Re: Hurricane Humberto

On Sep 15, 2:06 am, David Buttery <rabbit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Phil Layton" <t3...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:5l09d8F5noo1U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

When I read on the BBC website this morning that oil prices had
reached a record high due to a Hurricane going through Texas... well I
assumed there must have been something like a tornado or such....
well, Humberto developed quickly and went ashore as a Cat 1
Hurricane.. by Galveston - so it shows you can believe some of the
things you read in the press!!... TS Ingrid also current E of the
Leeward Is but is expected to remain in open waters and not develop.

Phil

According to the National Hurricane Center:

"NO TROPICAL CYCLONE IN THE HISTORICAL RECORD HAS EVER REACHED THIS
INTENSITY AT A FASTER RATE NEAR LANDFALL:"

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al09/al092007.discus.006.shtml?

(I wonder when the NHC will discover lower-case letters...)

Instead of attenuation, we have been watching the concatenation of
Humberto whilst expecting the arrival of Ingrid as a mother expletive
dilated. Ties in nicely with the severe goings on on the other side of
the world. But what in the world of meteorology explains the
phenomenon?

Or is there a touch of the moon involved here?

Meanwhile:

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constraints of our current hardware resources, we are reducing some of
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Effective October 1, 2007:
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We will continue to generate 250-meter true color (bands 1-4-3)
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We will no longer generate Level-3 GIS-compatible images ("Subsets")
at 500-meter resolution as part of our back-end production, but we
will provide a new capability for web users to generate 500-meter
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Seems a shame but I have not developed a use for their data bank yet.
Pity if I do, what?

Anyone know of an archive source for tornadoes? Not on topic for this
group really as any such a thing will most likely be in the US&A but
rumours persist about mini tornadoes.

.

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