Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Ted Weissberg

Article title: Weather Satellite Now Offline: GOES-13 Issues May Affect Forecasting 

URL:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/weather-satellite-offline-goes-13_n_1912953.html

Picture Source: http://abobora-oca.blogspot.com/2010/07/goes-13-is-americas-new-goes-east.html

Author of article: Andrew Freedman 

"In the midst of the very active North Atlantic hurricane season, the main weather satellite scientists use for keeping tabs on the weather across eastern North America and the Atlantic Ocean has gone offline. The outage began late on Sept. 23, after a period when the satellite, known as GOES-13, had been experience increasing vibrations, or “noise,” in particular instruments that was degrading its performance."



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