Irene hit New York as a category 1 hurricane, which is much less than the category 3 originally predicted. Since that happened the right has launched a major attack on the Obama administration, accusing them of “over-hyping” the hurricane for political purposes. This started with a bunch of links on Drudge over the weekend that […]
Hard to believe summer is winding down and we haven’t had a major hurricane make landfall in the U.S. yet. That could all be changing now with Irene: Irene, the ninth named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to pass over Puerto Rico overnight and could strengthen into a hurricane as it […]
This time of the year one of my daily reads is the National Hurricane Center’s website. It’s just part of being a weather junky. Today I was presented with this: That’s a tropical depression forming way out in the Atlantic and has a 60% chance of developing into a Cyclone over the next 48 hours. […]
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the Republicans are considering delaying the start of their convention because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is expected to become a hurricane before making landfall on Tuesday. The White House is also debating whether Bush should cancel his speech or not. Gustav is not the only problem […]
That’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center. The yellow area is a tropical wave that appeared tonight and has less than a 20% probability of becoming a tropical storm. The red area is a storm that has a greater than 50% probability of becoming a tropical depression either tonight or tomorrow. On top of […]
The record is now broken. Tropical storm Alpha has formed, making it the 22nd named storm of this season and breaking the all time record for most active hurricane season. The scary thing is looking at these two storms they are going to come very close to one another. Hurricane Wilma Projected Path Tropical Storm […]
Today Bush showed a new level of callousness that is mind blowing. While talking to reporters he had to really stretch in order to pat him self on the back. The President was asked when he knew the storm was severe. He told reporters: I knew a big storm was coming on Monday, that’s why […]
Saturday the National Hurricane Center was giving out information that Katrina would provide a devastating blow to the Gulf Coast. Sunday, the Mayor of New Orleans called for a total evacuation of the city, an extremely rare incident. Monday and hit and by Tuesday we were seeing the total devastation this storm has caused on […]