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:
Maybe it will at least flood some of the Iranian defenses along Hormuz.
Good map. Showing Cat 1 approaching Hormuz.
Unless it goes more to the East avoiding land.
Prayers for any of our troops on post in the Mid-East...
Weird weather all over the globe, almost NONE of it fitting the “global warming” agenda. Record-breaking cold in Argentina and South Africa, freak snow-storms in Nepal and China, cold-fronts preceded by historic-high heatwaves in the American west, and “cold” subtropical lows forming in the Atlantic as per Andrea...
No, it’s not probably “catastrophic” in any sense. But it is unusual, and it points to some sort of theoretically temporary global phenomenon that is not explainable by “green house gases” or “global warming”. It would certainly be interesting to find out what scientific FACT is influencing the weather this way...
JTWC forecast. Looks like it’s going to decrease in intensity pretty fast.
https://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/warnings/io0207.gif
“Prayers for any of our troops on post in the Mid-East...”
Amen. We probably have some sailors in the area that are especially going to have a rough ride.
I wonder if it will slow oil tanker traffic through the area.
From your link:
“We looked back through the past 30 years of reliable data, and could not find one single instance of a hurricane hitting that region. A couple of Tropical Storms steered well southwest and northeast of that region, but never directly impacted the Gulf of Oman. So this appears to be a historic event.”
Impressive loop, takes a while to load:
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/visir/indian/visirjava02A.html
If our carriers have to get their birds off the deck and hunker down, I hope that doesnt make them vulnerable to the madman in Iran...he might think the Mahdi is in the eye of this storm or that its a sign from his allah.
Looks like the previous eye completely disappeared.
Lets hope for the sake of oil prices it loses it punch
or at least moshes Iran so we can point and laugh. ;o
Notice the change in track today, landfall in Iran as a Cat 2.
Iran president warns of hurricane in Middle East Tue. 25 Jul 2006
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that the conflict between Lebanon and Israel could sweep through the entire Middle East like a hurricane.
"If (problems) are decided through the use of force, everything becomes double-complicated," Ahmadinejad said on a visit to Central Asian Tajikistan.
"He who sows the wind will reap a hurricane and this will be a very strong storm in the whole Middle East region, which will strike painfully," he told a joint news conference with Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8022
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