Why are alot of people are leaving the baytown tx. area,my neighbors have boarded the windows and left. Should we be leaving? Is hurricane gustav coming here? Why is Sabine texas evacuated already! What about the storm surge how high can it get?

Marlon Davis of Yazoo City, Mississippi used his personal camera to capture video of a tornado plowing through his hometown. The storm killed at least ten people. (April 25)

Well, long story short, had a doberman and had 3 sweaters given to me, and they where great cause the cold weather really got to her. But, she got old and passed away, and i just got a new doberman, but she’s not as big as my other and the sweaters don’t fit. She is about a year old and resued from animal shelter so she’s probably full grown now. So just looking for a free crochet pattern for a sweater for her. I’ve searched to no avail, and thought maybe somebody out there has one. Thanks in advance.

Consider this scenario:

There is a major hurricane headed for your area. It is entirely likely that you could be without water for a week or more. You may be able to get a few gallons of water from relief supplies after the hurricane, but these would be for drinking water. The supplies may not arrive for many hours. Take into account your family’s daily water usage as determined in this activity, what steps would you take to ensure your family’s survival and comfort?

In mid Aug I am supposed to be going to a family reunion near Orlando area, I was afraid of going if that is hurricane season, can anyone help?

Cyclone / Typhoon / Hurricane Extreme Winds Stock Footage Screener HDV 1440×1080 50i

Is this upcoming hurricane season going to worse than last year’s? What about for gulf coast residents?

Synoptic charts display weather data that
A) was measured at the same place
B) was measured at the same time
C) shows multiple levels of the atmosphere on the same chart
D) was calculated by a mathematical model
E) was measured by a satellite

Middle-latitude cyclones
A) travel from east to west
B) are large high-pressure systems
C) have cold fronts but not warm fronts
D) rotate counterclockwise
E) a and b

The lifting of air and the resulting formation of clouds and rain is more gentle (gradual) for a
A) divergence zone
B) mesocyclone
C) occluded front
D) cold front
E) warm front

Which of these is common to both cold and warm fronts?
A) decreasing precipitation rates
B) lifting of warm air over cold
C) divergence of surface winds
D) light to calm winds
E) steady barometer readings

After a cold front passes, which of these does not usually occur?
A) wind direction shift
B) marked temperature drop
C) drop in relative humidity
D) clearing skies
E) falling barometer

The wind direction in a low pressure system is
A) from the east
B) from the south
C) from the northwest
D) from the north
E) dependent on your location relative to the storm center

The width or horizontal extent of a typical mid-latitude low pressure system would be
A) 20,000 km
B) 10,000 km
C) 500 - 1000 km
D) 5 - 10 km
E) 50 - 100 km

An ideal source region of air masses should be
A) located at or near a pole
B) small
C) physically uniform
D) roughly half land, half water
E) located at or near the equator

Why are cT air masses of minor importance for the U.S.?
A) prevailing winds steer them away
B) upper level subsidence limits their formation
C) no large source region is near the U.S.
D) mountains block their approach

The Following table shows annual maximum wind speeds (in miles per hour) observed over a ten year period (1995-2004 inclusive) at New Orleans, USA.

40 38 57 73 69 45 52 58 61 50

(a) Produce a stem-and-leaf plot for these data, and comment.

(b) Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the wind speed maxima.

(c) Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean wind speed maxima.

(d) Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans in 2005 with a maximum wind speed of 182 mph being observed. Why are the mean and standard deviation no longer the most useful summaries of location and spread? Obtain more appropriate summaries of location and spread for the wind speed data which now includes this new observation of 182.

(e) Produce a Box-and-Whisker plot for the wind speed data which includes the 2005 value.

Now, I know a lot of you are concerned about the Mississippi tornadoes and all.

But how about we did a test here on R&S?

What if we were to get as many R&S ladies to post nudies of themselves for us?
How do we KNOW that Seattle won’t be blown away tomorrow in a massive twister afterward?

