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8/11/2007 9:04:06 PM

Every year I wonder if we're going to get another Fran.

I guess it's good that this will be a quiet season. We'll be able to finish my brother's shed without worrying about a tree coming down and ending everything for us.

8/11/2007 11:02:46 PM

Since when did a quiet season mean you didnt have to worry about getting hit by a storm? Lets ask Florida how that quiet season Andrew rolled in on went for them...

8/11/2007 11:08:08 PM

Well, yeah... I'm just saying that since it looks like it won't be bad, I am glad. Not really basing that off of awesome scientific evidence or anything.

We'd be fucking pissed if that shed went at this point, haha.

8/11/2007 11:29:54 PM

well given that fran hit in september. i'd wouldn't be giving it the all go quite yet. Then again if shit happens it happens so just do your thing and don't do anything to disturb/compact the trees' roots while building it and the tree will stay strong.

8/12/2007 1:36:57 AM

its probably going to be a decent wave season. the thing about this season is the gulf and Caribbean which are noramlly the most active have been 100% absent but africa wave season is just getting started.

8/12/2007 2:57:23 AM

[Edited on August 12, 2007 at 2:10 PM. Reason : w]

8/12/2007 2:10:12 PM

IT BEGINS


there's a few waves coming off africa

8/12/2007 2:20:30 PM

hahahahaha, i love this

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/145027.shtml?5day#contents

8/13/2007 12:55:22 PM

theres also a .wav headed into the gulf's 90 degree waters.

8/13/2007 1:15:19 PM

8/13/2007 2:04:59 PM

This will be the first storm this year to actually draw my attention, just what I need to distract me at work during a busy week.

8/13/2007 3:55:11 PM

Yeah, I go on forecast shift this wednesday. It'll give me something to discuss towards the end of my shift.

8/13/2007 3:57:58 PM

I wish i could redo school, my first choice was meteorology, but with the huge dot com boom and everything else i went with my 2nd choice of CPE and well that didnt end up all that well for me haha

8/13/2007 4:38:11 PM

8/13/2007 5:10:40 PM

meteorology wouldn't get you anywhere.

i think in a class of 20, 3 or so of us are actually doing meteorology-related work

8/13/2007 8:23:47 PM

and the other 17 are working at Starbucks trying to get the masters/doctorate in it.....not an easy field to find employment.

8/13/2007 9:00:48 PM

Part of the reasoning behind me going the other route, would just love to be working in that field though, might actually enjoy going to work every single day.

8/13/2007 10:40:16 PM

Yeah, like with any job, but this one moreso than others it seems, you have to be very flexible in terms of location. I'm actually in the air quality field, so I wouldn't exactly say I'm doing meteorological work. We forecast the code green-purple air quality indices. But I had to get my M.S. to get this job.

8/14/2007 8:24:35 AM

for some reason i don't know. this shit really cracks me up



[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 1:28 PM. Reason : air quality IS meteorological work and its where its at]

8/14/2007 1:26:04 PM

Dean

8/14/2007 1:58:38 PM

we're gonna go to the antilles , then we're gonna go to puerto rico and to the bahamas and wilmington and all the way to raleigh.....WOOOOO

8/14/2007 2:52:16 PM

Why is it being called "Hurricane" Flossie, rather than "Typhoon?"

8/14/2007 8:46:16 PM

us basins call them hurricanes. the west pacific basin (ie japan, china, phillip) is the only place they are called typhoons. they're just called tropical cyclones in the Indian basin.

each basin has a completely different seasons and lists of names.

[Edited on August 14, 2007 at 8:50 PM. Reason : ahardy's]

8/14/2007 8:48:20 PM

they spin diff. ways

8/14/2007 8:50:44 PM

^nah, you're either thinking about pussies or cyclones in the southern hemisphere.

8/14/2007 8:52:02 PM

Almost all systems that developed where Dean has recurve(Andrew being the main one that didnt), however, looks like Dean will march through the Carribean and possibly enter the Gulf. There are a couple things coming off of Africa that look interesting, but usually the rule is one makes it across while the other becomes a Fish(no landfall, just affects the Fish)

8/14/2007 11:41:06 PM

doh, hemisphere

8/15/2007 12:05:08 AM

Well Erin's already got tropical storm warnings for the southern half of the texas coastline. Waters are like 90 degrees but theres alot of shear.

8/15/2007 3:54:53 AM

The track its on now is gonna cause a helluva lot of problems for the carribean especially if the eye can avoid the larger islands. Guess things are lookin ok for us... not so much for the gulf coast.

8/15/2007 9:54:27 AM

hopefully it makes a clean pass through that yucatan passage then its on!

8/15/2007 3:51:41 PM

heres a real storm[nsfno]











wait for it




don't wet your pants

8/15/2007 9:22:56 PM

i don't see how civilization survives in east taiwan especially small islands like lu tao. It seems like they get 1 or 2 of these every year.

8/15/2007 9:26:55 PM

looks like an asexual mega organism swimming southeast and it just budded off a new baby megaorganism/giant-amoeba

8/16/2007 2:41:52 AM

http://hurricanedeanpath.ytmnd.com/

lol

8/17/2007 12:05:50 PM

Dean now a cat 4

8/17/2007 9:23:13 PM

had to

8/19/2007 10:23:45 AM

^that is hilarious...

by the way...any tropical system that follows closely in dean's steps will suffer from cooler water as a result of upwelling from dean...but it doesn't look anything is following that closely

8/19/2007 12:25:49 PM

i've been in stillwater, ok the last couple weeks and there is major flooding near oklahoma city

8/19/2007 12:36:43 PM

Send some of it my way. Don't think it's rained here in about two months. Trees are starting to die.

8/19/2007 1:04:45 PM

my entire front yard has been dead and white for like 2 months

8/19/2007 2:16:02 PM

like the holoc.....[backs out of joke and thread..]

8/19/2007 2:31:16 PM

where are the good satellite pictures of dean


i need a new desktop picture


isabelle is getting old

8/19/2007 5:10:01 PM

^Wilma, nice pic


http://en.wikivisual.com/images/f/fa/Wilma1315z-051019-1kg12.jpg



[Edited on August 19, 2007 at 9:40 PM. Reason : w]

8/19/2007 9:39:11 PM

I'm so worried about my grandma in Jamiaca. he's 80 yrs old, and that hurricane is serious

Not to mention all the other family I have in Jamaica

8/19/2007 11:04:43 PM

If she is anything like the old lady they had on BBC the other night then she has nothing to worry about. That woman was quite formidable and said that she had food, water and anything else she might need and that some ol' hurricane wasn't going to run her off. Plus, the storm passed to the south of the island so they didn't even get the meat and potatoes of it.

8/20/2007 1:54:40 AM

ritas been my desktop for months now

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/modis_gallery/images/Rita.20050921.1920.143.1000m.jpg

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 3:23 AM. Reason : no image]

8/20/2007 3:21:54 AM

Also pics at:

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

They used to be better before they added the text and info fields ... the pics used to be just of the hurricane, water and and land rather than captions and data.

8/20/2007 11:42:16 AM

just made Cat 5

bye bye cancun

8/20/2007 9:10:33 PM

Its missing cancun...bye bye middle part of the yucatan.

8/20/2007 9:24:04 PM