Category Archives: Ham Radio Weather

How to track Hurricane Irene Live in New York?

Severals kind of services are available online to track Hurricane Irene, which is the first of the 2011 hurricane season in the Atlantic. For the first time also, the City of New York had to be ordered a mandatory evacuation … Continue reading

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Following Hurricane Irene in New York with Google Maps in real time

Because Hurricane Irene heads up the eastern seaboard and New York, where 250,000 people were evacuated due, Google Maps is providing update of its service real-time tracking of storms, as well as forecastsof rain and hurricanes impacts. Click to open full size. The service is available in the Google Crisis Response project, already used in the … Continue reading

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Solar storm & Southern Aurora Lights Alert: The season begins!

The recent period of low solar activity seems to be over. Sunspots appear everywhere on the solar disk and one of them the 1226 sunspotactivity shows a very strong, creating a geomagnetic storm on Earth. Solar wind speed 643.2 km / sec, density of 2.4 protons/cm3. So far, none of these blasts had no effect on the earth, but this is changing as the active region turned toward Earth in the coming days. This activity allow us these beautiful pictures of Southern Aurora Lights by Ian Stewart via spaceweather.com, aurora australis, seen in Tasmania, Australia May 29, … Continue reading

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Tropical storm Dean alarm for French West Indies by SXM Cyclone

Tropical storm DEAN, with a statute of hurricane of category 2 or 3, is reinforced and it was located at 23h00 local to 2085 km in the East of the French West Indies (Antilles Françaises). The winds constant blow now … Continue reading

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