Raw Video Novemer 9th, 2009 captured in and around Destin, FL.

I’m having trouble making heads or tails of this… I’d appreciate everyones opinion on the matter… Thanks!

NEW YORK — Retiree Gene O’Brien hurried to the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, as a volunteer helping to shuttle supplies to police and fire workers. Some days, his only ID to get into the disaster site was a tattoo on his forearm.

"A couple times I showed them my Marine tattoo, and they said go ahead," recalled O’Brien, adding that he and other volunteers also came up with their own makeshift identification cards.

"We didn’t forge anything, we just made them up with our own pictures and at one point we copied a UPC code off a Pepsi can and they were as good as gold," said the Scarsdale resident.

It might not be so easy the next time disaster strikes.

In an effort to provide better control and coordination, the federal government is launching an ambitious ID program for rescue workers to keep everyday people from swarming to a disaster scene. A prototype of the new first responder identification card is already being issued to fire and police personnel in the Washington, D.C., area.

Proponents say the system will get professionals on scene quicker and keep untrained volunteers from making tough work more difficult.

But they also know it is a touchy subject, particularly for those devoted to helping in moments of crisis.

"Wow, how in the world do we say this without love and respect in our hearts?" said deputy assistant U.S. Fire Administrator Charlie Dickinson.

"Everybody wants to come to the fight, so to speak, and no one wants to step back and say ‘No, I can’t do this.’ The final coup de grace was the World Trade Center. Hundreds came that were never asked," Dickinson said. "Good intentions, good hearts, and it was extremely difficult for the fire department and the other departments to deal with them."

The Federal Emergency Management Agency came up with the idea after the World Trade Center attack and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when countless Americans rushed to help — unasked, undirected, and sometimes unwanted.

Many of those volunteers angrily dispute the notion they were a burden. They insist that in many instances they were able to deliver respirators, hard hats, and protective boots to workers when no one else seemed able.

Ground zero volunteer Rhonda Shearer and her daughter launched a fast-moving supply system that bypassed regular channels, often infuriating city officials.

Even as she delivered box trucks packed with supplies over months of recovery work, she increasingly ended up in a cat-and-mouse game with New York City’s police and emergency management agency.

Shearer, 53, said the experience convinced her that agencies are ill-equipped to handle major disasters — but don’t want outsiders pointing out their failings.

Similar frustrations arose after Katrina, when people were shocked that the government struggled to take basic supplies such as water to the worst areas.

"They’re more worried about keeping volunteers out than doing an analysis of what really went wrong," Shearer said. "Independent citizens need to be involved, where we have no ax to grind or cross to bear. But we will tell the truth, and we will tell what we see and bear witness to the incompetence."

Dickinson, the federal fire official, said the government is not trying to discourage volunteers, but he thinks there should come a time, within a few days of a disaster, when civilians step back and let the professionals take control.

Supporters say the ID cards could be checked at a disaster area with a card-reader device and used to verify a person’s unique skills. For example, if police officers have been trained to handle hazardous materials, officials at the scene could deploy them to an area where their skills would be best put to use.

For reasons ranging from general safety to protection from lawsuits, construction and demolition companies want to see a disaster ID card program succeed.

Mike Taylor, executive director of the National Demolition Association, said his industry is talking with aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger about putting it in place in his state.

"If California goes ahead and does that, it will flow across the country. This is a really smart idea by someone in the Bush administration to be able to control access to the site and frankly, make sure there are no untrained people," Taylor said. "If somebody goes running down to the site, you have to stop and ask them, wait, are they certified to do this work?"

I have a horse who i rescued and he is underweight. It is really windy and blowing rain/sleet/snow. The weather channel states that is is 36 but feels like 22. He has a really good turnout on but he is just in a stall, no shelter. The best I can give him is a roof, no walls. How do i get him warm in the morning? How cold is too cold, what could happen to him? I know horses can live in the wild like this but he is not accustomed to it… Thank you!

