Jeez, Humberto came out of nowhere yesterday, eh?
And now I'm worried: I'm supposed to be celebrating my thirtieth birthday (technically Sept. 20) with family and friends and a trip to the hometown of New Orleans tomorrow. The idea was to kick back and hopefully achieve some acceptance of how I spent my dissolute twenties--aka doing odd stuff like writing a hurricane book.
Now, though, there may well be hurricane related rainfall to worry about all weekend!
Humberto, you suck; and no, I don't appreciate the irony....
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As you know, if Tropical Storm Humberto, which is out in the eastern Atlantic at the moment, turns into a hurricane AFTER noon tomorrow, September 11th, it will break the record for latest first hurricane in the Atlantic hurricane season for the period of good records.
The big, current, story in the Atlantic is, of course, hurrican/tropical storm (there is some confusion on the status of the storm over the last 12 hours) Ingrid. Regardless of how it is classified, Ingrid is going to cause major flooding in Mexico.
The disturbance off the west coast of Africa that I mentioned earlier is now officially Tropical Depression Number Nine.
It is forecast that Nine will turn into a hurricane in about 72 hours, though one model suggest much sooner.
Courtesy of
rel="tag">NASA, we have this pair of images
illustrating the record
growth rate of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Humberto_%282007%29">hurricane
Humberto (2007):
Chris,
I think you have some cause for concern. The O6Z GFDL model run brings the system over New Orleans in two days, where it will have ample access to warm Gulf air.
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfdltc2.cgi?time=2007091306-humberto09l&…
The model has predicted such a scenario for three consecutive runs. I hope it does not come to pass as it could severely tax New Orleans' pumping stations.
Eric
It is clear that God hates South Texas as much as I do.
Pat, aren't you supposed to be praying to divert the storm from New Orleans--or do you hate us too?
Eric, thanks, I've been reading your blog and have found it hugely informative on this storm. Keep it up. And for everyone else, go and check out SciGuy:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/
Chris - No, I am praying that Our Lord God stike at sinners everywhere. And I hate everyone that is not one of us, where us = chubby, jowelled white Republican Male, and Proper God-fearing Women.
HTH :)
Why Pat, does that mean you hate kittens too?
Sheril - I could get into that! Please tell me more!
this thread is great. we've never had so many celebrities visit the intersection...except for the time that we had God commenting.