Alrighty, I’ll be creating topics within the next few months basically every time something stronger than a tropical wave (storms or hurricanes) poses a serious threat to Barbados. I might do it also within the other Caribbean countries depending on how much i like the particular island.
I’m not a meteorologist nor am i a God. So please listen to bulletins regular along and our local meteorologist. The info i put up is subject to errors and flaws and is not intended to be used as a safety bible. I’m however gonna interpret what i see on weather maps, computer simulators, provide links and give the best possible advice i could.
I’ll advice everyone though to find out who’s in charge of your zoning area for the district emergency organisations just incase of an emergency you would know where to go and who to contact..
Also Subscribing to www.barbadosweather.org a good idea it sends u live updates of when the island is under a flood watch, hurricane watch etc and it also sends you updates every time the weather changes. *which is pretty damn regular* so beware of alot of emails.
It’s an informative post so if anyone have any questions feel free to ask me.
Nice article Adela
To voting it goes!!!
It was predicted to be an above average year but so far there has been only one hurricane and a few depressions/storms. Also, the waters are supposed to be really warm and LA NINA is developing. All this should be great for hurricane formation. Why such a slow start?
A.Warm moist air ahead of the front is uplifted as the front passes, causing the moisture to condense and precipitate.
B.Cold air behind the front causes the water vapor to evaporate, producing the storm.
C.The warm air mixes with the cold air along the front, creating low pressure and storms.
D.The cold air holds more water vapor than the warm air, thus it must precipitate out as rain or snow.
What is a wave cyclone?
A.It is a type of cold frontal uplift that occurs in waves along a squall line.
B.It is the rise in sea level of the water underneath a hurricane.
C.It is a spiraling storm system at the boundary between the polar air and the warm mid-latitude air.
D.It is the process of storm development over the mountains as air is uplifted by the mountain slopes.
And all the plumes of oil get steered around like a huge salad dressing?You know that many of the oil clean up product that have been turned down you can’t retrieve the oil back out of it like a sponge.BP is hoping to still retrieve the oil and us it.When the hurricanes come that will be impossible.Think about this,a hurricane will suck this stuff up and disperse it over land.By Auguste comes it will be a rill big mess and the storms will hamper the use of the relief wells being used.
Joe Bastardi and the NHC are calling for like 20 storms to develop this year and a very increased threat of a major hurricane landfall on the US. But could this just be hype and only 1-9 storms develop and stay off land and become fish storms like last years season? Knowing J.B., its hype but idk about the NHC
Is anybody worried about this years hurricane season? Possibly up to 23 hurricanes? It worrys me because it gives the whole gulf coast a greater risk of getting hit by a hurricane. It’s crazy. Ive been thinking about buying hurricane supplies now to be better prepared. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and I wasen’t prepared for Gustav at all and wasent too worried as it was a landfalling category 2. It ended up being the worst storm to ever hit Baton Rouge and I lost most of my roof in that storm, Along with my bathroom window and the pine trees in my yard. Should I start preparing now for possible storms this year? What are yall doing?
Yes, we are a more sophisticated nation, but I also noticed some frightening things in the recent past. One year, a storm was headed towards Galveston/Houston but was predicted to turn away to the West or NW. Well, the weather radio played old repeats all day long, which made me suspicious at the LACK of new info. Sure enough, the storm was still heading towards Galveston & long after it was expected to turn. Officials didn’t seem to want to "unnecessarilly" worry or evacuate the Galveston area, so they seemingly were staying silent & saying nothing at all. If the storm had strengthened & stayed on that course, it could have been bad for the people there. We’ve seen that these storms can mushroom in a hurry! Why play politics with people’s lives? It would’ve been impossible to evacuate Galveston, Texas City, etc. within the short time that was left if it had continued that direction. Officials should not gamble like that, which I think makes a disaster more likely.
CSU have just released their predictions for the 2008 hurricane season and are predicting 13 names storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes, do you think this this is an accurate prediction?
The long term average is 9.6 names storms per year, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 major hurricanes.
This time last year they made their predictions for 2007 stating they beleived there would be 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes. On each count they were out by just one (actual activity being 15, 6 and 2).
Hurricane Charley strengthened rapidly just before striking the southwestern coast of Florida, over Charlotte Harbor, as a Category Four hurricane. Although extremely small in size, Charley produced sustained winds of 150mph and gusts to near 175mph, causing catastrophic wind damage in the communities of Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, FL. The Charlotte County Medical Center recorded an unofficial gust of 150kts (173mph) and the Charlotte County Airport recorded 139kts (160mph). Charley’s minimum central pressure at landfall was 942mb (27.82in) and I recorded 950mb (28.05in) at my location near Fawcett Memorial Hospital. Veteran storm chaser Andy Dressler accompanied me on this chase.
