AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

[camwyn]

Zeta.

ZETA.

000
WTNT35 KNHC 301710
TCPAT5
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM ZETA SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1 PM AST FRI DEC 30 2005

...LATE SEASON TROPICAL STORM...THE 27TH OF THE YEAR...FORMS IN THE
EASTERN ATLANTIC...

AT 1 PM AST...1700Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ZETA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 25.0 NORTH... LONGITUDE 36.9 WEST OR ABOUT 1070
MILES...1720 KM... SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES.

ZETA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 8 MPH ...13 KM/HR. A TURN
TO THE WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 50 MPH... 85 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. ALTHOUGH SOME STRENGTHENING IS POSSIBLE LATER TODAY...A
WEAKENING TREND IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN TOMORROW.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES
...140 KM FROM THE CENTER.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1003 MB...29.62 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 1 PM AST POSITION...25.0 N... 36.9 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...NORTHWEST NEAR 8 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 50 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1003 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 5 PM AST.

FORECASTER FRANKLIN


$$

ARGH.

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Well, no, it isn't anything to do with that, because this isn't unusual. It's just the return of the high-activity cycle that we last had 30 or 40 years ago. There's no reason to think that this year was more active than the peak of the last cycle; the reason the number of named storms is so high is because we now have sattelites to spot them. Remember that many of this year's named storms never hit land anywhere, let alone anywhere important. Before the advent of weather sattelites, nobody would ever know about those storms, and they would never have been named.

And none of this years hurricanes were stronger or more destructive than some of the ones we've had in the past. I think the worst hurricane to hit the USA is still the one that took out Galveston about 100 years ago.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Don't screw up my snark with FACTS!

:)

LOL!