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Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record
vekron writes "Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. This is the first time the U.S National Hurricane Center has resorted to using the Greek alphabet since it began naming tropical cyclones in 1953. The previous record of 21 named storms had stood since 1933. Alpha was the 22nd to reach tropical storm strength this year, and the season doesn't end until November 30. At 8 p.m. EDT, Alpha was 70 miles south of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Tropical storm warnings have been posted for the entire coastline of the Dominican Republic and Haiti and for the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The storm is moving northwest at about 15 mph with winds at the center of 40 mph and is expected to make landfall late Saturday or early Sunday. The National Hurricane Center is tracking this storm; it is offering updates about its development as an RSS feed."
Tropical Storm Aleph?
The 21 names! They do nothing!
What is the bigger picture here? Are the storms greater in frequency, lesser in magnitude? There's 2 months left in the traditional "storm season", but the last 2 months rarely have more storms (as gauged by the NWS page). Anyone with background able to comment?
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Alpha? pfft That is just the beginning, when hurrican Omega is on the the way, I will start to worry.
If you start spouting off about global warming now, on either side, Zonk wins.
When they said "we'll have to use Greek letters if we run out", I assumed that they meant "use Greek names starting with the appropriate letters" (and use the Greek letters themselves as the single-character symbols on maps). Names "Athena", "Basileus", "Chronos", "Dionysus", etc. would have been really neat for tropical storms, and they'd have helped to make people more familiar with classical mythology as well.
But no, apparently they're just using the Greek letters themselves. Quite apart from being unimaginative... what happens if Hurricane Epsilon is particularly destructive and NOAA decides to retire the name? They can hardly retire a letter of the Greek alphabet.
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Now this is going to be very unpopular, but here's my little conundrum....
America considers itself to be 'God's own country' and in particular the bible belt in the heartland of America believes this to be true. Now traditionally speaking, Hurricanes, Tornados, floods etc are considered to be 'Acts of God' so can someone please explain to me why these people who live in areas which are flattened year after year by 'Acts of God' don't actually start wondering if they're doing something to cause all these 'Acts of God'? I mean just read the Bible, there's chapter after chapter of destruction caused by God on the infidels and these people talk about the Bible every Sunday, have to evacuate their trailer park at least once a year and they still don't put two and two together?
Me? I don't believe a damn of it but if you say you believe in God and your home gets trashed annually by 'Acts of God', please consider that it could just be because of the way you/your nation behaves......
But why did they start using the Greek Alphabet? I mean there are more then 21 names ( Rita , Katrina etc. ) so why not just continue naming them the same way?
Just adding MALE names would give you atleast 20 more easy names. Why are storm names female? I suppose it comes from the old days when only men worked as sailors , and thus named everything female.
Someone with a bit of backround in the thema can help , maybe?
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We really should be worried. The real test will be next year: if there are an enormous number of hurricanes then as well, we probably have a pattern. That's when the political shit really hits the fan (and gets swept up and distributed across the Gulf).
They can't come up with names beginning with X, Y, and Z.
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Not since 1933(!) has there been 21 storms worthy of a name of its own! This year passed that. So, there was almost a global warming problem in 1933. Darn those T-Fords!
Nature works in intervals. We got a warmer period now. It'll be colder again soon enough.
And if I'm wrong, I've probably died from skin cancer before you can hold me up to it. =D
I heard a news commentary last night that seemed reasonably well informed to me. They said that the frequency of tropical storms (i.e. the reason they're running out of names at the moment) varies in a natural cycle which is probably not noticeably affected by temperature. On the other hand, the severity of the storms is directly a function of their energy, which they get from warm tropical water, which is directly affected by temperature.
If this is true and if global temperatures are affected by CO2 emissions, then human activity is probably causing these storms to be (on the average) more severe.
While I feel sympathy for the poor bastards suffering in NOLA and elsewhere, I feel it's a good thing that Katrina is making Americans sit up and think about possible connections between environmental cause and meteorological effect. It's human nature to tend not to think much about things that don't affect one personally. I wonder how GWB's stance on emissions would be affected if a storm were to dismantle his ranch in Crawford?
