Update: Category 5 Hurricane Rita - Live Thread, Part II

NHC - NOAA ^ | 21 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[NautiNurse]

psssst...you are annoying.

[dirtboy]

Now that's a Cat-5 ugly thought.

Yep - if that Spandex fails, it would cause catastrophic destruction.

[MplsSteve]

Hey now!

Enough of that. Unfortunately, I just had a brief visual of your post cross my mind.

(shudders)

[tcrlaf]

<< Do they still make Yugos? I could probably fit 3 of them in my SUV.>>>

Use one as an emergency escape pod for my suburban...

[Types_with_Fist]

if that Spandex fails, it would cause catastrophic destruction.

It could destroy what's left of New Orleans.

[fooman]

thank you.

[dfwgator]

I've been hearing that Rita might still be a Category 1 even over the DFW area. Yikes. I think it will be at least a pretty good tropical storm by then. Areas just east of Dallas will probably have it worse.

[Txsleuth]

YIKES---

My house in Arlington, isn't anywhere near being a flood plain...have never had water go higher than the gutter in the street...

I HAVE seen Lake Arlington get really high though...it is a mile or so from my house.. I am counting on the fact that our lack of rain has probably had the lake levels so low this year...that none of the lakes around here would flood...

I have a daughter with Marine Creek Lake as her backyard, though...do you know if that lake has ever gone over its banks???

[bwteim]

Just don't mix them in your own suds

[MOgirl]

Good Lord, that looks terrible.

MOgirl

[don-o]

After graduating from Chanute Weather School in the 92nd percentile of my class, I spent a stint in the Air Force as a weather specialist.

Me too!! Ping had a different definition there. Remember?

I ended up at AFGWC in Omamha, Plotting maps with a rapdiograph ink pen and hourly observations off teletype.

Pretty boring duty - but we had a retired colonel who was a civilian employee, who specialized in predicting tornadoes. It got pretty exciting to watch him look at a map, then he would draw his red box and the asvisory would go out.

[Sprite518]

THANKS FOR THE AMAZING PICTURES!

[No Blue States]

Sorry, I didnt mean to wish Rita in your direction.

The loops seem to show possible NW movement now, more than a wobble.
For the 1st time to me it looks like even NOLA could be in play.

Im no expert though, probably just watching this too close.

What do you think:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html


Maybe im overanalizing too few frames.

[jeffers]

ummm...just out of curiosity...at what point do the pressure in millibars and the expected wind velocity equal each other?

;-)

chin up peoples, this thing has to leave the loop current before it can get ashore. In the case of hurricanes, colder water is a good thing.

[steveegg]

18Z Runs of the GFS and NGP have a fairly significant shift north, considering how closely clustered things were at 12Z.

Full runs not in yet.

Hang on Houston (or is it further north than that?)!

[Michael Goldsberry]

Crystal Beach, can you imagine it surviving?

I'm sorry to say, no. My beach house is on the other side, the West side and I've pretty much accepted now that it will be destroyed Saturday morning.

I hope I'm wrong.

[Txsleuth]

Fifth most intense NOW...

but there is a lot of time for that pressure to drop, correct???

[Dog Gone]

...RITA BECOMES THE FIFTH MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD...

Wonderful. Yesterday morning when I got up she was a tropical storm. Tonight she's this and the BAMM model run goes directly over my house.

I picked a bad week to quit sniffing airplane glue.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Local Orlando's WFTV Chief Meteorologist, Tom Terry said just now he thinks it will hit land at 135mph and will not maintain its strength. He said it is over the warmest waters right now.

[AliVeritas]

Leave, no explanations. This is no joke... take your 3 month old and get out of there, if he wants to stay... let him.