Tropical storm Bret forms in Atlantic; Cindy may not be far behind, warning issued for Louisiana
Source: Washington Post
The tropical Atlantic Ocean is unusually active so early in hurricane season.
Tropical storm Bret formed late Monday afternoon near the Windward Islands, at an extremely unusual location so early in the year.
Meanwhile, a second disturbance currently over the southern Gulf of Mexico, could bring very heavy rain and flooding to the northern U.S. Gulf Coast by the middle of this week. In anticipation of the formation of a tropical storm, which would be named Cindy, the National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for the Intracoastal City to the Mouth of the Pearl River in Louisiana.
The Gulf of Mexico disturbance (potential Cindy)
The Gulf disturbance is expected to become a tropical depression or Tropical Storm Cindy shortly. It is situated over an area that is quite favorable for development in June, where many past June tropical storms have formed.
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Don't have to cut the grass for a week
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)inland as usual: 1969's cat 5 Hurricane Camille. Instead, it strengthened and rose over the Appalachians. But we didn't have satellites, etc., then. The weather services considered Camille finished, and nobody in the Virginia river towns and valleys on the east side of the mountains had any idea of the enormous catastrophe about to hit.
"Amidst streams turned into muddy torrents, entire hillslopes liquefied into fast-flowing sheets of mud. Soil, rock, boulders, stands of trees and thickets and scrub, all manner of creatures, flowed down the mountain. These flows concentrated in hollows where hillslopes converged. Debris jams formed and then explosively gave way. Homes perished. Roads disappeared. Bridges were swept away. Countless trillion tons of water and soil and forest consolidated into invisible waves that effectively erased the face of central Nelson County."
A little stream meandering through the woods, after.
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Well, today we have satellites and warning systems.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)We don't need no stinking FEMA...
yuiyoshida
(41,853 posts)and there is a major storm, like Katrina, they best beef up security at the White house, it might be over run by people who are fed up with this President.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Jared can keep the agency humming from 9-11am on Thursdays. On Fridays, he has to deal with Israel and Palestine. On Mondays, he's got to cure AIDS. As such a busy guy, he won't have time to be interviewed by the FBI.
B2G
(9,766 posts)It's still sitting in the Senate.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)nitpicker
(7,153 posts)National Hurricane Center: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
Central Florida Hurricane Center (links to forecast path models): http://flhurricane.com/
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)We've had a pretty dry year so far in the south, so another good soaking is just fine.
We really need to start bracing ourselves because the "D" storm this year will be Don (not kidding).