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The Interloafer on March 21, 2006 - 1:46am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Cyclone Larry was either a Category 4 storm or a Category 5 storm at landfall, depending on which source you want to believe. In any event, it seems it was the worst Cyclone to hit Australia since 1918. It seems their cyclone problems are worsening at the same time as the United States's hurricane problems. Oh well, I'm sure it's not a trend.
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The Interloafer on March 21, 2006 - 1:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Let me file an addendum to the above. It was the worst cyclone to hit the east coast of Australia since 1918, not the whole continent. Jeff Masters says it was a Category 3 storm at landfall, and notes:
Larry may be the strongest tropical cyclone in recorded history to hit the east coast of Australia. The north coast and west coast of Australia are more prone to major hurricanes.
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totoneila on March 21, 2006 - 6:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello Interloafer,

Speaking of hurricanes, Accuweather.com is predicting that conditions are ripening for the NorthEast coast of America to get hit with a devastating storm.  Here is the link:

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promo-ad.asp?dir=aw&page=nehurr

Also, Texas is moving into the hurricane bullseye.  Watch out Houston--YOU WERE WARNED!

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Leanan on March 21, 2006 - 10:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Interesting.  They think the northeast could be in the crosshairs this year.

Along with Texas:

Additionally, AccuWeather.com believes that the upper Texas coast is likely to be the target of higher than normal hurricane and tropical storm activity over the next 10 years. "Hurricane Rita was a warning shot," says AccuWeather.com's Bastardi, referring to the 2005 Category 5 storm that threatened the Houston area and made landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border last September. "The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity, particularly the region from Corpus Christi to Sabine Pass at the Louisiana border."

I remember one guy from the NHC saying that for reasons they don't fully understand, hurricanes were shifting west.  We had several years where the hurricanes were going up the east coast and hitting the Outer Banks of North Carolina, or Kennebunkport, Maine.  Then we had that year where they all hit Florida.  Last year, they went further west, to the Gulf Coast.  Houston, here we come?

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Fletcher on March 21, 2006 - 11:05am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Houston and Kennebunkport.  There must be a connection. The Bushes are channelling hurricanes, perhaps.
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totoneila on March 21, 2006 - 2:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello Fletcher,

A 'Divine Wind' is trying to get them? :-)

Some people think HAARP tech is now perfected for the Cull.  I doubt it.  Nature's forces are magnitudes stronger than any efforts of man to try to control.

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast

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GreyZone on March 21, 2006 - 12:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Shifts in the jet stream flow over continental North America? Those same shifts, taking the jet stream further north, led Accu-Weather to comment in another article that we are seeing conditions in the central US similar to the 1930s "dust bowl" period developing. Further, we saw last year how high pressure systems coming down from Canada could deflect hurricanes in the Gulf either to the east or west.

And why is the jet stream shifting? Apparently global warming.

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Leanan on March 21, 2006 - 12:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Those same shifts, taking the jet stream further north, led Accu-Weather to comment in another article that we are seeing conditions in the central US similar to the 1930s "dust bowl" period developing.

Did they really?  I was just thinking that the current pattern of drought looks a lot like the dust bowl:

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totoneila on March 21, 2006 - 3:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello Leanan,

According to your Graphic--the driest area is around Houston!  For all our sakes, I hope they do not get my firestorm scenario!

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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GreyZone on March 21, 2006 - 3:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Here's the Accuweather article about Dust Bowl conditions in the central US.
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LJR on March 21, 2006 - 2:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I would take anything Bastardi says as a contrarian indicator.  He's seldom right.
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The Interloafer on March 21, 2006 - 10:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Do you have some examples of times when he was wrong?  (I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm just curious as to his track record.)
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