When WX Attacks!

various FR links & stories | 01-12-05 | the heavy equipment guy

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Aid Reaches Freezing Arctic Village [Kaktovik AK pop 300 in ANWR, runway blocked, -20F 65 mph wind]

 

 Floods Rage in Utah's Dixie

 

 That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

 

 

 CA: Flood emergency in San Juan (3000 to 4000 evacuated,SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )

 

 Rain Hampers Search Efforts in California (Update Mudslide Kills 4, Traps Others)

 

 Sierra gets most snowfall in 89 years

 

  Globally-Averaged Atmospheric Temperatures [satellite data show long-term cooling trends]

 

  FLASH FLOOD WARNING LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA

 

 

 About 180 Rescued From Cars in Calif. Snow

 

 Hundreds of Vehicles Stuck in Calif. Snow

 

 Seven killed as storm pounds northern Europe

 

 

 Western States Storm Watch LIVE THREAD 

 

 Western Winter Storms -- Weekend of Jan. 7, 2005

 

  Abominable snow sissie

 

  Warm Weather Causing Allergies (Winter in the south maybe officially OVER! WHOO HOO!)

 

 

 California braces for wind, rain and snow from two more storms (wet thru middle of next week)

 

 Storm hijacks lives; residents try to cope(Ks Icestorm)

 

  Whole lot of water headed for Cincinnati and points south

 

  Trio of storm systems could have devastating impact on U.S.

 

  California Storm - Washes Away New Sand

 

 Day the World Shook 

 

 

 Rainforst Action Network's Real Target Third World Poor(When Environmentalists Kill) -- their utopian efforts are being carried out on the backs – and often the graves – of the world’s most destitute and powerless people...

 

 A right-winger attacks global warming (Left-winger attacks right-winger who attacked global warming) -- an environmentalist's group was planning to kill off most of the world's population to 'SAVE THE WORLD' from people.

 

 ICE STORM WARNING - (Iowa)

 

 

 X-FLARE (Explosion from Sun which might hit Earth?)

 

 The Sun has a Thousand Faces--- Thread 3

 

  The Cooling World - Global Cooling --- first printed in Newsweek, 1975

 

  ***Tornado Warning -- Avalon -- Catalina Island California

 

  Weird skies and tin foil hats.

 

  Global Warming: Where's My Present? -- * Global warming took a big hit this weekend in the United States as wintry weather stranded travelers, knocked out electricity and caused Christmas presents to be delayed.

 

  Mother Nature is a Grinch

 

  Texas town has first white Christmas since 1918

 

  Town Sees 1st White Christmas in 86 Years (More Global Warming)

 

 

Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges

Be sure to read the links and view the map here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302047/posts?page=46#46

 

 

Winter Storm Warning-Corpus Christi, Texas

 What about this "global warming" we keep hearing liberals talk about?

 The Kyoto Protocol: “Fatally Flawed” -- Unless Kyoto has some impact on sunsupot activities, it looks like Bush's lonely, unilateral decision may have been right. This bulletin indicates that sunspots may have been responsible for much of the warming that's allegedly occurred since 1900.Of course, maybe some industrialists are up there fooling around with the sun.

 

 

Winter Storm Warning-Corpus Christi, Texas

 Snow for South Carolina Christmas Night!

 NOAA knows weather

 http://www.khou.com/ Some snow in the Houston area!

 http://www.wfaa.com/

 http://www.fema.gov/hazards/winterstorms/wntsft.shtm  

Snow flurries dust Houston, parts of East and South Texas

 

 Compilation of pics from the area:

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=12503

 

 

Massive Rescue Effort Underway...BREAKING -- HUNDREDS OF CARS STRANDED ON I-24--NEWS MEDIA IS REPORTING THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS BEEN CALLED OUT.

 Paducah KY

 http://mapclient.kytc.state.ky.us/default.asp?display=critical&area=statewide&date=&textOnly=False

 

 http://www.wpsdtv.com/emm-bin/homepage.cgi

 

 Hundreds Stranded on KY Interstate; Entire Region Paralyzed

 

 At least six weather-related traffic deaths -- three in Ohio and one each in New Mexico, Arkansas and Oklahoma -- were reported as well as hundreds of fender-benders. Hundreds more went unreported as overwhelmed police told motorists involved in minor accidents to exchange information and fill out a report later.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/12/23/winter.storm.ap/

 A good reminder as to why survival kits with candles, energy bars,warm clothes, sleeping bags etc. are good to have in vehicles in the winter.

