Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Wrong, boring = bad ALWAYS

P'cola Doug-were you there for Ivan?

Not you again...

Boring = GOOD...

I don't have to put up my shutters. I don't have to worry about power. My internet connection works without fail.

Busy = BAD...

My house is dark when I don't run the generator. I ration my water to last until the pump stations come back on-line. My beer has to stay cool on ice, rather than in a fridge...

I wouldn't wish Ivan on anyone.

StormW, Ivan wouldn't wish Ivan on anyone. That one was a flat-out wrecking machine.

Morning guys and gals

cut-n-past this

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/post-goes

No. Boring = BAD. Busy = GOOD, so I can watch the action from my dugout place in the forest in Dallas...

It didn't work...cajunkid.

Posted By: Altestic87 at 7:40 AM CDT on July 10, 2007.
No. Boring = BAD. Busy = GOOD, so I can watch the action from my dugout place in the forest in Dallas...


Easier to take when you're not affected. You wish harm on others?

No, but I love to watch a big mass of turning clouds with a hole in the middle in the ocean...

Good Morning all.........Looks like all is pretty quiet in the tropics and nothing in sight for the next several days...

Oh well go here Link

type in X=617 Y=362

click tha animate tab and extract sub-image

Ike;

I figure there's no reasoning with someone like Altestic. Until she experiences the likes of Opal or Ivan (I sat through both), she'll always be a carnage-lover...

Posted By: Altestic87 at 7:43 AM CDT on July 10, 2007.
No, but I love to watch a big mass of turning clouds with a hole in the middle in the ocean...


Then there's Man-yi.

I can watch the action from my dugout place in the forest in Dallas...

Ok, I'll be sure to get some popcorn and champagne the next time an F5 twister takes a stroll through big D...

Cajun

Unless the shear drops, it will be another shredded system in a few days...

I lived right off Scenic hwy. About a 10 minute walk to the DQ that overlooks p'cola bay where I-10 sank. I stayed and rode it out. I will NEVER forget it as long as I live. If it weren't for xanax, I probably would have had a heart attack.

It is scary as hell.

dr m they this had there first major typhoon they had 2 of them so far a cat 3 and a cat 4

I was just showing a good picture, you guys argue over what will happen to it.

WOW...lookie here. Them beautiful waves coming off Africa. Tis the season. There coming off more north than before.

Common guys, its July, what do you expect a Dennis?? or Emily.

Relax, August is the firing season. Those waves will be shot off Africa from its 'dimble'. Just wait....Im anxious myself

Shear relief continues ... :-)

Yeah shear is high... but look at the forecast... nothing but good ol blues and greens in da future..Link

So you rode it out on the bluff (or right behind it) - wow...

At least here in Niceville, we have flat ground...

I was a stupid one and stayed for Rita. I will never do that again!

Hurricane season is kinda like fireworks. Tease the crowd with some minimal action in the beginning, but dont show em what you got right away. Then as time goes on, more and more!!! Then as the finally, BOOM!! Let everything loose!! One after another and another...go go go...!!! ahhh..... need some more coffee

Ivan was at night. that was the worst. At least during the day, you can see what's happening. I can still hear that wind scream. Still gives me the creeps. The storm's not as bad as the aftermath. I can still hear that eerie silence. not a sound anywhere the day after. Although I don't wish that kind of devastation on anyone, I've always liked watching storms. I doubt I'll ever see one that tops Ivan,but if it comes-I'll ride it too. Like Tornado chasers, I guess but I don't care for tornadoes.

Yes and the queit last for weeks. not even the sound of insects buzzing

G'morning, all.

No, peen hole eye this morning is there?

No, peen hole eye this morning is there?

That question is relative to one's perception

Man-yi warning and track graphic

Link

I was lucky. The bluffs got creamed by the surge and took the worst wind. It seemed like the bluffs deflected some of the wind. We still got hammered though. Ivan was different than other hurricanes i've been through. It came on really slow. The other storms i've been through were more "squally" or gusty. Ivan was different. It started more like rain you get in winter up north. I wonder if all the stronger ones do that.

Posted By: MisterPerfect at 1:20 PM GMT on July 10, 2007.
No, peen hole eye this morning is there?

That question is relative to one's perception

...don't think I have any relatives with peen perception. Does an uncle with one eye count? lol

Morning All, Whats with that blow up off the Carolina coast? Seems like from the bouy reports that there are wind shifts out there

A piece of energy riding along old trough over North Carolina. Hit the warmer waters overnite and ignited some storms. That will weaken as it moves East today.

Worst story I heard on Hurricane Andrew (not counting any tragic loss of life issues) from a friend was having his whole family in a panic as the house was blowing in, moving from room to room as roofs started coming off, and finally ending up in the garage sitting in the SUV;He and his wife were sitting in the front seat (kids and dog in the back) and he looked up and the roof of the garage just "peeled off"....Sat in the rain with the car "moving around", and kids and wife screaming, in the garage for another 2 hours or so.....Amazing...

there you go STL.......you've found the good doc in a mistake...i think your next move...is to have his phd and all honors stripped from him and handed to you.....we'll all be rushing to your blog for expert analyses in the future...ALL Hail STL.....ALL HAIL STL.....

Patrap;

Sent the link to my bud at Iwakuni earlier this morning. Hoping that since they're leaving more space to the east than to the west in the "cone of destruction" that they're thinking the future tracks will move further east.

If it doesn't, southern Japan will not be the place to be in about 84-96 hours...

Michael,

I thought WPac started (technically, anyway) their season over again in June. It just runs all year, unlike ours.

If it's off the Carolina coast it would probably only be a problem for Bermuda. It would likely be extratropical this early in the season. Subtropical at best.

Iwakuni..now theres a memory . I was at Camp Hansen at Okinowa. 9th engineers up on the Hill.

Map of US bases and Interest at Okinawa

Link

...don't think I have any relatives with peen perception. Does an uncle with one eye count? lol

Sure but tell him to use the guest bathroom, I just cleaned mine.

Thanks Weatherguy03
Seemed alittle wierd, but didn't see any
fronts in the area, makes sense now that
you pointed it out

true Ivan , but the way that it exploded
so quickly had me wondering, especially
since some of the bouys in the neighborhood
are showing winds from the WSW and if you move further North, a couple of them are showing an easterly fetch
Its probably just feeding off the Gulf Stream right now

Boy was Andrew fun. I was 7 at the time and we were in good old West Palm Beach, Florida soaking up the sun with my grandparents. I don't remember much but I do remember rushing into my dad's old maroon Izuzu trooper. I was mad because he cut our trip short by 3 days and I didn't know why. Then I saw the palm trees falling over. And the wind. God, you never forget that sound.

I yelled at the top of my lungs "Dad! Why are the palm trees falling over?" The response was "Just sit down and shut up...and stop looking out the window." I love my dad. He was in the Coast Guard at the time and was apparently warned of the approaching storm. Cleared it by what could only have been hours.

Yeah V26, you get alittle energy to hit those waters at night and bang you will get convection.

STL - when does the season in that region start? Won't this be the first of the season?

However, I just found this, so I guess you are right:

Unlike Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons, they run for the whole year, starting on January 1 and ending on December 31. These dates are when tropical cyclones usually form in the western half of the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator.