Posted on 05/28/2016 1:47:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The 2016 tropical storm season is making its mark with an unusually early start. Tropical Storm Bonnie promises to wash out coastal plans for the Carolina coast.
Good to see ya NN!
bkmk
Already to “B,” I must’ve missed the first named storm?
Hurricane season officially starts June 1st, so I wouldn't really call this "unusually early".
Good to see you back tracking the storms.
This superstorm is boasting killer winds of up to 40 MPH! How long before a state of emergency is declared along the East Coast? ((When did little tropical storms start getting their own names?))
Well, I sure do not feel like being a storm. : )
When the weather channel decided to count the number of storms so they could push their “climate change” agenda.
“There’s a snowfall over Cleveland, let’s name it”, kinda thing.
Hurricane Alex was the first Atlantic hurricane in January since Alice in 1955, and the first to form in the month since 1938. Alex originated as an extratropical cyclone near the Bahamas on January 7, 2016. The system initially traveled northeast, passing Bermuda on January 8, before turning southeast. It subsequently deepened and acquired hurricane-force winds by January 10. Slight weakening took place thereafter, and the system eventually turned east and northeast as it acquired tropical characteristics. On January 13, it developed into a subtropical cyclone well south of the Azores, becoming the first tropical or subtropical system during January in the North Atlantic since an unnamed storm in 1978. As it turned north-northeast, Alex transitioned into a full-fledged tropical cyclone on January 14 and became a hurricane. The storm peaked as a Category 1 on the SaffirSimpson hurricane wind scale with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a barometric pressure of 981 mbar (hPa; 28.97 inHg). After weakening slightly, Alex made landfall on Terceira Island as a tropical storm the next day. Concurrently, Alex began transitioning back into an extratropical cyclone; it completed this cycle hours after moving away from the Azores. The system ultimately merged with another extratropical cyclone over the Labrador Sea on January 17.
Welcome home!
“This superstorm is boasting killer winds of up to 40 MPH!”
Incredible ! :-)
Soon they will be showing supermarket lines with folks stocking up on batteries and some poor fool standing on a beach,microphone in hand. showing us some trees moving.
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I know I and our Florida freepers will be watching your data and projection posts regularly.
Leni
Dontcha know rain with a name is more dramatic? Everyone has seen thunderstorms with higher wind and more rain but they gotta hype EVERYTHING for air time. Even the local news here in the N.O. area leads out with “possible hurricane forming.!!.” Later they mention its in the Atlantic and won’t affect us. Minor detail. Then you’ll have people who think they’ve experinced a dangerous storm so they will shrug off future storms. Weather service credibility is gone. Its gotten to where ANY weather that isnt calm and sunny is a serious event. Evacuation from thunderstorms would be advised...IF they could accurately predict them.
I’m currently taking odds on whether any land-based weather station will record tropical storm strength winds for T.S. Bonnie. Remember last year when T.S. Ana made landfall in South Carolina. T.S. Ana reportedly had 45 m.p.h. winds at landfall, but no land-based station recorded tropical storm force winds at all.
>>Everyone has seen thunderstorms with higher wind and more rain but they gotta hype EVERYTHING for air time.
Well, to be technical, the big afternoon thunderstorm is pushed through by a front in a single direction and here in Florida, they can get pretty violent. A tropical storm has a center of rotation. Now, a couple years ago when they were trying to inflate the numbers for Global Warming purposes, they did name some tropical depressions.
I follow you regular on here. It’s interesting here in North East Florida one of local stations doing what liberals do tried to point out we are over due for one here. Last one to “hit” here was Donna back in like 1964...so they are just trying to make waves...but I will follow your posts here... and appreciate what you do..because living in Florida we have to keep one eye on the weather...
For your freepers out there...spaghettimodels. com is a great sight. Don’t know if he is a freeper but he has all kinds of data up during hurricane season as well as some cool radars and stuff.
Freegards
LEX
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