UAH live data, Ida update

Ida is only about 50 miles south of Dauphin Island, and should reach Mobile Bay by midnight. The maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph. Wave heights about 12 miles south of Orange Beach are 16 feet, and water levels in Mobile Bay are about 1 foot above normal high tide right now, and a few spots may see tides up to 5 feet above normal.

Recent wind gusts include 40 mph at Mobile, 37 mph Pensacola Naval Air Station, 45 mph at Biloxi, 35 mph Panama City Beach.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville team is near Foley, AL, with the Mobile Alabama X-Band Radar (MAX), and the MIPS wind profiler. They report numerous gravity waves in the system, and their highest wind gust has been 62 mph. To see live data of vertical wind profiles, vertical motion, and radar, go to the following websites (these are also normally active in Huntsville when we are not on a storm):

Profiler winds: https://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/data/current/profiler/wind.html

Profiler vertical motion, rain, etc.:
https://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/data/current/profiler/moments.html

MAX radar https://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/max/

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