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Seems to me that we've just gotten better at finding the storms. I'm not sure that they've gotten that much more frequent. They didn't have satellites, radar, stormchasing planes, etc. until fairly recently. How many storms were missed?
... because we're going to need that money to pay for all the storm damage we've been getting lately...
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
It's easy for the literalists:
If God Fearin' folk get hit by natural disasters, it's just like in Job and their faith is being tested.
If Godless goat sodomising strangers get hit by natural disasters, they are evil and are being righteously punished for their sins.
Simple eh?
Fortunaately most Godbotherers are intelligent enough to understand that if you chose to live in a hurricane zone, you will get the occassional hurricane.
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Of course it should be the from the futhark. After all, who were more acqainted to rough seas than vikings! The aleph comes from a desolate desert.
Alpha was the 22nd to reach tropical storm strength this year, and the season doesn't end until November 30.
Aren't there, like, 25 or 26 letters, something like that? And no, I will not RTFA (read the fucking alphabet) - it's early on a Sunday morning.
I can imagine only a handful of things more moronic than naming storms. If you had a baby girl early this year and named her Katrina, which meteorological naming organization do you sue?
And can anyone remember the name of the third storm in 2003? I can, it was 2003-3. They should just number them. The Japanese number their typhoons, and everyone can refer to them once they've passed. I suppose you could give North American hurricanes letter codes: K instead of Katrina. But numbers are better than letters. The set of whole numbers contains significantly more than 26 members, certainly enough for any hurricane season before Armageddon.
And yes, there are definitions based on which hemisphere a storm originates in, where it's headed etc, but lettered prefixes can solve that.
I hope hurricane Beta is extremely powerful. Then I can say "Wow... That Hurricane must have been really buggy..."
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I'm not sure, but I think the grandparent was sarcastic. If I had GWB in front of me and I wanted to make him understand that there might be a connection between hurricanes and human behavior, that's exactly what I would say to him, even if I don't personally believe in God. I mean, GWB is way too stupid to acknowledge scientific facts.
Well, I don't even think 'sarcasm' is the right term. More like when you try to explain something to a child and use metaphors because the plain thruth is just too much for them, like explaining that one of their relatives is dead.
perception is reality
Well, bear in mind that the heartland of the United States has been subject to the worst weather on the planet for as far back as anyone knows. Take a look here, for example, a map of tornado hits. From the link: "The United States has the dubious distinction of having the most severe, damaging tornadoes of any country in the world."
It's also the case that the US Gulf Coast is arguably the only highly-industrialized, high-population piece of the First World to have been so regularly pummeled by hurricanes in this century. And let's not even talk about minor problems like lightning, which whacks a hundred or so people a year, and for which Florida is the worst place to be outside of central Africa and atop mountains.
I've lived in the American Midwest (Colorado and Illinois). They're a tough breed. You don't stay if you're scared of big storms, or worry that they're a personal message from God.
Alpha's "only" a tropical storm, but the latest track forecast has it going right over Haiti.
From what I understand of Haiti, if it's edible or burnable, it's been eaten or burned - so there's virtually no tree cover left in some places. The wind isn't the problem; I worry that the rainfall will bring flooding, mudslides and mass death.
Florida will be fine. Haiti? I'm worried.
Is that or ? (capital Alpha or small Alpha)
Not to mention the extra equipment we'll need to measure the growing Greenland ice coverage.
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It looks like there is still plenty to come.
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More storms flowing off the Sahara.
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Okey doke. I've mostly got no bone to pick with that.
But do let me note I didn't say they in the Midwest are tougher than others, just that they are a tough lot. I agree every place has its hardships, but the response of people who live there varies. Some are whiners and some just get on with life. When I compare my neighbors in the Midwest with my regrettable neighbors in LA, I think the former look pretty good.
I didn't think my post was entirely unrelated to the question. The point was to suggest that worrying about whether your weather is a personal message from God is rather a narcissist weenie kind of thing to do, and folks who routinely survive such weather are probably not the sort to be doing it. I hope I'm clearer now.
