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Posted by feww on October 24, 2013
Majestic Super Typhoon LEKIMA. SW-IR satellite image recorded at 14:30UTC on October 24, 2013. Temperature of the patch located to the right of the typhoon’s eye measures about 150ºK (< minus 123ºC) making it the coldest place on or near planet Earth. Image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Posted in satellite imagery, Significant Event Imagery, significant events | Tagged: coldest place on Earth, planet Earth, satellite image of LEKIMA, satellite image of typhoon LEKIMA, Super Typhoon LEKIMA | 1 Comment »
Posted by feww on October 24, 2013
A very wet Tropical Storm FRANCISCO moves closer to mainland Japan as a covetous Super Typhoon LEKIMA looks on. VISIBLE/INFRARED satellite image (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) recorded at 13:30UTC on October 24, 2013. Original image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Meantime, Super Typhoon LEKIMA with sustained winds of more than 240 km/hr and gusting up to 300 km/hr was moving northwestward at an average forward speed of about 25 km/hr. LEKIMA was located about 500km ESE of Iwo To (Iwo Jima) Island, at 14:00UTC.
Majestic Super Typhoon LEKIMA. SW IR satellite image recorded at 13:30UTC on October 24, 2013. Image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Nansei Sekiyu KK, a Japanese refiner owned by Petrobras, has shut down marine operations at its 100,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Okinawa, due to typhoon FRANCISCO, said a report.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is running out of options to store radioactive contaminated rainwater as a very wet FRANCISCO approaches.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has started transferring contaminated rainwater into underground pools, originally deemed too leaky. The precipitation from recent typhoons and extreme rain events have been accumulating in barriers around radioactive waste water tanks, reported NHK.
TEPCO has been storing the most contaminated rainwater in tanks and in the basement of a turbine building. But the tanks are now full, the report said
Posted in Climate Change, Global Disaster watch, global disasters, global disasters 2013, satellite imagery, Significant Event Imagery, significant events | Tagged: Fukushima Daiichi, LEKIMA, satellite image of FRANCISCO, satellite image of LEKIMA, SUPER TYPHOON 28W, Super Typhoon LEKIMA, Tropical Cyclone 1327, Typhoon FRANCISCO, Typhoon Stats | Leave a Comment »
Posted by feww on October 23, 2013
WIPHA unleashed massive landslides on the volcanic Island, killing dozens of people (29 confirmed dead , 16 others missing presumed dead), destroying or damaging hundreds of homes and forcing thousands to evacuate last Wednesday.
FIRE-EARTH Models show FRANCISCO making landfall with probability of about 55 percent, as of 03:00UTC on October 23, 2013.
Typhoon FRANCISCO moves closer to southern Japan, watched by Super Typhoon LEKIMA. VISIBLE/INFRARED satellite image (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) recorded at 01:30UTC on October 23, 2013. Original image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Typhoon FRANCISCO
Projected paths of Typhoon FRANCISCO and Super Typhoon LEKIMA as of 01:30UTC on October 23, 2013. Original images sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC. Enhanced by FIRE-EARTH
Nansei Sekiyu KK, a Japanese refiner owned by Petrobras, has shut down marine operations at its 100,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Okinawa, due to typhoon FRANCISCO, said a report.
Posted in Climate Change, Global Disaster watch, global disasters, global disasters 2013, News Alert, satellite imagery, Significant Event Imagery, significant events | Tagged: Izu Oshima Island, Japan, naha, Nansei Sekiyu KK, NORTHWESTPAC, Okinawa, Petrobras, Super Typhoon LEKIMA, Tokyo, tropical cyclone, TY 1327, typhoon, Typhoon FRANCISCO, Typhoon Stats for NW Pacific, WIPHA | Leave a Comment »
Posted by feww on October 20, 2013
Typhoon FRANCISCO
Typhoon FRANCISCO. VISIBLE/INFRARED satellite image (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement) recorded at 13:32UTC on October 20, 2013. Original image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
Projected Paths of TY FRANCISCO and TD TWENTYSEVEN (FIRE-EARTH Enhancement). Original image sourced from: CIMSS/SSEC/WISC.
More details to follow…
Posted in Satellite Image of typhoon FRANCISCO, satellite imagery, Significant Event Imagery, significant events, Typhoon Watch | Tagged: FRANCISCO, Japan, Major Typhoon, Super Typhoon, Super Typhoon FRANCISCO, TD TWENTYSEVEN, TROPICAL DEPRESSION 27W, Typhoon FRANCISCO, Typhoon FRANCISCO projected path, Typhoon FRANCISCO satellite image | Leave a Comment »
Posted by feww on June 28, 2010
ALEX has regained strength, as expected, and is now a TROPICAL STORM once again.
