Re: Predicting Rita
- From: John Lansford <jlnsford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:16:14 -0400
"Duke of URL" <NotMacBenah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Jack Linthicum @ jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>> Since this nusgroop had such an interesting and informative discussion
>> several weeks ago about predicting hurricane paths I am offering this
>> article from the MIT on-line Technology Review. Please note the fourth
>> and fifth paragraphs.
>
>> Predicting Rita
>> By David Talbot September 28, 2005
>> The director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
>> forecasting lab says the federal government is still relying partly on
>> computer models designed for much larger weather systems to predict
>> what hurricanes will do.
>
>??? I thought the only weather system bigger than a hurricane was a typhoon?
High pressure systems can be far larger than a hurricane, and a front
can affect a larger area than one as well. When they talk about
modelling larger systems than hurricanes, they're really talking about
regional weather systems as large as continents.
John Lansford
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