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.
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?
Me and my wife are planning on moving to the Central Florida area but she is afraid of storms, so I was just wondering if people who live in that area have to evacuate just like residents on the coast do?
Volcanoes, Earthquakes & any kind of flood, if you’re caught up in natural disasters like these you could be in trouble!
But what of the Tropical Cyclonic storm?
I believe there’s a way we CAN BEAT NATURE!
How?
With architecture - with what I’ve euphemistically called TELESCOPIC BUILDINGS!
See this clip:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs
Have you finished laughing yet?
The main building in this clip - called Marineville http://stingray.sfdaydreams.com/
(scroll to bottom) along with other models in the classic kids hit TV show are able to move up & down beneath the ground.
With properly watertight hatches couldn’t this be the answer to damage caused by these storms?
Isn’t the real challenge though, to ’scale’ the whole thing up & create designs we can economically mass produce? After all, we’ve been using lifts IN buildings for a very long time now - can’t we take it a step further & somehow actually make buildings INTO LIFTS to save lives during storms!
There is also the point that if these ‘telescopic buildings’ could be made somehow, then if there was a future war where missiles were being used either conventional or nuclear, then there might be some modicum of protection to people where there wouldn’t be otherwise!
I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.
I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.
I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.
I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.
We’ve only had one storm, and it was a Tropical Depression, I think…is this unusual, or is it just July and the peak of hurricane season will come later on this year? I remember we already had a few storms by this time last year.
I’m a fanatic of supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes, it’s like an thing that i am hooked onto. I’ve started having the hobbies of watching tornadoes back when i first got my 1st computer when i was 12 years old, we had dial up back then but i used to watch storm chaser’s tornado videos like all day. I’m 19 years old right and i have a laptop and i keep a bunch of photos and videos that i shot of thunderstorms when it rolled through my town and i would upload it to youtube for sharing, i have dsl now. But would any wife would let their husband have this kind of hobby ? Sometimes during a severe thunderstorm warning or tornado watch i would go outside and snap photos of the clouds before it rained. I don’t know if any wives ever accept this kind of hobby. Would an hobby of something like this will ever get into a way of a relationship ? I consider myself as one of these guys who dedicate their lives photographing storms.
As if some kind of radiated pulse or modifier is aimed at water supply near storm to increase the storm development in a certain area.
I have noticed this and have copied several instances to my hard drive. Whenever I have seen these patterns - these storms became major disasters.
Could our Government have some kind of Weather Modification satellite in space? You know, some kind of microwave pulse or beam directed at nearby water supplies to warm up the water and creat more moisture/power in the storm.
I saw this during hurricane Katrina - A major glitch flashing right across the Infrared weather screen right befor ethe storm intensified.
And it is only visible on the Infrared screen
Just throwing this out there.
Peter D
You seem to think you know me. I don’t show my questions or answer so you are either watching what I do or you have nothing to do all day and look at every post on every board.
The World is not what it appears to be from an average citizens point of view.
The fact that I connect on all these issues is nothing more than a way to help people wake up.
The World doesn’t belong to man and my life doesn’t belong to my Government.
Freedom of Speech
I may ask what I want, where I want and when I want.
Get a life
I can show you the screen grabs if you would like of Hurricane Katrina spiking on the infrared.
HERE ARE FOUR OF MY SCREEN GRABS
As if some kind of radiated pulse or modifier is aimed at water supply near storm to increase the storm development in a certain area.
I have noticed this and have copied several instances to my hard drive. Whenever I have seen these patterns - these storms became major disasters.
Could our Government have some kind of Weather Modification satellite in space? You know, some kind of microwave pulse or beam directed at nearby water supplies to warm up the water and creat more moisture/power in the storm.
I saw this during hurricane Katrina - A major glitch flashing right across the Infrared weather screen right befor ethe storm intensified.
And it is only visible on the Infrared screen
Just throwing this out there.
In 10 years of watching weather pattern I can tell you that the anomalies shown below are not natural occurences.
it’ll be that time again in 3 months. I live in louisiana and it seems like we just barely went through hurricane gustav and hurricane season is already coming again. I always get kinda nervous about us having another 2005. not just talking about new olreans either, that year was crazy as hell when it came to hurricanes. do you think this’ll just be another season to come and go or something worse? also have they made the predictions on how many storms we’ll have?
