Irene

[benefactor]

Pretty amazing the amount of bs flying around over how supposedly "overrated" this storm was.

People are just dumbasses. They choose their own opinions over the suggestions of professionals that have decades of experience tracking hurricanes. They can talk all day when it looks like a certain bullet has been dodged, but one look at Bolivar after Ike should be enough to convince anyone to never call a hurricane overrated.

[MannyIsGod]

People just need to realize that Katrina changed the game (rightfully so) and at least until complacence sets in again and we're past thinking about that situation civil defense will respond forcefully and error on the side of caution. The political ramifications of sitting on your hands while a potentially dangerous situation unfolds are unpalatable and once again - rightfully so. You error on the side of caution when so many lives are at stake.

The intensity forcasts for a storm like this are incredibly difficult because we don't have a ton of historical. Additionally, when a storm is coming in at such a shallow angle relative to the coast each minor course change or wobble can have huge results in landfall locations or duration over land prior to a final landfall. All of this makes for a very very very difficult task in modeling intensity and giving an accurate forecast regarding storm strength at any particular location along the path.

The NHC and NWS absolutely nailed the track forecast from 5 days out. But a few more hours over land and the storm never recovered. Ultimately that is a good thing but now we have to listen to the overrated BS or pundits who know little of the science saying they got it wrong.

[ElNono]

Idk,we got slammed pretty good here in Maryland. There were almost a million power outages, trees down just about everywhere you look, and some people not going to get their power back on until late Saturday. If it had been anything higher than a Cat 1 we would had been decimated.

I guess I got lucky. Didn't lose power, wind wasn't much of an issue, no flooding.

[benefactor]

People just need to realize that Katrina changed the game (rightfully so) and at least until complacence sets in again and we're past thinking about that situation civil defense will respond forcefully and error on the side of caution. The political ramifications of sitting on your hands while a potentially dangerous situation unfolds are unpalatable and once again - rightfully so. You error on the side of caution when so many lives are at stake.

The intensity forcasts for a storm like this are incredibly difficult because we don't have a ton of historical. Additionally, when a storm is coming in at such a shallow angle relative to the coast each minor course change or wobble can have huge results in landfall locations or duration over land prior to a final landfall. All of this makes for a very very very difficult task in modeling intensity and giving an accurate forecast regarding storm strength at any particular location along the path.

The NHC and NWS absolutely nailed the track forecast from 5 days out. But a few more hours over land and the storm never recovered. Ultimately that is a good thing but now we have to listen to the overrated BS or pundits who know little of the science saying they got it wrong.

[cheguevara]

there is a new in town. and she's gonna up

[mrsmaalox]

People are self-absorbed dumbasses and just gotta about something.......

[cheguevara]

Katia shaping up to be major hurricane, impact on US nuclear
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/201...-on-US-unclear

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami are keeping close tabs on tropical storm Katia, which could become the second hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season before Wednesday is out.

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At the moment, Katia poses no threat to land. The storm is located in the middle of the Atlantic some 1,600 miles east of the island of Grenada, on the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, and about 3,400 miles southeast of Bermuda.

The storm's latest projected track has it staying far away from either Bermuda or any of the Caribbean's eastern islands as of Labor Day, but still moving generally northwest toward the northern Bahamas....