2008 Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone Season (merged) Archived

TonisD · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:49 am

It seems Bertha forgot to read the forecasts and is heading straight to west, instead of north.

More knowledgeable people than me think that a GOM hit has a bigger chance of happening than 1%. That's bad news.

frankthetank · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:29 am

This ****could**** be a good thing if it could slow down and stall over the southeast section of the country. That areas needs precipitation badly.

This one is going to be fun to watch.

idiom · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:34 pm

The faster and harder PO artifically hits the better. At the moment, Iraq being out of commision, Katrina and Al Gore are saving our asses from PO.

dorlomin · **Joined:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:00 am **Posts:** 1917

Officialy Hurricane Bertha: link

Tuike · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:56 pm

Finnish tv stations MTV3's web news says Bertha is already a category 3 hurricane.

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pup55 · **Joined:** Wed May 26, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 4447

Station 42055 While you are watching Bertha, some of us are watching this buoy in the Bay of Campeche. There are 6 foot waves, every 7 seconds, and 21 kt winds. This is pretty close to enough to get them to shut down Cantarell and/or export shipments out of this region.

Mominator · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:20 pm

2008 Hurricane Names: Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.
Cool--I'll probably get to have a hurricane by my name this year.
I feel like a dork now.

joewp · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:23 pm

Mominator wrote:

Cool--I'll probably get to have a hurricane by my name this year.

Here's hoping you're a cat 5 and you go right up the Houston Ship Channel, but not before they evacuate everybody first!
I only root for that because we need a big wakeup call in this country. They all think being dependent on Middle-eastern oil is bad, but they don't know being dependent on all oil is bad.

frankthetank · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:06 am

Well... We might be on to something here. Invest 94L is looking OK this morning and might want to go into the Caribbean. From there it COULD take the turn northward. This will be one to keep an eye on. Any SNIFF of this thing going towards the gulf and we'll see a nice spike in oil prices.

no_name · **Joined:** Mon May 08, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 44

Invest 94L forecasted to go northwest in the carribean by one or two of the models...should make for a fun week ahead:

stu · **Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:01 am

Likely to become a tropical depression today.

no_name · **Joined:** Mon May 08, 2006 12:00 am **Posts:** 44

Interesting low pressure moving off the florida coast looks to have a bit of spin to it and will have about 24 hours over the warm gulf waters( expected to move NW i think). Shouldnt cause to much of a problem but judging by all the potential areas to watch its lookin like an active couple of months ahead.

edit- heres what NHC say this morning:
1. DISORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OFF THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST IS ASSOCIATED WITH A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. THIS SYSTEM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OVER PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA AS IT MOVES EASTWARD OR NORTHEASTWARD DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO...ALTHOUGH SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE SYSTEM TO LAND.

GoghGoner · **Joined:** Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 656

Quote:

Tropical Storm Bertha, now the longest lived July tropical storm on record in the Atlantic, continues to slowly move east and northeast away from Bermuda.

[ur=http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/update/index.html?from=hp_news]link[/url]
Interesting from a historical perspective.

TheDude · **Posted:** Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:06 pm

Quote:

2. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ABOUT 200 MILES EAST OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS REMAINS WELL-ORGANIZED AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THIS AREA TO DETERMINE IF A TROPICAL DEPRESSION HAS FORMED. REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT...THE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE WESTWARD AT 20 TO 25 MPH...BRINGING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TO THE WINDWARD ISLANDS TODAY AND TOMORROW.

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