The first hurricane warning of the year
By on Jun 12th, 2006 at 10:52 am
The first hurricane warning of the year
has been issued for the Florida coast. Tropical storm Alberto, originally not expected to become a hurricane, has suddenly strengthened.
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/snark on
June 12th, 2006 at 10:59 amWow, its a good thing that, just as Bush and fema promised, NO and all the places ravaged by hurricans last year are fixed and ready for this year’s hurricane season.
/snark off
Why, when we know that surface temperatures are higher and hurricane formation is driven by surface temperature, do we keep getting “surprised” by the strength of storms? I don’t remember the last time a storm was unexpectedly *mild*. Seems like it’s past time to adjust their models to reflect current reality.
If I were more conspiracy-minded, I’d suggest that climatologists have been forbidden to change their models by an administration still in global-warming denial, and that the “surprises” are really no surprise to them at all.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:00 amGonna be a Looooong Hurricane Season.
Regardless of incompetent Gov’t: I hope this year isn’t a Bad One!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:02 amWhere the heck is Brownie?
-GSD
June 12th, 2006 at 11:02 amI expected this tropical storm to become a hurricane > I observed the water vaper loop on Weather Underground site and it showed it exploding! Bad summer ahead everyone > expect New Orleans or other places to be completely destroyed by another Katrina later in a month or so!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:05 amWow first storm named becomes a hurricane and will strike land. Very busy season ahead. Let’s see how many times FEMA will fall on their asses this year.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:06 amAnybody know the current water temp of the Gulf?
June 12th, 2006 at 11:07 amThe warm water feeds them… The water is warmed by higher temperatures… Higher temperatures are a result of global warming… Any neocons get it yet?
June 12th, 2006 at 11:08 amLet the rest of the world burn more coal for energy
Its better than boycotting American good to detroy them
June 12th, 2006 at 11:11 amAnd yet, for some strange reason I still bet that the vast majority of the electoral offices up for grabs in Florida this year, including for governor and for one US Senator, will all go to Republicans.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:11 amYou gotta hand it to those Floridians, they must have some twisted sense of humor.
What comes after hurricane Alberto- – Scooter, Wolfie and Condi?
June 12th, 2006 at 11:14 amhurricanes are George Bush’s fault dammit, George Bush doesn’t care about Floridians!!!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:15 amat least Floridians have sense not to live in blue states!
Somebody get Chertoff out of the sauna …
June 12th, 2006 at 11:17 amALBERTO? Well how about that? An appropriate name, I think. And then, ‘Babs’, followed by ‘Condi’, then, ‘Dick’, and so on. Seems fitting. Wonder how much damage ‘Alberto’ will do? Given the track record of it’s namesake, yikes!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:17 amI’m just gonna sit back & wait till Pat Robertson says “It’s God’s will because of _________” (fill in the blank with whatever useful ad hominim makes you laugh or cry).
June 12th, 2006 at 11:19 amAlexandra , we are strange, but the senator will be a Democrat and the governor race is too close to call. Although that isn’t to say Nelson in a liberal or progressive or someone I would vote for if I had a choice other than him or Harris.
Zookeeper, I don’t know the current water temp but this time of year it should be low 80s.
Here’s an article from the local paper about how the Army Corp of Engineers is going to repeat their mistake in south Florida. This storm won’t do it but the ways things are going, we’ll have other storms/chances of this happening this year.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:22 am
False headline. A Tropical Storm warning has been issued for Alberto. Not a hurricane warning. Its not a hurricane and isn’t expected to be one. We harp on the Repugnincans for not paying attention to detail. We didn’t on this one. Change the headline to First Tropical Storm Warning of the Year so you can be correct.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:26 amum #4? brownie is on the telly or somewhere else doing one heckuva job if you really wannt know where he is lol.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:27 amIn the past – usually we would get tropical depressions and storms early in the season and the full-blown hurricanes wouldn’t develop until mid-season and later. But to start off an season with a hurricane is something that should be concerning.
June 12th, 2006 at 11:28 amPost 17 > the tropical storm warning was upgraded this morning to a hurricane warning! It is presently a strong tropical storm, but is now expected to come ashore as a minimum hurricane with winds of 75 to 80 mph!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:32 am[...] Cynical & Conspiracy Theorist comments on Think Progress – fresh back from a nice week in Vegas. [...]
June 12th, 2006 at 11:32 am#18. I hope you’re not on the FL west coast. Weather Channel repoarts Hurricane Warnings there.
http://www.weather.com/
June 12th, 2006 at 11:33 amCurlew, you are mistaken. Hurricane warnings have been issued – local news has reported it as well as online news services. They expect it to hit as a hurricane (only needs 4 more mph to become one I think).
June 12th, 2006 at 11:34 amI just checked the Weather Underground on Alberto > sustained winds of 69 mph with higher gusts! At 74 mph it gets classified as a hurricane > could happen later today or by tomorrow morning!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:35 amYou Liberal Democrats can’t have a big enough hurricane, can you? Lot’s of damage?
