Ophelia epilogue

While the wind is still blowing (and rain still falling) outside, I decided to see what happens after a hurricane blows into the Atlantic. Discussions with Alfons end up with a consensus that these hurricanes end up as depressions in the Atlantic to pound Britain and other European countries, but where do the European weather agencies pick up? Well, apparently these hurricanes end up on the desk of the European Centre for Medium-Weather forecasts.

Hold on you say, don’t they use satellites too? Yes, remember MeteoSat: over there you can find the latest and recent photographes of Earth taken by four geostationary satellites.Stitching two pictures together and I ended up with this amazing (warm) feeling about how geostationary satellites have made life so easy for us. With all those satellites around Earth, literally observing every moment that passes by, it amazes me how people dare to say that we lack real facts about Global Warming. Think of it again, how much data is being spit out by computers processing these satellites’ data.

This is pure science and seeing the distance between Nova Scotia and Europe, it’s amazing what mankind has achieved by just launching ‘stationary’ satellites into space.

update: image added from Ophelia pre-NS troubles. 286 Kb