This is going to be disastrous:
It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie almost- a large, powerful, and uncontrollable mass is about to swallow Jamaica, and, perhaps, Cuba, whole.
And I am not talking about Michael Moore.
The Picture Says It All
Punchy
Question I pose to those who pay better attention than I:
Am I incorrect in assuming every cane that brews in the Atlantic becomes at least a Cat 4 nowadays? Since 2004, it seems like nearly every one achieved Cat 4 or more, at least for some time. It hasn’t always been this way, right?
So what’s different?
Halffasthero
It is getting to that point, yes. The minute the storm hits the warm gulf waters, it explodes in power. I was at the gulf this summer and that water is incredibly warm. It is still projected more towards Mexico though if I remember correctly.
Bob In Pacifica
Maybe I spent too much of my life during the Cold War but I thought that the “large, powerful, and uncontrollable mass” was Cuba.
demimondian
Hey, while we’re looking for examples of politics that we can criminalize, does anyone know if there’s also a Hurricane Howard later this year? I wouldn’t put it past Rev. Robertson and his friends to arrange that there be two catastrophic hurricanes called Howard and Dean — screaming winds and all.
Nikki
If it hits Cuba, please let it completely and utterly destroy Guantanamo as a demonstration of God’s displeasure.
Rob
C’mon, thats offensive to Michael Moore.
He could consume Jamaica. Or Cuba. But not both at the same sitting!
Mark
Rushbo has been snickering about the relatively few hurricanes this season as proof of the “global warming hoax”. After Dean hits, he will switch to “liberals are exploiting this tragedy”.
Rotten
Michael Moore is fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BIRDZILLA
Just you wait AL GORE and the wackos at GREENPEACE will blame this on GLOBAL WARMING to same way they tried to do with HURRICANE KATRINA
demimondian
Um, BIRD? Gonna need to cool those ALL CAPS down a bit — you’re doing to much the Zippy the Pinhead THING, not enough of the BIRD oN a CapSLock key thing, if you know what I mean
jake
I will not run amok with a hatchet if pea-brained talevangelist ass hats say any related death and or damage is a sign of God’s displeasure with abortohomosecularlistwarprotestors.
I will not run amok with a hatchet if pea-brained talevangelist ass hats say any related death and or damage is a sign of God’s displeasure with abortohomosecularlistwarprotestors.
I will not run amok with a hatchet if pea-brained talevangelist ass hats say any related death and or damage is a sign of God’s displeasure with abortohomosecularlistwarprotestors…
[reaches for chainsaw.]
demimondian
[reaches for chainsaw.]
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Mike W
Actually according to the NOAA statistics and my rudimentary mathemetical skills, since 2004 to current, of the 56 named storms, only 9 have become category 4 hurricanes or higher. So yes, you would be incorrect.
2004 and 2005 were indeed very active hurricane seasons. In 2004 there were 15 named storms, 9 became hurricanes and 4 of those were category 4 or higher at some point. In 2005 there were 27 named storms of which 15 stregthened to hurricane status. Four of those were category 4 or higher, including Katrina which was actually downgraded to category 3 before it made landfall.
2006 only had 9 named storms of which 5 acheived hurricane status and none reached category 4 strength.
This year to date, there have been 5 named storms. Dean is the first of these five to reach hurricane status and is likely acheive category five strength within the next 24 hours.
Let the truth set you free, Punchy!
ATS
Bad as these things can get, the Weather Channel routinely oversells them.
I am still waiting for Kohotek (sp?) the comet. Can I come out now?