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1st February 2016 14:00
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My NOAA alert system
Around the time that Whitley Strieber and Art Bell put out "The Coming Global Superstorm", Whitley mentioned something about a particular buoy in the North Atlantic. I seem to remember some kind of controversy over it - a reading questioned that was written off by NOAA, or something like that, but it's been awhile and my memory isn't what it used to be...
Anyway, this was the reason I put together a script to run daily 3 times a day to pull info from NOAA's National Data Buoy Center http://ndbc.noaa.gov, with the idea that these buoys might provide some kind of early warning, if only to duck and cover.
When I moved jobs it was offline for awhile, but I recently got it running again. It sends me an email when the temperatures and/or wave heights change significantly from the previous scan.
On Jan 30, I got an alert for buoy 44139 - here's the report:
buoy_station_url p_lo c_lo %change_lo p_hi c_hi %change_hi wave alert
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http://ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44100 43.2 45.5 5.32407407% 46.2 46.2 0% 5.2 temp change
http://ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44137 50.0 51.1 2.20000000% 51.6 51.8 .387596899% 18.7 temp change
http://ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44139 37.4 40.1 7.21925133% 40.3 41.7 3.47394540% 42.3 temp change & wave height > 30 feet
http://ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44141 40.6 40.3 -.73891625% 45.9 41.7 -9.1503267% 31.2 temp change & wave height > 30 feet
http://ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44150 49.6 51.6 4.03225806% 52.9 52.0 -1.7013232% 15.4 temp change
Lowest temp to date: 31
Highest temp to date: 67
Highest percent rise in temp to date: 37% Highest percent drop in temp to date: -34% Highest wave to date: 42 *
* new
Legend:
buoy_station_url - the buoy station identifier link to its web page
p_lo - water temperature low for the previous day (fahrenheit)
c_lo - water temperature low for the current day (fahrenheit)
%change_lo - water temperature low change percentage from previous day to today
p_hi - water temperature high for the previous day (fahrenheit)
c_hi - water temperature high for the current day (fahrenheit)
%change_hi - water temperature high change percentage from previous day to today
wave - highest wave height for the current day (feet)
alert - currently tracking temp changes and wave heights over 30 feet
Sorry it's a bit cryptic, I'm sure someone like Paul could put together a much better script, but basically the wave height went to 42.3 feet, which is not only a big jump but the highest I have in my records. Also, 44141 was at 31.2 feet, which would easily clear my house. These wave heights seem pretty impressive.
I also have it scan the tornado http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today_torn.html, hail http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today_hail.html, wind and hurricane http://www.nhc.noaa.gov reports, just to see if there's any kind of link to other weather, though obviously it can't account for any kind of delayed effect.
Whenever I get an alert I'll post here in case anyone is interested.
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1st February 2016 14:25
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Re: My NOAA alert system
Irregular and varying degrees differentials that make unpredictable "seasonal changes in wind, heat or unpredictable severe cold snaps in planting seasons. We lost 6 weeks of spring and Indian summer already, but then 80 degree temps during December.
Thank God we got that snow or the temps of earth wouldn't have cooled enough to kill off bacteria, virus, ans infectious small flying insect bites of tropical diseases.
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14th February 2016 23:02
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Re: My NOAA alert system
Here in NYC it hit zero degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the first time in 20 years. Going back up to 55 degrees on Tuesday. Does anyone think a 55 degree swing in 2 days is normal?
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4th May 2016 15:04
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NOAA buoy station 44402 that went into event mode on 4/24
Apologies if this has already been reported here on PA. I heard about this at the time but didn't think much about it until I watched the video below. What happened is that buoy #44402 went into event mode on 4/24 because it recorded an 180 foot change in sea level. This page has some good details on the event which is somewhat mysterious:
https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/1218
Here's the video I mentioned. Try to ignore the fear/sensationalism. What's interesting is the idea that a specific coastline could be targeted by using a nuclear or similarly strong explosion:
I added 44402 to my homegrown alert script
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4th May 2016 19:17
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