Tropical Storm Warning Issued for Caymans

ABC News & The Associated Press ^ | October 15, 2005 | Jay Ehrhart

[bd476]

This NOAA satellite image taken
Saturday, October 15, 2005 at
14:15 EDT shows an area of
disturbed weather near Jamaica.
As of the time of this image,
a tropical depression has not
formed, but further development
is expected as the system
becomes better organized.
The storm may develop into
a tropical storm by Monday.
(AP Photo/NOAA)

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Ok....we need the picture with the guy and " Oh, no . Not this Sh*t again!"

[sageb1]

I am just willing it to dissipate. It will work. Because WE CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE! ~sigh

[Stoat]

This is so very sad....I had one of my best vacations ever on Cayman Brac a few years ago. Beautiful, idyllic island and wonderful people. There's a big cave near the center of the island that many of the people go to when there's a big storm coming, so they're pretty experienced at dealing with this kind of thing. They won't be having the crime problems that New Orleans did.....from memory I recall that the island is just a few miles long and very skinny. Three policemen are there who share one police car, such is the level of crime. When I asked a local lady in the village about crime there she said "oh, you need to look out for that bad boy on the bicycle over there."

Little Cayman is even smaller with even less population and infrastructure.


Grand Cayman is the much more heavily-populated island and has much more infrastructure, and so there's more to be damaged.

[dc-zoo]

Let's just "wish it away" like in the Twilight Zone movie.

[bd476]

Tropical Depression TWENTY-FOUR Public Advisory

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000
WTNT34 KNHC 160242
TCPAT4
BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWENTY-FOUR ADVISORY NUMBER 2
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 PM EDT SAT OCT 15 2005

...Slowly moving Depression gradually organizing in the Western
Caribbean...

At 11 PM EDT...0300z...The Government of the Cayman Islands has
issued a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch for all of
the Cayman Islands. A Tropical Storm Warning means that Tropical
Storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the
next 24 hours. A Hurricane Watch means that hurricane conditions
are possible within the Watch area...generally within 36 hours.

For storm information specific to your area...including possible
inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued
by your local weather office.

At 11 PM EDT...0300z...The center of Tropical Depression Twenty-Four
was located near Latitude 17.0 North... Longitude 79.0 West or
about 215 miles... 345 KM... Southeast of Grand Cayman and about
125 Miles... 205 KM...Southwest of Montego Bay Jamaica.

The Depression is moving toward the Southwest near 3 MPH... 6
KM/Hr... and this general motion is expected to continue during the
next 24 Hours.

Maximum sustained winds are near 30 MPH... 45 KM/Hr... with higher
gusts. Some strengthening is forecast... and the depression could
become a Tropical Storm on Sunday.

Estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 MB...29.62 inches.

The depression is expected to produce rainfall of 3 to 5 onches over
The Cayman Islands and Jamaica... with isolated totals of 6 To 10
inches possible.

Repeating the 11 PM EDT position...17.0 N... 79.0 W. movement
toward...Southwest near 3 MPH. Maximum sustained
winds... 30 MPH. Minimum central pressure...1003 MB.

An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane
Center at 2 AM EDT followed by the next complete Advisory At 5 AM
EDT.

Forecaster Knabb


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[bd476]

Hopefully the storm will not strengthen.

[bd476]

LOL, that's also covered in Art Bell territory.

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[bd476]

XRP, thanks for the map but could you please request your very
large graphic be removed and then repost a smaller image
using html code reducing code?

Example (just remove the spaces):

< img height = 400 img width = 600 img src = " ">

[xrp]

If you don't like it, just right click the image and choose "block image". This is available in Firefox. If you don't use Firefox, then you're up the creek without a paddle, FRiend!

[bd476]

I don't think I'm the only one still using Internet Explorer, am I?

That graphic is huge and slows down loading.

[libtoken]

The GFS claims the West Coast of FL should watch out for this sometime overnight on Friday/Saturday.

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/gfs/06/images/gfs_p06_144l.gif

[Fawn]

South florida has been very lucky this year.......

[Labyrinthos]

The only other time that many storms have formed since record keeping began 154 years ago was in 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president and the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression.

How does anyone really know if the "only other time" was in 1933? There were no hurricane hunters, no satellites and, no data collection buoys scattered around the earth. Record keeping was based upon what was seen by human eyes and therefore if someone didn't see it, then it could not exist.

[xrp]

That graphic is huge and slows down loading.

The size of the image by its dimensions has nothing to do with how long it takes to load. Filesize (bytes) is what affects that. If I resized it and halved the dimensions, say taking it from 800x600 to 400x300, the filesize remains the same -- say at 800,000 bytes. For instance, I could link an image that is 100x100 that is 1,200,000 bytes that would load MUCH slower than an image that is 1200x1200 and 350,000 bytes.

[bd476]

XRP, I am sorry for requesting that your image be removed.

Thank you for taking the time to offer a detailed explanation, XRP. :-)

Your explanation was very interesting and the first time I have heard that reducing the size of a graphic has no affect upon the time it takes to load.

Logically it would seem that a smaller image would contain fewer bytes. Then again, the code < img src is simply a link to an image on another site.

(Confirming what you said:)Then the unaltered (not resized) link from a requesting site to a graphic on another site has no affect upon on the length of loading time of that unaltered image on the requesting site.

And it is only size of a graphic image which can be controlled on the requesting site, in this case, here on FR, by including img height = and image width = in the < img src = " code.

Clarifying Is it the intensity of an image in terms of color, black/white contrast or sharpness of lettering which is dependent upon the number of bytes in an image?

Thank you again, XRP.