typhoon_tip
(Meteorologist)
Thu Sep 22 2005 11:33 PM
Re: Hurricane Rita Tracking West Northwest in the Gulf

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also, to elimnate the effect of daytime heating.
a drop of over 4 degrees from one night to the next.
10:50PM last night 85.1F
9:50PM tonight 81.0F




...hm, do you really think 'daytime heating' factors into a region that has been densely shrouded over by clouds, rain and wind?

Either way, getting a mass of water that large to change temperature by that much, that quickly, takes quite a taking ay?



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