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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2009 21:02:35 GMT
There's practically nothing happening in the Atlantic this year. Is it all building up for a big splurge in September and October?
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Post by spindrift on Aug 4, 2009 22:00:51 GMT
Is it? Is that the season for hurricanes? I don't know anything about hurricanes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2009 15:04:35 GMT
Is that why the US is having a heat wave? That should affect Europe as well, right?
There are no Pacific storms building either. It's the storms that build off the coast of Oaxaca that bring rain here. We're in the midst of the rainy season, yet also in the midst of a drought. We got a somewhat decent rainfall yesterday, but it's been brutal here.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2009 15:40:11 GMT
There was a piece in Thursday's paper here about this,didn't read. But,the headline read something along the lines of a lower than average season. Will try to rustle it up.
It is still early yet, and I will leave it at that.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 9, 2009 22:18:40 GMT
Where or where are our monsoons?
They've gone away, what do we say,
to have them come back and give us some
relief
from this mindless heat??? Do we shriek,
do we dance, do we just throw up our hands
and turn on the fans? Do we strip and fall into
the pool, just to try and stay cool? I don't know
what else to do,but end on this line and go get
another glass of wine.
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 10, 2009 4:06:18 GMT
The typhoon season has started here.
But they're all going north from the Philippines instead of west.
We haven't had rain for 10 days and it's getting hot again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 11:08:00 GMT
I'll send some your way hw. Daily monsoons,yesterday X2.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 13:47:01 GMT
Did anybody see that hotel in Taiwan collapse into the water?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 10, 2009 14:04:33 GMT
I just saw the news story about Taiwan. This story is from a half hour ago. It has a video of the hotel collapse. And another storm has slammed into Japan. |
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 11, 2009 2:39:43 GMT
I saw it too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 2:41:46 GMT
Mr. C. and I saw it this evening. God,it looked like a toy village. So weird and scary.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 14:58:29 GMT
First named tropical storm of the season,Ana,out in the Atlantic.Way too soon to tell which way she'll blow. Behind her a much,much larger system yet to organize itself.
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Post by cristina on Aug 16, 2009 2:19:29 GMT
Where or where are our monsoons? They've gone away, what do we say, to have them come back and give us some relief from this mindless heat??? Do we shriek, do we dance, do we just throw up our hands and turn on the fans? Do we strip and fall into the pool, just to try and stay cool? I don't know what else to do,but end on this line and go get another glass of wine. This was a cute poem! We had a monsoonish-like storm 2 nights ago, the only storm I have seen this summer (although there might have been one or two while I was away for a week last month.) DD lives in Tucson, and according to her, it appears you all have had far more rain than we have. We have had so many days where we wake up thinking that it will rain...but then are disappointed.  I am so done with summer. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2009 5:20:17 GMT
T63 -- more hidden talent! I caught myself desperately wishing the other day that a storm would build off the coast, then realized I was mentally calling down devastation on another populace so that we could get some rain.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 11:29:33 GMT
It's supposed to be a terrible year for El Niño, so there should be tons of devastation everywhere -- particularly in Asia, where it has already begun.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 12:26:43 GMT
Tropical Storm # 2,Bill,big. I may end up going to N.Y. much sooner then intended but then,where I'll be the bulk of the time is also one of the most vulnerable,prone areas for hurricane hits.  |
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 16, 2009 12:58:41 GMT
Thanks Bixa
I am always a little leery of weather predictions because you have to be careful what you wish for. Hurricane season has been quiet this year so far but hopefully it won't make up for it later. Monsoon rain in Tucson is hard t predict because the office count is at the airport and boy can that be off as different areas get more or less rain. I have actually seen it rain on one side of the street and the sun will be out on the other! Also, there have been many times when the TV weatherman or woman would say no chance of rain and while we have been watching it is raining in our area.+
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 13:53:47 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2009 14:37:02 GMT
What does the angle with the x in it and the word "four" above it mean?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 14:47:43 GMT
What does the angle with the x in it and the word "four" above it mean? That is Tropical Depression #4 and the area that is under a watch or warning. If it develops into a Tropical Storm it will be #3,Claudette. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 18:38:35 GMT
Big round of applause to Claudette! It's hard to become a storm when you're stuck in a corner.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 20:11:26 GMT
K, that map you've been posting is from France or somewhere in Europe.? Do y'all refer to all hurricanes as cyclones? They're never referred to as cyclones here.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 20:18:06 GMT
Errrr... I get all of this from the U.S. government site which calls them by the official meteorological name while still deferring to the 'hurricane' word for its principal audience. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 20:21:25 GMT
Errrr,didn't realize that 'cyclone' was the official meteorological name. Thanks.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2009 2:22:11 GMT
I tell you what -- if I'm going to get wiped out by a meteorological event, I'd certainly prefer that it be named Claudette rather than Bill. Bill is just so un-hurricaney
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 17, 2009 4:31:04 GMT
Agree with you Bixa, it is kind of a ho- hum name. Matter of fact, who comes up with the list anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 13:15:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 18:17:30 GMT
Tropical Storm Bill upgraded to Hurricane Bill this a.m. and is strengthening.
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Post by jazzbo on Aug 20, 2009 20:43:38 GMT
If there are going to be any more hurricanes this season, I'd just as soon they stay in the Atlantic with Bill. I wouldn't want to go through another season like 2004, and that was cake compared to what New Orleans went through in 2005.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2009 20:50:14 GMT
Not only will there be more hurricanes, but they will all drift across the Atlantic and become major rainstorms or tempests in Europe in a week or two.
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