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Amazing Tropical Cyclone Gonu
AccuWeather.com ^ | June 4, 2007 | Jim Andrews

Posted on 06/04/2007 11:59:31 AM PDT by OpusatFR

--I can say with confidence that this forecaster has never seen the likes of this: a Category 4 (130 knots, or 240 kph) hurricane over the northern Arabian Sea. The wind speeds are estimated (as of 0600 Hours GMT) by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). A look at full-disk infrared imagery (from the India Met. Dept.--IMD) helps to afford better perspective on TC Gonu and South Asia:


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weather
KEYWORDS: cyclone; cyclonegonu; gonu; navy; oil; oman; tropics
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A cyclone headed for Oman and possibly Arabia.
1 posted on 06/04/2007 11:59:34 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR

More power to it...


2 posted on 06/04/2007 12:00:30 PM PDT by Edgerunner (If leftists don't like it, I do. Keep your powder dry...)
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To: OpusatFR

Too bad it’s not headed for Iran.


3 posted on 06/04/2007 12:01:06 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: OpusatFR

BUSH’S FAULT!

(Am I first? Did I get in first???)


4 posted on 06/04/2007 12:01:59 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: bolobaby

You’re the winner!


5 posted on 06/04/2007 12:02:46 PM PDT by crghill (Jacob Harmenszoon is no friend of mine!)
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To: OpusatFR

They’re already planning a book about it - “Gonu With the Wind.”


6 posted on 06/04/2007 12:02:53 PM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: bolobaby

Rove has perfected his weather machine. Katrina was a test run.


7 posted on 06/04/2007 12:03:08 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: Edgerunner

hehe


8 posted on 06/04/2007 12:03:36 PM PDT by Vision ("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
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To: OpusatFR

Wow!


9 posted on 06/04/2007 12:04:58 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Brilliant

This explains the big pop in the oil service companies, drillers, CVX, BP and the rest.

XOM didn’t participate in the rally. No floor under it.


10 posted on 06/04/2007 12:07:37 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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Looks like its heading right for the straight of Hormuz!

http://forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/tracker/dynamic/main.html

11 posted on 06/04/2007 12:09:37 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: No Blue States

http://forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/tracker/dynamic/main.html


12 posted on 06/04/2007 12:11:44 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: OpusatFR

And the US will be donating how much to their clean-up efforts? eh?


13 posted on 06/04/2007 12:11:47 PM PDT by EBH (May God Save Our Country)
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To: OpusatFR
"There's no Gonu like good Gonu!


14 posted on 06/04/2007 12:12:22 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: No Blue States

Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will blow in Iran.


15 posted on 06/04/2007 12:14:14 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: OpusatFR

Hopefully, the US naval commanders in the area will show more common sense than did Adm. Halsey.


16 posted on 06/04/2007 12:14:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: No Blue States

Except it will probably be down to tropical storm strength by then.


17 posted on 06/04/2007 12:16:07 PM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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Cat 5 now, very visible eye from this high up:

http://forecast.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/shadow/tracker/static/NINIR.html

I should fill up before the gas prices go back up.
Projected strength at Hormuz Cat 2.


18 posted on 06/04/2007 12:16:35 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: OpusatFR
It could still hit Iran.....with a little luck! Where is Allah when you need him? I know. He's in the center of this storm. LOL!


19 posted on 06/04/2007 12:17:42 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: Centurion2000

It definately looks like it could scrape Iran at final landfall. Shame it will lose a couple of Cats near Muscat..


20 posted on 06/04/2007 12:18:01 PM PDT by No Blue States
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