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Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic
APSR writes "Even though the Atlantic hurricane season official ends on November 30th, more storms can form and still count towards the total for the year!
According to MSN.com Weather News, Tropical Storm Zeta was formed in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on December 30th. This storm extends the record-breaking 2005 season to 27 storms, and it's the 6th storm named using the Greek alphabet.
According to Wikipedia, Zeta is the latest a tropical cyclone was formed in the Atlantic, forming around 11 AM ET; this dethrones Hurricane Alice of 1954, which formed December 30th around 2 AM ET. The storm itself will continue to strengthen for 12-24 hours, then weaken; it will not likely make landfall." We've already set records this year, as previously reported.
Hear that Japan? you can still use your weather manipulator and we won't think the better of it
Save every man you can.
Surfers could get once last great swell in for the already awesome hurricane season thus far.
So how was hurricane Alice named? It can't have been the first one of the year if it was on December 30.
....start with a new naming scheme for 2006, or does hurricane season start later in the calendar year?
No one should be shocked by this. Expect to see another record breaking year in 2006. (duh-hoy) If we don't take positive steps to reduce emissions we will be extending the hurricane season into January very soon. We're only shooting ourselves in the foot - example being the mass production of SUVs, which fail any emissions standard for cars and trucks. So what do we do? Make a new catagory for them: "sport utility". They aren't sport utility, their soccer mom utility. We are getting our just reward for our carelessness. Ride a bike!
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Again last night I had that strange dream
Where everything was exactly how it seemed
Where concerns about the world getting warmer
The people thought they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they'd like to be treated
For obeying stop signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November
let's go back to only naming hurricanes.
Please, no more storms. Not only are they terribly worrisome, but the bush administration canot even clean up what's already happened.
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Another blowjob to finish out the year!
but I think the National Hurricane Center makes a much more relevent and useful link when it comes to HURRICANES.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
Why do people freak out when the weather changes? This is a wobbly & bumpy planet and the weather has never been entirely predictable.
And that's the one that's going up. And we're not seeing a dramatic drops in any of them.
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this is an example of a post that uses the illusion of facts. that statements it makes are not true. see other replies for actual details, but in the meantime, don't give karma to liars.
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I feel like ANY abnormal weather has people on edge now. Since scientists brought up the idea of global warming we assume that anything that isn't average must be a sign of global warming. Now its possible that global warming may come but its not like hot air is causing tropical storms in DECEMBER. People may disagree but then I would like to remind them the average global temperature rose about .5 degrees Celcius this year.
They have word that describes people's current thoughts about global warming, its 'paranioa'
I'm sure all the people who get screwed over by the storm will be thrilled that it will be counted towards 2005!
What about water vapor? How does that fit in to the picture? From what I've heard, water vapor is the #1 greenhouse gas, completely outweighing all other greenhouse gases combined.
I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
"Zeta" sounds more menacing than "Katrina". Mean-sounding storms may get more people to react. If Katrina was instead named "Ball Buster" or "Alimony", then more people may have bothered to leave during the storm. Naming storms after ballerinas is not a way to get them to move their asses. Men will feel demasculated moving for something named after a mere ballerina.
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No, what I'm really looking forward to is hurricane Omega; so wake me up if we have a year with an additional, what, 18 storms?
Of course, to live up to a name like that it'd better contain energy somewhat greater than Jupiter's red spot - which will be tough, given that spot is something like twice the surface area of the Earth.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
I don't know what to make of Mr. Commander Taco, Esq.'s calumnies. On the one hand, Taco should stop and savor life, not take rights away from individuals on the basis of prejudice, myth, irrational belief, inaccurate information, and outright falsehood. But on the other hand, I find that pea-brained, impulsive blatherskites are no different from tyrannical airheads. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you're strapped in, I'll announce something to the effect of how in order to convince us that society is supposed to be lenient towards brutish knuckle-draggers, Taco often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes.
Some people consider Taco's policies a necessary evil, but the truth is that if Taco is going to make an emotional appeal, then he should also include a rational argument. Out of all of the stupid Commander Taco clones I've ever known, he is clearly the most dodgy. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me help people break free of his cycle of oppression. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because I recently informed Taco that his myrmidons trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. Taco said he'd "look further into the matter." Well, not too much further; after all, he asserts that he has the trappings of deity. Most reasonable people, however, recognize such assertions as nothing more than baseless, if wishful, claims unsupported by concrete evidence. Taco's assistants are not, technically, impractical fussbudgets, but rather neurotic, impudent lugs. I insist that there is a small -- yet not entirely insignificant -- difference.
