Southern New England Weather Conference October 25
Posted by Tim Kelley September 30, 2008 at 8:53 pm
How many of these meteorologists can you identify?
Do you want to meet a bunch of meteorologists and talk about weather?
Sky Scenes, September 30, 2008: Rain didn’t dampen spirits at the Liver Life Walk in Boston!
Posted by Matt Noyes September 30, 2008 at 9:59 am
Though Sky Scenes normally focuses on fantastic viewer-submitted photographs, today we head to South Boston, where I was Master of Ceremonies for the American Liver Foundation’s Liver Life Walk and grabbed some video of an energized, spirited group this past Sunday. Come along with me, and meet a great group of walkers, two members of the Patriots Cheerleading squad, and the folks from JAM’N 94.5 and KISS 108…
Continued mild conditions to break for autumn cooling by week’s end
Posted by Matt Noyes September 30, 2008 at 9:19 am
Ever since our atmosphere was loaded with tropical warmth and moisture this weekend - evidenced by the several inches of rain that fell in most communities - it’s been hard to shake this moisture from the lowest few thousand feet of the sky. This has meant pesky low-altitude clouds, and they will continue to be a feature in the New England sky again today, but mild temperatures will also continue regionwide. Significantly cooler and drier air is on the way, though, and will arrive in time for the weekend…
Surfers Enjoy a Kyle miss, Looking For Laura Waves..
Posted by Tim Kelley September 29, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Kyle passed 150 miles east of Nantucket Sunday. As the center passed the Buoy over Georges Bank, the wind gust to 70 mph and wave height spike to 36 Feet!
The storm then weakened a little and made landfall at New Brunswick. The image from space shows the long shadows off the clouds around Kyle.
Surfers were happy with the left over waves on Monday.
We have a few photos.. Read more
Part Two of Two: With respect to Kyle and tropical systems, can the field of meteorology, and especially broadcast meteorology, do a better job of effectively conveying information?
Posted by Matt Noyes September 29, 2008 at 1:04 pm
In this second and final part of the video blog regarding Kyle, we leave the meteorology behind and focus on the delivery of information. In an event like Kyle, a Tropical Storm Warning was issued, meaning tropical storm force winds of 39 mph or greater were imminent within 24 hours. These warnings are issued by the National Hurricane Center, and it’s imperative to pass along this information to the public-at-large. But this also raises several questions…
Part One of Two: An analysis of Hurricane Kyle and his absence of effects on New England
Posted by Matt Noyes September 29, 2008 at 12:48 pm
This is part one of a two part video post regarding Hurricane Kyle.
At NECN, we’re aware how much time, energy, effort and money goes into preparing for any storm expected to affect New England. At the same time, when the National Hurricane Center - the nation’s foremost experts in tropical meteorology - issues a watch, and especially a warning, it’s imperative that the information be conveyed to the general public…
Stubborn clouds begin the week, though brighter and drier times are in sight
Posted by Matt Noyes September 29, 2008 at 11:44 am
It’s a slow and drawn-out process getting rid of the deep tropical moisture that enveloped New England over the weekend, though we’re making progress. A video discussion outlines what to expect today, with cool, fall air poised to move back into New England….
The new Weekly Weather Word for the week of September 29, 2008: trichotillomania
Posted by Matt Noyes September 29, 2008 at 8:50 am
It’s a new week, and that means a new challenge in Matt’s Weekly Weather Word contest! This week’s word is a “trich”-y one, so to speak - trichotillomania!
It’s one thing to learn the meaning of this word, but use this week’s word in a weather related sentence and you could be the winner of an NECN Prize Pack - the more creative the sentence, the more our panel of judges love it!
To enter, submit via our contest page, by clicking here!
Watch Good Morning Live on Friday morning this week to see if you are the winner. Good luck!
Latest on Kyle
Posted by Joe Joyce September 28, 2008 at 5:52 pm
AT 500 PM ESTTHE CENTER OF HURRICANE KYLE WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 42.7 NORTH…LONGITUDE 66.1 WEST OR ABOUT 140 MILES…
225 KM…SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF NOVA SCOTIA AND
ABOUT 180 MILES…290 KM…SOUTHWEST OF HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA.
KYLE IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH…41 KM/HR…
AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT DAY OR
SO WITH SOME DECREASE IN FORWARD SPEED. ON THIS TRACK THE CENTER
OF KYLE WILL MOVE OVER OR NEAR SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA TONIGHT AND
OVER OR NEAR NEW BRUNSWICK AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND EARLY MONDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 75 MPH…120 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. KYLE IS A CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
SCALE. WEAKENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS…AND KYLE IS
EXPECTED TO LOSE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS TONIGHT OR EARLY MONDAY.
The threat of any impact from this storm is over for coastal Maine. Sure, there is plenty of rain which is causing flooding, but the wind is calm along our entire coastline. Amazing. Especially as a hurricane churns only 200 miles away from us. I would not be suprised to see winds pick up to 30-35 mph for Down East Maine…but the fear of hurricane conditions is over ..as the path is too far east and the core of strongest wind & waves is on the east side of the track which is directly into Nova Scotia.
Still there will be some rough surf at the beaches, as well as a few lingering downpours before we can put this weekend in the books.
Kyle Fizzles Today off the Coast- Matt Noyes
Posted by Joe Joyce September 28, 2008 at 10:02 am
The following is a portion of an in-house email sent from Matt on Saturday evening, as Kyle was over the Atlantic. It’s full of technical jargon, but those of you reallly into the weather may find it an interesting explanation of why nothing substantial materialized from Kyle in New England:
Phase transition forecast has Kyle as an asymmetric warm core as he makes pass by New England - in other words, extratropical transition is well underway but not halfway done yet. Winds will just start to come to the north and northwest side of the storm. At the same time, though, Kyle goes over cool water and has limited dynamics aloft to really propel his extratropical transition. That is, lots of times an extratropical transition is driven by good vorticity from another shortwave that helps the storm to get an infusion of cool air to go hybrid nicely and wrap wind around the west. Unless I’m missing something, I don’t see that with Kyle. And I think that’s why there in unanimous (seriously…totally unanimous) agreement in the intensity guidance to have Kyle to TD strength by Sunday evening when he goes slightly east of the NHC track and just west of Nova Scotia coastline. This also lines up with the ship report immediately west of the center this past hour that has a sustained wind of 20 knots and no TS force gust. - Matt
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