Posted on 09/18/2020 8:15:25 PM PDT by NautiNurse
This is not a Beta test. We have another Gulf of Mexico storm this busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season. We ran out of Alphabet names, and moved on to the Greek alphabet. Beta did not wait for the news cycle to end following the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Bouy Locations with Beta's Forecast Track
If they stopped giving names to every frowning cloud they would still have lots of names to go.
The scatterometer was probably the biggest factor making any comparison before 1990 irrelevant. But they have also changed the policy to name doomed storms like Bertha and Eduoard. If a storm like Ed is being ripped apart and there’s a stronger wind in one of the torn-off chunks it doesn’t represent the strength of the storm.
LOL
New GFS has the storm in the same spot as now after several small loops ...
NEXT Saturday... the 27th and still stalled
Gulfs in a swirl these days!
Another....boy-O-boy.
This has been the season of the no-restraint naming of marginal tropical storms. Back in the day, Beta would have been Sally perhaps.
Anyway, looks like a slow intensification to cat-1 or even cat-2 hurricane status, well offshore, then a slow cruise northeast up the Texas coast looking for a suitable landfall spot.
Will be five or six days before that happens apparently.
Wow! Last I heard, Teddy was heading directly for Bermuda.
By Saturday afternoon, the models will update and have it headed to Pensacola. You wait ...
;-)
Thanks for the ping, looks like I’ll be getting some of Beta.
You have replaced WeatherUnderground as my go to source for info on TC in the Gulf of Mexico. Sad because back in the day WU was a great resource.
As you may recall I live in San Leon Tx and I have Galveston Bay as my front yard so I have to take seriously any TC that comes into the western GoM.
Hiya jpsb! Thanks for checking in. Thank you for your kind sentiments. Wunderground surely isn’t the useful site it used to be.
ROTF!!
All that wet, and parts of the Northeast are in a drought.
We ran out of Alphabet names
Only because you squandered them on rain events that were not “worthy” of names.
To make your predictions of “could be a very busy hurricane season” and “increasing violent storms” real.
So next year when most have forgotten you can claim it was one of the most storm filled seasons ever.
So sad to lose faith in so many institutions of science, perverted by agendas like glowbull warming...
Yep - watched Sally drift on across us and to the east and now this one looks like it will stay safely to our west...us Biloxi/Gulfport folks may get lucky this year.
Space city weather.com is a great source for weather for the Houston Galveston area specifically, and the gulf coast in general. No hype to scare you. Just great analysis. They were spot on during Laura.
Ha, ha. I know that feeling...I'm in Mobile.
thanks for the tip, I will be checking in there.
Wilfred? That’s my Confirmation name and my deceased Dad’s middle name.
Just look at the RADAR with a cloud cover overlay.
Rain and clouds from Beta are streaming into SE already. It’s cloudy here north of ATL from that system.
NHC Headline: ...WOEFUL WILFRED HEADING WEST-NORTHWESTWARD...
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