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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 09:04 PM Jun 2017

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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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/19/two-tropical-storms-are-close-to-forming-in-the-atlantic-unusually-early-in-the-year/?utm_term=.6ccb5635ad2e

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Tropical storm Bret forms in Atlantic; Cindy may not be far behind, warning issued for Louisiana (Original Post) jpak Jun 2017 OP
Rain Baclava Jun 2017 #1
That track reminds me of one that didn't just dissipate Hortensis Jun 2017 #7
Did Trump ever pick anybody to run FEMA? TheDebbieDee Jun 2017 #2
FEMA? jpak Jun 2017 #3
IF no help comes from the Government... yuiyoshida Jun 2017 #4
Nope. Maybe Trumpy will appoint Jared to run FEMA... Eyeball_Kid Jun 2017 #5
Yes, Brock Long was nominated in April. B2G Jun 2017 #10
Maybe "Brownie" is available. nt raccoon Jun 2017 #11
Some links nitpicker Jun 2017 #6
Bring on the rain FLPanhandle Jun 2017 #8
Next one Lheurch Jun 2017 #9

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. That track reminds me of one that didn't just dissipate
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:16 AM
Jun 2017

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.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

Well, today we have satellites and warning systems.

yuiyoshida

(41,853 posts)
4. IF no help comes from the Government...
Mon Jun 19, 2017, 09:43 PM
Jun 2017

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)
5. Nope. Maybe Trumpy will appoint Jared to run FEMA...
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 01:31 AM
Jun 2017

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.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
8. Bring on the rain
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:28 AM
Jun 2017

We've had a pretty dry year so far in the south, so another good soaking is just fine.

 

Lheurch

(65 posts)
9. Next one
Tue Jun 20, 2017, 08:50 AM
Jun 2017

We really need to start bracing ourselves because the "D" storm this year will be Don (not kidding).

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