I was in Eastern Colorado, so I'm going to go with Midwest. People on the western slope sure didn't seem to consider us real Westerners, and having spent a smidge of traveling time in Nevada and Utah I kind of agree. On the other hand, calling coastal Californians "westerners" is plain ludicrous, so what can I say? It's probably just a state of mind.
People who live in areas frequented by natural disasters have a greater tendency to believe in god, gods or other mythic beings. You have to remember that the average IQ is around 100, that's pretty dumb really, so it's easier to attribute chance, natural disasters, anything detrimental outwith their control to mythical beings than it is to try to analyse the real reasons for them and to do something about it.
We'll see them sacrificing money, posessions in order to attempt to appease their particular deities over the coming months. Church memberships will increase, as will takings. Politics will take a turn to the conservative, the literal word of the bible becoming even more important.
It's a good time to start a religion or to use one to influence people.
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Thr's on lttr in nglish that's usd far too frquntly. Prhaps w could rtir it instad. (I know, you'r talking about storms, but work with m hr.)
IAAM (I Am a Meteorologist), and I don't understand why there is so much confusion on the naming convention.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
"Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained and updated by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization. The lists featured only women's names until 1979, when men's and women's names were alternated. Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010. Here is more information on the history of naming hurricanes."
You don't have letters like Q or X because you really don't have a large pool of names to draw from (equally male and female). Once a NAME is retired, it is never used again. A LETTER is NEVER retired (though I'm not sure what they would do if a an Alpha or Beta was retired).
Names alternate male-female. The beginning sex alternates each year. The first storm this year was Arlene, the first one next year will be Alberto.
To avoid losing the name "alpha", they add "05" (the year) to the name if they retire it. The retired name would be "alpha05".
This is the first time the U.S National Hurricane Center has resorted to using the Greek alphabet since it began naming tropical cyclones in 1953. The previous record of 21 named storms had stood since 1933.
Am I reading this wrong, or is that a typo? If they did not start naming storms until 1953, how were there 21 NAMED storms in 1933? Did they go back and name the ones in the past?
Keep in mind that the records only go back to the early 1900s when the hall of records was mysteriously blown away.
Why is anything anything?
Hurricane Pepsi has strengthened to a "category 5 delicous" and is expected to be refreshing residents of the Florida coast by early Tuesday morning.
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Tornados, Hurricanes, Floods, Freak Thundershowers that kill are NOT "Acts of God". Being a Catholic (the one true religion of God), these are acts of evil which God ALLOWS as part of his divine providence. Why, you ask? Because it draws his people closer to him. Everything, in the world, that destroys serves one of two purposes to God: 1.) testing those faithful to Him 2.) warning those who choose not to know Him
I am a member of what most of you would call a 'fundamentalist' religion, probably
'very fundamentalist' - one which is often made fun of here.
We believe that hurricanes and tornadoes are caused by disturbances in the atmosphere -
a purely physical phenomenon.
Being hit by one is the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which
is sometimes due to your own foolishness, other times just an accident. Choosing to live in a place where such things occur is your own decision.
Predjudice is never justified, especially when it is based on ignorance.
Get a clue, slashdoters.
However, if we have THAT many tropical storms in a year, we will have more to worry about than nomenclature.
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We now have 24x7 coverage of pretty much the entire world. We didn't have that until recently, and we certainly didn't have it the last time whatever hurricane cycle there may be might have peaked.
And all these "super strong" storms? They all seem to be really strong out in the middle of the ocean, and weaken right before they hit.
Maybe hurricanes have done that all the time, and it wasn't until now that we could track them well enough to notice that.
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Hmm. Might wanna check out The Bible. Many things about the Catholic (and the sibling Eastern Orthodox) faith do not hold up when scrutinized.
Like, I dunno, try the laws & customs of the Pharisees (e.g. more intent on ritual than God's word). Try Mark 7:9, Gal 5:4, Isa 29:13. The RCC adds to The Bible their own laws, which is specifically against Christ's teachings.
Or how 'bout Jesus stating not to call anyone "Father" except God?
Or why is it that you pray to Mary? The following timeline is how the RCC came to view Mary -- not how The Bible relates her. Here again, "man's law", not God's.
