[coriolis30]

SECOND THREAD...START HERE...>>>

Thread #1

[Ian]

cuba radar again, from other thread:



http://www.insmet.cu.../gpdMAXw01a.gif

[uofmiami]

Any of the Mets here have a contact with someone in Jamaica Met Service? Their radar page has an old loop from February. Would be nice to have with Gustav forecasted to pass N of Jamaica! Or if someone wants to call them here is the contact, I don't feel like calling Int'l:

Meteorological Service, Jamaica 65 3/4 Half Way Tree Road Kingston 10

Contact # : 876-929-3694/3700/3706/7268

[gwhizkids]

Ian, on Aug 26 2008, 12:49 PM, said:

cuba radar again, from other thread:



http://www.insmet.cu.../gpdMAXw01a.gif

Is it legal to import Cuban radars? :rolleyes:

[gwhizkids]

uofmiami, on Aug 26 2008, 01:01 PM, said:

Any of the Mets here have a contact with someone in Jamaica Met Service? Their radar page has an old loop from February. Would be nice to have with Gustav forecasted to pass N of Jamaica! Or if someone wants to call them here is the contact, I don't feel like calling Int'l:

Meteorological Service, Jamaica 65 3/4 Half Way Tree Road Kingston 10

Contact # : 876-929-3694/3700/3706/7268

Use Skype.

[MallowTheCloud]

Ian, on Aug 26 2008, 09:49 AM, said:

cuba radar again, from other thread:

http://www.insmet.cu.../gpdMAXw01a.gif

The eye is definitely visible there, and is clearly moving WNW and making landfall on Haiti right now.

[dendrite]

uofmiami, on Aug 26 2008, 01:01 PM, said:

Any of the Mets here have a contact with someone in Jamaica Met Service? Their radar page has an old loop from February. Would be nice to have with Gustav forecasted to pass N of Jamaica! Or if someone wants to call them here is the contact, I don't feel like calling Int'l:

Meteorological Service, Jamaica 65 3/4 Half Way Tree Road Kingston 10

Contact # : 876-929-3694/3700/3706/7268

If you tell them it's a request from EUSWX I'm sure they'll jump on it faster than Usain Bolt in the 100m. ;)

[Chase]

uofmiami, on Aug 26 2008, 01:01 PM, said:

Any of the Mets here have a contact with someone in Jamaica Met Service? Their radar page has an old loop from February. Would be nice to have with Gustav forecasted to pass N of Jamaica! Or if someone wants to call them here is the contact, I don't feel like calling Int'l:

Meteorological Service, Jamaica 65 3/4 Half Way Tree Road Kingston 10

Contact # : 876-929-3694/3700/3706/7268

E-mail?

[yhbrooklyn]

The radar is out.
http://www.jamaica-g...news/news5.html

Quote

SINCE LAST YEAR, the Doppler radar used to give the precise location of weather systems that enter Jamaican waters and near-precise information on their intensity has been out of service.

This has left the National Meteorological Service without its main apparatus. Officials there are not sure what is wrong with the radar located at Coopers Hill, St Andrew.

"Lightning seems to have been one factor. What we did was to get somebody to come and do a complete diagnostic check and they realised that there seemed to have been some other fault, but they were not able to pinpoint what the other fault is," says Evan Thompson, head of the weather branch at the Met Service.

As a result, the office has sent a number of parts back to the manufacturer overseas for a complete analysis to be done. The manufacturers have recommended, in the meantime, that the Met Service undertake a systemic upgrade to avoid a repeat of the problems.

"And that is what we have agreed to do," says Thompson. He is hoping that the problem would be solved by July in time for the active portion of the hurricane season - August and September.

However, if the radar is still out of use beyond July, the Met Service says it has other methods to track and monitor storms, though not quite as efficient. Thompson says the office will be seeking data from Cuba, which has an effective and efficient early-warning system.

"We do have an arrangement where we can benefit from them currently. We have access to the information from their Doppler radar," says Thompson. The Met Service will also depend, he says, on local observation, from various sections of the region, which is fed to the island and the rest of the Caribbean from a hub in North America.

"Apart from that, we use satellite imagery which is from a number of sources," Thompson discloses.

The Doppler radar, which was introduced to Jamaica in 1999, had cost the former People's National Party government approximately $40 million to procure.

