Posted on 09/02/2004 3:44:13 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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...NINTH TROPICAL DEPRESSION OF THE SEASON FORMS OVER THE EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC...
AT 5 PM EDT...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION NINE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 9.7 NORTH... LONGITUDE 29.1 WEST OR ABOUT 555 MILES... 890 KM... SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS.
THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 20 MPH ...32 KM/HR...AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 30 MPH... 45 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1009 MB...29.80 INCHES.
REPEATING THE 5 PM EDT POSITION... 9.7 N... 29.1 W. MOVEMENTTOWARD...WEST NEAR 20 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 30 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1009 MB.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 11 PM EDT.
FORECASTER KNABB/PASCH
This tropical depression is expected to hit Venezuela or the Antilles in 5 days (Tuesday). Meanwhile, another hurricane will swirl off California. So we've got two storms for next week, even after we deal with Frances.
Is this season active or what?
By the way, what happens when Super Hurricane Delta slams Palm Beach on November 2? At this rate, it's a question worth asking. What if there's no electrical power in a county that uses electronic voting machines? How would such a disaster impact vote counting?
Is this the Free Republic or the friggin' Weather Channel?
Looks like its both.
It will knock out power to miami-dade and all the new yoikas won't be able to vote, but the central and northern (southerners) I would think should be able to.
When you live in Florida...it's both.
It started late, but its-a-hoppin' now! I think its been 3 or 4 years running that the long term forecasters have looked for an active season. Well, we finally got it. Ya think it could be global warming kicking in?
"Is this the Free Republic or the friggin' Weather Channel?"
It's sunny where I am ;)
I agree and it should be even though I live in Texas.
The fluke was the low number of big hurricane hits in the US for the last 40 years. Not what's happening now...shouldn't expect a year as damaging as this EVERY year, but people better get used to a fairly regular diet of at least Charley-like hits every couple years or so.
And this season has absolutely nothing to do with global warming, as noted by the previous poster.
Clearly this means that the 'Weather War' machines developed by the late Soviet Union have fallen into even more unfriendly hands who are now using them to launch weather salvos at the United States.
< art bell hat off >
Re global warming causing the hurricanes: Awww, come on guys, you didn't really believe I meant that, did you?
"If the recent nine-year shift follows prior occurrences, it is likely that enhanced intense Atlantic basin hurricane activity will persist through the early decades of the 21st century," he said.
I've read in a couple places now that the cycles may last 20 years.
Super Hurricane Delta?
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