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| NOAA Image of the day: Bonnie & Charlie in the Gulf |
| 2004-08-12 |
| Posted by:.com |
| #24 Shipman another good way to get it out of your head is with Henry Gross' "Shannon". |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-08-12 9:17:00 PM |
| #23 I recommend Da doo ron ron.... and back it up with the big! Big! BIG! WALL! |
| Posted by: R Spector Not Involved In That Mess 2004-08-12 7:02:29 PM |
| #22 Gordon's always good for an earworm....I hear if you hum "Girl From Ipanema" it'll cure it |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-12 6:30:00 PM |
| #21 Raj...thanks for nothing. Now I've got Gordon Lightfoot on the brain... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-08-12 6:26:11 PM |
| #20 Hey! The comments seem to be fixed... else I have been removed from the annoy list. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-12 6:25:02 PM |
| #19 .com that one of them scary cloud banks that are benign, but serves to scare off the tourists. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-12 6:23:31 PM |
| #18 Definite Edmund Fitzgerald flashback, .com... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-08-12 4:20:21 PM |
| #17 Thanks for the Clyde suggestion. That was the first thing I thought of. |
| Posted by: Debbie 2004-08-12 13:55 |
| #16 Here's an interesting picture from a ship approaching a hurricane - I don't know which one it was... Perhaps this is your flagship, JFK? Or perhaps it's OBL's... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 13:53 |
| #15 ...would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on hurricanes that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history." |
| Posted by: John Forbes Kerry 2004-08-12 13:20 |
| #14 Lol! Good place to hang out, DB! And that's a visual I didn't really require, lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 12:46 |
| #13 .com, I'm safely in the mountains of East Tennessee. I got tired of searching over half a state for the contents of my underwear drawer. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-08-12 12:44 |
| #12 DB - Uh, where are you now, |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 12:16 |
| #11 You beat me to it,Mike. Chuckle. If any one is interested here's the protocol on naming hurricanes: Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The lists featured only women's names until 1979, when men's and women's names were alternated. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010. [...]The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs, then at an annual meeting by the WMO committee (called primarily to discuss many other issues) the offending name is stricken from the list and another name is selected to replace it. Here's the list for 2004 through 2009 for Atlantic cyclones. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-08-12 12:11 |
| #10 Mike thank ye gods! I was getting worried that I was the only one who was disapointed at how the naming turned out |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-08-12 12:11 |
| #9 If you are ever at the beach with me and a hurricane is comming it might be a good idea to run. Of the 20 worst hurricanes to hit the US I've been in 8 of them starting with Camile and ending with Hugo. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-08-12 11:59 |
| #8 They shoulda named the second one "Clyde." |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-08-12 11:31 |
| #7 It just hit me: I wonder what desert dickheads like the majority in Gitmo will think of being deluged by hurricane-driven rain? LOLOLOLOLOLOL! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 09:56 |
| #6 And they're getting it right now, in fact! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 09:55 |
| #5 At least the internees at GITMO! will get a shower |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-12 09:54 |
| #4 ..Here in central SC we're being told we could see as much as 14" of rain before next Monday, something I'm looking forward to like a pulled tooth. I'll keep everyone posted until the point where I have to gather all the animals two by two... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-08-12 09:38 |
| #3 Three satellite images I use a lot are those from the GOES-12 in geosynchronous orbit above (I think) Venezuela: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8ir.gif http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8wv.gif http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8vis.gif These are taken in the near-infrared, water-vapor (deep infrared), and visible portions of the spectrum, respectively, and together they can give you a good idea of what's going on over the western Atlantic, the continental US, and the Carribean. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-08-12 08:29 |
| #2 JM - Here's the NOAA predicted path of the latter storm, Hurricane Charley... check the maps - they indicate it should be overland in N Fla on Sat - and well north by Sunday. Monday delays, if any, will probably be due to whaytever damage is done. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-12 08:22 |
| #1 I'm due in Orlando on Monday, this better all blow over by then. I hate being delayed in airport bars because I can't expense my usually hefty tab, but I'll make due if I have to. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-08-12 08:10 |
