Tropical Storm Agatha Kills Over 100, And It's Heading For The Gulf Of Mexico

The Business Insider ^ | 6-1-2020 | Joe Weisenthal

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MAP OF THE DAY: Tropical Storm Agatha Kills Over 100, And It's Heading For The Gulf Of Mexico

Joe Weisenthal
Jun. 1, 2010, 8:31 AM

The NOAA has predicted a very active hurricane season this year, and the oil disaster in the Gulf only heightens the concern.

Things are getting off to a bad start. This weekend, Tropical Depression Agatha killed over 100 in Central America.

And look, it's heading through the Gulf of Mexico. Map via MonkeyFister.

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[riri]

Bush’s fault. Karl Rove weather machine again.

[BushCountry]

CMC2 and BAMM have it landing on my head.

[Ditter]

~~~And Texas needs rain~~~~~~

[fenderfeeder]

UPPER-LEVEL WINDS...PARTICULARLY TO THE NORTH OF THE SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO...ARE NOT CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THERE IS A LOW CHANCE...10 PERCENT...OF THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml

[NautiNurse]

Currently, NOAA gives the system <30% chance of developing into a tropical system again within 48 hours. That doesn’t provide much comfort with oil slick ~ 120 miles off the Tampa Bay coast.

[Eye of Unk]

I bet the models will have to be thrown out the window unless they can get a supercomputer to forecast the areas of oil on the surface and its affects of warming that area of water by absorbing more sunlight.

Could increase a storms intensity or alter its course. Or it may feed it too fast and it will choke itself.

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"~~~And Texas needs rain~~~~~~"

I have a pond in my yard...it's rained every day for the past four days...with all my company here from Calif and Indiana.

[Gadsden1st]

This is my favorite site for info.

http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=87493&Main=87482#UNREAD

[spectre]

Every day I wake up to more good news.

Oh joy, joy. s/

[Ditter]

North and east of Houston has been getting a drenching too but Brazoria county where our ranch is located is pretty dry. Not burned up dry....... yet, but it could happen.

[kidd]

6-1-2020 | Joe Weisenthal

I know it was a typo, but with a prediction ten years in advance, I just had to open the article

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[Xenalyte]

Friday evening (in the Galleria area), we got a storm so intense that it included hail. Tree limbs the size of my forearm all over the place.

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"I know it was a typo, but with a prediction ten years in advance, I just had to open the article"

Oops!

[Ditter]

Yes I was in that storm. We live just north of the Galleria and that storm dropped exactly 1/10 of an inch of rain at my house. I have a rain gage and I check it. It had a small tornado that tore things up when it got down to Bissonnet.

[pappyone]

You stand accused of actually reading carefully, how do you plead?

[Iron Munro]

Heading For The Gulf Of Mexico

Heading For The Gulf Of Mexico This Great Ocean.

[DuncanWaring]

Rioting in Africa?