Top hurricane forecasters see "hell of a year"

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/26/10 | Tom Brown

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Again???

This is about the 17th year in a row.

And wrong every time.

[melancholy]

The storm surge is way more likely to bring in a lot of oil than it being picked up by rain would.

You're right.

I didn't mean or suggest that all or even most of the oil would be airborne. I meant that some oil/toxic dispersant from this huge oil spill would be picked up by hurricane force wind. The hurricane would act like a huge centrifugal vacuum filter.

In industry, to separate solids from liquid in slurry, the heavier solid particles are deposited on the wall of a drum rotating at high speeds, creating the centrifugal force. The same principle could be at work in a hurricane swirling at high speed (the drum) and the wall is at the eye of the hurricane. The rotating wind velocity acts as a giant agitator kicking more oil/dispersant that creeps up the wall from the water surface due to reduced pressure at higher elevations (vacuum effect.)

The oil/dispersant droplets (solids) will be carried toward land and come down when the hurricane , hits land, wind velocity reduced thus weakening the centrifugal force and that results in dropping the heavy hydrocarbons on areas in the hurricane's path.

The only thing that could reduce or maybe eliminate this scenario is to immediately burn as much as possible of the oil spill while the Gulf is calm.

[metmom]

The area the eye wall goes over will be in the worst trouble.

I sure hope they burn off what they can and try to mop up the rest.

There was a thread about that some time ago.

Hay, the quicker picker upperer! (oil remedy)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2507615/posts

[melancholy]

Thanks for the link. From the link:

Answer, hay and bahia grass.

Not enough, the soaked hay should be burned so it doesn't float or suspend under the surface. Fish will be affected and storms will keep bring it to shores everywhere for a very long time.

Just sayin' :-)

[melancholy]

keep bring————>bring

[metmom]

I didn’t think it would get it all, but it does look pretty effective.

They were talking about scooping it up and burning it.

[metmom]

They sounded like they had thought of different scenarios for recovering the oil soaked hay.

[melancholy]

It's much cheaper to burn In Situ.

[Elle Bee]

The royal poincianas are giving us a particularly beautiful show but they say when they're this red we're in for a memorable hurracane season. They havent been like this since '05 ..... keep your fingers crossed

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