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Jordan

Jordan

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So, there's a hurricane spinning around the Atlantic now--it's name is Earl (hi, Earl, nice to meet you). Category 3, so its top winds are 125 miles per hour (about 200 km/h if you're one of those metric system communists); major hurricane. Better take cover...

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Phew. OK, it's east of the Bahamas. Far away from me, no threat, out of sight and out of mind. Looks cool, though. I'll go back to whatever I was doing be... wait, what's that?

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OK, so that doesn't look good. I'd hate to be in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and I know we've got some Foxiles out in the Tar Heel State, so I'd hope they're prepared for just-in-case... but I'm in NY, that shit is gonna swim well east of us. I'm cool.

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Umm... what's this medium-threat-level thing on New York? Whatever, don't panic; it's probably like that color-coded terror threat system the gov'mint put into place after 9/11, y'know, the one that never went below yellow alert.

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Yeah, but that's if--IF--the storm takes the left side of the track. But if I know anything about Earl, it's that he likes the right side, where he can go out in the open waters and go deep-sea fishing, not have to worry about bumping into guidos on the Jersey Shore and not blow sustained Lamborghini-style speed wind against my apartment building. He definitely doesn't want any blood on his hands from "life-threatening flooding" or anything like that.

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WTF WTF THAT FORECAST MODEL TRACK TO THE LEFT HAS THIS THING GOING RIGHT THROUGH MY BEDROOM FFFUUUUUUUUU... (*whoooooooosh!*)

Houdini Logic

Houdini Logic

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Question from last nights pub quiz - who said the following -

''Today a woman apparently rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. But if you are watching, don't worry - there isn't.''

Classic

Jordan

Jordan

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There's a rotation of names, and they're used in alphabetical order. Notable hurricanes, like Katrina, get their names retired.

If I were a surfer dude, I'd call out sick today and tomorrow, go to the beach, ride some gnarly waves and get totally stoked, man. Then again, if I were a surfer dude, I probably wouldn't even have a job anyway.

Rocket-Ron

Rocket-Ron

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So, there's a hurricane spinning around the Atlantic now--it's name is Earl (hi, Earl, nice to meet you). Category 3, so its top winds are 125 miles per hour (about 200 km/h if you're one of those metric system communists); major hurricane. Better take cover...

map_spectrop10_ltst_6nh_enus_600x405.jpg

Phew. OK, it's east of the Bahamas. Far away from me, no threat, out of sight and out of mind. Looks cool, though. I'll go back to whatever I was doing be... wait, what's that?

map_tropprjpath07_ltst_5nhato_enus_600x405.jpg

OK, so that doesn't look good. I'd hate to be in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and I know we've got some Foxiles out in the Tar Heel State, so I'd hope they're prepared for just-in-case... but I'm in NY, that shit is gonna swim well east of us. I'm cool.

earl-threat-083110-600x405.jpg

Umm... what's this medium-threat-level thing on New York? Whatever, don't panic; it's probably like that color-coded terror threat system the gov'mint put into place after 9/11, y'know, the one that never went below yellow alert.

earl-righ3-083110-439x330.jpg

Yeah, but that's if--IF--the storm takes the left side of the track. But if I know anything about Earl, it's that he likes the right side, where he can go out in the open waters and go deep-sea fishing, not have to worry about bumping into guidos on the Jersey Shore and not blow sustained Lamborghini-style speed wind against my apartment building. He definitely doesn't want any blood on his hands from "life-threatening flooding" or anything like that.

spec_sat10_600_en.jpg

WTF WTF THAT FORECAST MODEL TRACK TO THE LEFT HAS THIS THING GOING RIGHT THROUGH MY BEDROOM FFFUUUUUUUUU... (*whoooooooosh!*)

So, Do people really speak like that??

Jordan

Jordan

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The images, not the text. Color-coded threat levels, destruction scenarions, CAPS LOCK: it's like the terrorists are coming, but this time, they're in the form of a cyclonic storm.

MPH

MPH

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I am living in north carolina. Not expecting to be affected by this. I'm near the city of charlotte.. but if I die I'll let you know....

Jordan

Jordan

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As you can see by the updated images courtesy of The Weather Channel, Earl has decided to pussy out and take a more easterly route after bouncing off North Carolina and will maybe make direct landfall only on Long Island and Massachusetts' Cape Cod area. BOOOO.

The remnants of tropical cyclones can often affect the NYC metro area but it's very rare that a hurricane makes a direct hit on the area. I haven't been in hurricane-force wind since Hurricane Bob went up the Atlantic back in 1991. I was in NYC, and my brother and I went out and threw footballs and baseballs around to see how far the wind would change the balls' trajectories. We thought it was, in our words at the time, "awesome," but that's probably because we were 8 years old.

Jordan

Jordan

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Is your name one of the lucky ones?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

2010

Alex

Bonnie

Colin

Danielle

Earl

Fiona

Gaston

Hermine

Igor

Julia

Karl

Lisa

Matthew

Nicole

Otto

Paula

Richard

Shary

Tomas

Virginie

Walter

2011

Arlene

Bret

Cindy

Don

Emily

Franklin

Gert

Harvey

Irene

Jose

Katia

Lee

Maria

Nate

Ophelia

Philippe

Rina

Sean

Tammy

Vince

Whitney

2012

Alberto

Beryl

Chris

Debby

Ernesto

Florence

Gordon

Helene

Isaac

Joyce

Kirk

Leslie

Michael

Nadine

Oscar

Patty

Rafael

Sandy

Tony

Valerie

William

2013

Andrea

Barry

Chantal

Dorian

Erin

Fernand

Gabrielle

Humberto

Ingrid

Jerry

Karen

Lorenzo

Melissa

Nestor

Olga

Pablo

Rebekah

Sebastien

Tanya

Van

Wendy

2014

Arthur

Bertha

Cristobal

Dolly

Edouard

Fay

Gonzalo

Hanna

Isaias

Josephine

Kyle

Laura

Marco

Nana

Omar

Paulette

Rene

Sally

Teddy

Vicky

Wilfred

2015

Ana

Bill

Claudette

Danny

Erika

Fred

Grace

Henri

Ida

Joaquin

Kate

Larry

Mindy

Nicholas

Odette

Peter

Rose

Sam

Teresa

Victor

Wanda

Alas, no Hurricane Jordan in the near future...

Guest DavidJCW

Guest DavidJCW

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What next hurricane Obama? :dunno:

Nah... been and gone.

Reached it's top speeds in 2008 - early 2009 and has been dissipating ever since.

Now probably nothing more than a low pressure area or an extratropical low.

With the way things are going, Tropical Storm Palin could well intensify into a full blown hurricane and power into Washington DC some time in 2012! :blink:

MPH

MPH

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Question from last nights pub quiz - who said the following -

''Today a woman apparently rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. But if you are watching, don't worry - there isn't.''

Classic

michael fish

ACF

ACF

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We really stirred things up, didn't we?

Not too horrific (a la Katrina), not too piss weak.

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