|
Post by nautonnier on Aug 31, 2016 19:19:25 GMT
Then it hits the Gulf Coast as a Cat 1 or even 2, and no one remembers her name six weeks from now. It's not like a Cat 1 is unprecedented on the coast. What Phydeaux2363? You mean a hurricane is like a blizzard up here? Get a few every winter, some worse than others. 80-100 mph winds, and that is WITHOUT warm water. Gosh................one would think this is unprecedented! We tend not to take much notice till Cat 3. As I have said before the West Coast of Scotland gets far more wind as normal weather. But that doesn't seem to have percolated through to the press. At the end of May cub reporters can be found on the beaches practicing leaning into water sprays and grittily reporting how windy it is in practiced shouting voices.
|
|
|
Post by phydeaux2363 on Aug 31, 2016 21:38:49 GMT
Katrina changed everything for the press. I was watching the late news last night here in NOLA and one station had three, count 'em, three, meteorologists round robining commentary for a tropical depression going to Florida! It seems any weather event other than a clear, calm day is big news in a world of "unprecedented" heat. It has ceased being amusing.
|
|
|
Post by missouriboy on Aug 31, 2016 22:05:07 GMT
Katrina changed everything for the press. I was watching the late news last night here in NOLA and one station had three, count 'em, three, meteorologists round robining commentary for a tropical depression going to Florida! It seems any weather event other than a clear, calm day is big news in a world of "unprecedented" heat. It has ceased being amusing. It's the change in the solar geomagnetic field, I tell ya. They've all gone nuts. Their neurological synapses are shorting out. War cycles are rising and the neighbors are howling at the moon. It's gonna be a long decade. I'm stocking up on spirits (good ones) and ammo ... lots of ammo. There ... I feel better.
|
|
|
Post by sigurdur on Sept 1, 2016 1:05:41 GMT
I am stocking up on wheat and soybeans. Did I mention that I would rather sell them at a higher price? ?
|
|
|
Post by nautonnier on Sept 1, 2016 1:17:02 GMT
Katrina changed everything for the press. I was watching the late news last night here in NOLA and one station had three, count 'em, three, meteorologists round robining commentary for a tropical depression going to Florida! It seems any weather event other than a clear, calm day is big news in a world of "unprecedented" heat. It has ceased being amusing. I can remember Shep Smith crowing from the French Quarter that NOLA had 'dodged the bullet' again. It was actually Mississippi that had the worst impact from Katrina. The problem with Katrina for NOLA was that the levees were allowed to deteriorate and were insufficient to protect against the water surge. In this respect Katrina and Sandy were identical failures of government preparation for long forecast weather rather than really severe storms.
|
|
|
Post by graywolf on Sept 2, 2016 10:38:48 GMT
Well Hermine made landfall overnight. I wonder just how much water she has on offer as she travels north?
|
|
|
Post by nautonnier on Sept 2, 2016 20:53:54 GMT
Not a huge amount. However, the areas being affected are more the stamping ground of the reporters and elites from DC. Not only that but the current track forecasts are that the 'extratropical cyclone' (which is the persnickety name used by meteorologists for tropical storms that far North) will stall somewhere just South of Long Island and dump lots and lots of rain there. Lots being 10" a day - barely enough to dampen those in FL but a lot for the excitable media inhabiting New York. If it stays stationary for as long as forecast then the end of the world will have come. It will be called SuperStorm Hermine and all the low lying flood plains that were allowed to be built on - will -well- flood. Obviously, the flooding of flood plains is so unexpected and unprecedented that it must be AGW.
|
|
|
Post by nautonnier on Sept 14, 2016 10:40:00 GMT
As Flea has noted the Atlantic SST off the Northern Florida coast is relatively high perhaps due to a slow down in the 'Gulf Stream' the new Tropical Storm Julia is extracting this energy as shown in this GOES image the latent heat being given up by water vapor condensing into rain and/or ice all that energy on its way out to space rather than heating UK and North West Europe in a month or so's time
|
|
|
Post by acidohm on Sept 14, 2016 12:53:37 GMT
I hope your right Naut. ...sweltering here (well, southern areas...)
Working outside and it's like July! !
|
|
|
Post by glennkoks on Sept 14, 2016 13:37:51 GMT
|
|
|
Post by glennkoks on Sept 14, 2016 13:45:09 GMT
While I am on my rant about what we were led to believe by the alarmist camp. The drought Texas was experiencing during 2011 was also cited as the new norm due to man. Guess what it's been a little wet lately: www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/
|
|
|
Post by sigurdur on Sept 14, 2016 14:11:32 GMT
Texas never had drought until CO2 started to rise. The climate was paradise.
|
|
|
Post by Ratty on Sept 14, 2016 21:26:31 GMT
Texas never had drought until CO2 started to rise. The climate was paradise. Yes Sig. It was the same in Australia ** ...... despite the cyclones, droughts, floods and heat waves. ** which is bigger than Texas, BTW.
|
|
|
Post by missouriboy on Sept 14, 2016 22:27:47 GMT
Texas never had drought until CO2 started to rise. The climate was paradise. I'll quote General Sherman, who supposedly stated that if he had to choose between living in Texas or in Hell, he'd rent out Texas and live in Hell! Of course that was before CO2.
|
|
|
Post by missouriboy on Sept 22, 2016 23:44:24 GMT
|
|