EPAC : EX TROPICAL DEPRESSION AGATHA

[lester]

This is the scariest thing I've ever seen.


The office of Guatemala's president handed out this aerial view of a crater that opened up after Agatha hit.

I hope that's fake but CNN claims it's real.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/ ... tml?hpt=T1

[tailgater]

another view WOW

[KWT]

That looks unreal, I can't imagine that is real but who knows, I wouldn't like to go down that hole if it is real!

[brunota2003]

It baffles me...how can something like that even form? Is the Silver Surfer here on Earth or what?

[littlevince]

another view WOW

This ones are old, they are from Guatemala city, but in February 2007:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... photo.html
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/500294/ho ... he_ground/

Sinkhole
In February 2007 a large sinkhole opened in a poor neighborhood in northeast Guatemala city, killing three people. The sinkhole was 100.5 m (330 ft) deep, and apparently was created by fluid from a sewer dissolving the rock underneath. As a result, one thousand people have been evacuated from the area.[20] The sink hole has since been mitigated and plans to develop on the site have been proposed.

[tailgater]

MY BAD GUYS ON THE OLD PICS!
But what a coincidence!

[Macrocane]

This is very interesting and shows how Agatha is historic for El Salvador as it broke the record for highest amount of rainfall in a 24 hours period, the other graphic shows the maximum amount in a 5 days period. I took the graphics from the Meterological service of El Salvador.

[AJC3]

So far, from what I can tell, it appears to be real, unfortunately. The following link to a thread on another forum has more photos, and akso has some similar photos from a sinkhole event in 2007 in Guatemala that was, get this, 330 feet deep!

http://www.redcafe.net/f8/guatemalan-sink-holes-297724/

[I-wall]

This is the scariest thing I've ever seen.


The office of Guatemala's president handed out this aerial view of a crater that opened up after Agatha hit.

I hope that's fake but CNN claims it's real.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/ ... tml?hpt=T1

Looks fake to me.

[somethingfunny]

This is very interesting and shows how Agatha is historic for El Salvador as it broke the record for highest amount of rainfall in a 24 hours period, the other graphic shows the maximum amount in a 5 days period. I took the graphics from the Meterological service of El Salvador.

WOW.

[KWT]

So far, from what I can tell, it appears to be real, unfortunately. The following link to a thread on another forum has more photos, and akso has some similar photos from a sinkhole event in 2007 in Guatemala that was, get this, 330 feet deep!

http://www.redcafe.net/f8/guatemalan-sink-holes-297724/

Yeah the photo from the different angle pretty much confirms its real, it'd be hard to photoshop from two different angles like that I'd have thought.

[HURAKAN]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD9G29ACO0

150 dead

[Chacor]

ABNT20 KNHC 011138
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2010

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

INTERMITTENT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN
SEA EAST OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS
OF PACIFIC TROPICAL STORM AGATHA. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS...PARTICULARLY
TO THE NORTH OF THE SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO...ARE NOT
CONDUCIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THERE IS A LOW CHANCE...10
PERCENT...OF THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS. THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE LITTLE OVER THE
NEXT DAY OR SO.

ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED IN THE NEXT
48 HOURS.

TODAY MARKS THE FIRST DAY OF THE ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON...WHICH
WILL RUN UNTIL NOVEMBER 30. LONG-TERM AVERAGES FOR THE NUMBER OF
NAMED STORMS...HURRICANES...AND MAJOR HURRICANES ARE 11...6...AND
2...RESPECTIVELY.

THE LIST OF NAMES FOR 2010 IS AS FOLLOWS:

NAME PRONUNCIATION NAME PRONUNCIATION
-------------------------------------------------------------
ALEX LISA LEE- SA
BONNIE MATTHEW
COLIN NICOLE NI COLE-
DANIELLE DAN YELL- OTTO
EARL PAULA
FIONA RICHARD RICH- ERD
GASTON SHARY SHA- REE
HERMINE HER MEEN- TOMAS TO MAS-
IGOR E GOR- VIRGINIE VIR JIN- EE
JULIA WALTER
KARL

THIS PRODUCT...THE TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK...BRIEFLY DESCRIBES
SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF DISTURBED WEATHER AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR
TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. THE ISSUANCE
TIMES OF THIS PRODUCT ARE 2 AM...8 AM...2 PM...AND 8 PM EDT. AFTER
THE CHANGE TO STANDARD TIME IN NOVEMBER...THE ISSUANCE TIMES ARE 1
AM...7 AM...1 PM...AND 7 PM EST.