* 431AD - Mary Worship began
* 600 - prayers directed to Mary (Ave Maria added in 1508)
* 995 - canonization of saints
* 1854 - immaculate conception of Mary (her sinlessness)
* 1950 - assumption of Mary (she never died)
* 1954 - Mary proclaimed Queen of Heaven
* 1965 - Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church
* 1980 - Mary proclaimed Spouse of the Holy Spirit
Mary is not the mediator, as the RCC would have you to believe by praying to her. Try 1 Tim 2:5. And Matt 6:7-8. And Matt 6:9-13 -- does Christ anywhere in here tell us to pray via a mediator such as Mary? Additionally, Mary confirmed that she herself was a sinner in need of a Savior.
How is it that your priest "forgives" you?
These are but a few of the "issues" with the RCC.
But then, there was a recent survey which found that Catholics are the least likely of the major Christian faiths to actively read and study The Bible. Which is also "not a good thing". Please do not fool yourself into thinking a ritualistic, ceremonial act is going to get you much. You are saved by grace alone through Christ.
I'm not judging you, we all have our issues. I am only responding because of your "the one true religion of God" statement. Matt 16:18 does not, IMO, establish the Catholic church as the one true religion. Peter himself declares the rock to be Christ in Acts 4:11-12 (not him, as you would believe).
Remember that the various Christian denominations were created by man...
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from Alpha, to Omega. :) God, please shove these turds away. :P
Jesus Christ was a heretic, preaching about false gods. All these storms are punishment for not performing the annual human sacrifice to Tezcatlipoca.
It seems like there were some anger management classes sometime after the flood.
Or you're not linearizing the timescales right. There were 16.5 centuries of human history before the flood, about 24 from the flood to the ministry of Christ, and roughly 45 centuries since. Have you looked up each major act of God in the Bible and in secular sources and noted the number of acts of God in each of the six biblical millennia?
Why not put 10,000 names in a hat (or a computer) and just pick one at random? Why does it have to be based on the alphabet? And why do they have to go to the next letter after each storm? I mean, is there an adevantage to this weird naming scheme? Do the storms care?
explaining why a being that is supposedly omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent permits suffering to happen
Easy. Earth is currently used as a stress test environment for souls, which are created defective but can repair themselves by accepting grace through faith. Those that pass the stress test go to heaven, and those that fail are tossed in the landfill. Allowing souls to remain defective yet still pass wouldn't be "benevolent" for anyone involved.
He even provides links to back himself up.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
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Free will is horseshit. My free will sayeth : I will now fly around the room in my jimjams. It doesn't happen.
"Free will" is not the same as omnipotence. "Free will" never once meant the ability to violate laws of physics because you "willed" it, etc. The concept of a "free will" means that an individual can choose his own course of (in)action within the limitations already present. It is this concept of free will that both causes such things as the D.C. "sniper" situation... and the lack of similar events happening everywhere else on a daily basis.
But I'm willing to bet that fundamentalist Christians in the US will just say that it's because the existence of sin in the US i.e. homosexuality, the teaching of evolution, etc.
The teaching of evolution is not always a lie, as mainstream creationists such as myself believe in microevolution. The gist is that the Lord God created the animals according to their kind, which is broader than a "genus" but possibly more narrow than a "family". God created animals with genes for all sorts of niches such that through natural selection, descendant generations could cast off those genes that proved unhelpful in a given niche. This led to the genera and species we knew today. The teaching of mold to monkey to man macro-evolution, on the other hand, is considered a sin.
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Good luck to you in your journey.
If this is just an isolated problem, and next year things go "back to normal" (?), keeping the actual naming system will be not so bad, but what about if things goes from bad to even worse next year? The cities/countries around caribe/mexican gulf would need to be somewhat permanently evacuated? or rebuilt in a way they could resist or not be so damaged by big hurricanes?
Just a quote from the article you linked, so your comment is not taken out of context:
However, they said that the thickening seemed consistent with theories of global warming, blamed by most experts on a build-up of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.
Warmer air, even if it is still below freezing, can carry more moisture. That extra moisture falls as snow below 32 Fahrenheit.
American media ist entirely in the hands of the rally big amerikkkan kapitalists (oli-companies, carmakers), they are lying and falsifying.
