Hurricane Dennis

[bejohnson]

Hurricane Dennis is just below category 4 strength and has the potential to be a very dangerous storm. It is very early in the season for a Caribbean storm to be this strong.

Here is the latest infrared satellite photo:

http://maps.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xg3_ir_anim.gif

Anytime the sea surface temperature is above 82 degrees F there is a good chance for storm intensification. Here is the temperature of the Caribbean and the Gulf.

https://128.160.23.54/products/K10/caribbeank10.gif

Here is the projected path of Dennis:

http://maps.wunderground.com/data/images/at200504.gif

Brandi and her crew have been tracking and monitoring the storm and she reports 18' seas on the NE side of the eye.

[CyberGuy]

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[bejohnson]

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U.S. Navy weather site. :Thumb

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[egarrard]

What's the big hot spot just SE of Florida?

[XxFaeryOnFirexX]

That's a big fatty. I hope it doesn't come near Charlotte. They're predicting we'll see remnants from it but the remnants from the tropical depression smacked us pretty good. There was a tornado in charlotte and the lightning was pretty bad. We had some flooding in my mums back yard.

This will be much much much much worse. I feel sorry for the islands and the point of impact on the mainland. The coast is gonna be smacked especially anywhere under sea level (like Louisiana)

[bejohnson]

What's the big hot spot just SE of Florida?

The Bahamas and Nassau

[wazman]

We just missed the last tropical storm on our trip. Now there's another hurricane heading that way. Hopefully it won't be as bad as last year and no one will be hurt.

[WazLady73]

Poor Florida doesn't need the hurricane...and it is heading right to Pensacola...right where I used to vacation at and the place we stayed at had huge amounts of damage from Hurricane Ivan last year. And they were closed this summer. :Crying

[egarrard]

The Bahamas and NassauFunny. No...I was talking about the big red spot on the water temperature map. It's even outlined in black. The water isn't so shallow there that it heats up that much more than the rest of the Caribbean, is it?

[egarrard]

Poor Florida doesn't need the hurricane...and it is heading right to Pensacola...right where I used to vacation at and the place we stayed at had huge amounts of damage from Hurricane Ivan last year. And they were closed this summer. :CryingIt ought to run the sharks off from Ft. Walton, though.

[WazLady73]

It ought to run the sharks off from Ft. Walton, though.


I think the sharks are now finding a new home as we speak......

Luckily when Wazman and I were in FL last month...we didn't run into any sharks!

[bejohnson]

Funny. No...I was talking about the big red spot on the water temperature map. It's even outlined in black. The water isn't so shallow there that it heats up that much more than the rest of the Caribbean, is it?

The water is very shallow there and the water temps do run a good bit warmer there. That is also an area of water that has a good bit of inpingment of the Gulf Stream so the water has a chance to warm even more.

[wazman]

The Red Tide probably had a lot to do with the attack sharks as well. Their food sources changed and diminished, so they couldn't feed. Hungry little buggers. Now that things are back to normal, they're probably not going to be as close to shore.

[Maniacmous]

Hopefully it won't be as bad as last year and no one will be hurt.

Waz, I sincerely hope along with you, however, I doubt it'll be so. Spring quarter, I took a meteorology class, and we were discussing last year's brutal hurricane season. Apparently years previous were actually low for hurricanes for that part of the world, and even more, they are saying that last year was the first year of a 7-10 year cycle of severe and numerous hurricanes just like last year. I wish I had some sort of sources to quote, but as I said, this was included in the lecture by my professor, so I'm apt to believe it.

[T-shirt]

The Red Tide probably had a lot to do with the attack sharks as well. Their food sources changed and diminished, so they couldn't feed. Hungry little buggers. Now that things are back to normal, they're probably not going to be as close to shore.
It's not specifically red tide that drives them on shore, but large blooms of all types of algae (driven by huge nitrate outflows from farms and sewage ) that deplete the oxygen levels off shore.
The surf zone is the only area with enough aeration for them to survive during high water temperatures.
Surviving and eating are what sharks do best (for the last 350 million years or so.)
Hurricanes are good at cooling and aerating the gulf.

[Tivon]

It's no biggy really... we get these every year. :surrender


What is this? :shifty

[bejohnson]

It's no biggy really... we get these every year. :surrender


What is this? :shifty
The federal government issues its own certificates and does not use third party issuers. As an additional security all military sites now require a certificate. If the site is open to the general public you get the certificate warning but by clicking OK you can get in.

The map showing the surface temperatures of the region is from the Navy's Naval Research Laboratory located near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The Naval Research Lab is part of the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/PAO/WELCOME/Welcome_Aboard.html) headquartered at Monterey, California.

It's safe to acknowledge the request. See post #3.

[wazman]

It's no biggy really... we get these every year. :surrender


What is this? :shifty

See the second post. It's safe.

[bejohnson]

We are getting rain from the outer bands of Hurricane Dennis here in Atlanta now. The storm eye is still about 500 miles away.

Atlanta regional RADAR

http://www.intellicast.com/WeatherImages/Radar/csg+icast.gif


Tampa regional RADAR

http://www.intellicast.com/WeatherImages/Radar/pie+icast.gif

[bejohnson]

Gulf of Mexico Infrared Satellite

http://maps.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xg1_ir_anim.gif

[Anduril]

I live in Birmingham, AL... we are about to get slammed. Its looking like a big one. They said it may be a 5 before it hits the coast.

[Tivon]

Lots of rain going on over here in TLH+ (Tallahassee). :)

I've done these Hurricanes so many times I just don't care anymore unless a tree falls down and things need to be fixed. :taunt

I LAUGH AT YOU DENNIS! :rofl2

:Holy Crap ****Tree popping sounds can be heard.**** :Roll Eyes

[egarrard]

Looks like Dennis the Menace is going shark hunting...

[WazLady73]

Looks like we might get some rain from Dennis up here. We could use is BADLY! The crops are all wilted and starting to turn brown from the drought we are in.

I feel bad for the people of the Flordia Panhandle. I vacationed on Gulf Breeze for many years and the place we stayed at was hit hard by Ivan last year....

The last time we cut the grass was about 5 weeks ago :shocking

[deathrow]

i feel bad for you guys and gals out on the east coasr, we get nothin compared to that, the only thing i hate about livin in california is the smog, very disgusting to wake up and look to the mountains and see nothing but grey

[Tivon]

It's going to take a few days to clean up all of those oak tree limbs. :Sigh

Here at work we have lost power a few times and the generator to the building is holding up fine. Most of the core network and systems are still up and going. The Edge network is showing many dorms down, but there in not much I can do about those place when they lose power in a hurricane. :)

Watching DVD movies right now. :Thumb