It's always amazing to watch what a Category 4 or 5 hurricane does to the ocean it passes over. So lets go over to Remote Sensing Systems and look at the Caribbean before and after Dean passed.
Here are the SST anomalies before Dean went through, on August 17th. Red means warm anomaly, blue means cold anomaly.
And here are the SST anomalies now that Dean has passed:
Check out the Remote Sensing Systems page for Hurricane Dean for higher resolution and more ability to monkey around with the data. Pretty cool, eh?
(Pun intended.)
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A while ago, crowing over the extent of Arctic sea ice this winter and the possibility this would mean loadsa ice this summer, I noted that "it is clear from that, that the winter anomaly doesn't correlate too closely with the summer minimum".
We knew October was going to be hot. Only hours ago the Japanese Meteorological Agency came out with their data showing October 2015 to be the hottest October in their database.
Asks RP Sr's paper in GRL (or rather, ask Thomas N. Chase, Klaus Wolter, Roger A. Pielke Sr and Ichtiaque Rasool). Interestingly, they conclude "not really".
The latest update from the Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program!
A lovely illustration. Thanks much.
Its a little surprising it is so visable for a storm that was moving at a pretty good clip (17-18knots). Slower storms will use up more of the heat content. If they move too slowly, they may run low on fuel (heat).