just when things look dead...wilmas coming!!!!


this will likely hit the gulf coast

10/15/2005 5:17:48 PM

10/15/2005 5:19:40 PM

Looks like gas prices are going up 30 cents again.

10/15/2005 6:49:21 PM

I think the oil companies have found a new solution to padding their bottom line.

10/16/2005 5:25:03 AM

Over here in the pacific, you never can tell which direction they will go in. Take a look at the past track for this one.

10/16/2005 5:48:16 AM

looks like it will be a major cane, Wilma probably will be the end of the season(at least for big storms) For the record books, we need Tropical Storm Alpha.

10/16/2005 10:29:51 AM

Looks like a tampa landfall

10/16/2005 12:54:13 PM

looks like a new orleans landfall

10/16/2005 2:18:37 PM

Wilma is official.

10/17/2005 1:29:45 PM

there will be a few more tropical storms

10/17/2005 1:31:25 PM

As stated on a previous page, they should start naming them after video game charaters after the initial 21 have been reached.

10/17/2005 1:45:06 PM

Hurricane Scorpion Wins

Flawless Victory

10/17/2005 3:24:20 PM

Fatality!

10/17/2005 3:38:26 PM

You win! PERFECT!

10/17/2005 4:32:40 PM

I think that gas prices would get caught up in his "Hurricane Rush"

10/17/2005 5:25:24 PM

http://www.hurricanepetermcneeley.com/

10/17/2005 6:52:59 PM

Next one after Wilma is Alpha. Dear lord.

10/18/2005 12:20:22 AM

they should just do corporate sponsorships

'Hurricane Budweiser has decimated Florida'

10/18/2005 12:25:40 AM

I doubt people would be so keen on buying a product whose namesake destroyed their life.

10/18/2005 1:19:34 AM

looking like naples-punta gorda(charley). keeps shifting east. damn jet stream

10/18/2005 5:15:12 PM

Category 2 Now. Category 4 or 5 within 24 hours.

10/18/2005 11:58:30 PM

IT IS NOW A 4

10/19/2005 1:22:51 AM

she is now a cat 5 and the strongest storm ever on record

10/19/2005 5:16:08 AM

10/19/2005 8:32:27 AM

882mb...that seems really really low...what was katrina's pressure when it was a cat 5?

10/19/2005 8:40:37 AM

^it was higher. I believe this 882 pressure reading is the lowest in the Atlantic in recorded history.

10/19/2005 8:45:55 AM

holy shit

10/19/2005 8:56:08 AM

yeah this storm is no joke.

10/19/2005 9:03:13 AM

i believe this is officially the fastest ive ever seen a hurricane blow up in intensity i mean holy shit 88mb in 15 hours WTF!

10/19/2005 9:13:00 AM

This storm sucks...My fiance's parents are on a cruise in the Carribian right now...and its going to ruin some football games this weekend

10/19/2005 9:26:42 AM

gonna fall apart before it hits land

10/19/2005 9:39:13 AM

this furthers my theory that all those hurricanes back in the day that were 200+ mph wind speed never really got that high

because we are seeing crazy pressures and winds less that 200 mph

10/19/2005 9:52:38 AM

Quote :

"gonna fall apart before it hits land"

maybe to a Cat 3

10/19/2005 9:53:58 AM

if by back in the day you mean before the 60s...well we weren't flying airplanes into hurricanes back then and measuring.

10/19/2005 9:54:04 AM

i know

that is what i mean

it is just something to think about

[Edited on October 19, 2005 at 9:54 AM. Reason : edit]

10/19/2005 9:54:23 AM

record pressure drop to 882mb

freakin crazy!

10/19/2005 10:39:29 AM

^^I don't see your correlation then. Please explain further

10/19/2005 10:48:33 AM

Quote :

"882mb...that seems really really low...what was katrina's pressure when it was a cat 5?"

Katrina was 902 at peak intensity. Gilbert was 888. This new record pressure has not been totally verified though.

10/19/2005 10:59:47 AM

10/19/2005 12:20:35 PM

^^its been verified now. Check out TWC's website.

10/19/2005 12:38:31 PM

florida is fucked

10/19/2005 12:48:08 PM

this eye this is the tightest little hole ive ever seen

10/19/2005 12:50:04 PM

I've seen tighter!

10/19/2005 12:53:49 PM

^mormons don't count

10/19/2005 1:33:19 PM

Quote :

"she is now a cat 5 and the strongest storm ever on record"

strongest Atlantic storm on record

10/19/2005 1:38:45 PM

i kinda find the path it's taking interesting, if you view a map of water temperatures, this things projected path goes through the warmest water it can all the way up the eastern seaboard

i know outside forces more heavily affect the path than anything....just seems interesting

10/19/2005 1:49:17 PM

True. Were they flying into storms back when Camille was around? How come nothing seems to touch that 190 level? Camille's pressure was nowhere near this low.

10/19/2005 1:50:44 PM

wind speed between 175-190 both = extreamly deadly

the surge with this whore has to be insane though

10/19/2005 1:53:12 PM

If you look at the forecast path notice that huge jump from Sat. to Sun. that means the winds are really gonna pick this up and move it which is not conducive to maintaining anywhere near this strength, it will be like most of the other cat 5 storms, get real big out in the open and by landfall maybe a cat 3 at best

10/19/2005 1:56:39 PM

^^^

Source: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/roger_pielke/camille/report.html

" The last reconnaissance flight was made early Sunday afternoon, and the crew recorded a central pressure of 26.61 inches (901 mb) and clocked maximum winds at more than 200 mph near the center (USACE 1970). Hurricane-force winds extended 60 miles from the center and gales outward about 180 miles. The storm was now at its peak and was located less than 100 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River."

At landfall: " There were no records of winds near the eye of the storm, but estimates ranged up to 190 mph. The tidal surge reached an unprecedented height of 22.6 feet above mean sea level at Pass Christian and was nearly 6 feet above mean sea level as far east as Gulf Shores, Alabama (USACE 1970). Near the west end of the Bay St. Louis bridge, of 26.85 inches of pressure was recorded. "

10/19/2005 4:16:32 PM