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Posted on 08/28/2005 8:10:23 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I hope all your friends are safe. :-)
No. Shep hasn't been on in a few hours.
Thanks! By the time I unminimized it, he was off. I was impressed with what he had to say.
lol...a hazard of FR threads...
Great post. Nice CAM.
Not the natural event itself - but response to it. Landrieu (sp?) started it yesterday........after the President had already declared the state of emergency, which he did BEFORE the arrival of the storm.
Tornado warning near Chalmette....
From NOAA.gov
"Concentric eyewall cycles" (or "eyewall replacement cycle" ) naturally occur in intense tropical cyclones , i.e. major hurricanes (winds > 50 m/s, 100 kt, 115 mph) or Catories 3, 4, and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. As tropical cyclones reach this threshold of intensity, they usually - but not always - have an eyewall and radius of maximum winds that contract to a very small size, around 10 to 25 km [5 to 15 mi]. At this point, some of the outer rainbands may organize into an outer ring of thunderstorms that slowly moves inward and robs the inner eyewall of its needed moisture and momentum. During this phase, the tropical cyclone is weakening (i.e. the maximum winds die off a bit and the central pressure goes up). Eventually the outer eyewall replaces the inner one completely and the storm can be the same intensity as it was previously or, in some cases, even stronger. A concentric eyewall cycle occurred in Hurricane Andrew (1992) before landfall near Miami: a strong intensity was reached, an outer eyewall formed, this contracted in concert with a pronounced weakening of the storm, and as the outer eyewall completely replaced the original one the hurricane reintensified. Another example is Hurricane Allen (1980) which went through repeated eyewall replacement cycles -- going from Categrory 5 to Category 3 status several times. To learn more about concentric eyewall cycles, read Willoughby et al. (1982) and Willoughby (1990a).
It was the discovery of concentric eyewall cycles that was partially responsible for the end of the U.S. Governements's hurricane modification experiment Project STORMFURY, since what the scientists had hoped to produce through seeding was happening frequently as a natural part of hurricane dynamics.
Shep seemed very depressed in the last live report I saw from him.
And why is that? We can't possibly read 30-35 thousand posts per day.
Jindal has a lot of time to move up the Republican ranks, given that he's about 15.
Great, now there's a tornado warning...somewhere around St. Bernard's Parish...and I just looked up that location; looks like it's 4 miles from downtown New Orleans.
Just don't send Ted down to NO to drive any of the evacuation vehicles.
50mph thunderstorm cell. Up to 100mph. Reggio could have a tornado during the next hour.
... you and me both, but my butt seems to be epoxied to this chair, ya know ?
OK, the last time I saw him on the Bourbon St SECOND story balcony, you could tell he was thinking about a getting a little more height.
>>>Nothing from Shep for quite some time. Was he on during Geraldo's two hours?
Shep bugged out to a safe place before it was going to be too late. No death wish for him...
I just set my alarm for 6 AM----too tired to stay up all night but I want to catch the storm when it arrives.
I fell slighly morbid by doing this but it is quite a news story.
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