Fire Earth Moderators believe ALEX could become a hurricane before its next landfall.
TS ALEX At 03:00UTC – June 28
TS ALEX VIS/IR Satellite Image. Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge
Earlier:
ALEX Projected Path: Various Dynamical Models Forecasts. Source: CIMSS. Click image to enlarge
TD ALEX SUMMARY OF STATUS at 21:00 UTC (June 27, 2010)
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Posted by feww on October 17, 2009
At 10:15 UTC the center of hurricane Rick was near latitude 14.0°N, longitude 102.3°W, or about
Rick is Now a Cat 4A Hurricane on FEWW New Hurricane Scale ( Cat. four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale). GOES Satellite Image. Rainbow Enhancement – Still Frame. Date and time as inset. Click image to enlarge and update.
Rick’s 5-day Track Forecast. Click Image to enlarge and update.
Direction and Speed
Wind Speed
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Rick is now an extremely dangerous category 4A on FEWW New Hurricane Scale ( Cat. four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale).
Further Strengthening Forecast:
Wind Forces and Pressure
Rain Potential
FEWW Comment:
Hurricane Rick looks organized, symmetrical and extremely dangerous. Warm coastal waters off the Mexican coast will most likely help Rick to become a Category 5 hurricane. Rick could devastate Baja and coastal areas of western Mexico.
As Typhoon LUPIT (currently located near Philippines) and Hurricane Rick grow stronger, the question on many people’s mind must now be whether the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season will end with a whimper, or the “mother of all hurricanes” could still form there …
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GOES Satellite: East Pacific : Hurricane Rick(EP20)
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Posted by feww on September 27, 2009
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These are just hypes and excuses trying to rekindle taxpayers’ interests in unnecessary manned flights to the moon, with a new commercial twist.
But beware also of the blue-ribbon panel, which equally condemns flights to the moon, while recommending that NASA should be privatized beyond anything previously envisaged.
Prodded by a powerful corporate lobby, certain elements within NASA are trying desperately to please a group of super-wealthy investors by way of resuming flights to the moon.
Dark shadows obscure craters on the moon’s south pole in a picture from NASA’s 1994 Clementine mission. Scientists have long suspected the moon might have water, possible hidden in these permanent shadows. Now a trio of satellites have confirmed that water does exist in trace amounts over the entire lunar surface, scientists said in September 2009. Picture courtesy NASA. Caption: National Geographic
The group, which includes the bosses of companies like Google, Oracle, Saatchi and Saatchi, Virgin Galactic, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Space Exploration Technologies Corp … [Tattaglias will guarantee security, Mike,] … are planning highly lucrative commercial space flights, and ultimately tourist moonshots.
They see NASA as an indispensable “partner” in their joint venture. NASA (the US taxpayer) would fit the flight bill, most of it anyway, while the Virgin Atlantic consortium, assuming they keep the same name, would reap unprecedented profits, making ever larger fortunes from the flights, as they continue to rape the moon.
Unfortunately, the abuse of the system won’t stop there. One day soon, everything to do with space would be highly commercialized, and some of the things you currently take for granted, like free access to space photos and satellite imagery, become available only at a price.
A blue-ribbon panel … called the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, headed by former Lockheed Martin Corp. Chairman Norman Augustine … calls for sweeping changes in the way NASA does business and envisions a dramatically expanded role for private enterprise in human space flight in the coming decades beyond anything proposed previously.
A new report by the panel “calls for sweeping changes” in the way NASA is administered and “envisions a dramatically expanded role for private enterprise in human space flight in the coming decades beyond anything proposed previously.”
[Edited by FEWW.]
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1. REM: Probably traces of water do exist on the moon because water exists in many celestial objects in the Universe. Even comet nuclei are made up of ice, dust and other particles. But, would the water excuse make going to the moon good science anymore than mining comets for water does?
Posted in commercial space flights, commercial space travel, Norman Augustine, Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, satellite imagery, space taxi proposal | Tagged: Boeing, Cheeseburgers on the Moon, Clementine mission, Google, Lockheed Martin, moon's south pole, nasa, Oracle, Saatchi and Saatchi, Space Exploration Technologies Corp, Virgin Galactic, water on the Moon | 2 Comments »
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