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Another Hurricane

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According to this map, at the time of writing this post, there are 5 hurricanes in the West Pacific, Central Pacific and North Atlantic.

When Dennis struck in July, I followed its path at Jeff Master’s blog. He is now following Hurricane Rita and there are links to satellite imagery at his site . The comments are also interesting.

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  1. jennifer says

    I’ve turned into a bit of a hurricane watcher myself.

    This site

    http://www.supertyphoon.com

    is the best for identifying new storms all around the
    world, and also provides links to weather advisories
    and satellite images etc.

    In particular, they show an
    extended projected path for typhoons – Rita is
    currently expected to cross into Texas – west of
    Louisiana.

    http://www.noaa.gov

    is great for getting quick access to advisories,
    strike probability charts, and satellite images for
    hurricanes around the US.

    Steve
    …………….
    Posted by Jennifer for Steve, as it seems this blog is knocking back some great contributions including the above on the basis of ‘questionable content’. I will have my provider look into it. Sorry.

  2. Steve says

    Snipped From NOAA:

    000
    WTNT33 KNHC 210248
    TCPAT3
    BULLETIN
    HURRICANE RITA ADVISORY NUMBER 14
    NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
    11 PM EDT TUE SEP 20 2005

    …RITA RAPIDLY STRENGTHENING AS IT PASSES SOUTH OF DRY TORTUGAS….

    …..RITA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 13 MPH…20 KM/HR. THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS…WHICH WILL TAKE RITA AWAY FROM THE FLORIDA KEYS AND WESTERN CUBA AND INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO WEDNESDAY MORNING.

    DATA FROM THE KEY WEST NOAA DOPPLER RADAR AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE NOW INCREASED TO NEAR 110 MPH…175 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER GUSTS.

    RITA IS A STRONG CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE.

    ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS…AND RITA IS EXPECTED TO BECOME A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE WEDNESDAY MORNING… AND REACH CATEGORY FOUR STRENGTH BY WEDNESDAY EVENING……

    …..AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 2 AM EDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 5 AM EDT.

    FORECASTER STEWART

  4. Ender says

    …CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE RITA CONTINUING TO DEEPEN…
    …NOW THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN
    ON RECORD…

  5. jennifer says

    Dennis (in July) was apparently the strongest to form in the Atlantic that early in the season since records began in 1851.

  7. Phil Done says

    Ender – do you prefer your troll bait rare or well done. There seems to be a poor range on offer in various threads at the moment. Very little seems to be well done…

  8. Steve says

    heheh – its friday, can handle some low-grade troll bait today.

    Louis, you do realise that Enders quote comes from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Hurricane Centre, not from the mass media?

    And besides, you are a geologist, what would you know about the mass media?

  9. Ender says

    That was the only bit I could post. The rest got rejected as inappropriate content.

    It was from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

    Rita is now a CAT 4. The really good news is that it will probably strike as a strong CAT 3.

    Read the discussions as they are the intersting bit as the meteorologists go into quite a bit of detail.

  10. rog says

    Meanwhile in the aftermarth of Katrina various scenarios have come to light;

    * the tidal surge did not go over the levees
    * the existing levee heights would have held back the worst of Katrina
    * the earthen levees did not breach
    * the concrete levee did breach
    * cause of failure may have been in the design or construction, or both

    therefore

    * George Bush did not cause the flooding of NO
    * Katrina had nothing to do with Iraq, neocons or McDonalds

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001894_pf.html

  11. Ender says

    rog – that should be good news for all the people in New Orleans – why don’t you travel to the Projects and tell them this. I am sure they would recieve it well.

  13. Ender says

    rog – I was being ironic. The projects are where the poor people in some of these cities live.

    I was suggesting that this would be cold comfort to them.

  14. rog says

    Quite obviously (again) my mistake Ender (I seemed to have developed a consistency for being in error), could you please advise when you are being ironic?

    It would be of great assistance to those of us who are less attuned to the subtle nuances of your messages.