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Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread
NHC - NOAA ^ | 18 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 09/18/2005 1:56:41 PM PDT by NautiNurse

Tropical Storm Rita has developed from TD 18 in the Atlantic Ocean. TS Rita is currently located north of Hispaniola, the eastern tip of Cuba, and ESE of Nassau, Bahamas. Hurricane watches and warnings are in effect for portions of Florida. Check for local weather statements.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Forecast Models
Buoy Data SE Florida
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Florida

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Florida Radar/Sat Loop Caution: Broadband users only!
Miami Long Range Radar Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Loop
Miami Experimental Radar Still Image
Key West Experimental Radar Still Image

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)
WFOR-TV/DT Miami (WMP) - http://dayport.wm.llnwd.net/dayport_0025_live"
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMP) - mms://216.242.118.141/broadband

Other Resources:

Florida East Coast Surf Reports Lots of great info here, including surf cams
Central Florida Hurricane Center
Hurricane City

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible


TOPICS: Announcements; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; lovelyrita; rita; tropical; weather
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To: CedarDave

Cedar Dave Opera?


1,501 posted on 09/19/2005 6:09:49 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: CedarDave

CedarDave Opus??


1,502 posted on 09/19/2005 6:10:50 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Jrabbit

Fat lady's a long way from finishing with this one.


1,503 posted on 09/19/2005 6:11:09 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: CedarDave

Can you imagine the lefts reaction if the Rio Grande Valley took a direct hit?


1,504 posted on 09/19/2005 6:13:01 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CedarDave

True...I'm not even humming, yet! :-)


1,505 posted on 09/19/2005 6:13:10 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: CedarDave

CDO - central dense overcast, from thunderstorms in the eyewall


1,506 posted on 09/19/2005 6:13:18 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The task before us is enormous, but so is the heart of America.)
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To: Jrabbit

While FReeping, everyone should be listening to Laura Ingraham on WABC's internet feed. She'll crack you up with her comments and sound effects.


1,507 posted on 09/19/2005 6:13:20 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: NautiNurse

CDO -- central dense overcast, would never have guessed that one


1,508 posted on 09/19/2005 6:14:47 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: NautiNurse

Well it doesn't have an eywall yet, and you can have a CDO without an eye or eyewall.

It's just a fancy term for the central blob o' thunderstorms.


1,509 posted on 09/19/2005 6:14:48 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: brytlea

I am wondering if correcting the lines to the north at their beginning means correcting them a lot at the end, right back over New Orleans.


1,510 posted on 09/19/2005 6:15:35 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Torie
I am wondering if correcting the lines to the north at their beginning means correcting them a lot at the end, right back over New Orleans.

Little mystified as to what people are talking about as the storm is basically right along the forecast track, and right along the beginning of most of the models; if anything it's a tad south, not north of them, but not enough to be meaningful.

1,511 posted on 09/19/2005 6:16:48 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: All

Not that I'm a big fan- but Joe Bastardi was just on FOX- he's got this coming into the Keys as a 2 possible 3.

One point in his favor- he said this is NOT GLOBAL WARMING:) It's just the normal hurricane cycle.


1,512 posted on 09/19/2005 6:19:54 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Strategerist

Read my post 1474. Thanks.


1,513 posted on 09/19/2005 6:20:19 PM PDT by Torie
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To: CedarDave

Laura just played a few bars of the funeral dirge for Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw after last nights Alan Alda honor recitation to them. No sacred cows with her. (And earlier she made fun of her chemotherapy or radiation induced baldness by saying that a bug in her wig bit her bald scalp -- complete with sound effects, if you can imagine. Gutsy lady, IMO.)


1,514 posted on 09/19/2005 6:20:55 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: Strategerist

Your buddy Joe Bastarweenie...just announced on Hannity and Colmes this was a Houston/Galveston Hurricane.


1,515 posted on 09/19/2005 6:22:38 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: shield

He's generally right when he doesn't deviate from NHC, which is the case here.


1,516 posted on 09/19/2005 6:23:39 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Torie

I did; my point is I don't really understand what you're saying. It's not vastly off the tracks, if it is it's south, not north of them, and I can't figure out how you'd conisider such a deviation more of a threat to New Orleans; if anything it reduces the threat there.


1,517 posted on 09/19/2005 6:24:33 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: CedarDave

Going to play some clips of the Hitchens/Galloway debate -- that must have been something to have seen.


1,518 posted on 09/19/2005 6:25:20 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing: "I have a dream"; Howard Dean: "I have a scream"; Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme")
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To: Txsleuth
"Cindy MIGHT be good for something after all!!!"

That woman is so full of herself and her self-worth. Somebody pass me the cane.

1,519 posted on 09/19/2005 6:26:10 PM PDT by NTegraT (A Katy Old Lady ooo)
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To: Strategerist

No he's not...since you pointed out to me 'bout him...I've been watching him closely...and he's wrong much more than he's right...LOL ;o) Thanks for the heads up on him...he is a weenie...and what an EGO...his mom must have dropped him on his head.


1,520 posted on 09/19/2005 6:26:17 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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