PRIOR TO 2009...THE SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT COULD BE
ISSUED AT ANY TIME TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT DISTURBANCES IN BETWEEN
ISSUANCES OF THE TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK. THE SPECIAL TROPICAL
DISTURBANCE STATEMENT HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED AND WILL NO LONGER BE
ISSUED. INSTEAD...A SPECIAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE
ISSUED TO PROVIDE UPDATES...AS NECESSARY...IN BETWEEN THE REGULARLY
SCHEDULED ISSUANCES OF THE TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK. SPECIAL
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOKS WILL BE ISSUED UNDER THE SAME WMO AND
AWIPS HEADERS AS THE REGULAR TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOKS.

A STANDARD PACKAGE OF PRODUCTS...CONSISTING OF THE TROPICAL CYCLONE
PUBLIC ADVISORY...THE FORECAST/ADVISORY...THE CYCLONE DISCUSSION...
AND A WIND SPEED PROBABILITY PRODUCT...IS ISSUED EVERY SIX HOURS
FOR ALL ONGOING TROPICAL CYCLONES. IN ADDITION...A SPECIAL
ADVISORY PACKAGE MAY BE ISSUED AT ANY TIME TO ADVISE OF SIGNIFICANT
UNEXPECTED CHANGES OR TO MODIFY WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

THE TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE IS A BRIEF STATEMENT TO INFORM OF
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN A TROPICAL CYCLONE OR TO POST OR CANCEL
WATCHES OR WARNINGS. IT IS USED IN LIEU OF OR TO PRECEDE THE
ISSUANCE OF A SPECIAL ADVISORY PACKAGE. TROPICAL CYCLONE
UPDATES...WHICH CAN BE ISSUED AT ANY TIME...CAN BE FOUND UNDER WMO
HEADER WTNT61-65 KNHC...AND UNDER AWIPS HEADER MIATCUAT1-5.

ALL NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TEXT AND GRAPHICAL PRODUCTS ARE
AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT http://WWW.NHC.NOAA.GOV

$$
FORECASTER FRANKLIN

[KWT]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVWjsPEiqe1tEu2mhBIRaxxGi8owD9G29ACO0

150 dead

Thats really bad, very sad that the first named system the NHC has to deal with has ended up killing many people.

[Sanibel]

Cenotes are common in the Karst formations of Yucatan and Central America. Looks like someone's shop got swallowed.

Agatha had power. There was a clear tropical band over us yesterday.



Slight burst today off Belize before shear wacks it.

[cycloneye]

Death Toll continues to rise,up to 178

[srainhoutx]

That's the story.

[HURAKAN]

Agatha death toll rises to 180

Rescue crews battle to distribute food

Guatemala City: Landslides in Central America have killed at least 180 people, while a vast hole, in Guatemala City, caused by the storm, has swallowed a clothing factory.

Thousands remain homeless and dozens are still missing following the season's first tropical storm — Agatha. Rescue crews, yesterday, struggled to reach isolated communities to distribute food while citizens used hoes and pick axes to search for victims amidst the wreckage.

"This is a total tragedy," said Jose Vicente Samayoa, president of a neighbourhood group in Amatitlan, a flooded town south of Guatemala's capital.

Officials in Guatemala have so far reported 152 dead, but say 100 people are still missing.

In the department of Chimaltenango, a province west of Guatemala City, landslides wiped out a number of rural Indian communities and killed at least 60 people.

In El Salvador, 11,000 people were evacuated. The death toll yesterday rose to 10 and two people were missing, according to President Mauricio Funes. About 95 per cent of the country's roads have been affected.

Transportation Minister Gerson Martinez said 179 bridges had been wrecked.

Agatha made landfall near the Guatemala-Mexico border on Saturday with tropical storm winds of up to 75 kilometres an hour.

It dissipated the following day over the mountains of western Guatemala.

The rising death toll is reminding nervous residents of Hurricane Mitch, which hovered over Central America for days in 1998, causing flooding and mudslides that killed nearly 11,000 people and left more than 8,000 missing and unaccounted for.

[HURAKAN]

184 deaths

Link - http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Article ... ryId=23558