Over 1950-2000 there were an average of 6 Atlantic hurricanes per year, each having an average existence of 4 days. A typical hurricane moves at about 12 miles per hour. So, the path length of a typical hurricane is about

12 MPH times 24 hrs/day times 4 days = 1,100 to 1,200 miles

I hope this answers your question.

The information comes from Wikipedia, Dr Bill Gray’s 2006 report and a book titled, “The Hurricane and Its Impact” (Simpson/Riehl, LSU Press, 1981)

It was under the “file” menu and did two main things. One, it let you tweak the compression/colours in order to get a pleasing image that’s as small as possible for web use. Two, it stripped down the file so it didn’t include unnecessary bloat. I suspect that this mode may save a JPEG image that will load properly in IE6/Firefox. Yes, it is a bit odd that it works in some MS programs but not in IE6, but perhaps IE6 has a stripped down JPEG loader in order to speed up the browser. That’s just a guess, though.

I’ll be curious to know if “Save for Web” is still there and whether it fixes the problem.

Thanks for the info. I would have been befuddled for quite some time if you didn’t clue me in.

You’re right. I did use photoshop 7.0 to save them. I use the Opera browser and it loaded them with no problem. I just tried loading one into Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Had no problem. I also just tried IE6 and it wouldn’t load it. How screwy is that. MS recognizes the format for one of it’s other programs but doesn’t support it with it’s browser.

I’ll have to try another program or change to a different format. I originally did the plots on a .bmp image and just wanted to sharpen the color by converting to cmyk color which .bmp doesn’t support. Figured .jpg would decrease the size also. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.

I tried loading the files with a number of programs. feh – displayed blach image. qiv – would not load. xzgv – displayed normally. gimp – displayed normally. So with these type of invalid files it’s a bit hit and miss. It basically depends on whether the program knows to skip unrecognized chunks at the start of the file or not. The JPEG standard is a mess, so this type of thing is not very surprising, but you’d think Adobe would test that the files they produce can be opened by common applications.

Photoshop 6.0 never made that mistake. What are Adobe thinking?

In my experience, if Firefox won’t display them, many other programs won’t either. The problem is usually the that JFIF chunk is not the first chunk in the file. Perhaps you can load them into an image manipulation program (not Photoshop) and save them again, then they will become standard JPEG files.

Yeah. It’s free parking for images. Haven’t used it before myself. I didn’t even have to register to put them there. I guess if I wanted to keep a portfolio of images there, I would have to register, otherwise they’re just randomly stored. They say they don’t delete them. I’m kind of wondering how they make a buck since registration is free. Apparently they’ve been around for a few years and they do have a couple ads.

What is preventing continual formation of hurricanes over warm tropical waters? Instead of wondering why we see so many hurricanes, perhaps it would be worth asking why we see so few.

There’s prb’ly negative feedbacks operating. Possibilities are that TSs shade the ocean underneath them, dump cool rainwater in it & more importantly churn-up the upper layers, cooling them. The depth of atmosphere “behind” them is also stabilized temporarily. I’ve seen a study that monitored the track of a TS just east of the US east coast, & easily detected the cool ocean temps left behind it for some time (many days).

I see you use something called Imageshack. I’ve never heard of that. Is that a place where one can park a plot and thus get an http address for posting? That would be great.