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Latest Recon Indicates Rita is a CAT 5 Hurricane
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Posted on 09/21/2005 11:51:51 AM PDT by jmc1969

The latest recon report indicated the pressure in Rita has fallen to 920 mb and the maximum flight level winds were over 175 mph. AccuWeather.com Meteorologist believe Rita has become a Cat 5 hurricane.


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To: MNJohnnie
Possibly...

Rita
41 posted on 09/21/2005 12:01:27 PM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: jmc1969

TINFOIL HAT ALERT!!!!!!!



HARNESSING WEATHER

ALLEGATIONS SURFACE THAT U.S. & RUSSIA HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE HURRICANES

By Mike Blair

Author Sydney Sheldon said, “The old adage that everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it is no longer valid,” in an afterword to his fascinating novel Are You Afraid of the Dark?

“Today,” Sheldon continued, “two superpowers have the ability to control weather around the world: the United States and Russia. Other countries, probably China and North Korea, are working feverishly to catch up.”

As this article was being written the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina were still being felt in the southeastern United States, after it caused billions of dollars in damage along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and the death toll from the killer storm was still being tabulated.

Could this devastation have been avoided? Could Katrina itself have been avoided as a death-dealing hurricane?

The answers to both questions are probably “Yes.” The ability of Russia and the United States to create storms of this magnitude definitely exists.

The big question that remains is, why, then, wasn’t Katrina stopped before it devastated three states—Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi—along the Gulf Coast?

There could be any number of reasons, but all would be mere speculation, as the fact is nothing was done to stop Katrina.

Those who doubt that Katrina, or any other hurricane, could be stopped—or created—can find substantiation in a long-forgotten article by Chen May Yee in the Nov. 13, 1997, issue of The Wall Street Journal.

The article recounts an offer by the Russians to aid Malaysia to create a typhoon to dissipate a pall of smoke that hung over the country—and still does—caused by the burning of large sections of the rain forests in Indonesia and Sumatra.

To quote from the article: Datuk Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia’s minister for science, technology and the environment at the time, said his country “would use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air.”

The article went on to say that a Malaysian company, BicCure Sdn. Bhd., would sign a memorandum of understanding with a government-owned Russian company to create a cyclone that would cause torrential rains and thus cleanse the air over Malaysia of the smoke and ash.

What Russian company was the Malaysian official talking about?

On Oct. 2, 1992, The Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian company, Elate Intelligent Technologies, Inc., has weather control equipment for sale and uses the advertising slogan of “weather made to order.”

Igor Pirogoff, director of the company, said “Elate is capable of fine-tuning weather patterns over a 200-squaremile area for as little as $200 U.S. per day,” the newspaper reported.

A year before the article was written, Hurricane Andrew caused $30 billion in damages as it plowed through the South. Pirogoff said Andrew could have been turned into “a wimpy little squall.”

According to a UN pamphlet, titled Basic Facts about the United Nations, which was published in 1994, the world body negotiated the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques in 1977. This “prohibits the use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves, and changes in climate and in weather patterns.”

Getting back to Malaysia, where the potential for creating or dissipating cyclones seems to have made its first appearance, there was never any follow-up to the stories about Elate and whether in fact the cyclone was created, although it was approved by the Malaysian government.

A call by American Free Press to the Malaysian Embassy in
Washington found no one there with any knowledge of the
subject.

However, there was more success when the Malaysian delegation to the UN was contacted in New York. There, a spokesman claimed to have no knowledge of the creation of a cyclone, but was willing to discuss weather control in his country.

The official said that, by using weather control technology, rain could be created and was being created over the nation’s capital of Kuala Lumpur.

He said that often rain was created over the city to cleanse the air of the smoke emanating from Indonesia, and particularly Sumatra.

He indicated he did not know if the technology being used had been obtained from Russia, but it would appear that such technology to create rain on demand would not have been developed in a Third World country like Malaysia.

There have been numerous reports in recent years about strange changes in the jet stream, which have created alterations in the weather.

In 1982 a report by a Pentagon researcher, identified as L. Ponte, noted that “the Soviets have made advances in bending the all-important jet stream that sweeps across Siberia to set global wind patterns. By using explosive devices in the jet stream, scientists are trying to make it dip and rise in a wave that could replace the frigid Siberian winters with milder air from the South.”

How this would affect weather in other parts of the world was not reported by Ponte, but there have been dozens of reports since his 1982 report about changes in the jet stream’s normal behavior.

In 1996, a group of seven U.S. Air Force officers, who had prepared a research paper about weather warfare, issued a report, which concluded that there was technology under development that would provide “warriors of the future” with the means to control the course of military conflicts, including through the use of weather modification.

