Psyber
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-- About 5,000 people stayed on Galveston Island... one lady interviewed said she stayed because she was worried about looting... There is a "shelter of last resort" that is going to stay open on Galveston.
On a personal note, my elderly grandparents made it out of Beaumont -- they were on the road for 14 hours yesterday and only made it as far as Lufkin (normally a 2 hour drive). My aunt drove down from Dallas, picked them up, and took them back to Dallas with her.
Worried about what? Not getting in on the local Walmart "free for all" after the hurricane's gone?  Honestly, what makes people think that a> their personal property is worth their lives b> they could stop determined and probably armed looters when/if the situation arises. There will be VERY few police that weren't smart enough to get the hell out of dodge too!
Glad to hear about your grand parents. There's another dude on here that signed off a couple days ago from Beaumont...I know it's a little early but by the looks of things, I'm sorry about their property loss. Looks like they're going to take a pretty sizable hit.  (and possibly a N-E quandrant hit if this thing gets going a bit more west again.)
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Its down to a Cat 3 now.. 125 MPH Winds
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tpratch
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Red line shows the path from the center on the first two frames. White lines are headings of 270, 315, and 360
Quick loop I made... Motion has been NW (and currently a jog W of NW).
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zmdz01
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With all the discussions of W, WNW, NW, NNW, or N and trying to figure out for myself which way it is going, I decided to use 's GIS enabled radar to find the distances and bearing from a singular point (per each radar update) to three select cities. This is not exact science but based solely on these numbers (which in all reality mean absolutely nothing), anyone can see that the hurricane regularly makes jogs (demonstrated in the table by the change in distance over time from a given point).
What does this all mean? Nothing spectacular.
DISTANCE/BEARING FROM POINT ON
ZULU TIME LAFAYETTE BEAUMONT GALVESTON
1627 170/0 198/322 193/300
1648 164/1 194/322 188/299
1715 164/1 191/321 188/299
1726 159/3 183/322 180/298
1737 156/3 183/322 179/298
1742 157/4 181/322 178/298
1753 155/5 178/322 174/298
1804 153/7 173/323 169/298
1814 152/7 173/323 170/299
Edited by zmdz01 (Fri Sep 23 2005 06:28 PM)
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typhoon_tip
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With all the discussions of W, WNW, NW, NNW, or N and trying to figure out for myself which way it is going, I decided to use 's GIS enabled radar to find the distances and bearing from a singular point (per each radar update) to three select cities. This is not exact science but based solely on these numbers (which in all reality mean absolutely nothing), anyone can see that the hurricane regularly makes jogs (demonstrated in the table by the change in distance over time from a given point).
What does this all mean? Nothing spectacular.
We have to ask our selves...what in nature follows a perfectly linear course?? Answer, nothing...
Even the photons of a lazer beams travel in waves. Basically, if you have anything in motion in physics you have "giga motions", which are unpredictable tough to detect random occurrences that take place on minute scales, that accumulated in time and space and cause perpendicular oscillitory affects on large scales. Hurricanes, such as , are no different. In other words, there are no hurricanes that travel linear paths...they all oscillate, some more minutely then others but they all do so...
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pryord1
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You go, man!. I think ( maybe not very successfully) that I've been trying to say the same thing. It's going to go where it wants to- all we can be is appreciative bystanders. I have tremendous reverence and respect for these storms.
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bobbutts
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Watching it on radar it appears to me anyway to be rebending a tiny bit to w the past couple hours. 2 hour heading about 310 deg which puts it no the north end of Galveston bay and a 5 hour heading of 320 which would put it very close to the TX/LA border.. Based on this, the center line is looking pretty much dead on to me with the error either way shrinking continously..
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Marianne
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I've noticed that the 3 Day Outlook and the 5 Day Outlook are almost identical and I haven't seen this before...anyone else?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/023809.shtml?3day
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/145649.shtml?5day
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zmdz01
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Looks like buoy 42001 couldn't handle the 40 foot waves yesterday:
Station 42001 went adrift on 09/23/2005 and the last report from its moored position (listed above) was at 0230 GMT.
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JYarsh
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do you think is going through a right now...the eye has completely closed and the band to the north of the storm has exploded in intensity.
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Margie
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That is because you did not read the Advisories and Discussions. The advisories indicate the storm will stall for a couple days once inland. This is a big concern because of heavy rainfall totals. The discussions list the forecast track points in lat and lon and if you looked at those you would also see that the points for 72hr, 96hr, and 120hr are identical.
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HURRICANELONNY
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RADAR IS A GOOD DIRECTION USE BUT ONLY WHEN IT IS IN RANGE OF COURSE:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar/loop/DS.p38cr/si.klix.shtml 
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HURRICANELONNY
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I TRIED TO LINK THAT SITE I POSTED BUT IT DIDN'T WORK. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE IT:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.klix.shtml
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zmdz01
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JYarsh:
I don't believe it is. The last posted recon mission shows only one eyewall. If there were multiple eyewalls, it would read "CO" plus the diameters of the eyewalls.
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URNT12 KNHC 231805Z
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 23/1746Z
B. 27 DEG 45 MIN N
92 DEG 15 MIN W
C. 700 MB 2489 MA
D. NA
E. NA
F. 146 DEG 129 KT
G. 051 DEG 19 NM
H. 930 MB
I. 12 C/ 3064 M
J. 19 C/ 3041 M
K. 14 C/ NA
L. OPEN SE
M. C20
N. 12345/7
O. 1/1 NM
P. NOAA3 2318A OB 04
MAX FL WIND 129 KT NE QUAD 1741Z
EYE OPEN NE THRU SE
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Thunderbird12
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129 knot flight level winds would normally suggest 115 knots (between 130-135 mph) at the surface. I don't know if that report was received in time for the 2pm advisory, or if they are thinking that more of a reduction than normal from FL winds is appropriate in this case.
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garrison
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Over the past couple IR frames it looks to me like is making a comeback, perhaps that is why Max Flt Level winds went up
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Tazmanian93
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Chief Met For Fox in Tampa stating the same thing on the Schnitt Show right now
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zmdz01
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It looks like the transmission time was 1805Z, five minutes after the 2 PM advisory.
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Thunderbird12
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There is still an opportunity for intensification in the next few hours, as the outflow has remained excellent. There is no sign of the shear that was supposed to impact the storm closer to landfall, but the water vapor does suggest some upper level SW winds approaching the SW quadrant of the storm. The air is pretty dry in the western quadrant, so it will still be a struggle for it to maintain intense convection all the way around the center.
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typhoon_tip
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There is still an opportunity for intensification in the next few hours, as the outflow has remained excellent. There is no sign of the shear that was supposed to impact the storm closer to landfall, but the water vapor does suggest some upper level SW winds approaching the SW quadrant of the storm. The air is pretty dry in the western quadrant, so it will still be a struggle for it to maintain intense convection all the way around the center.
It's funny, on the 1pm intermediate advisory TPC states "...RITA ON A SLOW WEAKENING TREND..."... Shortly there after, very deep ring of exploding convection begins to wrap around and the eye clears right back out again... It will be interesting to see if for ONCE in this frustrating life, we can finally see the winds and pressure behavior with reasonable relationship to satellite presentation. ...Not that it hasn't, but it was interesting that yesterday afternoon it was as impressive as the night before but the pressure rose and winds backed off... odd
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