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2005-07-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2005-07-19 08:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What I've long suspected from watching local broadcast TV news weather reports: weather stops at the US-Mexico border! It's almost amazing how it could be clear and calm on their maps, just south of the border, then all of a sudden, a major front sweeps north from the border.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-19 10:24|| 2005-07-19 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 11am map shows no left turn yet.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-19 12:32|| 2005-07-19 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Good news water wise for S Texas, bad news is that the central pressure is dropping 3 mb/hr winds have not yet caught up to current pressure. Is Brownsville/NE Mex Coast a shallow water area?

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-19 12:57|| 2005-07-19 12:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Prolly is, that's the mouth of the Rio Grande, though I don't know the size of the delta.

Posted by .com 2005-07-19 13:00|| 2005-07-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Anony,
That drives me nuts too! The radar maps end at the border with Canada too, like we would be giving away secrets to the Canucks or seein' Canukistan secrets if the Weather Channel showed real continuity of the fronts, or sumpin'. WTF? Mebbe I'll ask Ed over at LGF if he knows why.

Posted by Craig 2005-07-19 15:28|| 2005-07-19 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm wondering if it's because the service sells for each country, so including a tiny slice of Canada and Mexico would triple the price?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-19 16:48|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-19 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 At 4 PM CDT...2100z...the center of Hurricane Emily was located near latitude 24.3 north... longitude 95.6 west or about 145 miles...
230 km... east-northeast of La Pesca Mexico and about 160 miles...260 km...southeast of Brownsville Texas.
Emily is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 mph...19 km/hr. A gradual turn toward the west is expected to occur late tonight or
early Wednesday morning. This motion should bring the center of Emily near the northeastern coast of Mexico by Wednesday morning.
Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph...160 km/hr...with higher gusts. Emily is a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 12 hours or so...and Emily could still become a major category three hurricane before it makes landfall Wednesday morning.

Still no left turn

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-19 16:49|| 2005-07-19 16:49|| Front Page Top

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