A question about what details the FTP server had
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Chris in Tampa on 8/13/2009, 5:34 pm
For technical purposes related to my site, I am curious what it happened to say on the FTP server. Did the file ever say Ana? I have a feeling based on the discussion that they were in the process of upgrading it when they decided it was starting to fall apart and they should wait. Were the winds upped to 35 knots and it had TS has the level of tropical cyclone development? That seems to usually be the first step. Then they will update it with a name. I have a feeling they decided just as they were about to put a name on it to pull it back. The ATCF database changes whenever they want. They will adjust positions and intensities in the past six hour best track positions any time they want. So I guess very soon after adding TS they changed it back to being a depression in the file.
I am curious because I am wondering how my site might have behaved. Looking at the code on my site, it looks like my site probably did the same thing and named it "Tropical Storm One" for a brief time. I'm just not sure what to so about that. I do have a note on my site under "Level of tropical cyclone development" that says "(This information is sometimes inaccurate.)" I guess I could change it, but if the file actually had 35 knots winds, then I would have no way to fix it.
If the FTP server said 30kts and TS, I could say it is still a depression since the scale is based solely on winds and there is no such thing as a 30kt TS. But if the 02L file had already updated the winds as well to 35kts, then there is nothing to error check unless I hold off on calling it a named storm until it actually gets assigned a name. All other sites, like NRL and all the rest, use the same FTP files and they have not come up with a perfect system either. (NRL created the ATCF system that the NHC uses.) |
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