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Joe Bastardi from accuweather keeps hyping away and still 18-21 storms this year. NHC has some sense and took their numbers down to 14-20 instead of 14 to 23 named storms. Here we are almost to september and we’ve only had 5 storms, (1 hurricane, 2 storms and 2 depressions). What are we going to see for the rest of the season. I imagine JB is very wrong even though you never know.
and a record quiet August as far as storms and hurricanes.
and a record quiet August as far as storms and hurricanes.

What to expect when Cyclone Yasi hits land. Channel Nine 6pm News Coverage February 2nd 2011

Tropical Cyclone Yasi Channel 7 6PM Queensland News Coverage. Includes The Aftermath of the Cyclone.

I live in Florida. To tell you more I live in Brandon Florida. In hilsbrough county. I live in a house. It doesnt realy flood much but the pool some times over flows. What do you think we should do to get ready. We got water and can food. Do we have to do anything to the windows? I know we are inland but just wantt o be safe. i want to get ready asap, i go to school wendsday and my wife cant help me so i have to do it alone. I am 23. almost 24. Should I get gas in a can what? Also I have a deck and it lays on the ground it has dirt on it. It floods some time and that backs up to a slideing door next to our house. Should I put sand bags next to low windows and the door to the slideingdoor and the soor into the deck? Should I lower the water level in the pool or leave it? It is in the ground pool and isnt covered. Who has to evacuwat in hilsbrough and where do I find out online? is there a state of emerncy in FL?
I am in school not her. The only reason i ask this info is becuase we cant prepair to much becuase I am doing it alone becuase she cant do much as i said. My wife cant. I know it is only ts and maybe a H1 but strong t-storms with it and winds and maybe torando. I just wnat to be safe thats all. yes I just moved her two years ago but I know its not to much to worry about but I want us safe. Didnt know if sand bags should do it or should just wait to see what is going to happen. I didnt know what would happen in brandon anyways?

Hurricane Katrina NOAA archive footage of the satellite data from the visable satellite , IR satellite , RGB satellite and Water Vapor satellite images showing katrina making land fall in South Florida and the Mississippi Gulf Coasts. This satellite archive covers both landfalls of Hurricane…

Channel 7 News Coverage of Tropical Cyclone Yasi. Yasi is a very strong Category 5 Cyclone and winds could be over 300kph.

Following the tornado that struck Pampa, Texas on June 8, 1995, a second and larger tornado develops just outside town and tracks northeast toward Hoover. Veteran storm chaser and cinematographer Martin Lisius captures this F5 monster as it narrowly misses the Jordan Unit Prison. Note the prison watch towers where guards look on in terror. This tornado was so powerful, it stripped asphalt from local highways. Footage is copyrighted and available for license from StormStock (www.stormstock.com).

Roger Hill and crew put a camera in the path of an oncoming cow, and a tornado. Roger’s incredible book “Hunting Nature’s Fury” is available at www.wildernesspress.com.

Here is some footage of waves crashing ashore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. These waves were generated by long period swells from Hurricane Earl, a Category Four Hurricane well to the south at the time.

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 and down beneath the ground.

With properly watertight hatches couldn’t this be the answer to hurricanes and typhoons?

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?
One interesting answer so far:-

1. The mass of the buildings could be solved with scale. I.E. R+D should be started with say, a small ground floor apartment.

2. As to the speed of the lifts - surely that would be dependent on gearing and similar type factors - and does it have to be fast? Normally there’s some sort of warning of a storm, which gives ‘preparation’ time that people already use now, when they nail down boards over their windows etc., thus enabling building descent time.
3. The weight issue, it seemed to me that alot of the elevating platforms featured in the various Gerry Anderson puppet shows did have a basis in fact, just needing the right kind of R+D associated with problems of scale.

3. As to anchoring a buiding securely - I have seen programmes on the TV where whole buildings have been relocated - the R+D starts there!

4. As to the water table issue - if the ‘basement’ walls and floor were made of concrete, surely this would give the necessary integrity!

Here is additional footage of the wave action from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The waves were being generated by swells from Hurricane Earl, which at one point on Thursday morning, had winds of 145 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 932 millibars. Earl has since weakened to a Category Two Hurricane as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard.

Here is some more footage of the wave action from Sandy Hook, New Jersey. This is the third and final installment of the video taken. The waves were being generated by swells from Hurricane Earl, which at one point on Thursday morning, had winds of 145 mph, and a minimum central pressure of 932 millibars. Earl has since weakened to a Category Two Hurricane as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard.

