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beachbum_al wrote:Frederic1979 wrote:thats it, I gotta stop playing with the airplane glue before getting on this forum, please somone from the real world help me get out this methane fog. The room is starting to spin....
Just step out side away from your computer and stop sniffing that methane gases. Opps that might not happen since we live close to the GOM. Think that might be what is wrong with all of us.
Decomdoug wrote:Does the CIA, or DOD know about this? How about Homeland Security? I know, some Afganie, in a cave, with aluminum foil on his head, who just ate a dinner of turniups and garlic, is getting us back! Raise the security level to RED! Call Tom Ridge! We've found the wepon of Mass Destruction!!
Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:Extreme measures are not necessary. Pollutant reduction would be a great start. I don't care for unintellectual ridicule or reductio-ad-absurdums.
Too bad there seems to be no intellectual responses. A lack of comprehension does not imply absurdity on the part of that which is to be comprehended.
If anything, even a tropical storm sits off the west coast of FL in the GOM, with this year's hot water it can deepen rapidly into a cat 2/cat 3 in 2-3 days.
If a cat 2/3 enters the GOM, and decides to head for Florida's west coast, with a 93 temp at clearwater I have little doubt it would deepen to CAT 4/5 prior to landfall.
This is a very serious situation. Realize that if ANY STORMS come into the GOM near FL Coast a very dangerous situation could develop. The water temps are record hot in local inlets, and swimming pool water is too hot to swim in.
The dead zone off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas is nearly the size of Connecticut and much larger than federal researchers had predicted earlier this year, according to a new survey.
An annual weeklong cruise led by researchers with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium found an area of low-oxygen measuring 4,564 square miles and extending from the Mississippi River to the Texas border. On average, the dead zone has measured about 4,800 square miles since 1985.
The dead zone, also known as hypoxia, forms each spring and summer as fresh water enters the Gulf of Mexico and causes large algae blooms. The algae die and sink to the bottom of the Gulf, where they decompose, using up oxygen in the deeper, saltier water. Fish avoid the low-oxygen water, and bottom-living organisms are killed.
The dead zone could in the long-term affect the overall health of the Gulf's marine species, said Nancy Rabalais, a leading hypoxia researcher with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. She said researchers are studying how the dead zone affects the growth and reproduction of marine species.
The dead zone could grow much larger this year — perhaps as large as 6,200 square miles — if major storms do not stir up the Gulf in the coming months, Rabalais said.
Officials are looking for ways to cut down on the amount of fertilizer and pollution in watersheds that flow into the Mississippi and end up in the Gulf.
The zone's size varies year to year. At 5,800 square miles, last year's was bigger than Connecticut. The record of 8,500 — about the size of Israel and a bit smaller than New Jersey — was in 2002.
Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had predicted a much smaller dead zone because the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers were carrying much less nitrogen and other nutrients than usual. NOAA predicted that about 1,500 square miles of Gulf waterbottom would likely be without oxygen this year.
Stratusxpeye wrote:If anything, even a tropical storm sits off the west coast of FL in the GOM, with this year's hot water it can deepen rapidly into a cat 2/cat 3 in 2-3 days.
If a cat 2/3 enters the GOM, and decides to head for Florida's west coast, with a 93 temp at clearwater I have little doubt it would deepen to CAT 4/5 prior to landfall.
This is a very serious situation. Realize that if ANY STORMS come into the GOM near FL Coast a very dangerous situation could develop. The water temps are record hot in local inlets, and swimming pool water is too hot to swim in.
Have to agree with that living here on the west coast my pool is so hot and even with massive chemicals its been hard to stop algee from growing. its way too hot and clearwater at 93 and 94 is just crazy.
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