ALERT: TS HANNA, TS IKE, TS JOSEPHINE.....(1100 EDT UPDATES)

[Aviation Pro]

....please continue to monitor storm development at the National Hurricane Center's web site: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Latest 5-day tracks:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT08/refresh/AL0808W5+gif/145314W_sm.gif

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/145612W_sm.gif

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT10/refresh/AL1008W5+gif/144814W_sm.gif

[yellowcanine]

1. They have used Hannah and Josephine before.

[Lex]

5. Of course they have. They recycle the names over and over

and only retire the really destructive ones, such as Katrina or Hugo or Fran or Andrew.

[Aviation Pro]

8. At the end of hurricane season, the NHC and other agencies....

...decide what names to retire with respect to the amount of destruction they have caused (generally, Cat 3 - 5 hurricanes that make landfall are retired).

[yellowcanine]

10. Well hey, I did not know they only retired the bad ones. Good to know.

I remember Josephine really well though. Although it stayed off shore it ruined an otherwise perfectly good beach vacation with rough surf, wind and rain.

[whistle]

2. September will be another really wet month

[Blue Belle]

3. Too bad they aren't tracking over Minneapolis...

The southeast could use a break and they don't need McCain and his useless crew making photo-ops of their misery.

[RedLetterRev]

4. Ike will give NC some much-needed rain

we've been in moderate-to-severe drought for some years now. He may not be a drought breaker but the rains will help. GA and SC may not fare so well if the winds pick up, though.

Josephine's track is already interesting. Think she may be a fish-storm?

[Junkdrawer]

6. Wonder if we'll get at Alpha and Beta this year too...

MIT: "Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming"

Hurricanes have grown significantly more powerful and destructive over the last three decades due in part to global warming, says an MIT professor who warns that this trend could continue.

"My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in destructive potential, and--taking into account an increasing coastal population--a substantial increase in hurricane-related losses in the 21st century," reports Kerry Emanuel in a paper appearing in the July 31 online edition of the journal Nature.

Emanuel is a professor of meteorology in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

Theories and computer simulations of climate indicate that warming should generate an increase in storm intensity. In other words, they should hit harder, produce higher winds and last longer.

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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/hurricanes.html

[Aviation Pro]

9. Thank Dr. Kerry Emmanuel for his ground breaking work on the subject....

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[libnnc]

7. the rain we need...

the winds and tornadoes, not so much :scared:

[RL3AO]

11. And now Tropical Storm Karina...

but thats in the East Pacifc. ;)

[bdamomma]

12. no such thing as global warming huh for those skeptics