8/31/2006 Tropical Storm Ernesto footage from Carolina Beach, NC. Footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto making land fall at Carolina Beach during the overnight hours. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_01_MR Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

B-Roll footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto making landfall at Carolina Beach, NC during the overnight hours. Footage of high winds and power transformers shorting out. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_02_WC Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

B-Roll footage of Tropical Storm Ernesto moving into the Carolina Beach, NC area during the afternoon and evening hours. Daylight footage of large waves and heavy rains. Catalog #: TS_Ernesto_01_WC Screen Format: 4:3 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed To license this footage, contact www.StormChasingVideo.com

Will these storms be bring this oil inland, ruining our ecology?

Global Warming is highly debated, although it is obvious that climates are changing. The debate however is the cause of this climatic shift. Is it due to the event known as Global Warming or is it a purely natural phenomena? Generally, Global Warming is defined as the concept that mankind is influencing a rapid increase in greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. The theory is the phenomena known as Global warming will melt the ice caps and be the cause of more rapid and more extreme weather and natural disasters.

From what data I have seen, Carbon Dioxide is up approximately 1% in the past century; Temperature is up by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit and natural disasters remain an average constant.

Personal experience, however, is proving to show more mild winters, cooler summers and generally mild storms. True, there were hurricanes and tsunamis in the years passed, but they were mere anomalies of normal storms taking a slightly different path.
Climate does seem to be shifting indeed, however, there were Ice Ages in the past following massive Heat Waves according to predictions. Seems to me, it may just be part of a natural cycle of Earth. That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to limit our destruction of balance, but there’s no reason to believe we’ve completely destroyed climates as well.
I forgot to also mention the credibility of the data of the past century or before is also arguable. The country believed to have the most reliable data is the US, however, readings were often done by simple mercury thermometers before the age of electronics.

What areas of Florida are considered safest for residents with respect to being relatively free of hurricanes? Someone mentioned Tallahassee as being a good place to live. What are your opinions with respect to a good place for families in terms of safety and cost of living but unlikely to have to board up windows and drive north due to storms.

VIDEO: Tornado Caught on Tape in Loves Park, IL

I just read an article online that says Colorado State University experts still predict up to 18 named storms this hurricane season with at least 10 hurricanes. I live in Miami and so I watch the tropics carefully. I am no expert but it seems to me that any tropical system that tries to develop gets destroyed by wind shear and saharan dust from Africa. This is what happened with Bonnie and Colin.
So why this prediction when conditions seem to hostile for tropical development. And its August already!
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So many times on this site we hear the global warming believers whine that they are held to a higher standard then the so-called "skeptics".

Should they be? Or is this complaint due to a basic lack of understanding about how science works, most likely the symptom of "Degrees for Sale from the Internet"?

With science, one flawed prediction indicates that the premise of the science is wrong. If I state that X will cause Y to happen, and the opposite of Y happens, then X is false. No other way to look at the data.

So if the AGW alarmists say that so-called "Global Warming" will cause a pandemic of SARS, or increased number and strength of Hurricanes and Tornadoes, or cause snow to become a rare occurrence, and if there is no pandemic, storms decrease in numbers and strength, and snowfalls surpass record amounts, then the theory that these statements were made on are false.

However if a so-called "skeptic" makes a false statement, this doesn’t prove "Global Warming" is happening.

Is this concept just that difficult to understand?

Is it the current sorry state of today’s education that allows people to keep on believing is "Global Warming"?

Or is it that most believers are just "Internet Scientists" with degrees bought and paid for from on line correspondence classes?

One of the dangers of tornados and hurricanes is the rapid drop in air pressure that is associated with such storms. Assume that the air pressure inside of a sealed house is 1.02 atm when a hurricane hits. The hurricane rapidly decreases the external air pressure to 0.910 atm. What net force (directed outwards) is exerted on a 1.25-m square window on the house?

VIDEO: Tornado Room 4pm 11/11/2010

How does the dew point effect the probability of storms in the Gulf area? Considering the fact that the water temperatures in my area are still slightly lower than other areas and atmospheric pressure is somewhat elevated here how long can I expect the weather to remain basically calm? That is to say how quickly can an area of high pressure become an area of low pressure drawing a storm to my area? And should I concern myself in any way with the dew point in attempting to watch weather patterns when a storm begins to approach the gulf area? Also how likely is it that a tropical depression can form RIGHT off the coast of Africa and continue on to the gulf area? Would such a depression be more likely to lose energy while traversing such a great distance.