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This track may have errors, all people in the Hurricane Warning area need to prepare.
Hurricane Warnings are up, and Hurricane Force Winds are likely in the warning area late tomorrow. From Grand Isle, Louisiana to Apalachicola, Florida. Including New Orleans. The 5PM Track takes it right up Mobile Bay in Alabama. Folks in the affected areas should listen to local media and officials for more information.
Tropical Storm Jeanne is also stronger at 5M, with winds up to 60MPH. This has caused Hurricane Warnings to also be issued for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. It may landfall there as a category 1 hurricane.
Hurricane has weakened today, but the weakening trend has ended, it's about to get over a very warm eddy in the Gulf and it may strengthen a bit again. As it nears the coast shear is expected and may weaken it some, however it will remain a major (Cat3+) hurricane at Landfall, and it looks like Mobile Bay will be under the gun, although a small veer east or west could put it into the other areas. is also a very large storm, so winds will be felt quite a ways.
After landfall may stall out the in the Appalachin mountains, possibly causing flooding there.
Jeanne is looking better as well, and may very well become a strong Tropical Storm or minimal hurricane before it approaches the islands. It's future track is up for grabs, but I'm leaning toward the Atlantic right now. Although, again, it may be another one to watch for Florida up to the Mid-Atlantic states. But there is nothing definite in the long term track now.
will help determine where Jeanne goes in the long term, if causes the ridge to strengthen it will move more westward, if not, it may be a fish spinner. There is a very wide spread on Jeanne's future now so we will have to watch this. Yes I know you are tired of it.
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FireAng85
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did everyone go? You guys are being quiet, what's going on??????
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Colleen A.
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I think people are taking a much needed breather....also, a lot of people who post here on a regular basis are in the path of this storm.
Those of us in Florida who are NOT, are turning off their tv's and getting ready for..what do you call it?
Oh yeah...LIFE. 
Still lifting up prayers that this storm hits something that decreases it's intensity. We know it's going to hit, I just pray that it's not a Cat 4 at landfall. Still keeping my fingers crossed.
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andy1tom
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what is the thing forming just to the north of the eye?? link
Edited by andy1tom (Tue Sep 14 2004 05:33 PM)
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Keith234
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I know it seems to be heading towards Florida but there is a short-wave trough lifting north, which will provide a time for the high to build back. This will make the storm "feel it's way around" the ridge and landfalling most likely in Mobile but this storm's path is not set in stone because the high that were dealing with is a very tricky one. After this storm makes landfall it will cause mass flooding all the way up to the Great Lakes because of that ridge. Anywhoo, Jeanne should travel into the Central Gulf but that all depends on where go's so nothing is certain about that track either as indicated by LI phil. Also as a side note, JB is making comparsions with Gloria on this wave exiting Afirca, does anyone think it could be a New England Storm, as the pattern might flip back just after Jeanne?
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What is that thing North of the eye?...........Why..........it's a cataract......eye definitely needs a lens replacement!
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LI Phil
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>>> what is the thing forming just to the north of the eye??
an eyebrow.
Seriously, I'm not entirely certain to what you are referring, but looking at some WV loops, it looks to be a pretty immense feederband...I could very easily be wrong though...
On the previous thread, a question was posed, which to rephrase would be: "how many miles (nautical or linear) are there to one degree of longitude?)" I know I have a link for that somewhere, but I'm not looking ATTM. Maybe someone knows off the top of their head...I think it's ~60 miles or so, but again, I could be wrong.
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lilyv
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Spent yesterday making sure my college student left for a safe place -and for me that turned out to be sort of evacuation by proxy. So many details to take care of by multiple phone calls. I was surprized how tired I was at the end of the day.
It is good to occasionally catch a breath.
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Keith234
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I'm pretty sure it's 60 miles for one degree of Lat but longitude differs because of all that fuss about being in the same time zone. Also since the Earth is a sphere then it is composed of 360 degrees so that would make the time zones seperated by 15 degrees and 24 time zones I think, just some info.
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Edited by Keith234 (Tue Sep 14 2004 05:35 PM)
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MrSpock
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with out checking, and going back into the deeeeeeeep resources of my brain, I think it was in the neighborhood of 65. I wouldn't write that down as fact though.
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LI Phil
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http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/calc/degree.html
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MrSpock
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Great job.....forgot to think in terms of NM also. I guess the answer is 60 NM and 69 Statue miles for those who want a quicker answer.
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Here's a little kid thing on lon/lat distances:
Lat/Lon Distance
After the 335 heading, 's twisting a little more to the west the last frame. At 4pm, had it at 24.2N, 86.6W. 20:45UTC shows it at 24.20N, 86.71W based on a rough zoom of the Goes-12 Visible. I'm wondering how much longer the western component will remain and how far west can get overall. Thoughts last night were that he'd have a tough time getting West of 87.5 even though I favored a SW MS landfall. This will be crucial as to who (that's all of you east of me) gets the landfall of the eyewall and who gets the NE quadrant.
