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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.
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Three Day Forecast Track
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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 |
Cedar Dave Opera?
CedarDave Opus??
Fat lady's a long way from finishing with this one.
Can you imagine the lefts reaction if the Rio Grande Valley took a direct hit?
True...I'm not even humming, yet! :-)
CDO - central dense overcast, from thunderstorms in the eyewall
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.
CDO -- central dense overcast, would never have guessed that one
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.
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.
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.
Read my post 1474. Thanks.
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.)
Your buddy Joe Bastarweenie...just announced on Hannity and Colmes this was a Houston/Galveston Hurricane.
He's generally right when he doesn't deviate from NHC, which is the case here.
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.
Going to play some clips of the Hitchens/Galloway debate -- that must have been something to have seen.
That woman is so full of herself and her self-worth. Somebody pass me the cane.
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.
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