Resources
Links
Login Form
Rick Knabb, Ph.D., selected to lead NOAA’s National Hurricane Center
May 18, 2012
NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., today announced Rick Knabb, Ph.D., as the next director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami. Knabb will start his duties on June 4.
“When hurricanes threaten our coastal communities, those in harm’s way look to NOAA’s National Hurricane Center for life-saving information,” said Lubchenco. “Rick personifies that calm, clear and trusted voice that the nation has come to rely on. Rick will also lead our hurricane center team and work closely with federal, state and local emergency management authorities to ensure the public is prepared to weather the storm.”
Knabb returns to NOAA after most recently serving as the on-air tropical weather expert for The Weather Channel in Atlanta since May 2010. Prior to that, Knabb was deputy director of NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, and before that, he had a distinguished career at the National Hurricane Center in Miami as a senior hurricane specialist and the science and operations officer.
Incandescence Observed on Lava Dome
Montserrat Volcano Ovservatory
The cloud cover which normally obscures the top portions of the volcano recently cleared for a short period the evening of 5 May, allowing observation of incandescence, the glowing of rock.
RE-ANALYSIS OF 1931 TO 1935 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASONS COMPLETED
A complete re-analysis of the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) was conducted for the 1931 to 1935 seasons. All 58 existing tropical storms and hurricanes were revised in their tracks and maximum winds.
15 new tropical storms were discovered and added into HURDAT, while four existing systems were removed. This era also recorded one of the busiest hurricane seasons (1933) on record with 20 tropical storms observed, 11 of which became hurricanes. Originally, HURDAT listed 21 tropical storms for that year, 10 of which were hurricanes. In the reanalysis of 1933, two new tropical storms were discovered, two existing cyclones were removed from the database as they did not reach tropical storm intensity, and two existing storms were found to be one continuous system.
NHC Amateir Radio Station WX4NHC, Communications Test.
The WX4NHC Communications Test will take place on Saturday June 2nd, 2012 The entire Communications Test is from 9 AM-5 PM EDT (1300-2100 UTC) and WX4NHC will be testing different radio modes at different times including VHF/UHF, HF and Echolink/IRLP. WX4NHC will likely be on the *WX_TALK* Echolink conference node: 7203/IRLP 9219 system from 1-3 PM EDT (1700-1900 UTC) as they have done in past years.
Further details will be made available from the WX4NHC coordinators as we get closer to this test.