Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Hettie

Let's start with the tropics today as there isn't much else going on. Here is the current overview:


11S Hettie - The only active cyclone at the moment. I predicted yesterday that it wouldn't make it to named-storm strength, but I underestimated it. It still doesn't look great, but the surface circulation is pretty tight.






I added the following image because it is interesting to see the convection completely displaced from the center of circulation. This was from earlier today.



The following image is from 91P Invest. I included it only because you can see the low level circulation just coming onshore.





Finally, Chad Cowan compiled the year's 10 best tornado videos. You can check them out on his blog on ChaseTheStorms.com.

Dann.
Currently at Denver (Hampden Heights), Colorado: 28ºF Partly cloudy and calm.
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