Some facts, you dumb freak.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4228411.stm
1. there ist global warming
2. Its man-made.
3. We have to cease CO2 Emission.
4. New, alternative energy-sources are needed.
Otherwise, we gonna die.
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"
Matthew 24:3 (New International Version) MT 24
"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
Luke 21:25 (New International Version) LK 21
"And lets go to Tom on Florida's coast with more on Hurricane Linux. Tom?" "Hi, Bob. The scene here is just horrific. Linux has taken the coast by storm, you could say, and already it has devastated thousands of homes and killed hundreds of people. This storm is like someone gzipping a season DVD with verbose on! Just awful. Bob?"
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A simple rule change would put the Atlantic storms into that format. If the rule were in place now, Wilma would have been followed by Alberto. In addition, the last named storm of 2004 (TS Otto) would have been followed in 2005 by Paula, not Arlene.
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the storm went RC1, and just off the coast of Florida they made it GM just in time for the project to be scrapped and the entire structure swallowed up by Wilma 1.0.
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Well, in your case, that wouldn't be sucha a bad thing - you piece of Eurotrash.
I have been reading posts on slashdot for the last 3 minutes, and I am seeing a striking convergence of an insightful post every 1 minute, so a one minute cycle can be assumed, and if we see an in crease in storms, we can see that in approximately the same time frame this has happened, so it must be a pattern.
I find pattern very weak, since patterns are the norm in this world - it is possible that there is a natural wobble in the frequency of tropical storms? is the earths wobble part of this? Does the sea temparature correlate with this wobble?
Are we seeing 4 or 5 disparate wobbles of temperature gaining a positive interference? Is the receding ice shelf a wobble? permafrost no longer perma? Maybe it was just taking a break...
I do not think patterns of any kinda can be relied upon, considering even a thousand years of accurate data may not encompass a suitable sample duration for any kind of realistic results. Who knows.
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Hurricane Omega. Now that would be scary! LOL Sings: It's the end of the world as we know it........ LOL JM
And of course, those of us who have children, or even most of us who have been children, know what we call this behaviour.
God is an abusive parent.
Even if I believed in him, why the hell should I worship him?
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Being a Floridian, I feel I can state this: If you can't stand the season, move to Wisconsin.
2000 years == 20 centuries, no?
judaic calendar currently dated 5766. (don't know if that has any bearing...)
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
I reshuffled the comment around, inserting "24 from the flood" part, and forgot to remove those centures from the following part. Unlike God, the Preview Button is not all-powerful. Please substitute "20", as in the following:
There were 16.5 centuries of human history before the flood, about 24 from the flood to the ministry of Christ, and roughly 20 centuries since.
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The same that is causing the ice on Greenland to grow thicker?
All of you screaming global warming need to relax. There is still alot of research to be done, it's not as clean cut as you think. As many others have mentioned, there are many background signals/cycles that occur in the ocean/atmosphere. Maybe there are a few cycles which just happen to coincide this year, resulting in strong positive reinforcement. Correlation != Causation
Yes, we're going to see some "OMG! There are so many storms this year! It's global warming! Oh noes!!1!". It's inevitable with an article like this, so I'd just like to give my two cents on these multitude of storms and "global warming":
What gets me is all of these "record breaking lows/highs" and along with it comes "it hasn't been this hot/cold/stormy/etc since (insert 30 to 70 year old year here)". Well what was the excuse back then? Seasons and temperatures fluctuate all the time. Records aren't broken every day, nor every year...they just get randomly broken.
So please explain to me why exactly, when referring to 1933, there were 21 storms back then - was it global warming? No.
Before you mod this flamebait or troll, I'm just trying to make a logical point. I'm not a believer or non-believer of global warming, I just get sick of the years-ago referrals as if it were significant without someone thinking it out logically and using it for their "global warming" agenda.
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Don't forget the moving of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday at the Council of Laodicea in the 4th century, which was done to accommodate the local pagan religions which worshipped on Sunday.
Is climate change still a myth?
