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For the cable-less, TWC stills of Ophelia

#1 Postby PhillyWX » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:24 pm

http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com/

(some shots of the surf at Wrightsville, and in VA Beach)
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#2 Postby whereverwx » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:28 pm

Cool site.

Why does The Weather Channel have Fran as a category 2 into Wilimington? I thought she was a 3 at landfall in Wilmington?

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#3 Postby PhillyWX » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:35 pm

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Per the NHC, here's landfall info:

6/0030 33.9 78.7 954 100 kts. landfall near Cape Fear, NC


That's 115 mph...and a cat 3. You are right. I'm surprised the TWC whiffed on that -- maybe they were thinking Bertha instead of Fran. Bertha landfalled as a 2.

PS -- thanks for the props on my site.
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#4 Postby Scorpion » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:38 pm

Sure haven't seen many hurricanes with a track like that this year. Oh where are our Cape Verde storms :( .
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#5 Postby PhillyWX » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:43 pm

Scorpion wrote:Sure haven't seen many hurricanes with a track like that this year. Oh where are our Cape Verde storms :( .


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#6 Postby Brent » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:43 pm

Fran actually struggled badly until it got east of the Bahamas because it was following right behind the monster called Edouard(which passed just east of Nantucket Island).
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#7 Postby PhillyWX » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:46 pm

...the other thing I noticed.

The caption is Hurricanes within 65 miles of Wilmington in the last SIX years.

Um, 1996 was 9 years ago.

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#8 Postby cjrciadt » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:47 pm

Image The pic that froze me that morning.
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#9 Postby whereverwx » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:50 pm

isawitonline wrote:...the other thing I noticed.

The caption is Hurricanes within 65 miles of Wilmington in the last SIX years.

Um, 1996 was 9 years ago.

:roll:


Wow, that's true! They sure did not put much time into making that graphic.
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#10 Postby JtSmarts » Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:00 pm

Bonnie was also 7 years ago. :roll:
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#11 Postby Andrew92 » Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:16 pm

Remember people, this is TWC we're talking about here. Not exactly the brightest organization in the world. I wonder how many years they consider a decade. Maybe 16?

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#12 Postby PhillyWX » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:36 am

Andrew92 wrote:Remember people, this is TWC we're talking about here. Not exactly the brightest organization in the world. I wonder how many years they consider a decade. Maybe 16?

-Andrew92


TWC? Bright? They've dumbed down weather so much over the last five years...
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