Posted on 08/13/2007 7:58:49 AM PDT by Strategerist
TROPICAL DEPRESSION FOUR ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL042007 1100 AM EDT MON AUG 13 2007
...FOURTH DEPRESSION OF THE SEASON FORMS IN THE FAR EASTERN ATLANTIC...
AT 1100 AM EDT...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION FOUR WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 12.0 NORTH...LONGITUDE 31.6 WEST OR ABOUT 520 MILES...840 KM...WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPE VERDE ISLANDS AND ABOUT 2000 MILES...3220 KM...EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES.
THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 21 MPH...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH...55 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST...AND THE DEPRESSION COULD BECOME A TROPICAL STORM DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1005 MB...29.68 INCHES.
REPEATING THE 1100 AM EDT POSITION...12.0 N...31.6 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...WEST NEAR 21 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...35 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1005 MB.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 500 PM EDT.
$$ FORECASTER KNABB
Just the stuff that comes from NOAA :)
Anyway - it was time to fill it up. At 27 gallons it’s also the standby gas storage tank for my 5kw generator. When a storm tracks in I’ll fill the 5 gallon gas can. If the power goes out that gives me 32 gallons for the generator.
Some of us see the 4th Tropical Depression as a good excuse to check over our disaster plans, rotate food supplies, test back up electric systems and take a good look at the home exterior (for me that means getting the pine straw out of the rain gutters).
If an ice storm, tornado or hurricane knocks out power in my area and shuts things down our house will still be up and running - unless a tornado scores a direct hit.
Many who follow the threads about potential weather disasters will make out like me. Are you with us?
I'll have 110+ gallons. When Katrina hit two years ago we were without electricity for seven days and I ran the AC/lights off the small generator. The problem with that generator is the gas tank required filling about every two hours, I was up - down all night. I've fixed that problem by having on hand a gas line that will run from my riding lawn mower to the generator. The lawn mower has about a six gallon tank. I get smarter and better prepared after each hurricane.
We can cook outside on the grill and burners to cut down on heat inside the home. Since the freezer is not counted in the electric plan our plan is to eat our way through the cow items as they defrost :-). Love steaks.
It’s Bush’s fault.
ABOUT 2000 MILES...3220 KM...EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES
THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 21 MPH
That means it will hit Aruba in... 95 DAYS !! which is somewere around November 18th.
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Cute... but no. 95 hours, not days... just under 4 days.
ABBCNNBCBS is SO eager to verify AGW through another massive hurricane season, that every day of no storms merely heightens their fear and rhetoric: even though the NWS degrades the expected number each no hurricanes come up.
So, now that an actual depression is actually out there - and this the still the first 1/2 of the season with no named storms - everybody can get excused for reacting.
Or accused of over-reacting fer that matter.
Is now TS Dean as of the 11 AM advisory
Uh, we've had three named storms so far, and now this system is the fourth - Dean.
Details, details ... 8<)
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