I feel no more personal hatred for Taco than I might feel for a herd of wild animals or a cluster of poisonous reptiles. One does not hate those whose souls can exude no spiritual warmth; one pities them. I once told him that I would much rather focus on what unites rather than divides us than waste my precious time chastising the worst types of negligent twerps there are. How did he respond to that? He proceeded to curse me off using a number of colorful expletives not befitting this letter, which serves only to show that I get concerned when I see Taco incite young people to copulate early, often, and indiscriminately. Taco's comrades probably don't realize that, because it's not mentioned in the funny papers or in the movies. Nevertheless, I don't see how he can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that only the impartial and unimpassioned mind will even consider that I unmistakably hope you're not being misled by the "new Taco". Only his methods and tactics have changed. Taco's goal is still the same: to pooh-pooh the reams of solid evidence pointing to the existence and operation of a flippant, superstitious coterie of opportunism. That's why I'm telling you that the reason Taco wants to silence critical debate and squelch creative brainstorming is that he's thoroughly scummy. If you believe you have another explanation for his arrogant behavior, then please write and tell me about it.
Taco's propaganda machine once said that Taco would never twist the history, sociology, and anthropology disseminated by our mass media and in our children's textbooks. So much for credibility! His favorite buzzword these days is "crisis". Taco likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. He then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for him to exploit the masses. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that I, for one, no longer believe that trends like fa
I hate to think what will happen if a committee ever did have the power to do something about it. Odds are, it would be the wrong thing.
On second thought... maybe we need more bureaus to work on this so-called problem. The way things are going, we need more bureaucracy to slow down those who think they know what should be done.
References: See "road to hell, paved with..." and "unintended consequences, law of"
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
All I'm sayin' is that the burners on my stove glow a little brighter than last year. Coincidence? I think not ...
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There were no satellites, no hurricane hunter planes. Maybe a few freighters would have sailed through a storm 1000 miles southwest of the Azores. No one would have known it was a "tropical storm" that needed a name.
So it's hard to know of 2005 is really a "record year". Our data from anything more then probably 25-30 years ago is too spotty.
Quick! Let's blame every natural disaster on global warming! That way when there's lots of natural disasters, we know that global warming is occuring. Anyone remember Global Cooling?
We had the Katrina, and now there's the Zeta. Will the next storm be called Jones?
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
Before weather satellites went up in the sixties, we probably missed a lot of storms. I know we had boats all over the Atlantic, but there's plenty of reason to think we could have missed a couple. And of course, we didn't have pressure readings for most of them over most of their existence. Consistent pressure readings probably didn't come until we started flying planes into hurricanes (in the 70s? 60s?).
So although this year was quite busy, we probably can't really say it is the definitely the busiest since 1933 for sure. And we surely can't say there never was a storm with a lower recorded pressure either, since we didn't start recording those well until very recently.
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Its Bush's fault!!! Better blame those mudslides in the western US on him too while we're at it!!!
So there are hurricanes called Katrina and Zeta, but is there one that is called Jones?
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This has nothing to do with global warming, it has to do with natural cycles of strong and weak hurricane seasons. Yes, some models do suggest that global warming will cause more hurricanes (though others predict less). However, in those models the increases in hurricanes comes after substantial oceanic warming, not before. Stop blaming every natural variation in the weather on global warming, it is absurd, unscientific, and only hurts your cause (ever hear of the the boy who cried wolf?). You don't know what you are talking about, so please shut up.
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It's funny because I tried submitting it at 3:45pm using this article http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/living/ health/13520225.htm which contains a hell of alot more detail about the year's weather including wild fires in Alaska. And like any story I submit, it got rejected but yet this watered down, wikipedia-centric story gets the prize. Do you see a pattern emerging here Scully?
It reminded me of the members of the Zeta sorority - they are loud and wet when they come and will give ya a good blow any time of year.
But really, the real problem is these hurricanes in the Brumuda Triangle. When compared to Zeta girls we at least know how many seman the Triangle has swollowed.
Libertas in infinitum
So in 2005 we had 14 hurricanes, breaking the 1969 record of 12. The 1954 tropical storm record was just broken by 1. It was just reported that Katrina was a category 3 after all. We just learned that the NOLA levees were not built to spec (due to corruption).
Why is there so much sensationalism about this like it's the End-of-the-World (tm)? Those records are only 51 years old or less. That wasn't so long ago.