His bet on Iridium, the ill-fated satellite phone system put aloft by Motorola, has been a disaster.
The media celebrity system is kept aloft not just by powerful handlers but by layers of semi-anonymous toilers — press agents and talent bookers, and, well below them, headwaiters, bouncers, and chauffeurs — all of whom help build and guard a mystique of which they, as much as anyone, are the victims, since most of them are disposable.
Owing to favorable tropospheric conditions aloft, the system began showing signs of development as the deep convection organized into well-defined curved rainbands.
In addition, this system generated unfavorable southerly flow aloft, inducing a slight weakening of the storm.
There are cases where large, mid-latitude troughs can help with tropical cyclogenesis when an upper-level jet stream passes to the northwest of the developing system, which will aid divergence aloft and inflow at the surface, spinning up the cyclone.
It then moved west-northwest along the northern side of the monsoon trough as a sheared system due to moderate southerly flow aloft.
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If the cultural legacy of the Eisenhower years had been mostly domestic, articulated through the interstate highway system, the Kennedy and Johnson years set aloft a war of soft imperialism almost overshadowing the harder kind.
With low wind shear and diffluence aloft, the JTWC remarked the system had a fair chance of developing.
Through 15 March satellite imagery indicated increasing convection and organisation of the system, as well as decreasing wind sheer aloft, adding to the favourable conditions for strengthening.
