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Out of curiosity, I had also looked up the Dark Sky app website last night.
On there it says:
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Homegrown Weather Service
Dark Sky is powered by Forecast, a weather service we built from scratch specifically for the app. As an independent service we aren't beholden to the big guys, allowing us the freedom to innovate and experiment with new ways of analyzing the weather."
Says Dark Sky is powered by the
http://forecast.io/ weather service. That's the service Ino had recommended on the weather links thread, which I find quite encouraging. The data sources for Forecast.io look impressive enough (
http://forecast.io/raw/). It actually does look like an interesting app. I think I may give it a try. ...Though for anything hurricane related of importance I will definitely check in with the Central and National Hurricane Centers.
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Kirt and PM2,
The URL I provided last night was to a dynamic link which updates every few hours, so unless you saw it last night you wouldn't have seen the long-term track the models were suggesting then. I tried to find a link to that specific track, but was dealing with summit stuff at the same time and ran out of energy! Sorry about that.
Unfortunately, Jimena' latest predicted track, if correct, means we won't be escaping these hot and humid conditions anytime soon (and for me, is going to make a mess of our observing plans for the next couple of weeks, sigh). Wonderful.
AKpilot, maybe you should consider moving to longhaul operations? [
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Hot and humid conditions as a gradually weakening Jimena takes her sweet time lollygagging NNW at a blinding 3 mph.
Pleasant enough temps up mauka though.
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I haven't seen "lollygagging" being used for many years, thank you for that!
This evening's MKWC forecast tends to agree:
http://goo.gl/4BeK5A
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The GFS has been consistently suggesting that Hurricane Jimena will slowly meander to the NW over the next 3-4 days, then drift back toward the SW and the state around the early/middle part of next week (gradually weakening during the second leg to the SW). While this is certainly a plausible solution, the models hasn't had a very good track record with the past 3+ storms and Jimena hardly looks like it wants to go anywhere."
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lollygagging
Recently the NWS has speculated that something called "Beta Drift" may account for Jimena's slow movement to the NW in the apparent absence of other steering mechanisms. I only quickly looked up Beta Drift. Somehow it inolves the rotation of Earth.
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I think between Beta Drift and the Flux Capacitor the entire universe can be explained!
Cheers,
Kirt
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http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/wxloop.cgi?wv+12
Looks like she is speeding away at this point - being dragged to the west coast
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15e i.e. Linda is forming south of Baja, looks like it immediately tracks NW to colder waters, lasting only a few days as a hurricane.
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Kinda of a big change from my last post that showed remnants of Jimena being dragged off towards the west coast, now as viewed from GOES :
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/wxloop.cgi?wv+12
we are looking at all that air being dragged around back towards the BI, hence the grey gloom is being recycled over our heads - jmo.
