Tropical Storm Gamma targets Florida

The latest projected path of newly formed Tropical Storm Gamma has the system hitting the Southwest Florida coast sometime Monday.



more: http://weather.orlandosentinel.com/tropical/tracking/at200527_5day.html

We've been feeling sooo left out this year in the Tampa Bay area!

Who wants to cook a turkey next week anyway?

:scared:
When is hurricane season over again, in like 10 days?
Enough already.

I'm not up on my Greek alphabet.

I have friends down here in Miami that just got their power back from Wilma a week ago... *sigh*

Enough with the frickin' hurricanes, already!

Aztec alphabet.

On December 31st, 1954 a Tropical wave form and became a Hurricane on January 1st (and thus become a 1955 Storm instead of the 1954 storm). Other than it no other storm is reported in January or February (Through a winter storm in 1819 might have been a Hurricane but records are unclear, and other unreported storms in other years are possible).

For some information on the 1955 January Storm.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/deadly/Table8.htm
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/1955.pdf
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/lib1/nhclib/libpage13.htm

They have been Four Hurricanes in December from 1944-2000 (The last one being Nicole in 1998). Since 2000 you have had four December storms:
Peter AND Odette in 2003 (Both Formed in December, the first time two storms formed in December since 1887).
Olga in 2001 and
Otto in 2004 (Both of these storms formed in November but lasted till December).

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

Thus while technically the Hurricane Season ends on November 30th, you can have storms into the beginning of January.

But, I have been drinking a lot of the bottled water lately.

But just last week, they had a super sale on Stoli at the liquor store, and I stocked up accidentally.:toast:

I have bottle water delivery, I also stocked up on my rum. I'm In Fort Myers, where are you?

at my son's school. At least we still have some bottled water, gas and the generator.

Sure, it looks just like Wilma...

hurricanes smacking florida as evidence that god is punishing the wicked leaders of those poor people?

how many natural disasters has florida suffered since the 2000 election?

Get with the program, Florida! Sheesh, we're back to having people who never served calling decorated war veterans cowards. Try to keep up.

... Cause we'd really be up shit creek then.:sarcasm:

cause it to fall apart into nothing more than a mass of clouds ?

:popcorn:

we midwest flatlanders sure love watching the sunbunnies running for cover on cnn...:rofl:

we should all get some really jollies the next time a tornado rips through some flatland town, eh?

especially the trailer parks...:rofl:

some of those tincans can really get some distance!

that I live in gets blown away, maybe it will land on your house. That'd be nice.

especially if i could rent it out furnished.

Otherwise they might already be able to borrow it free from a library.

Wouldn't you rather live in Oz anyway?

like dorothy did...anyplace would be netter...even florida...

But still funny.

:evilgrin:

in other areas of the country saving themselves from disaster, or losing all their worldly belongings. That sure as hell is inviting a shitload of bad karma.

What passes for "entertainment" to some is fucking sick! :grr:

he or she might enjoy tripping waitresses carrying food to tables?

as a former waitperson myself, i have the utmost respect for those in the profession...and i tip very well- provided the service is at least adequate, and depending on the circumstances- i don't reward total sloth- and as a former, i can tell if the person is giving an effort.

i can't help but laugh at people crazy enough to live in a mobile home in florida- who are then surprised/upset when a hurricane 'mobilizes' it...and then they thank the god that would have supposedly sent the storm for sparing their lives...???(that one always puzzled me).

can i help it if i don't like florida all that much? they lord their tropical weather over the rest of the country- until they get a hurricane, then they cry for help and empathy...as a state they've given us at least one bush presidency, and a possible launching pad for another in the form of a governorship.
as a state, they've done a TERRIBLE job, as far as stewardship of natural resources is concerned. the everglades and the reefs suffer so that residents/businesses can enjoy low low tax rates...thanks fellas :hi:

:shrug:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/204548.shtml?table

This is just silly.

I hope that they will be able to brace themselves in time. Let's hope that there aren't any more nasty surprises this season (like an unexpected December storm).

i believe 2003 was the longest season ever, with the first tropical storm in april and the last, peter, in december -- odette also in december killed 2 in the islands

it's highly unlikely tho so let's think positive

2005 has broken every record except length of season -- and it CAN'T break length of season because in 2003 ana formed on april 21 and peter, ended on december 11

2005 didn't open until june so we'd have to go into january or february to catch up

just not gonna happen

either that or tropical storm season will be all yr

think positive

jesus wouldn't allow it, right?

This path looks awfully familiar. Yukatan, Cuba, SW Florida. It doesn't look like it'll be as bad as Wilma, so that's something of a relief.

I hope yours was too. That's the last thing we need, lots of projectiles flying around.

Some web site has the water temps in the Gulf but I forget which one it is.

The temps in the gulf have dropped.
http://www.weather.com/maps/geography/oceans/gulfcaribbeanseasurfacetemps_large.html

While this storm may be headed toward Florida, or forcasts may predict that it will hit Florida, can we really say that it has targeted Florida? By intelligent design? . . .

In that vein, have you noticed how the Yucatan has beem behaving like a bumper in a pinball game lately?

reminded of the Big One comimg. Glad I live 60 miles inland.As Gilda used to say,"Never mind".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4452528.stm

A new tropical storm dumping heavy rain on the east coast of Central America has left at least three people dead.
Tropical Storm Gamma, the 24th of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic season, caused floods and landslides in Honduras. Belize is also on alert.

Forecasters think Gamma may swing north-east and away from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula which was battered by Hurricane Wilma last month.

The storm is then expected to head for Florida, arriving early next week.

...than to south Florida. The track doesn't even get near Florida.

Thank goodness it is not too strong, but it will still be bad for Cubans.

I'd just as soon it missed the Keys this time. I've already spent the summer with my insurance adjuster...I think he'd rather spend Thanksgiving with his own family.:banghead:

I think we will have to add some letters at some point.

in one season.

we are continually breaking records with the number of tropical storms and I see nothing on the horizon that will change that trend.

Thankfully, it was weakened to a tropical depression as well.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/weather/orl-bk-gamma112005,0,1480810.story?coll=orl-home-headlines