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Category: Weather
Naturally, one of the favorite pastimes here in the Cone of Probability is to monitor as many websites as possible for different forecasts and projections of Hurricane Ike. The more the models stray away from Corpus Christi the less...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
Corpus Christi is in the center of Hurricane Ike's projected trajectory. He's coming at us like a fastball over home plate. This is a bit scarier than being on the periphery of the strike zone. TAMU-CC started issuing updates...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:19 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
Our expedition to the Twilight Zone is still on hold because of generator problems on the RV Nancy Foster. Now we've got Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gustav bearing down on us from the Caribbean. The storm is expected to enter the Gulf...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:39 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Geology
...and where it goes...how it got there..its trials and tribulations. This week in carbon sequestration theater we explore Little Petey Carbon and (sing out loud) Ollll' Mannnn Rrrriverrrr. Rivers are major transporters of material to the oceans and on into...
Posted by CR McClain at 12:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
We can't joke around too much about this Hurricane Dolly, I'm afraid. The weather is not terrible here in Corpus, but conditions are rapidly deteriorating in Brownsville. We now have reports of tornado warnings in nearby counties, and confirmed power...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:55 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
I am liveblogging Hurricane Dolly from Corpus Christi, Texas. It's raining here in the Coastal Bend. Not too much wind. Thanks to the storm we have a "snow day" at school. Plus, I don't have to water the lawn for...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 10:21 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
The second Atlantic hurricane of the year has arrived. Hello Dolly.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 4:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
Clouds can be a sailor's best friend. Given, you'd have to be an awfully lonely sailor, and probably have to scratch a half dozen unmentionables off the list before you ever got to "clouds", but, ... hey, some modern sailors keep a nice cloud book with them in the navigation room. OK?
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 3:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
The view from my desk in the kitchen is a sunny garden near the bay, but Tropical Storm Dolly is moving slowly west from 200 km off the coast here in the Gulf of Mexico. I am "in the Cone". The one question on my mind, though, is how and will this tropical storm intensify?
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weather
The supermarket in Corpus Christi is jammed and classes are cancelled the day after tomorrow at Texas A&M Universe in anticipation of Hurricane Dolly's landfall sometime Wednesday. Thinking of making bumpers stickers. We're about 100 miles north of the...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
