Africa's about to get a taste of their own medicine.

11/27/2005 10:19:05 PM

Epsilon! (okay this is just getting ridiculous now)

11/29/2005 10:46:12 AM

what the fuck

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11/29/2005 10:51:26 AM

They shouldn't have named that storm. It can barely be classified as tropical. They're going to start naming the storms that pop up due to east coast cyclogensis soon.

... Tropical storm Gamma Deuteron droped 12 inches of snow today over Boston....

11/29/2005 12:57:08 PM

Why is it not tropical? It's still in season, and it's in the middle of the ocean with a classic cyclonic pattern. What are your requirements?

11/29/2005 1:02:54 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/11/29/hurricane.season.ender/index.html

Quote :

"It's official: 2005 hurricanes blew records away A brutal and record-setting hurricane season that repeatedly pounded the United States, devastated the lives of tens of thousands and spawned the historic Katrina ends November 30, at least on paper."

11/29/2005 4:01:50 PM

still 30.5 hours left in hurricane season!

11/29/2005 5:32:07 PM

this link from MSNBC has a quote from a State
professor....check it out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10241186/

11/29/2005 6:01:34 PM

epsilon is barely tropical. i think since its a record year theyre gonna start picking out everything and naming it. i know for a fact that many seasons there have been storms out there like this one that were ignored because it is so weak so short and wont affect anything

11/29/2005 9:04:13 PM

Quote :

"epsilon is barely tropical. i think since its a record year theyre gonna start picking out everything and naming it."

you're forgetting that they name anything with rotation and winds over 39 mph.

Tropical storm – An organized system of strong storms with a defined circulation and top sustained winds between 39-74 mph.
http://www.fau.edu/library/hurrguid.htm

11/29/2005 9:11:17 PM

^^Please explain this "barely tropical" label.

11/29/2005 10:03:12 PM

God just wanted all the GDI's to learn the greek alphabet

11/29/2005 10:09:22 PM

Epsilon is a hurricane for the time being.

12/2/2005 3:30:31 PM

socrates, are you happy now? or is it still "barely tropical"?

12/2/2005 6:26:53 PM

I just want to know the requirements from these storm elitists.

12/2/2005 8:25:02 PM

Quote :

""barely tropical""

lol

12/2/2005 8:44:57 PM

to be tropical it has to have a tight closed circulation. back when i posted that this storm had a broad open circulation. its barely a closed circulation right now but is much more impressive. when i last posted it just looked extratropical to me.

Quote :

"From fall through the winter and well into spring, extratropical storms dominate the weather across much of the United States and other parts of the globe outside the tropics. "Extratropical" means the storms originate outside the tropics. These storms move generally west to east across the oceans and continents. A storm's center is an area of low atmospheric pressure with winds going counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise south of the equator. The winds pulls cold air toward the equator from the polar regions and bring warm air toward the poles. The clash of warm and cold air leads to the widespread precipitation the storms bring."

[Edited on December 2, 2005 at 11:28 PM. Reason : d]

12/2/2005 11:27:48 PM

Quote :

"when i last posted it just looked extratropical to me."

so you're saying by looking at it, you knew it didn't originate in the tropics?

you have a calling - selling bridges.

12/2/2005 11:46:38 PM

^^Thanks for clarifying.

12/2/2005 11:55:23 PM

/thread

season's over now!

12/3/2005 1:04:12 AM

WRONG

The thread doesn't specify that said weather has to be in season. It can go until December 31.

12/3/2005 2:41:50 AM

i think its been pretty far north all the while but amber, just because it originates in the tropics doesnt mean it cant become extratropical. plus they are getting ready to start calling epsilon extratropical anyway

12/3/2005 2:54:31 AM

Winds up to 85 MPH. Expected to dissipate soone, but they've been predicting that for days now. It's looping back around.

12/4/2005 1:36:19 PM

loops back around, comes and hits the us

12/4/2005 2:45:41 PM

On Christmas Day!

12/4/2005 3:47:50 PM

lol it would dump like 8 feet of snow

12/4/2005 5:19:48 PM

This storm has proved more than any other that the forecasters can do almost as good a job predicting with random guessing.

12/7/2005 2:13:39 AM

12/7/2005 9:35:51 AM

How crazy it would be if that thing got picked up by the tradewinds, turned into a Cat 5, and completely soaked the Caribbean and south US. "OMF GLOBAL WARMING!!1"

On a side note, has there ever been a hurricane that made landfall at a time where it was cold enough that it turned to snow? Talk about a blizzard...

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 9:40 AM. Reason : more]

12/7/2005 9:38:56 AM

It wouldn't exactly be that simple. By the very genesis of a hurricane it is tropical in nature. The sea surface temperature has to be 78 degrees. and if it was to come into a colder region (like most all eventually do) they become extra tropical and no longer retain their convective patterns. HOWEVER, there have been hurricanes that have contributed to crucial winter weater. Ever hear of the Perfect Storm? One of the three components in that was hurricane Grace coliding with a frontal boundary the right way to not just be steered away by it.

Here's more about that if you aren't familiar: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/cyclones/pfctstorm91/pfctstorm.html

12/7/2005 10:05:58 AM

ZETA!

12/30/2005 1:00:54 PM

fucking crazy!

12/30/2005 1:25:52 PM

You have got to be shitting me.

12/30/2005 1:26:04 PM

12/30/2005 1:30:13 PM

someone better start the OFFICIAL 2006 Tropical Weather/Hurrcane Thread on Sunday

12/30/2005 1:38:32 PM

i've already started it.

12/30/2005 1:40:29 PM

Boy, they're going to make it through to next year by the skin of their teeth.

What's the contingency plan after you run out of greek letters?

12/30/2005 2:53:23 PM

Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Zeta
Eta
Theta
Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Mu
Nu
Xi
Omicron
Pi
Rho
Sigma
Tau
Upsilon
Phi
Chi
Psi
Omega

12/30/2005 3:14:37 PM

3 of 11, I was actually calling "bullshit" at my monitor until I went over to the National Hurricane Center webpage. Unbelievable.

12/30/2005 10:46:57 PM

^ guess it wouldn't be too hard to photoshop one of those eh?

12/31/2005 3:27:54 AM