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| Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 07:26 PM GMT del 02 Luglio 2009 | +4 |




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Jeff co-founded the Weather Underground in 1995 while working on his Ph.D. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990.
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Oh that really is sad... Is anyone allowed to live anymore?
Me too! (So am I)
I really enjoyed watching McNair play when he was on the Titans. Looks like there was another victim. One report says double homicide one report say murder suicide.
I guess you'll be uncool then LOL
Posted by Mike Florio on July 4, 2009 4:18 PM
According to NewsChannel5.com in Nashville, long-time NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been found dead.
McNair reportedly suffered a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide.
Further details currently are not available; check back for more developments.
He was a first-round pick of the Houston Oilers in 1995, and he played for the franchise through the 2005 season. McNair was then traded to the Ravens, and he spent two seasons in Baltimore before retiring.
UPDATE: The report from NewsChanel5.com has been revised to describe the situation as a "double homicide.
I apparently haven't been cool since my kids became teenagers...
No bad memories, but I usually have one drink a month. Just not motivated, I guess.
interesting
10-Health-Benefits-of-Drinking-Beer
I can tell ya, Gulf of Alaska to Hispaniola, Nova Scotia to Baha (and beyond). Obviously some products, such as land-based radar data are limited in coverage. Others, such as wave model forecasts and satellite mosaics are not.
The radar coverage looks like this. The full spatial coverage is a little bit larger.
EDIT: I guess WU doesn't want to link the pics at xmwxweather.com, interesting.
Radar coverage
http://www.xmwxweather.com/images/data-products/Radar-Coverage.jpg
Wave height example:
http://www.xmwxweather.com/images/data-products/Wave-Heights.jpg
A couple of points: if condtions lag, we'll still see some nGOM storms; and if, nino is more prelavent then FL and the eCoast become more vulnerable. Either way, even with "suppressed" conditions we're still quite apt to have at least one potentially major, land-falling CONUS hurricane. Afterall, it does only take ONE to cause death and destruction. Slow starting season, extra speculation of nino almost dictates that we'll see a season less respected, people with their guard down, less prepared and potentially more dangerous. I'd much rather see the NHC continue to talk about the seriousness of even a less than average season.
I just don't think we've got it figured out yet! Obviously, our leadership doesn't when we can tag $50,000,000 worth of pork for an un-needed new hurricane research center. I'd much rather see that kind of money spent on additional shelters and storm education! :(
A great product, though!
That would be a fitting ending to a crappy day at work.
cen fix
15n/73w
I'm not sure if there is an official correlation to El Nino events and northern Gulf Coast landfalls, but I've found through studying that there does appear to be a correlation between hurricane landfalls along the northern Gulf Coast during El Nino years.
So even if we were to experience a below average season, owing to a weak to moderate El Nino event, then there would still be a risk of northern Gulf Coast landfalls.
Kori, I didn't say there was a coorelation to nGOM landfalls with Nino. My comment was more suggestive of nGOM landfalling storms during neutral conditions and a more active season. History shows that.
Nino storms tend to find FL-the eCoast or become fish storms as conditions for development become more suppressed.
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Of course you didn't say that, but I did. As I said, I doubt there is an official correlation between Nino events and northern Gulf Coast landfalls, but from what I've studied on the subject, there does appear to be a weak correlation.
I do agree with you, however, in that during Nino years, Florida and the east coast are at the greatest risk of a major hurricane. But the weaker systems of the year tend to strike the northern Gulf Coast, likely in part due to following the low-level easterlies as weak tropical waves in unfavorable atmopsheric environments until they reach the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico, when they find favorable conditions and subsequently begin to organize.
Just my thoughts.
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Whilst I admire this site, and most of the bloggers, immensely - I do wish that some bloggers would cease from apparently "wishing for a Hurricane!!
Living throughy and recovering from (and many of u know this)is a frightening, humbling, exhausting and expensive process - it is not a "wanabee adventure" by any means.
So for me personally - and I am sure I echo the thoughts of many people in the Caribbean - I do not care a whit if it is a boring, quiet season - I would prefer it that way.
I would hate to live my live based on the remoted, vicarious thrills of "that looks dramatic, that looks exciting - wish I was there" - it is dramatic, it is exciting,but trust me once tasted always hoping it never happens again.
I stayed in Beaumont, Tx for Rita... experienced a lot of tornados and downed trees... a really intense Hurricane. I stayed in Humble, Texas for Ike, played guitar on the front porch during the eyewall despite my wife's protests.
I made about $60-$65,000 from October 1st - Dec 31st on Hurricane Ike recovery. Several refineries and chemical plants in SE Texas got damaged and had to be repaired.
Thousands of contractors had good paying jobs, after Ike, for at least 3-months. Hurricanes can be good and bad for the local economy... but I was working 12-hour days 7-days/week for several months plus per-dium and hotel stay. Hurricanes are a real shot in the arm for some professions.
Also, they help neighbors get to know each other. We never hardly met the neighbors in Beaumont until Rita. Afterward, we all sort of banded together to protect the neighborhood.
Wishcasters aren't evil... they probably just don't know what they are asking for and will get far more than they bargained for.
NOTE: The Atlantic wins the contest...
That's just northwest of College Station which is only at 101.
...dayum! Whew! Sweatin' just reading that! UGH!
--NHC will probably bump development chances up to medium at 8 pm.
Where was this pic taken and when?
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