Tropical Storms Ana, Bill, & Claudette

NOAA/NHC ^ | 16 August 2009 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Tropical Depression 4 developed in the East Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa Bay early Sunday morning. A tropical storm warning has been issued for NW Florida. Tropical Storms Ana and Bill continue to move westward, with Bill gaining some strength overnight.

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Buoy Data: Western Caribbean                   FL and East GOM                   Western GOM	Buoy Data:East Caribbean                  West Atlantic                  Florida	Buoy Data:Florida

[txhurl]

Good morning, NN!

What’s all the convection and motion to the SW of Claudette?

[Uncle Ike]

Good morning, NN - thanks for the ping...

I’m assuming, from the chirping crickets in the ‘news’, that Claudette came onshore like a lamb.....

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

You folks been busy last night

[RepublicanChick]

Thank you for the update. I really appreciate all that you do, let’s keep safe!

[NautiNurse]

Oil futures down is a good sign. Thanks for the update.

[NautiNurse]

Actually, I heard this morning some poor fellow died and the bureaucrats were trying to decide whether it was storm related.

[NautiNurse]

That convection still over the water is feeding Claudette. Most of the system’s weather is displaced from the center of the storm. Helps to explain why she was still a tropical storm hours after landfall.

[NautiNurse]

One Dead, One Missing from Claudette

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[Dutchgirl]

Watching Bill.

[dirtboy]

Bill looks like a fish storm, except for the possibility of it hitting Bermuda.

The idiots on the Weather Channel this morning implied the forecast for Bill implied it could hit the US, which is a bald-faced lie. Guess they gotta keep folks tuned in somehow.

[Viking2002]

About 30 minutes after my wife got home, Tropical Wet Blanket Claudette declared it Happy Hour, opened up another monsoon burst, and took down a 10 foot tall trellis of Texas muscadines in my front yard. Damn her!!!!! LOL

I'll need the truck to pull that sucker upright again. And probably about 20 linear feet of rebar to hold it there.

[NautiNurse]

We have an overabundance of muscadines this year. I’ll send you some.

[txhurl]

But the grapes weren’t uprooted?

Even if they were, just put ‘em back, pack’em in and prune ‘em like you were trying to kill them in a month or so.

In many fruiting perennial plants, root shock instigates accelerated growth and flowering the next year. Grapes are probably the most forgiving and regenerative plant we have.

[Viking2002]

Believe it or not, the base of the vines are so thick and entwined, it didn't even break the soil. Made them a little limber, maybe, but no actual damage. Helluva thing for as large a mass as went on its side. I'll definitely have to get it upright this weekend. Muscadines will grab anything available - it might crawl into the driveway and eat my van by Sunday.

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Bill has strengthened to Category 4, sustained winds 135 mph,
moving WNW at 16 mph. 948 mb. 460 miles E of the Leeward Islands.

Large swells associated with Bill will be impacting the islands of the
northeast Caribbean Sea during the next day or two. Large swells
associated with Bill should also begin to affect Bermuda and
portions of the southeastern coast of the United States Friday
and Saturday.

On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Thanks for the ping NN.

[fredhead]

Looks like no fishing for me this weekend. Hope that’s all it does.

[who knows what evil?]

"As for Bill, it will turn northwest, become a Cat 5+ superstorm, and take out every snot-nosed liberal elite in Manhattan with a 30-foot storm surge and 180+ MPH winds. How does that grab ya for a dream scenario?"

"It Could Happen Tomorrow"...ROTF!

[jpsb]

hello all, watching the gulf of mexico today. don’t think anything will flare up but maybe at last i’ll get some rain.