BillD
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Earthquakes are worse. At least with hurricanes we know they are coming. And although hunkering down in a cat4/5 hurricane with the wind howling around you is a terrifying experience, having the ground beneath your feet sway and shake is an order of magnitude beyond that. I experienced a very, very small earthquake once, and I don't ever want to go through that again. Everything your mind and body accepts as real and solid (the ground beneath your feet) isn't that way any more.
Bill
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Spazz
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Someone said that Los Angeles was more like a desert which tells me a lot of dry stuff be lying out by summertime under that heat. If it rains than they get the mudslides. Here at least we get a warning...............
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Rabbit
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How many tornadoes did produce?
Beulah in 1967 is top with 115 tornadoes
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richisurfs
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Sometimes I don't know what could be worse. Having a knot in your stomach for a week because you don't know if a CAT 4 storm is gonna clean you out or getting hit unexpectedly by an earthquake. I do know that the devastation from a large earthquake is something I hope I never experience.
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Clark
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Ivan should move that ridge a bit to the east as it moves up the eastern seaboard -- it's motoring right now, so to speak, and I'm not so sure it's going to stall out over the mountains (thank goodness!) -- but do note that the graphic in the link you sent is best for tropical cyclones with a pressure < 940mb.
For storms more of Jeanne's ilk, try this one: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/atlantic/winds/wg8dlm3.html (or just click on the 400-850hPa link on the other page). The one you linked to is for deeper storms steered moreso by the mid and upper level flow, while this one is for weaker storms steered moreso by lower- and mid-level flow.
As moves east, the ridge should move back a little to the east as well -- though perhaps become amplified due to the outflow from the storms as well as an approaching trough from the west (which I believe is stronger than the models accounted for, as it essentially eroded the ridge that yesterday was oriented along the west side of near Texas & Oklahoma). That provides the conduit for the steering path the is seeing -- but it remains to be seen how exactly this plays out and whether or not the ridge builds back to the west with time to turn the system once again.
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Lisa NC
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CNN reported the driver of the truck was in the rig.
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Spazz
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Avoid anything out there and that includes Alaska and its quakes and volcanic eruptions. These same peepz say Chicago's winters are bad but at least the ground don't shake and the fields are not fire hazards...............
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LI Phil
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Rabbit is right...Beulah holds the record (for now).
Let me amend that post away thingy...Spazz, you should register and then you and Richie can PM each other...I'm not trying to stop anyone from posting anything but now it's getting to be a little chat-room like...
It's easy and free to register...then you can PM any other registered user...hell...some nights I spend an entire evening doing just that and it stays off the main boards...
Thanks for understanding!
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Clark
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Don't remember the exact number, but remember hearing somewhere that was tops. The reports I found in a brief internet search say upwards of 90.
Of note -- has already dropped ~30 tornadoes in the Tallahassee NWS area alone.
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Spazz
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I gotcha your drift..................I don't want to kill the cool vibe ya got going here so I will cool it. LOL..........I will register too.
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CentralFlorida
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Clark the last I heard was 93 tornadoes for could be more
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Terra
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Thanks Clark... I was using the bookmark I had for . I did not notice the pressure. The 'correct' picture is a lot more different than I would have expected. Interesting.... So, what exactly do the different steering levels represent? Different altitudes and if so, how do they correlate to pressure (and I don't mean that pressure decreases with altitude... I mean the flow patterns on the graphs)?
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Edited by Terra (Thu Sep 16 2004 08:48 PM)
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recmod
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TWC said tonight that spawned 105 tornadoes and that so far, has already produced >60
--Lou
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BillD
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I am sure Clark can and will give a more indepth explanation. But the levels are defined by pressure, not by altitude.
Bill
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Keith234
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I gotta give some props to the on their forecast as it might be partially correct. They have it recurving and taking that path toward the border between SC and Georgia. It mainly has to do with the placement of that canadaian high, that strong trough coming into the west , and also the remmants of . Another hard one to forecast, can't we just have a normal system that is easy to track; excellent year for learning though!
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Edited by Keith234 (Thu Sep 16 2004 08:53 PM)
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LI Phil
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Heh...
Click here for the full dope on the Isuzu. I shouldn't laugh...These guys are trying to gain valuable info on hurricanes...sometimes, though, discretion is the better part of valor.
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dani
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I lived in california during the time the hurricane almost hit southern california. I have also been through earthquakes out there....I would personally say an earthquake is worse than a hurricane for the sole reason, the knowledge of a hurricane hitting is usually more readily available than in an earthquake. I liken it to the difference between being rear-ended and not knowing it was coming and being rear-ended and watching the car hit. Both are terrifying, but at least one you can make some preparations for.
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Rabbit
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Earl was easy to track: shear and westward movement=dissipation
TD12
note that the winds are now 35 knots on satellite estimate--will we have Karl at 11pm?
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Keith234
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Karl will be a fish spinner, plenty and I mean plenty of troughs to make him spin the fishes. I think Jeanne is of more concern and the next wave following Karl, that one looks like trouble.
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Rabbit
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I will update my signature, because I expect that by the time I come back on here (possibly tomorrow afternoon) that there will be another tropical storm in the Atlantic
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