Tropical cyclones aren't normally my style but this one seems fairly
remarkable for June - must be all the GW or earthquake activity in the
Marianas Trench. Irony aside:

The intellicast radar is showing the rain bands up a treat. Check
Florida. From various sources:

Dennis is now the strongest-ever July Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin
(current central Pressure being 27.76"/940mb-hPa). This is only the
4th-ever Major (cat 3+) Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin in July.
Around 40 or so people are going to ride out the storm in the (WW2-era)
USS Alabama warship, moored in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Hurricane Warnings currently in effect from Steinhatchee River, Florida,
Westwards to Pearl River on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all been under States
of Emergency in preparation of landfall.

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Les Crossan,
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54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk

Les Crossan wrote:

Around 40 or so people are going to ride out the storm in the
USS Alabama, moored in Mobile Bay, Alabama.

What a daft thing to do, someone should tell them that they lost the
best part of 2 fleets to typhoons in WW2. It takes about a day or two
to fire up the engines on an old banger like that. I hope someone
brought it up to to pressure in plenty of time.

I wonder when they last ran the motors?

*Associated Press/AP Online

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Hurricane Dennis closed in on the
Gulf Coast early Sunday after strengthening into a dangerous
Category 4 storm, plowing toward a region still recovering from a
hurricane 10 months ago.
With nearly 1.4 million people under evacuation orders, some
towns in the projected path were left almost deserted. Landfall was
expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the Florida
Panhandle, Alabama or Mississippi.
After weakening to a Category 2 storm over Cuba, Dennis
regrouped in the Gulf on Saturday and became a Category 4 storm
again early Sunday, with sustained winds of 145 mph.
"Category 4 is not just a little bit worse - it's much
worse," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane
Center in Miami. "Damage increases exponentially as the wind
speed increases. And no matter where it makes actual landfall, it's
going to have a tremendous impact well away from the center."
snip
"I think there is a legitimate feeling, 'Why me? What
did I do wrong?'" Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said.
snip
About 700,000 people were under evacuation orders in
Florida, as were 500,000 in Alabama and 190,000 in Mississippi.
Traffic doubled on some highways as people fled inland. Alabama
officials turned Interstate 65 into a one-way route north from the
coast to Montgomery.

Martin Rowley wrote:
*Associated Press/AP Online

snip
"I think there is a legitimate feeling, 'Why me? What
did I do wrong?'" Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said.
snip

"Apart from banning "people of colour" from voting in the elections and
programming the voting machines for the rest, do you mean?" God was
heard to reply.

For those that want to keep an eye on this feature, satellite imagery is
available he-

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml

and more generally, for links to sites with information on tropical
storm activity, see the main FAQ at Q/A 3.19

http://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/FAQ/3.htm#3.19

Martin.


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[ with Search facility ]
and
http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/metindex.htm

Also full radar coverage (individual site or composite), stills or loop,
at:
http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/

Almost as good as we get here from the UK Met Office!

--
Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Martin Rowley" m wrote in
message ...
For those that want to keep an eye on this feature, satellite imagery is
available he-

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml

and more generally, for links to sites with information on tropical
storm activity, see the main FAQ at Q/A 3.19

http://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/FAQ/3.htm#3.19

Martin.


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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:23:05 GMT, Les Crossan
wrote:

Tropical cyclones aren't normally my style but this one seems fairly
remarkable for June - must be all the GW or earthquake activity in the
Marianas Trench. Irony aside:

The intellicast radar is showing the rain bands up a treat. Check
Florida. From various sources:

Dennis is now the strongest-ever July Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin
(current central Pressure being 27.76"/940mb-hPa). This is only the
4th-ever Major (cat 3+) Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin in July.
Around 40 or so people are going to ride out the storm in the (WW2-era)
USS Alabama warship, moored in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Hurricane Warnings currently in effect from Steinhatchee River, Florida,
Westwards to Pearl River on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all been under States
of Emergency in preparation of landfall.

Aqua image of Dennis he

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...184500.1km.jpg

Martin Rowley wrote:
For those that want to keep an eye on this feature, satellite imagery is
available he-

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml

and more generally, for links to sites with information on tropical
storm activity, see the main FAQ at Q/A 3.19

http://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/FAQ/3.htm#3.19

Martin.



Thanks Martin, I had lost a bookmark from last year and it was one of
those listed on the nhc site...
http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/r.../TROPICAL.html

--
Keith (Southend)

'Weather Home & Abroad'
http://www.southendweather.net

"Martin Rowley" m wrote
in message

http://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/FAQ/3.htm#3.19

" The normal rate of change of dielectric constant with height refracts
the wave so that it follows a curved path of about 1.3 times the radius
of the earth. Therefore, we typically can receive signals which are 1.3
times further than we can see by line of sight."

Run that one past me one more time please, someone.



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An Informed Guess.. all radio waves are bent in the atmosphere the same
way as light bends through glass or water, the higher frequencies are
bent less but at the frequencies used there must still be enough useable
return signal at a third more distance than expected.

Michael Mcneil wrote:
"Martin Rowley" m wrote
in message


http://www.booty.org.uk/booty.weather/FAQ/3.htm#3.19

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Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
www.uksevereweather.org.uk