Not a tropical storm.

[huisjen]

Just more of god's wrath on the red states.

http://icons.wunderground.com/data/images/atl200790_model.png

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/2007/may8.jpg

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t4/wv.jpg

[Bob Adams]

Can't anybody post anything without partisan horse crap?

[cs]

I can, but nobody listens to me anyway.

Chad

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Don't you just love the predictions -

Forecasting is difficult, particularly about the future.

[Popeye]

i love the smell of partisan horse crap in the morning

[Milo Christensen]

Since folks down that way have been praying for rain, maybe God's wrath will put out the Devil's fires?

[Taylor Tarvin]

It smells like victory, and the much needed rain isn't bad either.

[huisjen]

Note to self: Southerners have "manners" but no sense of humor.

"Whatever your feelings may be, you must make a joke of everything at sea; and if you were to fall from aloft and be caught in the belly of the sail, and thus saved from instant death, it would not do to look at all disturbed, or to make a serious matter of it." -- Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Or maybe I'm just in a mischevious mood this morning.

With any luck, we'll get some wrath up here sometime soon. The last two years have been wash-outs, and now this spring has gone from overextended winter, through a brief but very wet period, to the present, where things are actually getting a little dry.

Dan

[erster]

I suspect that those southern redstate bible thumper folks that were sailing northbound off shore of Hatteras that lost their possessions, a couple that are still missing, also, and the loss of boats enjoy your humorous display as much as the woman that was waste deep in water in front of her house a couple of years ago, too. Maybe we could submit this thread to the Comedy Club show to for review.:eek:
Oh yea, Maybe the redneck owner of the Royalie would also enjoy your humor, too, since he has just endured a rebuild of his hull only to have to endure the pounding that he took against the pier and the mangled sails that he wrestled with in that 60 knot winds, too. I bet he is saying oh shucks, if only it would develop into a major system now, and return and finish off his home away from home.

[Milo Christensen]

Wildfire smoke plumes. (http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6482517)

[Beach Party]

i love the smell of partisan horse crap in the morning

See it just goes to show you that not all yankees are humorless arse wipes.:)

[S.V. Airlie]

See it just goes to show you that not all yankees are humorless arse wipes.

Well, as a Yankee, I got quit a lot of humor envsioning you going back and forth to a moored boat on a jet ski. Actually, I got a real chuckle outta that.:rolleyes:

now back to the post. Watched the projected weather report..etc.. etc.. this could turn into a surprise for NC etc. It's kinda hard to fool mother nature.

[Milo Christensen]

The storm's been named -- Andrea, but it's still considered sub-tropical. Huh.

[Popeye]

See it just goes to show you that not all yankees are humorless arse wipes..

hmmm ..

a little sensitive today about our personal boundaries are we

oh well , c'est la vie

[S.V. Airlie]

Popeye.. my mistake.. that was a quote from Beach Bum.. umm, I mean Beach Boy.
Naw.. I ain't touvhy at all... It was just another example of Beach boy not having any idea what he is talking about.

[brad9798]

Getting a bit over zealous on the name game ... it helps the global warming argument to name one in early May, I gather! ;)

She should not be named ... yet ...

[S.V. Airlie]

Brad.. someone will explain how it works... but at a certain point.. storms are named. I don't think naming storms of this magnitude happened pre 1960 but I could be wrong.

[Popeye]

Popeye.. my mistake.. that was a quote from Beach Bum.. umm, I mean Beach Boy..

ok , gotcha

carry on :D

[huisjen]

Slow mover at any rate.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT01/refresh/AL0107W5+gif/083527W_sm.gif

[S.V. Airlie]

I must say this storm is not going to help the firefighters in GA and FL. From what I gather, 40mph winds, little rain. Umm go some hot embers.

[High C]

As was pointed out by a local meteorologist last night, if this were a tropical storm, which it is not (he's frosted that it was given a name), it would end the longest period EVER between tropical cyclones, anywhere on the globe.

The lucky streak, thus, continues...

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

.... it would end the longest period EVER between tropical cyclones, anywhere on the globe.
...

Anywhere on the globe?????

[ccmanuals]

Naming of storms very early in their lifespan is a recent thing and is the result of insurance companies lobbiest influence. Many insurance policies do not cover what is called "named storms."

[George.]

Anywhere on the globe?????

It's a "local" American meteorologist, Newt. Their globe tends to be flat and have fifty states.

[High C]

Anywhere on the globe?????

Yep.

Jeff Masters said it as well, on his Weather Underground blog; "Andrea's formation brings to a close the longest period on record globally without a tropical cyclone."

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=670&tstamp=200705

Though the local guy thinks this storm shouldn't be considered "tropical".

[High C]

It's a "local" American meteorologist, Newt. Their globe tends to be flat and have fifty states.

Oopsie. :rolleyes:

[Mrleft8]

Looks like a good weekend NOT to be in St. Augustine or JAX...

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

They, he, it, whatever - may be right for longest period on record for the North Atlantic....
But I'm fairly sure that the Falklands have never seen one.

[George.]

Give them time. Brazil had never seen one either until 2004.