WX cams: http://www.artimis.org/camaccess.html

 All the effort wasn't doing much good in southern Indiana, where at least 30 miles of eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 had become a frozen parking lot — and the white stuff was still falling. In neighboring Kentucky, state police also closed down a 13-mile stretch of the interstate in both directions... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041223/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm

 

 

 The end of radical environmentalism?(Book Review: Michael Crichton's State of Fear) -- an action thriller that doubles as a scientific primer on global warming and other environmental topics.

-- consider the legitimate interests of everyone, rather than the careers of a few.

 

 UK carbon output revision threatens trading scheme (EU and Kyoto cracking?)

 

 The Myth of Kyoto (Peter Worthington)

 

  It's Time to Spray DDT -- I did a double take seeing KRISTOF advocating the use of DDT. What are the liberals getting common sense? Has anyone heard how the Vietnamese pulled off their trick?  West Nile Virus- Bring Back DDT?

 

  Honey, it's cold outside -- debunks much of the psuedo science that the liberals pass off as "global warming".

 

 A Hurricane Called Charley
various FR links | 08-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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Hurricane Ernesto

May I suggest you look for their crank radios and flashlights? While batteries are great, our children had a propensity to burn through them. This year we are providing them with crank lights and radios. No worries that they'll run out of the power. The past two years we've had some 15 days of power outages combined. We're getting the routine nailed down.

I should also add that you might look into "personal fans" that you can hang around your neck. We've used them and they've made a difference in August heat. I don't have a photo, but I do know that Walmart carries them.

Good luck!

121 posted on 08/27/2006 9:40:50 AM EDT by Caipirabob

 

http://gulfcoastwx.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1

May I suggest you look for their crank radios and flashlights? While batteries are great, our children had a propensity to burn through them. This year we are providing them with crank lights and radios. No worries that they'll run out of the power. The past two years we've had some 15 days of power outages combined. We're getting the routine nailed down.

I should also add that you might look into "personal fans" that you can hang around your neck. We've used them and they've made a difference in August heat. I don't have a photo, but I do know that Walmart carries them.

Good luck!

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http://gulfcoastwx.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=503&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=315

 

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Feds Say New Orleans Is Storm-Ready

 

Hurricane Ernesto

 

 

No change in the 2pm except for the pressure went up to 1002mb.


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FLASHBACK: Sharing Images From Storm’s ‘Ground Zero’

 

Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk

 

Big Government - Recovery From Katrina Shows That It can't Get Out Of It's Own Way

 

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/storms.asp?partner=accuweather&ocean=atlantic&storm=Ernesto&imagetype=move

ERNESTO - 2006

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TS/Hurricane/TS Ernesto--2 pm intermediate is out:

 

Boortz: OK .. FIRST RULE FOR TODAY. [Ernesto and KATRINA KATRINA KATRINA KATRINA KATRINA]--So many of the cable shows, plus the "entertainment" shows, have had wall to wall Jon Benet coverage for the last week. Now they move into hurricane mode again. Is it any wonder why most Americans can't name their elected officials, or know much of anything about history or other pertinent information?

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TS/Hurricane/TS Ernesto 29 August 2006

 

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http://www.thepeoplescube.com/hurricane_katrina.php

http://gulfcoastwx.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=518&start=150&sid=57e765479ae5f616a477cf797a5b6461

Still on track! Watches have now been posted along the east coast. Here's the 5pm Advisory:


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 Tropical Storm (again) Ernesto (aka Cat 5 Media Frenzy)

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Tropical Storm Ernesto 9-1-2006

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Hurricane forecast team downgrades expected number of hurricanes (Again)

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Tropical Depression #6

 

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A Repeat Of The 1938 New York Hurricane?

