*satellite sobs*

My poor dear fuse_sat... they... they... THEY BETTER FIX HIM! NOOOOOOOOOOO! HE CAN'T LEAVE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*sobs*

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Perhaps you are wondering to what my sister, GOES-10, is referring. Her long-time beau, fuse_sat is having some serious problems at the moment that may mean ( Read more... )

12 has her hands more than a little full at the moment, so I thought I would pick up the slack as it were and give you a little update ( Read more... )

Frances, Gaston, and Hermine- our three currently active storms in the Atlantic. This makes for a very busy GOES-12! I've delegated watching the continental US to 10 and she's just as busy what with all the severe weather over the weekend. 9 is busy with a terrible typhoon that's hitting Japan's coast. As you can see, we have little time right ( Read more... )

I would like to introduce one of my good friends and my collegue, Meteosat-8. He is run by Eumetstat and generally hovers over Africa. Because he and I have overlapping imaging areas and his data is essential for my hurricane tracking, he and I have gotten rather close. He's an exceptional satellite and I'll be piping him in from time to time. ( Read more... )

I guess you guys have been wondering where your favorite Katie's been? (I'm calling myself 'Katie' because my pre-launch name was GOES-K and wcg says it makes it easier for people to remember us if we assume human names. So I'm Katie, 12 is Michelle - 'cause she was GOES-M, and 9 is Jay - cause he was GOES-J ( Read more... )

Earl has puttered out and Danielle is swirling all by herself in the Atlantic, no threat to land. Things are quieting down a bit for my sister 12, who has been overworking herself as of late. I look to my other little sister, 10, who is working on some sort of project. While this has kept her occupied and abnormally silent, my curiosity ( Read more... )

Tropical Storm Bonnie is bearing down on the Florida Panhandle and Tropical Storm Charlie has already forced the evacuation of all non-residents in the Florida Keys from Key West to Key Craig.

Some of my imagery...
( TS Bonnie )

*satellite blush* Ahem. Well it appears that my predictions were far off- you can't expect a satellite to be perfect.

Hurricane Alex is now a category 2 hurricane with its eye about 40 miles SSE of Cape Hatteras, NC. Its sustained winds are at 100 mph and its barometric pressure is 972 mb. He's moving NE at around 15 mph.

( My imagery behind the cut )

TD1 has developed into Tropical Storm Alex, our first named storm of the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Alex is 80 miles SSE of Charleston, SC. It has max sustained winds of around 40 mph with gusts around 65. Barometric pressure is at 1010 mb.

( Images behind the cut- with color I did myself showing estimated track and where the storm is )

As you all may, or may not know, we have our first official Atlantic tropical storm of the 2004 season.

( Some of my imagery behind the cut )