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gonyen
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You can use Excel to compute the "as the crow flies" distance between any two points on the earth.
The formula to compute this distance is:
=RadiusEarth*ACOS(COS(RADIANS(90-(Lat1*24)))*COS(RADIANS(90-(Lat2*24)))+
SIN(RADIANS(90-(Lat1*24)))*SIN(RADIANS(90-(Lat2*24)))*
COS(RADIANS(24*(Long1-Long2))))
Where
Lat1 is the latitude of point 1, entered as DD:MM:SS.
Long1 is the longitude of point 1, entered as DD:MM:SS.
Lat2 is the latitude of point 2, entered as DD:MM:SS.
Long2 is the longitude of point 2, entered as DD:MM:SS.
RadiusEarth is the radius of the earth (3,963 miles or 6,377 kilometers).
The function above works only for points in the Northern and Western hemisphere, where Latitudes and Longitudes are considered to be positive. If you are mixing hemispheres, enter Northern and Western coordinates as positive, and Southern and Eastern coordinates as negative, and use the following formula:
=RadiusEarth*ACOS(COS(RADIANS(90-Lat1))*COS(RADIANS(90-Lat2))+
SIN(RADIANS(90-Lat1))*SIN(RADIANS(90-Lat2))*COS(RADIANS(Long1-Long2)))
In this formula, Lat1, Long1, Lat2, and Long2 must be entered as decimal degrees (e.g., 45.5 rather than 45:30:00).
gonyen
Edited by gonyen (Tue Sep 14 2004 05:49 PM)
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dani
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Just a question...wouldn't a landfall in mobile bay be worse for pensacola since they'd be on the east side of the storm?
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WXMAN RICHIE
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Yesterday's deep south mid level shortwave trough turned Hurricane from a WNW to NNW-N heading for a number of hours. But as the shortwave trough raced NE'ward faster then I though it would, settled back into a NNW heading. Also evident on satellite imagery is a shortwave high pressure ridge now over the deep south in place of the departed shortwave trough.
I now cancel my Apalachicola to Cedar Key landfall forecast. A Biloxi, MS to Pensacola, FL landfall window is probable with a bulls eye on another shallow and vulnerable estuary called Mobile Bay.
In the nearer term I do expect a continued slowing of the forward speed on the NNW track and also continued shearing and dry air entrainment and therefore weakening. It is possible that the deepening mid level longwave trough now over the western U.S. will move eastward fast enough into the Midwest region to turn onto NNE-NE with a landfall somewhere between Panama City and Apalachicola but that scenario has a low probability.
In the mid term may once again grow to CAT 5 status as he passes across the near 90 deg. F loop current in the central Gulf Of Mexico, much like Opal in 1995. I think will landfall as a CAT 4-3 cyclone. Though most of the Florida panhandle and west coast of the peninsula should not be directly impacted, a significant storm surge should occur west of Apalachicola, with a moderate to minor storm surge as far east and south as the Tampa Bay region.
We now have Tropical Storm Jeanne (GADS!!!) in the vicinity of the northern Leeward Islands. She is still rather weak and on a general WNW track at approximately 10 mph. In the near term she should threaten the Virgin islands and Puerto Rico as a strong tropical storm or weak hurricane. In the mid and late term a Hurricane Jeanne will threaten a huge window between Havana, Cuba and North Carolina. I've had no time to really look closely at a probable forecast track but my initial impressions would be a beeline for the T & C Islands/Bahama Islands and the S.E. coast of Florida, then a hopeful turn NW-N east of Florida.
All this hurricane stuff is putting a crimp in my regular salt water fishing forays!!!!!
Take Care,
Thomas F. Giella
Retired Space & Atmospheric Weather Forecaster
Plant City, FL
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LI Phil
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No a landfall in Pensacola would be worse for Pensacola. It won't be a picnic for you either way, as you'll be very close to the right eyewall (strongest winds), but you do not want the EYE coming directly over you...
Edit: Hmmmm...has Mr. Giella been reading my posts? LOL...I may get ONE forecast right this season...sorry rick & mbf
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Edited by LI Phil (Tue Sep 14 2004 05:51 PM)
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mbfly
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Hey ............ how soon are you going to do one of your street level maps for Mobile ?? I may need it to use as leverage to get my hubby to leave !!
Thanks !
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Keith234
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It looks like another again? So close to landfall too, I'll bet this isn't the last one where going to see.
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If you are fans of the Tom Clancy book or movie "The Hunt For Red October", watch out later tonight and hope we don't see a "Crazy "...
Sorry, couldn't resist...
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