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Tropical Storm Beta!
NHC/NOAA ^ | 9/18/2020 | NHC/NOAA

Posted on 09/18/2020 8:15:25 PM PDT by NautiNurse

This is not a Beta test. We have another Gulf of Mexico storm this busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season. We ran out of Alphabet names, and moved on to the Greek alphabet. Beta did not wait for the news cycle to end following the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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NHC Public Advisories

NHC Forecast Discussions

Key Messages for Beta

Naval Oceanographic Tropical

GOES Satellite Loops

Corpus Christi Radar

Houston/Galveston Radar

Bouy Locations with Beta's Forecast Track


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: beta; notagreekone; ohno; tropical
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To: NautiNurse

If they stopped giving names to every frowning cloud they would still have lots of names to go.


21 posted on 09/18/2020 8:57:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: janetjanet998

The scatterometer was probably the biggest factor making any comparison before 1990 irrelevant. But they have also changed the policy to name doomed storms like Bertha and Eduoard. If a storm like Ed is being ripped apart and there’s a stronger wind in one of the torn-off chunks it doesn’t represent the strength of the storm.


22 posted on 09/18/2020 9:00:04 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: All

LOL

New GFS has the storm in the same spot as now after several small loops ...

NEXT Saturday... the 27th and still stalled


23 posted on 09/18/2020 9:25:53 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: NautiNurse

Gulfs in a swirl these days!


24 posted on 09/18/2020 9:34:19 PM PDT by caww (The Left are in war mode to regain power...NOT have an election.)
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To: NautiNurse

Another....boy-O-boy.


25 posted on 09/18/2020 9:37:17 PM PDT by blam
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To: All

This has been the season of the no-restraint naming of marginal tropical storms. Back in the day, Beta would have been Sally perhaps.

Anyway, looks like a slow intensification to cat-1 or even cat-2 hurricane status, well offshore, then a slow cruise northeast up the Texas coast looking for a suitable landfall spot.

Will be five or six days before that happens apparently.


26 posted on 09/18/2020 11:15:28 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: NautiNurse

Wow! Last I heard, Teddy was heading directly for Bermuda.


27 posted on 09/19/2020 12:37:41 AM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: janetjanet998

By Saturday afternoon, the models will update and have it headed to Pensacola. You wait ...

;-)


28 posted on 09/19/2020 1:37:51 AM PDT by Blueflag
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To: NautiNurse

Thanks for the ping, looks like I’ll be getting some of Beta.

You have replaced WeatherUnderground as my go to source for info on TC in the Gulf of Mexico. Sad because back in the day WU was a great resource.

As you may recall I live in San Leon Tx and I have Galveston Bay as my front yard so I have to take seriously any TC that comes into the western GoM.


29 posted on 09/19/2020 3:17:57 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

Hiya jpsb! Thanks for checking in. Thank you for your kind sentiments. Wunderground surely isn’t the useful site it used to be.


30 posted on 09/19/2020 3:57:51 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Put $5000 cash in an envelope. Mail it to yourself. If this makes you queasy, vote at the polls.)
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To: NautiNurse

ROTF!!

All that wet, and parts of the Northeast are in a drought.


31 posted on 09/19/2020 4:01:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: NautiNurse

We ran out of Alphabet names

Only because you squandered them on rain events that were not “worthy” of names.

To make your predictions of “could be a very busy hurricane season” and “increasing violent storms” real.

So next year when most have forgotten you can claim it was one of the most storm filled seasons ever.

So sad to lose faith in so many institutions of science, perverted by agendas like glowbull warming...


32 posted on 09/19/2020 4:16:28 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: NautiNurse

Yep - watched Sally drift on across us and to the east and now this one looks like it will stay safely to our west...us Biloxi/Gulfport folks may get lucky this year.


33 posted on 09/19/2020 4:23:26 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: jpsb

Space city weather.com is a great source for weather for the Houston Galveston area specifically, and the gulf coast in general. No hype to scare you. Just great analysis. They were spot on during Laura.

https://spacecityweather.com/


34 posted on 09/19/2020 4:25:31 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Blueflag
"By Saturday afternoon, the models will update and have it headed to Pensacola. You wait ..."

Ha, ha. I know that feeling...I'm in Mobile.

35 posted on 09/19/2020 4:42:32 AM PDT by blam
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To: MPJackal

thanks for the tip, I will be checking in there.


36 posted on 09/19/2020 4:50:26 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: NautiNurse

Wilfred? That’s my Confirmation name and my deceased Dad’s middle name.


37 posted on 09/19/2020 5:33:02 AM PDT by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: blam

Just look at the RADAR with a cloud cover overlay.

Rain and clouds from Beta are streaming into SE already. It’s cloudy here north of ATL from that system.


38 posted on 09/19/2020 5:36:33 AM PDT by Blueflag
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To: kanawa
Wilfred? That’s my Confirmation name and my deceased Dad’s middle name.

NHC Headline: ...WOEFUL WILFRED HEADING WEST-NORTHWESTWARD...

39 posted on 09/19/2020 5:56:01 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Put $5000 cash in an envelope. Mail it to yourself. If this makes you queasy, vote at the polls.)
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To: Adder
Question? Don't they retire a hurricane name if the storm is particularly destructive? What happens if delta is a monster and slams Florida? Will they retire that name??? The msm is practically orgasmic by running out of names. Global warming doncha know🤗
40 posted on 09/19/2020 7:50:54 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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