>>21732168 (lb)

When peeps talk about NEXRAD directing hurricanes …

How Much Energy does a Hurricane Produce?

The energy released from a hurricane can be explained in two ways: the total amount of energy released by the condensation of water droplets (latent heat), or the amount of kinetic energy generated to maintain the strong, swirling winds of a hurricane. The vast majority of the latent heat released is used to drive the convection of a storm, but the total energy released from condensation is 200 times the world-wide electrical generating capacity, or 6.0 x 1014 watts per day.

If you measure thetotal kinetic energyinstead,

it comes out to about 1.5 x 1012 watts per day, or½ of the world-wide electrical generating capacity.It would seem that although wind energy seems to be the most obvious energetic process, it is actually the latent release of heat that feeds a hurricane’s momentum.

Revised June 1, 2023

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#hurricane-energy-production

pic: NOAA's G-IV Jet in the forefront and P-3 Aircraft in the back. Image Credit: NOAA

>>21732556

>Analog

tyb

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>>21732848

>1518 watts per day?

Guud catch.

One point five times ten to the twelfth watts per day.

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#copypastashit

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#hurricane-energy-production

>>21732671

<HURRICANE HUNTER'S AT MY HOUSE

The Hurricane Hunters

In the Atlantic basin (Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea) and in the eastern and central Pacific, as required, hurricane reconnaissance is carried out by two government agencies, the U.S. Air Force Reserves’ 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center (AOC). The U.S. Navy stopped flying hurricanes in 1974.

Revised June 1, 2023

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd-faq/#the-hurricane-hunters

>>21732902

>Let's get physical

yw

>>21733156

>>21733466

kek