I first used the term “Katrina Factor” when tropical storm Alberto, the first storm of the 2006 season, didn’t live up to hype as it hit Florida and local officials had evacuated 20,000 people before it made landfall. So what is the “Katrina Factor”? The “Katrina Factor” is how we look and react to to [...]
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2007 Hurricane Season Suffering from the “Katrina Factor”
September 21st, 2007 · No Comments
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Gabby the Dull & Other Tropical News
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
O.K. so Gabrielle didn’t live up to the “hype” that was discussed here last week. To be honest, it wasn’t living up to much. On Saturday, Gabrielle went from subtropical to tropical but never really materialized into a serious storm. Alan Sullivan called Gabby “Pitiful“, AccuWeather.com’ Jesse Ferrell give Gabrielle the label of “Lame“, but [...]
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Like it or Not, Heeere’s Gabby (Gabrielle)
September 8th, 2007 · No Comments
At 11pm EDT Friday, the National Hurricane Center named the disturbance we have been talking about for almost a week, Gabrielle, referred to as 99L before being named. Making it the 7th named storm of the season. Like the very first storm named in 2007, Gabrielle is a subtropical storm. What is a subtropical storm [...]
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Tropical Depression Anytime
September 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments
UPDATE 5:30PM EDT: The National Hurricane Center released another special tropical disturbance statement for 99L at 5:00PM: THE AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATING THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BETWEEN BERMUDA AND THE SOUTHEAST U.S. COAST HAS NOT YET IDENTIFIED A WELL-DEFINED CLOSED SURFACE CIRCULATION. THE AIRCRAFT WILL CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THIS SYSTEM…AND IT COULD [...]
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Is the Southeast Disturbance (99L) just a Bunch of Hype?
September 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Alan Sullivan thinks so: Drudge is still linking yesterday’s report about a possible hurricane in the NE US. This was nonsense then, and it is double nonsense now. There is no serious weather offshore, just a weak swirl that will hook back toward the Carolinas, then drift away again. This trivial ocean storm has no [...]
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