This storm is and always has been junk. We get stronger thunderstorms in Orlando during a regular Tuesday than this thing. Always had too much dry air,always facing shear,and the winds were always that high in the upper levels. So much freaking hype over ZERO.
AMEN!
These weatherpeople, seeking on-air-time, sensationalize every group of thunderstorms in the tropics. They ' want' The Big One. They want wholesale disaster and death. It's news, it's ratings!
Tell me- if the weather I'm seeing on radar came from the north, instead of the Gulf, would there be all this commotion?
No.
WHY a 'hurricane warning' for what never became a hurricane? The terminology, attached to ' shu-shu' storms like this, is what's going to get people killed eventually. Sitting in a 'hurricane warning' area today means a little wind and a few squalls. They are desensitizing people. It's stupid and dangerous and it's encouraging cowardice and victim mentality.
WHY are things without closed circulations even NAMED? To personalize and dramatize. Tropical Storms should be numbered, a system should EARN the name hurricane. 130mph is serious, 150mph is Big, over that is Major.
I feel sorry for anyone who thinks THIS is serious tropical weather. As many have said- there are worse lines of thunderstorms every day! Look at the midwest today! Tornado outbreaks don't get this kind of hype in the press.
Look folks- it's weather! Rain + wind. It comes and goes- some are worse than others, but it's just weather! '
Tropical' is no worse than any other because it's named.
If you wouldn't panic over a line of thunderstorms with 60mph winds, don't about a bunch of them because they come from the tropics and some sissy weatherpeople decided to name it.
"So much freaking hype over ZERO"
The thing that makes this more than 'ZERO' is that many homes are still not fixed and debris is everywhere. It doesn't take much wind to cause more damage. I don't think many people around here were too worried about the storm, otherwise.