[varina davis]

Dennis has barely calmed down and it looks like Emily is on the way. Expected to possibly be in the Caribbean or Bahamas by weekend or early next week. A historic season, both for the number of early tropical storms and magnitude.

[aberaussie]

aaack. Can we catch our breath please???

[Clive]

Three Day Cone:

[joesnuffy]

Hope Dennis kicked up some cooler water for this one to travel over

[injin]

from a recent e-mail re: using large bombs to derail hurricanes :
His whole argument is based on: "some say [the energy of a hurricane is] equivalent to 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs."

That may be true if you consider the number of square miles in the footprint of a hurricane. What he should be considering is the eyeball, not the entire hurricane. An organized eye is 10 to 15 miles across and very susceptible to overpressure changes. Of course it is ridiculous to think of using nuclear to do the job. Radiation would be worse than the winds. What you need for a FAW (fuel-air-weapon)to work is clam air where the fine particles of fuel would disperse evenly. The eye is calm air. I am suggesting that someone experiment with BLU-82s (or the new and improved version) by kicking them out the doors of those hurricane hunter aircraft in patterns. Timing and distribution placement would be the unknowns of the experiment. It sure as hell isn't going to cause a bigger hurricane because a hurricane depends on organization. Eyeball disruptions will produce the opposite effect. Notice that when the eyeball goes over a land formation the hurricane drops dramatically in strength. Dennis went from, I think, a 3 to a 1 over Cuba. If I were going to design an experiment to try, I would start with a hurricane about a 100 miles off shore and hit it with a pattern of 4 bombs--N then S then East and then West. After dropping the bombs the planes would have to do some detailed measuring of the pressure responses near the eyeball. From that you would get some ideas on what to try next. It may take a few hurricanes to get the right pattern, but I think that you would find something that would break up or significantly dissipate the hurricane.

Every time anyone has an idea about anything, there are always nay-sayers who will start throwing their garbage without any supporting facts. No one on Earth can say that they know what would happen, because no one has tried anything like this. Clearly, throwing all the explosives in the world into a hurricane 100 miles from the eyeball would make no difference. I strongly believe that the very small atmospheric pressure difference across the eyeball would be hugely effected by an explosion that creates pressures hundreds of times those pressures.

Cost of the experiment would be tiny compared to the damage caused by one hurricane. Eglin AFB is the home base for the fuel air weapons and, I think that Patrick AFB is the home of the hurricane hunters. The technology is right there. Why not try it.

[Saundra Duffy]

God's pissed.

[dfwgator]

Oh Geez Not This Sh!t Again!

[kAcknor]

Guy from AccuWeather just predicted the Carolinas better watch out 10 days from now...

[Hank Rearden]

Time to shut down all the news nets to focus on just one topic, because it's raining in Florida again this summer.

How fascinating, just like last year. Roll out those archived "Shoot, Martha, we're a-gonna rebuild, heck yah! Just lahk last year, we surely will. Yo, taxpayers - start sendin' the money; we gotta rebuild on the beach!" clips from the video vaults.

[neutrality]

Hmm

[Daaave]

I hear hurricanes ablowing.

I know the end is coming soon.

I fear rivers over flowing.

I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Don’t go around tonight,

Well, it’s bound to take your life,

There’s a bad moon on the rise.

Hope you got your things together.

Hope you are quite prepared to die.

Looks like we’re in for nasty weather.

One eye is taken for an eye.

[Keith in Iowa]

Geraldo was talking to a guy from Accuweather a while ago on FoxNews - and told Gerry he'd be getting some frequent flyer miles because he & Emily had a date in the Carolinas in 190 days.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Here comes !

[Flyer]

I guess it is appropriate that this is the first thread I post to on my return to FR.

Gee, I missed my storm watch buddies yesterday.

[kittymyrib]

Good grief...another chance for CNN and Fox to stand on the beach and look for rain 24/7. Dennis was the most over-hyped event since the Kahoutek comet. West Texas and parts of Kansas had 100 mph straight winds last week. You didn't hear about it because the media didn't have 5 days to get their windbreakers on and their cameras on site.

[blam]

Timeout, stay there I'm gonna FedEx you my Visa card, lol.

[SlowBoat407]

Oh no, trouble is coming
Out here, panic and alarm
Black rains gather in the distance
Looks like it won't take long

The first drops land on the window
The first sign that there's something wrong...

[Hatteras]

QUICK! Where'd Jim Cantore go? Keep your eye on him! Round and round he goes... where he stops? Hurricane blows!

[NautiNurse]

See y'all next time

hehehehe...Hi don-o!

Ninety five tropical storms on the wall
Ninety fice tropical storms...

Take one down
Blow us around...

[NautiNurse]

Tropical Depression Five Advisory Number 3
Statement as of 11:00 am AST on July 11, 2005

 
...Depression continues westward in the central tropical Atlantic...

At 11 am AST...1500z...the center of Tropical Depression Five was
relocated near latitude 10.3 north... longitude 44.7 west or about
1120 miles...1800 km... east of the Windward Islands.

 
The depression is moving toward the west near 12 mph
...19 km/hr...and this motion is expected to continue for the next
24 hours.

 
Maximum sustained winds are near  35 mph... 55 km/hr...with higher
gusts.  The depression could become a tropical storm later today or
on Tuesday.

 
Estimated minimum central pressure is 1008 mb...29.77 inches.

 
Repeating the 11 am AST position...10.3 N... 44.7 W.  Movement
toward...west near 12 mph.  Maximum sustained
winds... 35 mph.  Minimum central pressure...1008 mb.

 
The next advisory will be issued by the National
Hurricane Center at 5 PM AST.

 
Forecaster Franklin

[TheForceOfOne]

The Gulf of Mexico is starting to resemble a bowling alley.