[AlaninKY]

It's going to be exciting to see if the ridge of high pressure can turn Hurricane Gustav into the Yucantan or if Hurricane Gustav can make it through the Yucantan Channel.

[Billabong13138]

coriolis30, on Aug 26 2008, 12:44 PM, said:

Billabong13138, on Aug 25 2008, 08:41 PM, said:

My guess. :weight_lift:

So far, so good. :guitar:

[uofmiami]

yhbrooklyn,

Thanks, that explains it. I tried to submit a message to them on their site but it failed. Oh well, Cuban radar will have to do.

[nutmegfriar]

uofmiami, on Aug 26 2008, 01:27 PM, said:

yhbrooklyn,

Thanks, that explains it. I tried to submit a message to them on their site but it failed. Oh well, Cuban radar will have to do.

From what I understand, they are hoping to get it fixed for the upcoming winter.

[JamieO]

Commie radar sucks. Viva la democracy.

[Solak]

The eye is visible again making landfall

[Bannor]

[janetjanet998]

not sure if this was posted but..





12Z GFDL Gustav


HOUR: .0 LONG: -72.21 LAT: 17.61 MIN PRESS (hPa): 986.94 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 77.44
HOUR: 6.0 LONG: -72.70 LAT: 18.34 MIN PRESS (hPa): 984.75 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 71.32
HOUR: 12.0 LONG: -73.56 LAT: 19.05 MIN PRESS (hPa): 987.01 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 64.25
HOUR: 18.0 LONG: -74.31 LAT: 19.02 MIN PRESS (hPa): 985.65 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 64.23
HOUR: 24.0 LONG: -75.05 LAT: 19.00 MIN PRESS (hPa): 981.37 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 73.24
HOUR: 30.0 LONG: -75.74 LAT: 18.95 MIN PRESS (hPa): 978.47 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 78.11
HOUR: 36.0 LONG: -76.22 LAT: 19.09 MIN PRESS (hPa): 973.15 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 79.69
HOUR: 42.0 LONG: -77.17 LAT: 19.32 MIN PRESS (hPa): 967.51 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 90.41
HOUR: 48.0 LONG: -77.83 LAT: 19.10 MIN PRESS (hPa): 955.40 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS): 96.02
HOUR: 54.0 LONG: -78.63 LAT: 19.30 MIN PRESS (hPa): 951.95 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):100.74
HOUR: 60.0 LONG: -79.54 LAT: 19.27 MIN PRESS (hPa): 945.75 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):102.55
HOUR: 66.0 LONG: -80.22 LAT: 19.35 MIN PRESS (hPa): 938.42 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):113.16
HOUR: 72.0 LONG: -81.05 LAT: 19.80 MIN PRESS (hPa): 931.70 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):125.74
HOUR: 78.0 LONG: -82.04 LAT: 20.25 MIN PRESS (hPa): 926.48 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):129.29
HOUR: 84.0 LONG: -82.81 LAT: 21.02 MIN PRESS (hPa): 924.71 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):125.80
HOUR: 90.0 LONG: -84.04 LAT: 21.89 MIN PRESS (hPa): 931.23 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):121.96
HOUR: 96.0 LONG: -85.13 LAT: 22.80 MIN PRESS (hPa): 939.98 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):112.71
HOUR:102.0 LONG: -86.23 LAT: 23.79 MIN PRESS (hPa): 934.91 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):118.93
HOUR:108.0 LONG: -87.30 LAT: 24.83 MIN PRESS (hPa): 933.46 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):114.41
HOUR:114.0 LONG: -88.47 LAT: 25.93 MIN PRESS (hPa): 933.42 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):121.81
HOUR:120.0 LONG: -89.70 LAT: 27.04 MIN PRESS (hPa): 933.30 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):121.80
HOUR:126.0 LONG: -90.86 LAT: 28.03 MIN PRESS (hPa): 934.47 MAX SURF WIND (KNOTS):113.12

[calamity]

Here's a glorious visible loop of our storm today:

[dan88]

New HWRF is concerning with its track, it takes it westward right along the south part of Cuba.

[HurricaneJosh]

calamity, on Aug 26 2008, 10:44 AM, said:

Here's a glorious visible loop of our storm today:

One of the best calamityloops® ever!!1! :thumbsup:

You canr really see the eye crossing the coast.