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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
Serious question for the thread.
Is The Weather Channel guilty of massive over-hype on this storm? Could they be accused of incessantly yelling “hurricane” and trying to panic everyone?
How close are they to the classic definition of unprotected speech - “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater”?
Abb, you know as well as anyone a storm can be very undecided as to what it will do. It could stall and build, change last minute direction, anything could happen when it comes to tropical weather. back in the early 80’s, they downplayed Alicia as a minimal storm and basicly just a rain maker. Well that sure changed didn’t it.So I really don’t mind the hype .
Thank you, I feel the same way... Too much hype better than no hype...
Thank you, I feel the same way... Too much hype better than no hype...
Time will tell whether my old, reliable tropical storm resource wunderground.com succumbs to Weather Channel hype following their acquisition July 2012.
Is The Weather Channel guilty of massive over-hype on this storm? Could they be accused of incessantly yelling “hurricane” and trying to panic everyone?
How close are they to the classic definition of unprotected speech - “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater”?
( Geez, my HTML Skilz are rusty...)
It's what they do to sell their product- weather. Here on the coast every TV station flies a reporter & crew to wherever whatever storm is coming so they can film them blowing around in wind & rain.
It has always looked kind of foolish to me- but it's what they do.
105 miles SSE of the mouth of the Mississippi River
185 mi SSE of Biloxi, MS
Moving NW at 7mph
Sustained winds 70mph, 976mb
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here--> 
"Data buoy 42363 had sustained 62kts at 4 am. You trying to tell me that this doesnt have hurricane winds around it somewhere?"
The path has it hitting L just west of New Orleans, putting NO on the strong side of the storm. Hopefully most of the intelligent people have left NO by now.
The big drop in forward speed is not good news. This means one of two things:
1. (Most likely) It stays on current course and pounds the coast for 24-48 hours (or more)
or
2. It is getting ready to change direction (possibly to a more northerly course).
Most of the models have predicted #1 with only a couple outliers predicting #2.
will obama break down?
let's hope it becomes the storm that never happens
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Right: mentioned yesterday that the Euro model had the thing thrashing the coastline for at least 24 hours before getting a foothold inland. This is not good at all, and will severely test the levees, pumps, and everything else.... no matter what the wind speeds end up at.
Saw video clip yesterday of workers covering a bare earthen levee with plastic sheeting, weighed down with sporadic sandbags. Eeesh.
Last evening’s Euro run now has landfall quite a bit west - west of Morgan City even - then pushing further west as it encounters the coast. However, it now looks to be the ‘outlier’ as almost every other model brings it in tonight within 25 miles of the center of NO.... at the current speed of 7-8 mph.
If I were behind that levee.... I’m leaving!
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