Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Yo! Bill!

Hurricane Bill is a dangerous Cat 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. He's still five days from landfall, if he makes landfall at all. The only problem is that warm water fuels a hurricane and all the charts I'm looking at say that Bill is set to travel over warm water during the next 48 hours. There is a big bubble of warm water off our east coast and Bill is headed toward it.



We in Louisiana start worrying about a hurricane a couple of weeks, certainly a couple of days before it makes landfall. The folks on the east coast may not have seen a real hurricane in several years. In some places, several decades. From my decidedly unprofessional, amateur perspective, Bill might go ashore as far north as Massachusetts. Here's another map.



Ain't that a hell of a note? Bill's going to be one to watch.

Which reminds me. I haven't started the generator in a month or so. Momma's was started a couple of weeks ago. I better start laying in some gasoline. We might have a storm our self before this season is over.
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3 comments:

  1. Old NFO11:21 PM

    Paw- if you ever saw what the models REALLY show about the paths, you'd just throw up your hands! The cannot predict with any accuracy past 12 hours...

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  2. Bob@thenest12:57 AM

    NFO: Whoever came up with the term "spagetti model" had it spot on, eh?!

    PawPaw, I ran a quart of gas through my generator early last week when it began to look like 2004 might be happening all over again. Yep, good idea to get your exercised a bit. And remember, some critters love to dwell in such places in the off-season. (I built a doghouse around/over my gen.)

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  3. Old NFO5:34 PM

    Bob- You are correct... Lots of times the 'senior' forcaster looks at the models, searches through his/her memory, and calls out ONE of the models as the probability!

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