Volume 6 Issue 2, Mar 2013
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SeaWeather's Voyage Planner:
An All-new Way to Plan Ahead By: David Cannon, Director of Yacht Operations
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For some time now we have been informing you of our supplemental online
service, SeaWeather
and how plans have been in the works to make this
service more interactive to our subscribers. Well the wait is over, as
SeaWeather's
Voyage Planner is now a reality and is now available to
Premium subscribers.
Here's how it works. Simply click on the Voyage Planner tab to go to the
Voyage Planner start page. You will be able to choose from routes you
already created or create a brand new route from scratch. You will be
able to enter your ETD and planned ETA, as well as your planned vessel
speed, daily fuel consumption while underway and fuel price per gallon.
You will also have the option of selecting ETD in local time or
Greenwich Mean Time/Universal Time Coordinate (GMT/UTC) if you so
desire.
Once you have made your selections and choose a route, just hit calculate and your route will be drawn for easy viewing with dead-reckoned positions and model generated winds, seas, and currents for each position. Alternate routes can be similarly created and calculated for viewing and comparison.
At the bottom of your screen you will see a table of routes created (primary and alternate routes) along with totals for comparison, including total hours and distance, current factors, vessel speed information, and total fuel consumed and cost...
...But the Voyage Planner does not stop simply at route calculations. There are many overlay options, where you can view such as:
We will continue to make upgrades to SeaWeather and our Voyage Planner in the weeks ahead. Further details on the Voyage Planner can be found by viewing our soon to come video tutorial. This again shows how WRI continues to be "cutting edge", keeping you one step ahead of Mother Nature at all times. Call us today and see for yourself!
SeaWeather's Voyage Planner allows you to plot multiple
routes and overlay images on maps. You can zoom in for finer
detail or zoom out to view the entire route (by clicking on the + and -
icons respectively) Statistical totals
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allows you to compare routes.
(click to enlarge)
Once you have made your selections and choose a route, just hit calculate and your route will be drawn for easy viewing with dead-reckoned positions and model generated winds, seas, and currents for each position. Alternate routes can be similarly created and calculated for viewing and comparison.
At the bottom of your screen you will see a table of routes created (primary and alternate routes) along with totals for comparison, including total hours and distance, current factors, vessel speed information, and total fuel consumed and cost...
...But the Voyage Planner does not stop simply at route calculations. There are many overlay options, where you can view such as:
- surface observations
- satellite and radar
- tropical cyclone tracks, gale radii, and "threat areas", for any official Tropical Cyclones or WRI's classified Tropical Lows
- currents and sea surface temperatures
- hazards pages with piracy reports, Earthquakes & Tsunamis, and ice information
- WRI generated high resolution racing and fishing charts that are already part of SeaWeather.
We will continue to make upgrades to SeaWeather and our Voyage Planner in the weeks ahead. Further details on the Voyage Planner can be found by viewing our soon to come video tutorial. This again shows how WRI continues to be "cutting edge", keeping you one step ahead of Mother Nature at all times. Call us today and see for yourself!
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Major Nor'easter Produces Historic Blizzard
over Long Island and Eastern New England By Amanda Delaney, Meteorologist
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Earlier this month a strong winter storm, also known as a nor'easter,
produced blizzard conditions and record snowfall across Long Island and
New England. Hurricane force winds, coastal flooding and 2-3ft of snow
were reported. As a result, this storm grinded daily activity in major
metropolitan areas to a halt. Although nor'easters are not unusual to
this part of the world, the rapid strength of one low combined with
another low pressure system aided in the generation of this powerful
storm.
