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To: kassie
Ack. Did you alter the map?

Nope. That's what the NHC has on their site. Then again, they were one of the last ones to abandon the idea that Katrina was going to slam into the Florida panhandle while most other forecasters had it going into Louisiana or Mississippi.

It's really too early to say where it is going other than "westward".

13 posted on 09/19/2005 10:57:08 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (RIP New Orleans 1718-2005)
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To: Tall_Texan
Nope. That's what the NHC has on their site. Then again, they were one of the last ones to abandon the idea that Katrina was going to slam into the Florida panhandle while most other forecasters had it going into Louisiana or Mississippi.

Accuweather has it going to essentially the same place, and they were one of the first to correctly forecast that Katrina would either hit New Orleans, or worse hit just east of it. They were also the first to call that last minute eastward jog.

They are showing the uncertainty footprint a little farther south than the NHC, only to about Lake Charles rather than the Lake Pontchartrain outlet. The southern end of the region appears to be about the same, or maybe just a schosh farther south of Matamoros, Mexico than the NHC's zone.

If Rita follows that forecast path, it will affect even more oil platforms than Katrina did, a whole lot more. It will be even worse if the track is slightly north of the forecast, for the oil platforms, if not for Galveston and Houston, which on the current predicted track are in the position of Biloxi and Gulf Port, which decidedly not a good place to be.

62 posted on 09/19/2005 8:14:32 PM PDT by El Gato
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