Category: R & D
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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…
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Non-Alarmist, Non-Clickbait
Bruce Katz called out “social-media” weathermen as “click-bait.” In many, many ways I agree with him. It is for that particular reason that I have been building this site, in-between medical issues, for years now. I don’t get into click bait. Nor do I get into the alarmist nature of weather analysist junkies. Click-bait weathermen…
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Gulf of Mexico Buoy Data Aggregation: Purpose and Intent
View the page here Often, buoys surrounding the mainland report weather data to the National Data Buoy Center. I love the data… but the page has a lot to be desired. The page is an attempt to deliver an enormous amount of weather data in the most efficient method they know. However, IMHO, the efficiency…
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GoM Buoy Data Feeds – All 178 of them – updates scripted
Success! Weather.jayctheriot.com was able to script the retrieval of weather information from 178 different buoys in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) along the coast from the Texas-Mexico border to the Florida Keys. I still have the East, West and Hawaiian coasts, but that’ll be in the days forthcoming. You can see it here: GoM Buoy Data…