! In saying that I've always found it a little
ironic that the aviation sig. weather charts display "WAFC London"
(previously produced at Bracknell). Similarly the US charts display "WAFC
Washington" but are produced in Kansas City.

Jon.

"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message
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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 23:17:31 +0100, Jon O'Rourke wrote:
PS Keep your eye on Exeter rather than Bracknell :-)

Better tell topkarten, the still have it as "UKMO (Bracknell)". B-)

I'm sure they're not alone ! In saying that I've always found it a little
ironic that the aviation sig. weather charts display "WAFC London"
(previously produced at Bracknell). Similarly the US charts display "WAFC
Washington" but are produced in Kansas City.

I've been using 'Braxeter' for a good part of this year ... trips
off the tongue rather nicely, I thought.

Philip Eden

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He he he no secret now then !

I wonder who the "big-wig" will be, I hope it's Prescott I'd
love to see a good
punch up :-)


.... well, it was HMTQ who opened the HQ in Bracknell (officially)
in 1961. Would 'they' risk the royal "raised eyebrow" at being
asked to do the honours for the second time within One's reign?

Martin.

On 7 Sep 2003 10:04:15 -0700, (Simon S)
wrote:

Very Active Tropical Storm season in the Atlantic. Isabel has already
been upgraded to a Hurricane. Seems to be following the a similar
track as Fabian.
Isabel is the 13th storm this year compared with 14 for the whole
season last year

It's interesting to look at the swathe of cooler water left by Fabian
in its wake. How much this will affect Isabel if it follows a similar
track remains to be seen...
http://152.80.49.210/products/OTIS/U...sstanomaly.gif
http://152.80.49.210/products/OTIS/U...S.glbl_sst.gif

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Dave

(TudorHgh) wrote in message ...
Hurricanes do much more than just give us wet and windy weather they
can drag warm air over the uk as might happen this week. They are also
a major mechanism for energy to move from tropics to polar regions.


I don't think so. Their energy is expended largely in situ, and they are
essentially barotropic phenomena.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

It's that old saw about Coriolis effect. The real question is how does
the Atlantic heat up enough to form all the hurricanes in the first
place. OK, insolation or whatever it's called could build up enough
heat perhaps but over most of the summer and surely the first
hurricane would wipe it all out.

But no, the next one to come along may be just as powerful if not more
so.

Weatherlawyer. (Blowing off in a storm and unable to catch a whiff of
the obvious.)

Rodney Blackall wrote in message ...
In article ,
Michael McNeil wrote:
The real question is how does the Atlantic heat up enough to form all
the hurricanes in the first place. OK, insolation or whatever it's
called could build up enough heat perhaps but over most of the summer
and surely the first hurricane would wipe it all out.

But no, the next one to come along may be just as powerful if not more
so.

The oceans are BIG and the relatively small storms rarely follow identical
tracks (e.g. TSn may start near Cap Verde Islands and TSn+1 in the
Caribbean). Compare the tracks of Florian and Isabel.

The point I was trying to make is that big or small the amount of
sunlight they recieve is the same. While there is a connection to a
(what is it 5 degrees C ?) rise in temp with the storms, there must be
a reason that these locations are where they are.