The study also states that manipulation of precipitation, storms and fog could improve America’s own weather but could also involve controlling the ionosphere to guarantee U.S. dominance of worldwide communications.

Is major weather control really possible? Is weather manipulation a means of conducting war? If not, why in 1977 did the United States, the then-Soviet Union and dozens of other countries believe it was a good idea to enact a UN treaty banning weather manipulation as a means of conducting war?

In the afterword of his book, Sheldon concludes:

“Weather is the most powerful force we know. Whoever controls it can disrupt world economies with perpetual rainstorms or tornadoes; wipe out crops in a drought; cause earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis; close world airports and cause devastation on enemy battlefields. “We could all sleep better if a world leader said, ‘Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it, and it was true.”

(Issue #37, September 12, 2005)



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42 posted on 09/21/2005 12:01:40 PM PDT by Solamente
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To: nuffsenuff

There might be a new Category created by the end of the day.

I think they should call this one the Wicked Witch of the South.


43 posted on 09/21/2005 12:01:43 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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To: nuffsenuff
Is there a category 6?

Might be added to the scale by the time this season is done.

44 posted on 09/21/2005 12:01:46 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: BurbankKarl

Field trip!


45 posted on 09/21/2005 12:01:48 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Siena Dreaming

I assume you mean for the winds to slow down, 'cuz if it's movement slows down, it just hits the places it hits longer.


46 posted on 09/21/2005 12:02:17 PM PDT by dmz
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To: jmc1969

This is a good thing if it's true. Hurricanes do not maintain cat-5 strength for very long. Katrina, Ivan, Floyd, and Gilbert all peaked briefly above the 150 mph mark and then weakened before making landfall. Andrew, Camille and the Labor Day Hurricane peaked just as they made landfall. The forecast is that Rita will weaken as it moves out of the super-warm central gulf and hit Texas in the 145 mph range (which is still pretty bad).


47 posted on 09/21/2005 12:02:32 PM PDT by bobjam
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To: nuffsenuff

...Is there a category 6?...

Hillary! is the only Cat 6.


48 posted on 09/21/2005 12:02:44 PM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (North American Community. What's yours is theirs.)
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To: chimera

Here in Ft. Walton/Destin the H2O temp is 88°........


49 posted on 09/21/2005 12:02:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (I was born in poverty. I didn't like it, so I left.............)
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To: jmc1969

I hope it hits New Orleans. It's already trashed and evacuated.


50 posted on 09/21/2005 12:03:25 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Leatherneck_MT
I think they should call this one the Wicked Witch of the South.

Hurricane Hillary? Works for me.

51 posted on 09/21/2005 12:03:26 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters.")
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To: poobear

The lowest recorded non- tornadic atmospheric pressure, 869.96 millibars (25.69 inches of mercury), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip on 12 October, 1979.

Source: Burt, Christopher C., (2004). Extreme Weather, A Guide & Record Book. W. W. Norton & Company


52 posted on 09/21/2005 12:03:59 PM PDT by green iguana
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To: Terpfen

still 2 1/2 days out, IIRC cat 5 status usually doesn't last that long...

anyone know the longest time period an atlantic hurricane kept cat 5 status?


53 posted on 09/21/2005 12:04:15 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: jmc1969

Are there Wal-Marts in Houston? I need to get some essentials. I'm running low on plasma TVs, tennis rackets and DVDs.


54 posted on 09/21/2005 12:04:22 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: MNJohnnie

Byebye for Port O'Connor, maybe, but I think NO won't hardly get any weather from this...


55 posted on 09/21/2005 12:04:34 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: milford421
Man, this is going to be bad.  Luckily, it appears that Texas is better prepared and taking it seriously.
56 posted on 09/21/2005 12:04:38 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: hiredhand

Look at the current radar map. It looks father north then it does on that track you posted. Hard to tell.


57 posted on 09/21/2005 12:05:06 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters.")
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To: MNJohnnie

lol I think she's next


58 posted on 09/21/2005 12:05:35 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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To: milford421
Somewhere between Galveston and LA...last info.

All the useful models are in an extremely tight cluster right around Matagorda Bay. It's not going to get anywhere near Louisiana.

59 posted on 09/21/2005 12:05:41 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: jmc1969
The National Hurricane Center is reporting a central pressure of 920 mb with sustained winds of over 150 mph. Look for Rita to become a Category 5 storm within the next few hours.

 

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60 posted on 09/21/2005 12:06:05 PM PDT by DallasMike
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