A nor'easter is a common name for strong storms that develop offshore the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and New England Coasts. The name is derived from the direction that the wind is coming from, and this particular storm took a textbook track. A low spawned offshore the Texas coast and tracked eastward over the Southeastern U.S. The low strengthened while tracking northeastward, becoming a gale over the Outer Banks of North Carolina, by the morning of February 08th. By that evening, the system had strengthened into a storm several hundred nautical miles south of Rhode Island. In just 24 hours, the central pressure of this storm had dropped 23mb! The rapid intensification was due to the system's proximity of the warm Gulf Stream current, which flows offshore the Southeastern U.S. northeastward through the Western Atlantic Ocean.
As this storm moved northeastward it merged with another strong low that had tracked from the Midwest and Ohio Valley (which dropped about a foot of snow in Michigan). As a result, the nor'easter intensified further and the central pressure dropped another 13mb to 970mb while moving over the Southern Gulf of Maine by the morning of the 09th. In the accompanying visible satellite image, the nor'easter actually developed an "eye" similar to what you would see in a major hurricane by afternoon on the 09th.
It was during this time when the heavy snow and strong winds developed
over Long Island and New England. Winds gusted to 55 to 72 knots along
the coasts resulting in widespread power outages and downed trees. 24 to
40 inches of snow fell, stranding motorists along the Long Island
Expressway and shutting down airports. Portland, Maine had its all time
heaviest snowfall of 31.9 inches. High tide surged 3-5ft higher than
normal along the eastern shores of New England producing localized
flooding. The snow and wind diminished as the storm moved south of Nova
Scotia during the overnight hours of the 09th.
This nor'easter impacted some of our clients. Prior to and during this storm, WRI provided daily forecasts to a marina along Cape Cod regarding the winds and snowfall, as well as, assist a research vessel to safely navigate down the U.S. East Coast. WRI also advised forecasts for guests on a yacht that were returning to a major airport in the Northeastern U.S.
Up until this storm, the winter season had been fairly quiet across the Northeastern U.S. allowing for coastal communities that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy last October for some time to recover. However this all changed on February 08th through 09th as the nor'easter impacted, not only areas that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy, but much of Eastern New England. The amount of snow and damage that the system produced will remain memorable to the residents affected for years to come.
A nor'easter is a common name for strong storms that develop offshore the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and New England Coasts. The name is derived from the direction that the wind is coming from, and this particular storm took a textbook track. A low spawned offshore the Texas coast and tracked eastward over the Southeastern U.S. The low strengthened while tracking northeastward, becoming a gale over the Outer Banks of North Carolina, by the morning of February 08th. By that evening, the system had strengthened into a storm several hundred nautical miles south of Rhode Island. In just 24 hours, the central pressure of this storm had dropped 23mb! The rapid intensification was due to the system's proximity of the warm Gulf Stream current, which flows offshore the Southeastern U.S. northeastward through the Western Atlantic Ocean.
As this storm moved northeastward it merged with another strong low that had tracked from the Midwest and Ohio Valley (which dropped about a foot of snow in Michigan). As a result, the nor'easter intensified further and the central pressure dropped another 13mb to 970mb while moving over the Southern Gulf of Maine by the morning of the 09th. In the accompanying visible satellite image, the nor'easter actually developed an "eye" similar to what you would see in a major hurricane by afternoon on the 09th.
A visible satellite image of the strong nor'easter that buried Long
Island and Eastern New England in snow on February 09th. Note the "eye"
feature and "cellular" cloud pattern around the center of circulation,
which is an indicator of intense winds.
(click to enlarge)
This nor'easter impacted some of our clients. Prior to and during this storm, WRI provided daily forecasts to a marina along Cape Cod regarding the winds and snowfall, as well as, assist a research vessel to safely navigate down the U.S. East Coast. WRI also advised forecasts for guests on a yacht that were returning to a major airport in the Northeastern U.S.
Up until this storm, the winter season had been fairly quiet across the Northeastern U.S. allowing for coastal communities that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy last October for some time to recover. However this all changed on February 08th through 09th as the nor'easter impacted, not only areas that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy, but much of Eastern New England. The amount of snow and damage that the system produced will remain memorable to the residents affected for years to come.
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