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Posted on 08/22/2012 1:47:19 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Tropical Storm Isaac threatens to dampen the Republican National Convention Monday in Tampa, Florida. National media outlets are having a grand time anticipating a Grand Old Party washout. Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn (D) announced Wednesday that he is absolutely prepared to call off the convention next week, with anticipated attendance of 70,000 delegates, party officials, journalists, protesters and others. Buckhorn has not indicated that he would attempt to mitigate liberal protests or a hastily planned Joe "Plugs" Biden visit to Tampa during the convention.
Time will tell. Stay tuned...
Sea Surface Temps
Buoy Data:
Caribbean W. Carib and Florida
Radar:
Puerto Rico Gitmo, Cuba, Key West & Tampa Bay
IIRC the owner, CEO or whatever he is, of TWC is Republican....he’s a total Global Warming denier too...
Detailed analysis in the 5AM NHC Isaac Discussion (link at top of thread).
Very cool. Does this represent max sustained winds or gusts?
Thanks!
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Just enough hurricane to chase away the lefties, not enough hurricane to mess up the R convention.
Go God Go!
Two Flags up at NOAA on White Street at 8:00am
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Thanks for your local updates!
I thought NBC owned TWC.
How ironic would it be if it hit Galveston.
If you go somewhere and pull the putative track for the Galveston storm this one isn’t too dissimilar from it. THAT would be a nightmare. You just *think* gas prices are awful now. That path would take out most oil/gas production wells in the gulf for a while. Not to mention Port Fourchon LOOP.
I am glad others have noticed the agenda driven coverage of TWC. I am afraid they have put millions of people in danger in their sole focus to get the republicans to cancel the convention. I found it most strange that as soon as they cancelled Monday...the storm models took the storm on a more western track. Call me paranoid, but there is no doubt that TWC is playing politics here with people’s lives.
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Looks like the Hors d'oeuvre are being served...
Next they will use the threat of it hitting NOLA to call on the republicans to cancel altogether. After all, how can those evil republicans have a convention when near the anniversary of Katrina, another hurricane is headed that way.
I can hear it already. So sad that we can not even trust our weather scientists anymore because they are so biased.
TWC sucks but they don’t do the models do they? Just report on them.
But does anybody else find it HILARIOUS to see WC reporters wearing full head to toe bad weather gear while regular folks frolic in the background in bathing suits and shorts?
TWC doesn't control the operation of numerical weather prediction models, they are operated by multiple organizations within the National Weather Service, the Navy, Canada, the UK, and a European consortium.
The models are changing and NHC is moving the track because of aircraft reconnaissance ingesting more accurate data. To deliberately manipulate the raw model output would require an international conspiracy of simply breathtaking scope, and I doubt that as much as one neuron of anyone at the National Hurricane Center has had a political thought in the last week.
Any suggestion otherwise is the ultimate in conspiracy nut idiocy.
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