Suppose the wind speed in a hurricane is 119 mi/hr.

(a) What’s the difference in air pressure outside a home and inside a home (where there is no wind)? The density of air is 1.29 kg/m^3.

(b) If a window is 61 cm wide and 108 cm high, what’s the net force on the window due to pressure difference between the inside and outside of the home?

(c) This force often causes windows to break in a hurricane. When this happens, will glass fly into or out of the home?

Thanks a lot. I think it’s got something to do with fluid flow, but I can’t figure out how.
The wind speed in m/s is 53.197 m/s. I don’t understand what you mean by pressure=mass(velocity). So do I just find mass by multiplying density and volume then multiply that number by 53.197? I don’t know how to find the volume for the first question where it’s just kind of a general "there’s a house and then there’s wind" without any dimensions.

It seems the scientific community is bought by special interests, and it wouldn’t be the first time. Scientists take facts and make conclusions or theory from them. In this global warming farce they have not only falsified data on warming. Placed sensors in locations affected by artificial heat sources, which is documented. They have over stated what is a completely flimsy set of facts, ignoring all facts which don’t go along with them, which are also the extremely higher preponderance of the facts on weather the earth is warmed. Example, you can measure wind velocity on a fart, it is measurable. You can measure carbons and methane’s heating effect on radiation (and leave out the fact that water vapor heats at a rate of 3x higher than carbon, and methane is a mere very minor trace element in the atmosphere and that the variables on methane production in nature are 1000s of x what human influenced contributions could possibly be) You can measure anything. To say it adds a significant contribution? Well, it’s like taking the fact that you can measure a fart’s wind velocity, and making the assertion that people who point their farts to correspond with the direction of hurricane winds actually contribute to the overall speed and volume of the wind … yes they do, it’s a fact! BUT … what is the total effect on the hurricane? What if people were so ignorant that they believed those who would gain politically and profit from the assertion that those who farted with a hurricane were bringing on destruction of planet earth? That’s how intelligent those who buy into the anthropological global warming farce that will give many political control over people, and will make those same people’s supporters billions of $$ … how stupid are we? really?

This is a sample of my Tropical Storm Gordon chase footage. This video was taken during Gordon’s slow and erratic movement near and over South Florida, from November 13-16, 1994. Gordon was a relatively disorganized tropical storm, however, it had a very large windfield and produced extended periods of tropical storm conditions over the southern peninsula. Originating in the Caribbean Sea, south of Jamaica, Gordon moved northward across Cuba, then turned west-northwest through the Florida Straits into the Gulf of Mexico and then recurved sharply to the northeast, finally making landfall near Fort Myers. Gordon’s maximum sustained winds were near 50mph with gusts near 70mph. The highest officially recorded winds in South Florida were sustained at 53mph from Virginia Key (near Miami) and a gust to 62mph at the Fowey Rocks lighthouse. I recorded a gust of 72kt (83mph) at my home in Southern Dade country, which was noted in the National Hurricane Center preliminary report on the storm. Highest winds in this video are sustained around 40mph, gusting to 60mph, and occur between 3min 40sec and 4min 30sec into the clip. After leaving Florida, Gordon restrengthend in the Atlantic and reached Hurricane strength offshore North Carolina.

More than 30 tornadoes were reported across four states as April marks the beginning of tornado season. Dave Price reports.

I’m looking for such information as: formation, development, track, the type of weather associated with the low pressure in the three sectors, and atmospheric composition. I’m having hard time finding good information any help would be greatly appreciated. =)

Various hurricane I have filmed since 1984 2 minutes of 19 total.

The shift in supply and demand will go left I believe because of fewer tourists. But what changes to the equilibrium? Do prices rise or fall?

