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Zeno-25
Dec 5, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

what are they going to do when we run out of Greek alphabet

Hurricane Omega 1, Omega 2...

Hebrew alphabet? Oy

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Malachy
Dec 20, 2013
USA has been hogging all the canes now its Canada's turn
the GFS model track has it approaching Nova Scotia near the west coast then riding the shoreline till it makes land fall near the east coast

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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Hurricane Qa’pla hit the Leeward Islands this morning...

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

FlamingLiberal posted:

Hurricane Qa’pla hit the Leeward Islands this morning...

For shame. For shame. It’s Qapla’.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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Hold on, I have to get the ritual suicide knife

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

FlamingLiberal posted:

Hold on, I have to get the ritual suicide knife

Hegh'bat ceremony knife.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
As I travel the barren wastelands of what was once beautiful Oregon, the wind bites at my dry skin, and the smoke burns my eyes. I see a lone scrap of paper flapping in the wind, peeking out from beneath a partially melted car tire of some smoldering wreckage of a car that still had the freshly charred corpse of a family, their terrified twisted faces forever seared into their last dying gasps for air.

I pick up the paper and notice it’s a Kelly cartoon. “Behold...PUMPKIN SPICE SKY!” reads the comic. “Heh,” I chuckle as I gasp from the smoke getting thicker.

Rauros
Aug 25, 2004

wanna go grub thumping?

yikes, surprise Portugal sub-TS Alpha beat Depression 22 to the name.

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018
getting owned by hurricane animated gif of Jim from the office giving a knowing but sarcastic look to the camera

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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Rauros posted:

yikes, surprise Portugal sub-TS Alpha beat Depression 22 to the name.


That thing had like a 30% chance of development this morning

It’s basically on the coast of Portugal

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

lol at alpha being just offscreen

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Future Hurricane Beta is charting his own course through the Gulf, drat your expectations!

Numlock
May 19, 2007

The simplest seppo on the forums
Hurricane names will go full Anime/JRPG

Get Ready for Hurricane Alpha-Dorthy: Recode SX Generations 5

BallerBallerDillz
Jun 11, 2009

Cock, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
Scratchmo
Somebody already make the hurricane X Æ A-12 joke yet?

Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)

Numlock posted:

Hurricane names will go full Anime/JRPG

Get Ready for Hurricane Alpha-Dorthy: Recode SX Generations 5

Hurricane Subs and Hurricane Dubs finally gonna settle the matter for us

papersack
Jul 27, 2003

Numlock posted:

Hurricane names will go full Anime/JRPG

Get Ready for Hurricane Alpha-Dorthy: Recode SX Generations 5

Soon we'll have Hurricane Alpha x Super Typhoon Nabi

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I'm a hurricane dom myself

Crunchy Black
Oct 24, 2017

by Athanatos
something something Elon's kids' name

net work error
Feb 26, 2011


The initial forecast discussion is very cool

NHC posted:

The initial wind speed is set to 35 kt, in accordance with
scatterometer data from last night (this morning's data missed the
eastern side of the storm). Thus Wilfred has formed, continuing
the record-setting pace of the 2020 hurricane season since it is
the earliest 21st named storm on record, about 3 weeks earlier
than Vince of 2005.

3 weeks! Not sure if that's more of a climate change thread thing or this thread.

Ash1138
Sep 29, 2001

Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

PostNouveau posted:

Future Hurricane Beta is charting his own course through the Gulf, drat your expectations!



can't wait until "hurricane season" means there's just a hurricane spinning in the gulf from april to october

and eventually hurricane season is just all the time

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Red Baron posted:

Hurricane Subs and Hurricane Dubs finally gonna settle the matter for us

Whoever wins, we lose

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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net work error posted:

The initial forecast discussion is very cool


3 weeks! Not sure if that's more of a climate change thread thing or this thread.
It‘s a La Niña weather pattern so that makes it more likely we get a higher number of storms. Global Warming makes them stronger

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
How far ahead is 2020 for named storms against the next worst year? I think I read the 21st named storm in 2005 was October 8th, so well ahead, but I haven't double-checked that.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Perry Mason Jar posted:

How far ahead is 2020 for named storms against the next worst year? I think I read the 21st named storm in 2005 was October 8th, so well ahead, but I haven't double-checked that.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Alpha_(2005)

quote:


Tropical Storm Alpha was the twenty-third named storm of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Since the 21 names from the predetermined A–W list were all used, Alpha was the first tropical storm ever to be given a name from the Greek alphabet. On October 20, Tropical Depression Twenty-five formed from a tropical wave near the Windward Islands. It became a tropical storm on October 23, and reached its peak intensity but weakened again before making landfall in the Dominican Republic that afternoon. Crossing the island of Hispaniola it weakened to a tropical depression, and persisted until October 24, when it dissipated. Its remnant low was absorbed by Hurricane Wilma's large circulation.

HashtagGirlboss
Jan 4, 2005

Now do Beta, which also just formed.

October 27th apparently.

HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 22:31 on Sep 18, 2020

Rhetoric-o-Tron
Jan 5, 2009

by Pragmatica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbR2dEmHGc

papersack
Jul 27, 2003

Hurricane Beta will be posting on r/incel by next week

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/1307069876318744577

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

:eyepop:


:vince:

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


how did they know back in 1893

Shima Honnou
Dec 1, 2010

The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit

College Slice

Trabisnikof posted:

how did they know back in 1893

They had a guy with one of those forked sticks.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Maria Juana posted:

Sally made landfall this morning. Teddy keeps growing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1306126036304760832

it's headed for hyannis port for one last party at the kennedy compound

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos

Trabisnikof posted:

how did they know back in 1893

An elaborate system of pigeons

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Trabisnikof posted:

how did they know back in 1893

Boats sailing through them, iirc ship journals tended to be the primary source of weather data prior to radar and satellite stuff

Deformed Church
May 12, 2012

5'5", IQ 81


How dense was Atlantic maritime traffic in 1893? Any chance they might have missed a fourth hanging around?

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Deformed Church posted:

How dense was Atlantic maritime traffic in 1893? Any chance they might have missed a fourth hanging around?

Pretty dense, I mean by the 1890s being able to send a telegram across the atlantic was a common things and had been for a couple/few decades iirc so you could almost certainly expect the trade lanes to be relatively busy to the point where you'd know about a significant storm, but it would absolutely be an after the fact thing since crossing still took several days and they didn't have radios.

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
How did they send telegrams across the Atlantic Ocean? That's thousands of miles and phones weren't invented yet.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

wireless telegraphy wasn’t invented until 1894

Spime Wrangler
Feb 23, 2003

Because we can.

err posted:

How did they send telegrams across the Atlantic Ocean? That's thousands of miles and phones weren't invented yet.

there were transatlantic telegraph cables as early as the late 1850's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

hobbesmaster posted:

wireless telegraphy wasn’t invented until 1894

That's why they started laying wires across the ocean floor. The first one across the Atlantic was in 1858.

Very long (but interesting and even kind of famous) article from 1996 about early submarine cables: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

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