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Looks like the record is now tied for the most named storms ever. Wilma is working its way along the central Caribbean and strengthening with windspeed rising and pressure falling. Current path shows it clipping the Yucatan and heading out into the Gulf. From there, anyone's guess, many unpleasant possibilities.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/1....ap/index.html
It's now a hurricane, they think it will be Cat 3 in a couple of days.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/18/wilma/index.html
Is the Gulf still bathwater, or has it chilled a notch?
Don't know, I can't find the sea surface temperature maps in the drop downs today...seem to have gone missing. Last I saw, it was still bathwater, but it has been 3 days or so. There has been a big high sitting in the Gulf blocking things. As long as it stays put the risk will be to Florida.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
That's a bit better since the atlantic side water temps are going to be less. If there's a high in the Gulf, it probably is helping keep things warmed, so if it slips away that could prove...disconcerting.
This what you are looking for?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
She's already at 110 MPH, 1 MPH below Category 3 (the major hurricane breakpoint). Pressure is down around 945.
Remember though it is not significant until it is (N^0.5) more...
So if 25 is the highest, then don't think it is significant until an extra 5 turn up... and then we can just discount the set as a cluster.
Nothing is changing and we have the stats to prove it. ~;)
This just in...
...according to environmentalist views of global warming based on the unsigned kyoto protocol, the gulf's temperature has risen to near boiling. As a result, thousands of fish are beaching themselves, growing legs, and "taking the jobs that illegal immigrants don't want".
Category 5 at the time of this post.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tr...=wxcenter_news
Hehehe.. very goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
Good grief, the lowest central pressure ever recorded 882, and from tropical storm to the strongest Category 5 ever in less than 24 hours!!! I'm sure that water temp had nothing to do with it...yeah right...
LOL, its Bush's fault as well.~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
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Originally Posted by Red Harvest
However its not even in the Gulf of Mexico yet - still in the Caribbean Sea - if it misses the Yutan or just takes a glancing blow on it (which is what the course predictin has) - when it hits the southern portion of the Gulf of Mexico - it could potentially become much worse.
Of course its warm water feeding this thing -- definitional.
24 hours to Cat-5 and 882 milli~:eek: ~:eek: ~:eek:
I always knew Wilma was more dangerous than Fred.
We can argue all day about why the water is warmer this year than some and as to whether this constitutes a trend or is just more of life's typical randomness. That should be for another thread.
Let's all pray (or think good thoughts for the non-prayerful) that this thing steers itself up the middle Atlantic and over a minimum number of people's heads.
Well his post was good satire - humourous first, with a political dig too. Yours is just political dig.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
Claiming that climate change is not to do with human activity is fiddling while Rome burns. The world is getting warmer - fact, CO2 speeds up this process, humans produce huge amounts of CO2.
[Nitpick] Don't you meanQuote:
...fiddling....
"Playing the lyre"?[/Nit pick]
it is kinda stuck, that is why it increased in power so rapidly
Apparently it is now the lowest pressure hurricane in the Atlantic basin on record...:charge:
Duh..... Good luck to anyone on the path, me happy being far from hurricane zone. We've got 1 huge in France at christmas 99, we know what it means, but we are fortunate enought not to have seen any other.....
The weather does change whatever man makes - but man also has an impact. Does it mean the man should act to limit the change? Act to limit its impact on the change? Act to limit its impact whatever? Act whatever happens? Tough question.