TD GAMMA,Comments,Sat Pics,Models Thread
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boca_chris wrote:stupid shear
Let's see...you start a thread that reads: "Growing Concern For S. Florida and Possible Gamma" and then you make a post that reads "stupid shear

You know...you really wanted a hit it seems. Next time...don't hide behind fake "concern." Just come on out and beg the storm to take aim towards you...it will save us all a lot of time and effort trying to comfort you that everything will be OK...I know I won't spend the time and effort trying to calm your fears anymore. Not sure what your age is...but when you start paying your own insurance and mortgage...your opinions might change a bit.
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Air Force Met wrote:boca_chris wrote:stupid shear
Let's see...you start a thread that reads: "Growing Concern For S. Florida and Possible Gamma" and then you make a post that reads "stupid shear"
You know...you really wanted a hit it seems. Next time...don't hide behind fake "concern." Just come on out and beg the storm to take aim towards you...it will save us all a lot of time and effort trying to comfort you that everything will be OK...I know I won't spend the time and effort trying to calm your fears anymore. Not sure what your age is...but when you start paying your own insurance and mortgage...your opinions might change a bit.
he will be sorry once he gets the NE eyewall of a CAT 5
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mike815 wrote:ok i understand what u guys are saying but i beileve if u dont have anything nice to say about some one dont say anything at all.
What color is the sky in your world?

Just joking.

Remember...it is sometimes better to slap a hand than hold it. If you always "don't say anything at all"...then some people never learn from their mistakes.
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P.K. wrote:wxman57 wrote:Actually, the conversion from 1500 feet is 70%. 70% of 49 kts is 34 kts. And that wind was in a squall quite a long distance removed from the center. Since that recon report, squalls have diminished, so calling Gamma a TS is a real stretch.
They weren't high though, only at 200m.
Yesterday senorpepr quoted Stacy Stewart as sayingStacy Stewart wrote:
we use the same recon-to-surface wind conversion
values of 90% at 9,000-10,000 ft, 80% at 1500 ft and 5,000 ft, and 75%
at 2500 ft"
I'm getting confused at the moment as to which conversion rates are correct.
Here's a conversion graphic. Note the 70% conversion from 1500ft. Hoever, each storm is different. Some have the stronger winds lower, some higher. So the graphic is just a general guideline.
<img src="http://myweb.cableone.net/nolasue/structure.gif">
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Thanks, that is how I was thinking it looked like based on what I've studied. Looks just like the normal wind profile you would expect for a convective boundary layer but without the mixed layer within the boundary layer, then again the surface layer is rather greater than he usual 10% of the boundary layer on there.
(Obviously a TC is a special case though so what i have looked at over here doesn't hold true in this case)

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to set the record straight:
- I don't want a major hurricane
- I don't mind a Tropical storm
- I should be concerned considering what Wilma did and how fragile S. Florida is right now
- I may hype up blobs a bit, I agree but I was dead on with Katrina and Wilma days before landfall (although I predicted a CAT3 Wilma in S. Florida but it was barely even a CAT 2).
- I don't want a major hurricane
- I don't mind a Tropical storm
- I should be concerned considering what Wilma did and how fragile S. Florida is right now
- I may hype up blobs a bit, I agree but I was dead on with Katrina and Wilma days before landfall (although I predicted a CAT3 Wilma in S. Florida but it was barely even a CAT 2).
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