 

#106

Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  9/4/2006 11:03AM PDT

 

END OF MID-ATLANTIC AS WE KNOW IT UPDATE

Tropical Depression #6 hasn't quite digested the almost Tropical Depression to its West that it was absorbing, so the center is somewhat elliptical between the growing circulation of TD #6 to the East and the dying center to the West, plus, the big trough to TD #6's North is pulling out some heat, which will keep strengthening modest for a day or so until the trough is past.

I think this is the one, a repeat of the 1938 New York Cat 3, but at more than a week away, can't quite be 100% certain yet.

New 12Z GFS keeps this just East of New England, and hits Canada with the most devastating hurricane in their history, but 1)the GFS has a tendency to recurve tropical cyclones a bit to quickly and 2) at 10 days forecasts aren't always completely accurate

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Possible tropical cyclone formation next 36 hours (behind TS Florence)

Ed_Mahmoud said,

September 5, 2006 at 2:36 pm

Florida Blob could try t' develop, and then run up th' Coast, t' ensure soils are fully saturated, and lakes, rivers and reservoirs are brimmin' full, t' make possible Hurricane Florence in ~9 days a truly apocalyptic disaster.

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http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp

Florence: The Good, The Bad and The Big

By AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Lisa Wieser

(State College, PA) - Tropical Storm Florence can become a major hurricane by this weekend; the question remains as to whether it will curve towards the coast or away from it.

The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists are monitoring Tropical Storm Florence. As of 4 a.m. Wednesday morning EDT, Tropical Storm Florence was centered near 17.8 north and 50.4 west; or about 750 miles east of St. Johns, Antigua. Winds are sustained at 45 mph with gusts to 55 mph.

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http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/index.asp?partner=accuweather

  Florence

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Discussion

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Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  9/6/2006 09:58AM PDT

 

So, every computer model shows Florence, likely to be a Category 3 or stronger storm, recurving so as to miss the USA and menace Newfoundland

NOT SO FAST MY FRIENDS!

The new 12Z GFS has shifted just a shade farther West, and while it still misses the US, 30 knot winds and rain squalls predicted to hit Cape Cod and the Islands!

GFS then hits Eastern Nova Scotia with a major hurricane. Florence will be undergoing extra-tropical transition, as cold, dry Arctic air is drawn into it, but for a brief period, before the cold air kills it, it will actually give it a boost of super-energy. Like putting nitro-methane fuel in your Ford Pinto, sure, the car will die, but it'll be spectacular to see.

From the Environment Canada web site, we see the 12Z run of the Canadian Global still misses the US, but slams Nova Scotia

Closeup visible loop

We're running out of candidates for a 1938 style cat 3 disaster for New York this year, and Texas and Louisiana are 100% in the clear, at least as any significant storm goes, but we might get a Tropical Depression or Tropical Storm Gordon out of the blob off Georgia before it merges with the frontal zone, and The North and Northeast Gulf, Mobile to Key West, is not at all safe from a storm developing in the Caribbean through late October.

 

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Damage on Wake less than feared, flyover shows (photos))

 

Florence predicted to briefly reach Cat 3 strength

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Tropical Depression #6 (TS Florence)

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp

Florence To Strengthen; Two Track Scenarios

By AccuWeather.com News Director Steve Penstone and Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski

(State College, PA) - Tropical Storm Florence is expected to continue strengthening, and is likely to become a major hurricane by this weekend. The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists are exploring two scenarios for the future track of Florence.

As of 11 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Florence was located about 700 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and about 1,160 miles southeast of Bermuda. There has been slight increase in the storm's intensity Wednesday. Sustained winds are currently hovering around 50 mph with higher gusts. The storm is moving toward the west-northwest at 10 mph, and is expected to remain on that track for the next 24 hours.

Strong winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere are currently blowing the thunderstorm cloud tops away from the center of Florence (this is also known as wind shear), making it difficult for Florence to strengthen. However, as the storm tracks north and west, these winds are expected to lessen, and the ocean water will be warmer, making it easier for the storm to strengthen to hurricane strength in the next couple of days. AccuWeather.com is forecasting Florence could strengthen to major hurricane (category 3 or higher) status by this weekend.