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thank you, your point is great, though probably it will go unnoticed as moderators seem to like links as opposed to a logical deduction (if it's on the web, it must be true!). And really, we don't have 3 cycles to base the evidence on. We have two cycles upon which they have based the theory and now a third which only adds to the data, but maybe now a prediction could be made and tested in 50 more years. you simply cannot predict after only two datapoints. And three is not exactly indisputable. There are way too many factors elsewise to consider.
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I don't buy it. If you were an omnipotent being who wanted to get rid of some people he didn't want around any more, wouldn't you just will them out of existence and be done with it? After all, these hurricanes might be killing off some of your own worshippers, too. My way is cleaner. =)
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
Where're Tropical Storms Yvonne and Zoe?
Just asking...
Don't forget the moving of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday at the Council of Laodicea in the 4th century, which was done to accommodate the local pagan religions which worshipped on Sunday.
Speaking of pagan religions... Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox (this is why the date changes every year). Sound a little suspicious?
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It would be a capital "A" (which is close enough anyways) because it is formal name.
aside: I'm glad I saw your post before I tried to copy over the characters.
They're ignoring some perfectly good letters in the English alphabet! Why, we could still have had a tropical storm Xyzzy, or Hurricane Yog-Soggoth! Why quit early?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Sooo cooool - you are so proud of your stupidity. dumb as hell, the (empty) head filled with all the mainstream -media crap, and aggressivily proud of it.
you would rather die then prevent global warming - simply disgusting.
Hurricane formation and intensity is very closely linked with ocean temperatures, for details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricanes#Formation.
Ocean temperatures have been rising, as predicted by climate change models.
Hurricane frequency has been increasing, as predicted by climate change models.
Hurricane intensity has been increasing, as predicted by climate change models.
There is no part of this chain of causality that isn't proven scientific fact.
Various attempts to deny the science in this are depressingly like the tobacco industry trying to deny the link between smoking and cancer.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
Yeah... so.... it looks like the NWS doesn't know precisely what will happen either.
(sorry for an MSN link, but that's what google found me!)
Or they would have realized what a neat name for a storm "Xena" would make.
Has anybody seen this (from http://www.auntiejaynesolvesyourpoem.com/
The snows of Kilamanjaro will soon be gone
The dreamy Maldives drowned and overrun
The polar bears will have no place to roam
They'll lounge their listless lives on solid ground
Casting storms across the Gulf of Mexico
Will God's true aim hit Mickey Mouse and Co
Or will countless sad old dreamers rue the day
When the brothels of New Orleans are blown away
Then we could have hurricane Zathura..
..don't panic
I just have one question:
WHY DO ALL HURRICANE ADVOSRIES/WATCHES/WARNINGS/FORECASTS GO OUT IN ALL-CAPS?
You would think that them PhD's know where the Caps Lock is. right?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
You must be one of those who do not "believe" in spanking. How sad for you. God is not abusive. He's trying to get your attention... and each time you ignore Him, He must get louder and more forceful... just like with a child who doesn't listen to the first, polite "no"...or the second...or the slight hand spat...and eventually gets the pat on the rearend.
But of course, I believe that one of the primary problems in this country is the failure of parents to properly raise their children. Hint: it isn't the state or federal government's job to raise your children.
Thanks given to god as my family and myself are living in Venezuela, but I cant stop thnking about this movie...
tropical storms more frecuent, and more southward, and even more violent, its me or theres a pattern here, anyone can help me to clarify...
BTW, a more real ending to the movie could be a full scale militry op to conquer all the countries in the thirld world, the name operation survival could be fit...
It's pretty ballsy of some guys only 50 years ago to arbitrarily decide that 21 storms would be the max. The truth is that we haven't even been watching tropical storms very long.
The hurricane season extends normally till 30th November. You could expect a couple of more hurricanes before the season ends for the year! This will take the number of hurricanes for this season to a record high in the atlantic (North America) in a given year.
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You spin that.
That would be more freighting that some silly girls name anyway. "Hurricane Hitler is approaching!" No more 'we'll tough it out' anymore. "Hurricane Stalin has been upgraded to a category 5!" - Eeek - run!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
if you knew the whole truth, you're holding out on us, and not providing a solution. Come on. How do we stop the global warming?