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[Stormsfury]

What do you mean, "find another hobby?" While I'm personally not bemoaning the slow first couple of months, my other hobby is the NFL. The NFL won't be rolling until September. Bah.

Steve

Hey .. I found some old PC games from the OLD Commodore 64 .. with the help of an emulator, I can play the Phantasie Series (I, II, and III), in which parts II and III, I never beat until I found the emulator.

When the dam breaks, all hell is goin break loose and we will have weeks on end of storms. Trust me on this. Seasons of recent memory have started in late July/August and once they got rolling...it didnt stop.

My reference to the ATL is beginning to BOIL thread I think points to this.

[Derecho]

Agreed. It's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too early to bag on the season. But while we're bagging, anyone dispute we haven't had 2 or 3 TD's (based on textbood definition) yet? Perhaps had NHC eased up and classified a couple of things by the book (DR/Haiti Low, Central Gulf Low for a day, 98L with the low level center, etc.), we'd only be awaiting our first named storm rather than the first classification.
Steve

Of course I'd dispute it. None of the above named systems were remotely close to the typical criteria NHC uses for TDs; if any of the above had been classified it would have been a deviation from standard NHC practice. There wasn't even really a low in the DR/Haiti flooding, just a moisture stream.

You can get disastrous flooding in the tropics that has nothing to do with any sort of tropical cyclone (witness Venezuela a few years back.)

[chadtm80]

Agreed. It's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too early to bag on the season. But while we're bagging, anyone dispute we haven't had 2 or 3 TD's (based on textbood definition) yet? Perhaps had NHC eased up and classified a couple of things by the book (DR/Haiti Low, Central Gulf Low for a day, 98L with the low level center, etc.), we'd only be awaiting our first named storm rather than the first classification.
Steve

Of course I'd dispute it. None of the above named systems were remotely close to the typical criteria NHC uses for TDs; if any of the above had been classified it would have been a deviation from standard NHC practice. There wasn't even really a low in the DR/Haiti flooding, just a moisture stream.

You can get disastrous flooding in the tropics that has nothing to do with any sort of tropical cyclone (witness Venezuela a few years back.)

And I'm genuinely asking out of curiosity, have you ever posted something about weather that you didn't get from JB's column that day?

Just out of curiosity.. Have you ever posted anything without being a smart aleck?? (sp) I genuinely want to know and im sure some others do as well.

[Steve]

You know, some people (and I'm not naming names) live and die off of anything Bastardi says. He goes, what, 5,000 words a day? I skim the columns, look at the videos and all. I respect him. But when I've gone after him, it wasn't about *#$* happening with Hurricane Gilbert or some other storm from 10, 20 or 30 years ago. It's been on the goods (ref. 2002 Gulf Season). Yeah. The proof is here and CFHC. I wasn't doing it to prove I was prick or because I was 5' or trying to appear to be cool on an internet message board to mask a myriad of personal issues. I did it because I thought I was going to be right. And that season I took on Dr. Gray and Gary Gray as well. I don't have to pretend anything because it's all out there in cyberland.

FWIW, and you can have someone check it out if you want, there's been plenty of more dubious systems classified than at least two of the spring systems. But you can search my posts. I might throw in some JB every now and then if I think something's warranted. But he doesn't think for me. He doesn't drive my interest in tropical weather. But I will acknoweldge him as I always do as the guru of pattern recognition. You don't hold a card to him in that respect, and you know that is true. I know it. Everyone else knows it. It's as plain as day.

Perhaps the difference between you and I is that the tropics are far more a part of my life and in my blood than they are in yours. I've been around probably a lot longer than you, and I'd bet you anything that I've seen tons more tropical action first hand than you have. I didn't know who Bastardi was before 2002 or 2001. But I was posting long before that. And I've been following storms since I was 5 (1969 in case that rings a bell).

Feel free to say what you want. I'm not going to attack you. But it's not secret that you lack any real credibility. You don't have the respect of a Rob Mann, Jason Moreland or Barometer Bob. You have a decent grasp of some aspects of atmospheric science and you talk big. And really, that and thirty-five cents gets you a phone call. /wtfe

Steve