June 12th, 2006 at 11:37 amLOL post 25 you must be Karl Rove because you spew stupidity on here!
June 12th, 2006 at 11:44 amblame bush!
it’s bush’s fault!
June 12th, 2006 at 12:05 pmBush: Finally, something that’s not my fault.
June 12th, 2006 at 12:22 pmJeb’s reaction to Alberto Who’da thunk it? Al Gore?
June 12th, 2006 at 1:06 pmGood thing Al Gore’s movie misses the mark. NOT!!!
What is Bush’s fault is not signing the Kyoto Protocols agreement.
What is Bush’s fault is continuing the Oil policies of extracting energy at all costs (including at the cost of the health of this planet and everything that lives on it).
What is Bush’s fault is that he cares only about money and himself.
Bush has failed to demonstrate any understanding of or compassion for humans who don’t have as much in their bank accounts as the Bush Crime Family members.
June 12th, 2006 at 1:06 pmBush: Finally, something that’s not my fault.
Comment by JJ
Patience, patience…
June 12th, 2006 at 1:42 pmWe have entered a period of consequences. Global warming is real and it’s here.
June 12th, 2006 at 2:09 pmIt is clear that the Bush Administration declared war on Global Warming by giving the hurricane a Latino name.
June 12th, 2006 at 2:11 pmIf you can’t see the connection between global warming and stronger storms go and see Gore’s flick for yourself. Might I add that in the movie, Gore is reiterating what the science community is saying, it’s not his own conclusions.
June 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pm#30
Better check your facts Jesus, Clinton’s own advisors thought the Kyoto protocol was a bad idea.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-06-12-kyoto.htm
June 12th, 2006 at 2:44 pm# 35– From your own article:
There’s a difference between having problems with a treaty’s provisions and declaring it dead.
But of course, the wingnut noise machine never discusses this tidbit…
June 12th, 2006 at 2:50 pmIf the picture is correct, and the forecasts of the trajectory too, Florida will become a true “Red” state very soon (only see at the color of the center of the hurricane).
June 12th, 2006 at 3:07 pmWe’re already getting thunderstorms here in Georgia…
June 12th, 2006 at 3:40 pmThe storm is weakening a bit abd becoming less organized. I’m in West Central Florida and the rain has finally let up, small burst of winds are still expected here. Most of the rain is now in the northern part of Florida, the storm is expacted to become less organized as it prgresses towards land.
June 12th, 2006 at 3:53 pmPost 38 those thunderstorms are not associated with the tropical storm, but if Alberto moves north we would get downpours from it! Looks as the moment that it will be a borderline hurricane before landfall, and move across northern Florida tomorrow morning! On that track Atlanta might miss most of the rain?!
June 12th, 2006 at 4:00 pmthose thunderstorms are not associated with the tropical storm
Comment by Jay Randal — June 12, 2006 @ 4:00 pm
I meant Global Warming…
June 12th, 2006 at 4:07 pmOh, the weather outside is frightful…
To throw politics out the window, at least we Californians can officially rejoice: Florida has taken the “most f***cked up” crown back from us.
June 12th, 2006 at 4:12 pmI just checked the Weather Underground and Alberto is going through a regeneration cycle! Early this morning it exploded, and this afternoon weakened again, but now shows signs of wrapping up again! High red cloud tops are forming on the south side, so once sucked into the vortex it could fire up the storm again! Could remain at 70 mph wind intensity or increase to hurricane strength of 75 by morning > a borderline cane!
June 12th, 2006 at 4:16 pm“Weather Warfare”
Brzezinski predicted: “Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised. . . . Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.”
More at http://www.willthomas.net/Chemtrails/Articles/Weather_Warfare.htm
June 12th, 2006 at 5:30 pmBy the time this hurrican season is over we will all have the equivalent of meteorology degrees. The news anchors will breathlessly inform us of every cloud formation that approaches the US. That’s easier to report than the clouds covering all the crap going on in the White House.
June 12th, 2006 at 5:32 pmMUCH MUCH MORE ON WEATHER WARFARE:
http://www.willthomas.net/Chemtrails/Articles/Weather_Warfare.htm
June 12th, 2006 at 5:36 pmGet out your tinfoil hats and check out this link. The links I posted led me to this and WOW:
http://www.whale.to/b/schneider1.html
June 12th, 2006 at 5:55 pmAlberto has failed to make it to a hurricane this morning, but almost made it with 70 mph sustained winds! The next named storm most likely will become a hurricane, because the Caribbean and Atlantic water is heating up, so expect a repeat of last summer with big hurricanes!
June 13th, 2006 at 4:05 amI still bet that the vast majority of the electoral offices up for grabs in Florida this year, including for governor and for one US Senator, will all go to Republicans.
Comment by Alexandra #10
…c’mon God’s shock-and-awe…
June 13th, 2006 at 8:41 am