Posted on 09/25/2008 5:39:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
First, are hurricanes in New England a natural phenomenon or are they Bush's fault? And will television render cinema obsolete in the way sound rendered silent film obsolete?
Go Bears.
Thanks for this. Comments on the 1900 Galveston storm indicate it behaved just like Ike did. And I see it was a good year for the Yankees. ;)
When the French ministers, headed by Premier Daladier, arrived in London on Sunday, September 25, the two governments were apprised of the formal rejection of the Godesberg proposals by the Czech government.* There was nothing for the French to do but affirm that they would honor their word and come to the aid of Czechoslovakia if attacked. But they had to know what Britain would do. Finally cornered, or so it seemed, Chamberlain agreed to inform Hitler that if France became engaged in war with Germany as a result of her treaty obligations to the Czechs, Britain would feel obliged to support her.
But first he would make one last appeal to the German dictator. Hitler was scheduled to make a speech at the Sportpalast in Berlin on September 26. In order to induce him not to burn his bridges Chamberlain once again dashed off a personal letter to Hitler and on the afternoon of the twenty-sixth rushed it to Berlin by his faithful aide, Sir Horace Wilson, who sped to the German capital by special plane.
Sunday, September 25, was a lovely day of Indian summer in Berlin, warm and sunny, and since it undoubtedly would be the last such weekend that autumn, half of the population flocked to the lakes and woods that surround the capital. Despite reports of Hitler's rage at hearing that the Godesberg ultimatum was being rejected in Paris, London and Prague, there was no feeling of great crisis, certainly no war fever, in Berlin. "Hard to believe there will be war," I noted in my diary that evening.**
* The Czech reply is a moving and prophetic document. The Godesberg proposals, it said, "deprive us of every safeguard for our national existence."
** At the conclusion of the Godesberg talks, the British and French correspondents and the chief European correspondent of the New York Times, who was an English citizenhad scurried off for the French, Belgian and Dutch frontiers, none of them wishing to be interned in case of war.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 396-397
The hurricane of 1938 took a path that is not unusual for a late season hurricane. The Gulf Stream moves a massive amount of water, and late in the summer/early fall the water that warmed up in June/July near the equator reaches New York/New England. As a result, in September and even into October, hurricanes can follow that warm water highway up the east coast, and maintain their strength as they make landfall in the north east. The Gulf Stream is not warm enough that far north in June or July, so you don’t get hurricanes going north and maintaining their strength early in the season. Then, most hurricanes are originating in the Gulf of Mexico where the water warms earlier in the season.
Doesn’t happen every year, but if you look at charts of late season hurricanes, you’ll see that the east coast phenomenon is actually fairly frequent.
I was just about to address your point yesterday about the diffenent number of games played by the teams when the big crash occurred. I think it probably had to do with getting venues to play the games. The games were played in baseball stadiums and there was a hot pennant race going on, at least in Pittsburgh. The football Pirates played their opener on a Friday in Detroit and their home opener in Forbes Field the following Sunday. I'll bet they wouldn't try to make a Bill Parcells team do that.
I think once in a very great while, an eastern Pacific hurricane that originates off the coast of Mexico can drift more or less straight north into the Gulf of California and dump rain in Arizona. I recall something like that happening a few years ago.
However, due to the clockwise circulation of ocean currents in the northern hemisphere, the waters off California originate in the Gulf of Alaska and are perpetually cold. They will not support a tropical storm. The prevailing winds in the low latitudes also tend to push the hurricanes out to the west and into the Pacific, where they only threaten shipping lanes. For some reason, Hawaii rarely gets hurricanes.
But, California, Oregon & Washington will NEVER get a hurricane. And for the same reason of oceanic current circulation, the east coast of the US gets hurricanes, and so does Japan. The Pacific counterpart of the Gulf Stream is called the Kuroshio, and it brings Japan its share of hurricanes, even though Tokyo is about the same latitude as Washington DC.
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