Katrina Strengthening

[WeatherEmperor]

If a Cat 5 is bearing down on Miami expect around 1-2 thousands posts per day in this thread. Even that could be an understatement...

<RICKY>

It would NOT require a cat 5 to bring 1000-2000 posts.
A hurricane, Cat 1, 2 .... bearing down on Miami would generate it.

I said 1-2 thousand posts per DAY, not overall.

<RICKY>

[JPmia]

I'm not nervous about any kind of hurricane. I am actually glad to know we will be getting some much needed rain down here...but I hope it is not too much.

[sma10]

If a Cat 5 is bearing down on Miami expect around 1-2 thousands posts per day in this thread. Even that could be an understatement...

<RICKY>

It would NOT require a cat 5 to bring 1000-2000 posts.
A hurricane, Cat 1, 2 .... bearing down on Miami would generate it.

I said 1-2 thousand posts per DAY, not overall.

<RICKY>

This thread would get 1000 posts a day if the system is merely redesignated a depression.

It's kind of strange that people have been "nervous" the past 4 days about a disorganized mass of clouds. There probably has been a run on Tums and PeptoBismol in Boca.

[WeatherEmperor]

If a Cat 5 is bearing down on Miami expect around 1-2 thousands posts per day in this thread. Even that could be an understatement...

<RICKY>

It would NOT require a cat 5 to bring 1000-2000 posts.
A hurricane, Cat 1, 2 .... bearing down on Miami would generate it.

I said 1-2 thousand posts per DAY, not overall.

<RICKY>

This thread would get 1000 posts a day if the system is merely redesignated a depression.

It's kind of strange that people have been "nervous" the past 4 days about a disorganized mass of clouds. There probably has been a run on Tums and PeptoBismol in Boca.

LOL! That was funny. I wouldnt tell him that though

<RICKY>

[gatorcane]

It's kind of strange that people have been "nervous" the past 4 days about a disorganized mass of clouds. There probably has been a run on Tums and PeptoBismol in Boca.

Its because what I predicted 4 days ago is starting to happen....I sure hope it is just a rain event for S. Florida

[Rainband]

Looks like it's getting it's act together.

[WeatherEmperor]

Looks like it's getting it's act together.

It sure does. Gosh I wish that hurricane hunter aircraft would get in there sooner so we could know more.

<RICKY>

[sma10]

It's kind of strange that people have been "nervous" the past 4 days about a disorganized mass of clouds. There probably has been a run on Tums and PeptoBismol in Boca.

Its because what I predicted 4 days ago is starting to happen....I sure hope it is just a rain event for S. Florida

Let me get this straight.....when you started this thread, it was because you felt that 4 days later the disorganized remains of TD10 would gel into a blob near the Southern Bahamas?

SE Florida may very well get effects from a moderate tropical system a couple of days from now, I'm not denying that. But that means you will have been "nervous" for 6 days running! Not good for the stomach lining.

[gatorcane]

Let me get this straight.....when you started this thread, it was because you felt that 4 days later the disorganized remains of TD10 would gel into a blob near the Southern Bahamas?

SE Florida may very well get effects from a moderate tropical system a couple of days from now, I'm not denying that. But that means you will have been "nervous" for 6 days running! Not good for the stomach lining

The point is that I predicted a system rapidly strengthening and approaching S. Florida late last week (4 days ago)...with some reasons I expounded upon and here we are with this scenario. Of course I'm not losing sleep over it (yet) but I was always very suspicious about this system and becoming more suspicious

[boca]

The system doesn't seem to be moving so a threat to S FL seems premature since its just sitting there.

[gatorcane]

The system doesn't seem to be moving so a threat to S FL seems premature since its just sitting there.

Boca, but that is the problem, the slower it moves the faster it will develop and become more of a threat for S. Florida...it's going to be moving over 88-90F water temps soon.

[sma10]

Let me get this straight.....when you started this thread, it was because you felt that 4 days later the disorganized remains of TD10 would gel into a blob near the Southern Bahamas?

SE Florida may very well get effects from a moderate tropical system a couple of days from now, I'm not denying that. But that means you will have been "nervous" for 6 days running! Not good for the stomach lining

The point is that I predicted a system rapidly strengthening and approaching S. Florida late last week (4 days ago)...with some reasons I expounded upon and here we are with this scenario. Of course I'm not losing sleep over it (yet) but I was always very suspicious about this system and becoming more suspicious

I'm just playing with you boca

[gatorcane]

I'm just playing with you boca

[Steve]

In all fairness to b_c, the system had the look (as did what eventually became Jose) for the last several days. System is too weak to be a real concern outside of the rainfall potential in SE FL and maybe a wind gust or two. But if I was living in Ft. Walton Beach, I'd about be having a cow now.

Of course anything named Katrina or Katerina or Katina sounds like a sexy storm to me. If she wants to, she can come devastate and ravage me. I'll toast her arrival.

And if it were to happen that 97L was named prior to 10L, then I hope "Lee" doesn't come to the Gulf but heads up somewhere north of the Mason/Dixon line and exacts some retribution.

Steve

[boca]

The point I'm making is that its stationary not moving at all. South Carolina for example has just the same amount of threat as S FL does because its not moving in any particular direction.

[WeatherEmperor]

In all fairness to b_c, the system had the look (as did what eventually became Jose) for the last several days. System is too weak to be a real concern outside of the rainfall potential in SE FL and maybe a wind gust or two. But if I was living in Ft. Walton Beach, I'd about be having a cow now.

Of course anything named Katrina or Katerina or Katina sounds like a sexy storm to me. If she wants to, she can come devastate and ravage me. I'll toast her arrival.

And if it were to happen that 97L was named prior to 10L, then I hope "Lee" doesn't come to the Gulf but heads up somewhere north of the Mason/Dixon line and exacts some retribution.

Steve

lol you got a great sense of humor dude

<RICKY>

[gatorcane]

looks to me there is a WNW movement around 5 mph.

[sma10]

The point I'm making is that its stationary not moving at all. South Carolina for example has just the same amount of threat as S FL does because its not moving in any particular direction.

The 12Z models were initialized at 290 degrees at 7 knots. Ironically, the LBAR fwiw, tracks the system over Boca at 49knots then up the seaboard to near the South Carolina coast in 5 days as a 78knot hurricane.

[gatorcane]

The 12Z models were initialized at 290 degrees at 7 knots. Ironically, the LBAR fwiw, tracks the system over Boca at 49knots then up the seaboard to near the South Carolina coast in 5 days as a 78knot hurricane.

I forecast by tomorrow I'll be changing this thread title from:

"Who in South Florida is Starting to Get Nervous?"

to

"Who in South Florida is Nervous About Katrina?"

[boca]

If I were to pick out the center it would be about 50 to 75 miles off the N coast of Cuba just south of the SE Bahamas.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... -loop.html