ALERT: Hurricane Isidore forecasted to have at least 150 MPH winds within 72 hours

[Fiddlstix]

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[newsperson999]

my guess winds 140..pressure 940 mb at 1am advisory..CAT 4.it doesn't get much better than this(this may be the last Sat shot for a while..the past few nights the Sat went down at this time.. eclipse)

CLICK HERE

[willyone]

How did you reach that conclusion? Some of the biggest storms have been in Oct. As long as the water is warm Hurricanes are possible.

[Dog Gone]

Do houseboats have an internet connection?

[Dog Gone]

Clicking there results in an interesting message.

[newsperson999]

ok..click HERE than click on the storm for a close up

[newsperson999]

Another good shot here

[eastforker]

Satelite or wireless will get you there,I am realy excited.Wife and I don't make alot of money to afford the big dollar boats but this one is way underpriced.We might sell the land locked house and go for the dream of adventure.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

I may be wrong, but US NOAA weather satellites are in geosync orbit and don't really eclipse for long periods. The sats take two mains types of images -- infrared and visual. The IR gives temperature. High clouds mean more development; these show up as cooler clouds, being higher. IR images can be taken 24 hours a day if I recall correctly. The visual satellite provides better structural information but is always "lost" some time after dusk (fades out after sunset, fades in before sunrise) because the ground is no longer sufficiently bright. That's why the 315Z time is the time of the last image -- that's 10:15 CDT or about when even the western part of the sat footprint becomes too dark to be useful.

[Dog Gone]

Whoa. I didn't get what you meant at first, but when I did click on the first image your link called up, it zoomed right into the storm.

It looks like a bad night to be visiting the ruins at Chichen Itza!

[jamaly]

People were found drowned in their attics after Hurricane Betsy, because places went from having no water to having 20 feet of water in 15 minutes," Krieger said

Preceding Hurricane Georges one of the New Orleans meteorologists recommended that people keep axes handy so they could chop their way out of their attics, if necessary. My family had already evacuated by this time, a friend later told me that statement was what convinced her to evacuate.

[eastforker]

I could live in margaritaville and still vote a sraight republican ticket.When you retire you should be able to relive your youth yet make the peons foot the bill ,don't ya think,hell,politicians do it,why shouldn't the common folk?

[Dog Gone]

Good for you! Just don't get crazy and take it out into the Gulf of Mexico. ;-)

[Joe Hadenuf]

150 mile per hour winds? Isn't that just a breeze in Texas?

[eastforker]

Well, you can, just gotta watch the weather reports.

[NELSON111]

NOAA GOES sats eclipse during this time of year. They are blocked from the sun's light and since they run on Solar power...don't have the energy to run the instruments to they are shut off. It lasts for 48 days each cycle and is greatest (3 hours or so) near the equinox. We are at this point so expect an outage of about 3 hours tonight.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

>NOAA GOES sats eclipse during this time of year. They are blocked from the sun's light and since they run on Solar power...don't have the energy to run the instruments to they are shut off. It lasts for 48 days each cycle and is greatest (3 hours or so) near the equinox. We are at this point so expect an outage of about 3 hours tonight.

Looks like I stand corrected. Thanks for the piece of info. With the sun "near" the equator at the equinox it makes sense that even something as high as geosync would eclipse near local midnight. Duh!

[Ditter]

My grandfather survived the !900 Galveston storm. He waid the water was more than 2 feet deep in the upstairs of the building he was in. If he had been in the attic of a one story house he would have been drowned. Gulp, & I wouldn't be here.

[dennis1x]

sure looks like it now, but i dont think they will up the wind to 140 without aircraft confirmation and im not sure if they fly this time of night.

big jog to the south the last hour or two, if any more than a wobble could spell doom for Isidore....i think things are starting to look questionable as to the future of the storm...the NHC seemed to bring up some question in the last advisory concerning a more southerly track.

if it jogs 50 miles to the south it could be over land for a prolonged time.

[Ditter]

Sounds like you guys are gearing up for a real fun time. ;9}