The official tropical weather thread 2020

[V2NR 3.0]

It's really bad across the islands

[aaron17]

I thought my windows needed cleaning ...bruhh

[The_Honourable]

Having headaches. View from San Fernando hill

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Can't see the Northern Range at all from Chaguanas!

[aaron17]

Having headaches. View from San Fernando hill

Preparing for the sinus teeth ache too.

[matr1x]

You could swim in this gunk

[maj. tom]

dem car wash go make money this week!

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[matr1x]

Vision 20/20


A desolate wasteland

[K74T]

Really bad today!

[xtech]

A Rare Tropical Storm Forms in the South Atlantic: Iba



The only ocean basin on Earth that does not regularly see tropical cyclones develop is the South Atlantic, but it had a rare tropical storm form on Sunday. Tropical Storm Iba developed about 600 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center (BNHC). Ocean temperatures in this region were quite warm, near 29°C (84°F).

Satellite fixes of the system, initially dubbed “Invest 90Q”, showed a modest increase in organization on Sunday morning. The BNHC rated Iba as a minimal tropical storm with sustained winds of 40 mph and a central pressure of 1008 mb at noon EDT Sunday. Steering currents will take Iba to the southeast, out to sea, and the system is not a threat to any land areas. Iba is expected to slowly strengthen to sustained winds of 45 – 50 mph by Monday morning, but is likely to slowly weaken by mid-week, never attaining hurricane status.

While subtropical storms form about once every year in the South Atlantic, this is the first fully tropical cyclone there since 2010.

Until the 21st century, it was widely thought that full-fledged tropical cyclones did not form in the South Atlantic. Although waters can be sufficiently warm, there is often too much wind shear, and tropical waves that can serve as seedlings for tropical cyclones do not stream regularly off the coast of southern Africa as they do from northern Africa.

In 2004, expectations were upended when a non-tropical system off the coast of Brazil gradually transitioned into a tropical cyclone and then turned back westward. The system came to be known as Hurricane Catarina, as it made landfall in the Santa Catarina province of Brazil as a Category 1 equivalent on March 27, 2004. More than 38,000 structures were damaged, and another 1,468 collapsed, with three people killed and 185 others injured.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[toyolink]

Wasn't aware of fake hot spell alert, but it hot 'like hell' in reality.
Working outside is presently extremely difficult.

[maj. tom]

Here's a link of an image of real-time tracking of Saharan Dust from GOES 16 satellite. I hope mods can link it into the first page from now on since this has now become part of daily weather in TT.



Address of direct link for this product :http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/sal/g16split/g16split.jpg



From source: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/s ... plit&time=
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/sal/

[redmanjp]

^wondering if that is what making me cough this morning, i was good the last time it was here though

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Here's a link of an image of real-time tracking of Saharan Dust from GOES 16 satellite. I hope mods can link it into the first page from now on since this has now become part of daily weather in TT.

added - thanks!

[brickman]

Showers since 4 this morning,glad for the ease in the heat.

[sMASH]

driest dry season.... hit them a randolph mitchel.

[brickman]

Nice rain/drizzle since midnight.Helping the dry season nights be comfortable.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Rainy morning thus far

[sMASH]

Needed to do a. Big of welding 9ut doors today.

[aaron17]

So today will feel more than 33 degrees I heard.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Saharan Dust Event expected over the weekend:

TTMS is currently monitoring another Saharan Dust plume which is making its way off the African coast, as seen on the satellite image. Moderate to thick concentrations of Saharan dust are expected to affect Trinidad and Tobago and the Lesser Antilles from late Friday (12th) into the weekend.

Please be advised accordingly and an update would be posted later this week.

[sMASH]

Dust smog has the place sorta cool, and got a couple of drizzle.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

it's definitely not as hot today as it was yesterday!

[redmanjp]

Very hot today in POS. 36C!

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

"Feels like" is at 40ºC

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael, which devastated the Florida Panhandle last fall, was actually stronger than initially measured, prompting forecasters to posthumously upgrade it from a Category 4 storm to a Category 5, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/worl ... y-5-status

[Dizzy28]

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael, which devastated the Florida Panhandle last fall, was actually stronger than initially measured, prompting forecasters to posthumously upgrade it from a Category 4 storm to a Category 5, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Friday.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/worl ... y-5-status

This is like how we does bless up national heroes with ORTT after they dead??

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Full moon showers....