09.02.10

Hurricane Earl vs. North Carolina

Posted in Tropical Weather, Weather News at 4:48 pm by Rebekah

Hurricane Earl sets his sights on the mid-Atlantic Coast tonight, brushing past the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a weakening Category 3 storm. Winds are currently 115 mph, with a minimum pressure of 947 mb.

Latest NHC track for Earl:

I’m off to chase some storms (with other researchers from the National Severe Storms Lab) developing along a cold front moving through western Oklahoma, hence the short message. We’ll be launching balloons into the storms, with instruments that will measure electric field, temperature, relative humidity, winds, and pressure, as well as take images of particles (ice, rain, etc.) within the clouds.

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09.01.10

Typhoon Kompasu Makes Landfall In Korea

Posted in Non-US Weather, Tropical Weather, Weather News at 5:04 pm by Rebekah

While the U.S. is concerned with what will happen to the East Coast when Category 4 Hurricane Earl passes by (starting tomorrow), as well as what will eventually happen with newly formed Tropical Storm Gaston, another hurricane is just now making landfall at Seoul, South Korea.

Typhoon Kompasu’s eye is coming ashore, with maximum sustained wind speeds estimated at 85 mph (Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale) and a minimum central pressure of 975 mb.

Infrared satellite image of Typhoon Kompasu making landfall, courtesy of Weather Underground.

As of the time I write this post, the pressure is still dropping at Seoul and the wind speeds are still climbing. At the top of the last hour, Seoul recorded rain, winds of 43 mph, gusts to 63 mph, and a pressure of 992 mb. For the latest observations, see the Weather Underground weather history page for Seoul.

Here is a series of radar images from the Korean Meteorological Administration (weather service for South Korea) over the last several hours, showing Kompasu approaching Korea and making landfall.