{"id":38,"date":"2010-07-08T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-11-29T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:37:56","slug":"impressive-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Impressive wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new very impressive wave is just coming off western Africa coast and another is following it. Will it have a chance to develop it to something tropical?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.ashx_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39\" title=\"image.ashx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.ashx_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.ashx_.gif 640w, http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.ashx_-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wave off Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the moment I do not see the MJO (Madden Julian Oscillation) as a factor. During the summer the MJO has a modulating effect on hurricane activity in the Indian Ocean, the western and eastern Pacific and Atlantic basin.<br \/>\nThe MJO is characterized by an eastward progression of large regions of both enhanced and suppressed tropical rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>The SAL (Saharan Air Layer) maybe a factor. The SAL at times can be a very intense, dry and dusty layer of the atmosphere. This can suppress any tropical cyclone development. The image from CIMSS shows a major layer of dust in the Eastern Atlantic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/splitE1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"splitE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/splitE1-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vertical Shear is in the 15-20 knot range but is is decreasing as the wave moves westward.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gexyrshr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44\" title=\"gexyrshr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gexyrshr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gexyrshr.png 800w, http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gexyrshr-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vertical Shear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The SST&#8217;s (Sea Surface Temperature) in the area are above average (anomaly) and are 28\u00c2\u00b0-29\u00c2\u00b0 Celsius or (82\u00c2\u00b0 &#8211; 84\u00c2\u00b0 Fahrenheit). Tropical Cyclones tend to need a minimum of 26\u00c2\u00b0 Celsius and above for anything to develop.<\/p>\n<p>It is still to early to what will transpire with this wave but this is the time of year when storms will soon be developing in the Eastern Atlantic rather than the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico. My own feeling is that won&#8217;t develop and can be counted out for at least the next couple days or will dissipate entirely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new very impressive wave is just coming off western Africa coast and another is following it. Will it have a chance to develop it to something tropical? At the moment I do not see the MJO (Madden Julian Oscillation) as a factor. During the summer the MJO has a modulating effect on hurricane activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[6,28,11,27,29],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tropical-weather","tag-mjo","tag-sal","tag-ssts","tag-tropical-wave","tag-vertical-shear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}