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Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 13:50:19 PM EDT
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[ed. notes] repeat of Tempest's diary for purposes of our dial-up friends - DemFromCT
Darksyde's Friday diary at daily Kos includes:
Don't think of Ike as a Cat 2 or 3 hurricane, think of it as a tsunami 200 miles long with hurricane winds above. In terms of pure energy, due to storm's size and the scope of its windfield, Ike is now stronger than Katrina and may strengthen more: For example, Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi as a strong Category 3 hurricane, yet its storm surge was more characteristic of a Category 5 storm. Dr. Powell came up with a new scale to rate potential storm surge damage based on IKE (not to be confused with Hurricane Ike!) The new scale ranges from 1-6. Katrina and Wilma at their peaks both earned a 5.1 on this scale (Figure 2). At 12:30pm EDT [Thurs], Ike earned a 5.2 on this scale, the second highest kinetic energy of any Atlantic storm in the past 40 years. Hurricane Isabel of 2003 had the highest.
Diary to watch developments with Hanna and Ike, Atlantic storms with the potential to impact land.
Open forum. Please all feel free to share your news and views! Ask questions of Tempest or anyone.
Official Info from Hurricane Center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
DailyKos' Tuesday write-up - excellent discussion from millwx here. I'm rather impressed! -Tempest
NHC track for IKE:
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 11:44:16 AM EDT
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Diary to watch developments with Hanna and Ike, Atlantic storms with the potential to impact land.
Open forum. Please all feel free to share your news and views! Ask questions of Tempest or anyone.
Official Info from Hurricane Center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
DailyKos' Tuesday write-up - excellent discussion from millwx here. I'm rather impressed! -Tempest
NHC track for IKE:
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 14:46:53 PM EDT
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Details on natural disasters, especially weather events that might prompt people to prepare, and test preps. Forecasts, technical info, and news coverage within.
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 at 22:29:25 PM EST
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About to get bowled over by a major winter storm? Find out if you should freshen your preps sooner rather than later, and indulge your inner-weather-geek right here.
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Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 07:15:57 AM EDT
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( - promoted by DemFromCT)
[see air updates from the smog blog - DemFromCT]
Many people have asked me to continue to keep an eye on, and give long-range predictions of possible weather events that have the potential to cause damage. I will continue to do so here, and invite everyone to check this 'weather sandbox' to find out about any significant weather events that I see coming.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 at 20:25:22 PM EDT
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( - promoted by Bronco Bill)
Old thread here:
http://www.newfluwik...
Details on natural disasters, especially weather events that might prompt people to prepare, and test preps. Forecasts, technical info, and news coverage within.
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Tue Jul 31, 2007 at 03:08:10 AM EDT
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(With hurricane season heating up in the US, and typhoon season in Asia, this is a good time to have this on the Front Page. Thanks go to Tempest for starting this... - promoted by Bronco Bill)
Would you guys be interested in my sharing heads-up on developing tropical systems before the hurricane center begins issuing advisories on them? Explanation and disclaimer below.
Mods: if not, I totally understand.
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Sun Jan 14, 2007 at 12:47:18 PM EST
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the bird movements and thus the outbreaks seems to depend on the weather.
So I think it's suitable if we could make a thread which is daily updated with the
temperatures,rain, maybe sunshine-hours,pressure,humidity from the most critical
regions.
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Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 17:54:50 PM EST
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There have been quite a few comments made in the press and elsewhere about the lack of significant BF progression recently. I for one am very surprised that HPAI has not arrived definitively in North America. Why hasn't it? Certainly the wild waterfowl flyways from Siberia and West Africa overlap with those on the West and East coasts of North America and one would have to assume that the birds that summer in those regions have been exposed to the virus.
One possible explanation for the retardation in the worldwide spread of HPAI is the El Nino weather event that has affected the northern hemisphere this year. What do you think about this? How could the El Nino cause a slow down in the spread of HPAI within the avian and mammalian populations?
Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP
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