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  1. Mike Ventrice noted there is a suppressive Kelvin wave passing over Africa the next few weeks. I know little about such things, but he says that one would expect it to tamp down any wave activity. Who knows.
  2. Sandysurvivor has lashed himself to an I-beam and is patiently awaiting for the world to blow away.
  3. Ok, but we wait for the CRAS for confirmation before we really freak out.
  4. Wait until we get a mega CME. Goodbye grid for a long long time.
  5. I didn't realize we had a cat 5 Cape Verde storm sitting off the Bahamas. Tell me more.
  6. Could be, but I'm more familiar with them from looking at post mortem papers about storms like Hazel and '38.
  7. Until I see a strong cut-off low in the Ohio Valley, I'll sell.
  8. Nice change of pace from all the dews talk anyway.
  9. Thank you! What was its name? Can't remember for the life of me. Also, imagine the collective terror if you could transplant a storm with that structure 400 miles west.
  10. I don't think it's anything too extraordinary. It's been riding along the Gulf Stream. Also, being caught up in the westerlies I think lessens effective shear. There was a hurricane that held cat 4 strength some years back in that area. Forget which one it was, but that was something to behold.
  11. So suppression depression this year, Galveston 1900 repeat next year. Got it.
  12. 2017 springs to mind. Not that a repeat is in the offing.
  13. Put it this way, hurricane Andrew hadn't even formed by this date in 1992. The Atlantic often gets off to a slow start. But it only takes one.
  14. Congratulations! Let me know when your book hits the press. I'm always game for a good yarn.
  15. I'm afraid I don't have a peer-reviewed source handy. I don't indulge in such Rapture cult classics as contrails, HAARP weather control and flatardation, so odds are wherever I came across the CME stuff probably merited at least the benefit of a doubt. Wanna say it came up as part of an interview with Sir Roger Penrose, but he's more a pure math/physics guy, so I could be off base.
  16. Re: humanity's rise during climate quiescence, apparently we're in a relatively quiet period as far as coronal mass ejections the last 10-15K years or so. I guess they somehow extrapolated from ice samples that Carrington event level CMEs (and even more powerful) were relatively common not that long ago. You want to talk about something that could impede human advancement, there you go. A lot of things had to go right to get us where we are now. A staggering number of things. And not much has to go wrong to send us right back where we came from.
  17. The really high impact storms tend to be few and far between, even on the Cape and islands. For much of the 19th and early 20th century, most people were probably not even aware that they were getting hit by the remnants of a tropical system. It had been such a long time since a major strike that people largely wrote off the threat of hurricanes by the 1930s. It will be interesting to find out how woefully unprepared we are and how badly underfunded our utilities' storm sinking funds are when the next cat 2 or 3 hits us squarely on the chin.
  18. I finally got around to power washing my house after a couple years of grime and green stuff had built up on the north side (last summer's dews were chiefly responsible). On the positive side, the house is gleaming like new. On the negative side, I set my ladder down on a yellow jacket nest and now have a lovely complement of angry welts on my calf.
  19. Euro did pop something off the SE coast. Hard recurve would mitigate surf to some degree though. That legacy GFS would probably be a Bill redux from a waves perspective, which would be sweet.
  20. Found it. Cane footage starts around 2:30.
  21. That was awesome. There's a video of Bob from Block Island floating around that's pretty epic too.
  22. Nice find. After seeing the damage in Harwich from a minor tornado, imagine the nightmare that will be New England when the next major cane comes roaring through. Hope the utilities have a big sinking fund and their disaster insurers have reinsurance.
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