Recent satellite pictures show that Alex is starting to look like Hurricane. A well defined eye, good outflow, circular shape and the convection is starting to fire up around the eye. I think by tonight Alex will have become a weak Hurricane tracking slowly off the NC coast. Im surprised no Hurricane Watches have been posted.
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Alex looks beautiful!
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Although Alex will continue moving away from land, hopefully, the system has been jugging and drifting over the last few days, going back and forward. Now if the system becomes a hurricane and unfortunately it moves closer to land, which is possible, then the hurricane winds will be closer or affecting land. Hurricane Watches means that hurricane force winds are possible in the next 48 hours. If Hurricane Watches are not posted at least the public in the coastal areas of the Carolinas should be aware that hurricane-like conditions are possible if and only if the system moves closer to land.
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Ah yes...but you just said that " If this sytem becomes a hurricane and unfortunately, it moves closer to land, which is POSSIBLE...." Right there is saying there is a hurricane force winds POSSIBLE in the area in the next 48 hrs. I think there is good reasons for Hurricane watches since this storm will get so close to land and its moving slowly ( back when Isidore was in the GOM it moved slowly and made landfall on the Yucatan coast,without warning, and it was about the same distance away from land as Alex is now ). Im sorry if a sound like a smart ass.....lol 
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vbhoutex wrote:BTW, if everyone will note in the vortex message posted in another thread, ("An eye has popped-Hurricane shortly")it reads "open SE" which means there is not an eye or eyewall as of that vortex message.
Your wrong, that means there is an eye forming just not closed, open on the SE side. Read Air Force Met's message again.
L. EYE CHARACTER. This is a brief description of what the eye looks like on radar. "CLOSED WALL" if the eye is completely surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms: the wall cloud. "OPEN NE" means there is a break in the wall to the northeast, etc. If the eye is not at least 50% surrounded by a wall cloud, this item and Item M will be reported as "NA" (Not Applicable).
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Air Force Met wrote:Platform is a different story. The only reason why John Hope was as good on TWC was he was so old he didn't care about the politics envovled. I guess as a met...it irks me when people think they know so much more than the experts. If they do...then THEY need to get out there and do it for a living. It's real easy to be an amatuer and make snipes at professionals...there's no risk invovled. Those of us who do this for a living put our livelyhood on the line daily and have to pay a price for being wrong...and frankly...it bugs me when backseat experts trash the real experts. If they are so good...then they should be doing it and we'd all be standing in line paying them for it.
I'm an urban designer (and a weatherhead) and couldn't agree with you more. I hate it when people who don't know lick about city planning and urban design bash people in the field. Good work AF.
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We have been muggy, 80's, thunderstorms then clearing, then thunderstorms and so on. It has been breezy for the past few hours. Severe thunderstorms knock out my power so I stocked up on things we may need "just in case". Not like it wouldn't be used later anyway. I swear I think there's a tree against a line somewhere that makes out power go out so easily, so we purchased gas for the generator. With me being pregnant, 2yr old, 14yr old and 15 yr old. We got to have power. This is the time I hate the country, we get forgotten when power outages are reported. Fran was 3 weeks no power, Floyd was 1 1/2 weeks. Bonnie and Bertha (I believe) just a couple of days. 
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Air Force Met wrote:Platform is a different story. The only reason why John Hope was as good on TWC was he was so old he didn't care about the politics envovled. I guess as a met...it irks me when people think they know so much more than the experts. If they do...then THEY need to get out there and do it for a living. It's real easy to be an amatuer and make snipes at professionals...there's no risk invovled. Those of us who do this for a living put our livelyhood on the line daily and have to pay a price for being wrong...and frankly...it bugs me when backseat experts trash the real experts. If they are so good...then they should be doing it and we'd all be standing in line paying them for it.
I agree with you, but just let it go. No matter how much one preaches about this, the message never really gets through anyway. And the same thing will continue.
This is a message board--we have to expect this kind of stuff.
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