Posted on 09/30/2008 8:50:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
TROPICAL STORM LAURA ADVISORY NUMBER 6 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL122008 1100 AM AST TUE SEP 30 2008
...LAURA BECOMES TROPICAL...BUT NOT FOR LONG...
AT 1100 AM AST...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM LAURA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 41.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE 48.8 WEST OR ABOUT 435 MILES...700 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CAPE RACE NEWFOUNDLAND.
LAURA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NEAR 13 MPH...20 KM/HR. LAURA CONTINUES TO ACCELERATE...AND A TURN TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST IS EXPECTED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 60 MPH...95 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. GRADUAL WEAKENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...AND LAURA COULD LOSE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS BY WEDNESDAY.
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES...370 KM FROM THE CENTER.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 996 MB...29.41 INCHES.
REPEATING THE 1100 AM AST POSITION...41.2 N...48.8 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTH NEAR 13 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...60 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...996 MB.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 500 PM AST.
$$ FORECASTER BERG/PASCH
DONT DO THAT YOU SCARED ME!
As if Laiphroig isn’t expensive enough!
laphroaig - tricky spelling on this nectar.
I wantcha in me belly, Laura!
Interesting isn’t it how Gorebull Warming is melting the ice and putting all that extra cold water into the Atlantic, but hurricanes/tropical storms are still able to find enough heat to make it waaayyy up north?
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