Author: jayctheriot
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Northern Gulf Coast tropical storm 5 day at 30%
These are the types of storms that provide NOAA and many other weather forecast agencies a ton of trouble to predict and the type that catches the people of coastal Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama and the Florida panhandle off guard and unprepared.
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CWAADS’s data collection ACTIVE!!!
In the previous 48 hours, I was able to code the scraping routines for CWAADS (Coastal Weather Anomaly Advance Detection System). I had a few tweaks to perform in transitioning it from manual triggering to a CRON trigger. Mainly, I incorrectly assumed that CRON would recognize the path to PHP and it didn’t. Once I…
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Moving forward on C.W.A.A.D.S.
The Coastal Weather Anomaly Advance Detection System (C.W.A.A.D.S), is progressing. It is currently able to automatically scrape all the real-time data available from the Nation Data Buoy Center (N.D.B.C.) for over a thousand weather buoys around the globe. See thought process and sample code with examples here (link will open in new tab or window).…
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Agatha: Potential Pacific-GoM Crossover
Eastern Pacific Agatha is threatening to cross the Yucatan and threaten the Gulf of Mexico. Links are included to NOAA information. As always, click-bait free.
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Loop Current and 1000 lb Gorillas
The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms in Gulf, looks a lot like it did in 2005 This is an issue that I have. The media is claiming the “Loop Current” is a 500 lb gorilla that no one talks about. Incidentally, it appears to be behaving a lot like it did in 2005…