*I am confused because I know that hotel rates go down during hurricane season, but from what I have learned, when the curve goes left the prices should increase and quantity should decrease*

Can anyone clear this up for me? thanks

someone leaves ponies to graze on local common land. This is obviously fine during the summer but it worries me that they seem to be out there in all weathers and there’s no shelter, though someone does seem to leave food and water for them regularly.
I’ve reported it to the RSPCA some weeks back but as far as I know they’ve done nothing about it. Can a horsey person tell me is it OK to leave horses outside in very cold conditions? They are quite shaggy ponies - maybe they’re built to withstand our winters?
no-one knows who the owners are - we think they might be travellers’ ponies. They are mostly left unattended and tethered by ropes about 10foot long.
The weather here has been bitterly cold - we’ve had hard frosts and snow.

The same private weather forecasting company that predicted a hurricane season in 2006 that would be as bad or worse than 2005, has predicted another bad season. 2006 was a complete dud compared to their forecast, and the same people get front page notice for making another scary prediction? You would think that we would have learned from last year not to believe people that claim they can see the future, if the hurricanes happen, they happen, if they don’t they don’t. The mechanisms that give birth to these storms is far too complex for even the best forecasters and computers to predict 24 hours in advance, what makes these people think they can predict up to a year in advance?

Jim Cantore talks about the powerful strength of the May 1999 F5 tornado that struck the Oklahoma City metro area with winds of 301mph making it the strongest and costliest tornado on record! The 10 year anniversary of this tornado is on May 3. Video Courtesy of TWCi (www.weather.com)

I often have a difficult time figuring out the reason AGW deniers have such a difficult time understanding simple concepts because they intentionally misunderstand them, or because they’re just not too bright. A good example is "hide the decline", which most deniers were convinced referred to a supposed decline in global temperatures, even though the email in question was written right after the hottest year on record.

When they finally figured out the ‘decline’ referred to certain tree ring data, they then shifted their (intentional?) misunderstanding to the paleoclimate data.

The newest (intentional?) misunderstanding is the ‘missing energy’. It seems like a pretty simple concept to me - satellites measure a certain energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere, but over the past 5 years, we haven’t been able to account for where about half of that energy has ended up. So there are a few possibilities. Maybe the satellite data is wrong, maybe the data or analysis of ocean temperatures is wrong, or maybe the energy is going somewhere that we’re not measuring, like oceans below 2000 km, for example.

But of course all deniers get from this is "alarmunists are wrong" and are "laughably stupid".
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmN0nRHfABt_moF2SOSiZy_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100419114345AARuHFI&show=7#profile-info-t1zlbOURaa

Several denier answers start talking about climate models, even though these measurements have nothing to do with models. All immediately launch into attacks on ‘alarmunists’ without even bothering to try and understand the underlying discrepancy and its relation to AGW.

And it’s certainly not an isolated instance. Besides ‘hide the decline’ and ‘missing energy’ there’s also winter storms, hurricane frequency, the tropical troposphere ‘hot spot’, etc. Deniers consistently fail to understand basic climate science concepts.

The question is, do they fail to understand these concepts because they don’t want to understand them, or because they’re incapable of understanding them?
"I am convinced that you are not interested in the truth….[link to 'American Thinker' article]"

Yeah, I would call that intentional. Good example, jim.
pegminer - good example. I saw that Meadow question about 30% drop in ocean pH. That was a tough one for deniers, because they had to admit the ‘alarmist’ was right. Except bravo - the chemist who darn well should know the pH scale is logarithmic. Yet he just turned it into the usual ‘decreasing pH isn’t acidification’ semantics garbage. It was truly pathetic.

Both jimzulu brothers definitely fit the intentional category. They have the tools to understand these basic concepts, but are unwilling to bypass their political biases.

How can you secure a window after a hurricane when there is no power?
Last year we lost a large window in the front of my home. because there was no power, we were unable to cut plywood - or even get any for that matter - isn’t there something out there that can help us?