According to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists, there are two potential scenarios for Florence. The most likely scenario is one in which Florence curves away from the East Coast and does not make landfall. This could occur if the Atlantic high pressure weakens and becomes smaller as it shifts to the east. The clockwise flow around this weaker high would turn Florence away from the coast by early next week, at about the same time the upper-level trough moves across the Great Lakes. The counterclockwise (southwest) flow around the trough would aid in steering Florence away from the coast. Expert Senior Meteorologist Gerald Mohler says under this scenario, Florence could potentially cause problems for Bermuda and Canada's Maritime Provinces, especially Nova Scotia.

The second scenario is the potentially more dangerous scenario in which a powerful Hurricane Florence heads for the U.S. East Coast. This could happen if an area of high pressure currently over the central Atlantic strengthens and expands to the west over the weekend. The clockwise motion of this high would carry Florence almost directly west, right into the coast. An upper-level trough moving across the Great Lakes early next week would then steer Florence back to the northeast after it makes landfall.

For more on Florence, visit the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, and read additional commentary about the storm from AccuWeather.com's bloggers.

A weak storm system is crossing the Northeast now and has produced locally strong showers and thunderstorms. Downtown Detroit was hammered with flooding downpours and pea-sized hail in some locations during evening rush hour Wednesday. However, high pressure to the west will bring rain-free conditions to much of the Northeast from Thursday into the weekend.

Dry weather does not appear to be in the cards over the next couple of days for portions of the already saturated Southeast. The frontal boundary associated with the storm system departing the Northeast will extend along the Carolina coast into Florida and the Gulf Coast. This boundary has brought showers and thunderstorms to these areas throughout the day Wednesday. Heavy rain falling on saturated ground in the Carolinas could create flooding problems, especially along the coast. There will also be the potential for some heavy thunderstorms in parts of Florida as the sluggish boundary moves across the state. While drying will progress southeastward, it will do so only to a point by the end of the week.

Hurricane hunter aircraft have been investigating an area of disturbed weather off of the Carolina coast Wednesday evening. This is the same system that drenched portions of Florida earlier in the week. So far this is just a mass of showers and thunderstorms. However, there is some room for the system to become better organized, possibly to a tropical depression or tropical storm.

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http://wwwa.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp

Bermuda, Atlantic Canada are in Flo's Path

By AccuWeather.com News Director Steve Penstone

(State College, PA) - The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center is forecasting that Tropical Storm Florence will become a major hurricane by the weekend. The storm is expected to strike Bermuda and Atlantic Canada; however, there is the potential for the powerful hurricane to make landfall along the East Coast of the United States.

At 11 a.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Florence was located a little more than 1,100 miles southeast of Bermuda. Sustained winds are blowing at around 50 mph with higher gusts. The storm has slowed slightly, moving west-northwest at about 8 mph. The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center meteorologists are forecasting over the next 24 hours Florence will continue on its west-northwest track around the southern periphery of an area of high pressure. Through the weekend and early next week, the high will shift to the east and the clockwise winds circulating around the high will guide Florence more to the northwest and then the north. This path would take Florence over Bermuda, battering the island nation with flooding rains and hurricane-force winds. Early next week, a trough of low pressure moving off the Northeast coast will steer Florence to the northeast. While the U.S. East Coast would avoid a direct hit, Atlantic Canada will be in the storm's path.

[Tokra]

A preacher and his flock at a very poor church in the hills of Tennessee took up collections, baked cakes and washed cars for months to get enough money to buy paint for the church exterior which was bare and weatherbeaten.

Finally they went to Walmart and bought enough paint for the job and all joined together on a Saturday morning to complete the job. When they were about half finished they realized that they were going to run out of paint before finishing.

The preacher said, "Its a water base paint, just thin it down with water." They continued painting and thinning until the color started losing its depth and when they finally finished it was dark green at the top, light green in the middle and a very light green (almost white) at the bottom.

The preacher and his flock were standing on a nearby hill admiring their work when a dark cloud appeared and the heavens opened up with a deluge of rain which washed all of the newly applied paint off the church.

The preacher was in tears and the congregation was stunned at all the hard work they had done for nothing.

Just then there was a huge lightening flash followed by the roll of thunder and a loud voice from the heavens rang out, "REPAINT, REPAINT AND THIN NO MORE."

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( ~Groan!~ )

That's almost as bad as my "Worst Spell of Weather" Joke at the start of this.