That's not true at all. The northern and eastern sides of these things go on forever -- you'll get plenty of bands from a Corpus Christi or Port Lavaca storm. Especially considering this is projected to be a big storm in terms of sheer size (not intensity) after it comes off Cuba the second time. This will definitely be different than storms like Gustav and Rita that went to Houston's east and north.
You're giving them to much credit. Most likely they are two trolls who barely graduated high school and are angry because someone stole their comic book collections. Hopefully these two decide to play in traffic. Two huge losers
Here's what I've been trying to tell those of you talking about Cat 2 this, Cat 3 that. From the NHC's latest advisory: There are so many little factors that go into the intensity fluctuations of a tropical system that it's impossible to have a precise estimate this far in advance. You can roughly guess within about 30-40 mph, but that could be the difference between a high Cat 4 and a Cat 2. Not worth getting worked up about either way regarding intensity right now. Wednesday it'll be a different story.
no need to. im smarter than you think. and how does this contribute positively to this discussion? and relating to the actual storm, usually storms take a northward turn so we're still not out of the dark. and to someone saying this storm was big in size....it looks pretty compact to me. care to enlighten?
On the NHC tracking maps, the smaller H doesn't represent a smaller storm. It represents the tracking at days 4 and 5, which they consider much less reliable than 1-3. So, they make the dot smaller. As I kind of thought, the models are moving further south. It will be tough for this storm to reach major hurricane status once it reaches the Gulf and sustain it. It is so ragged from its interaction with Cuba. But, it is important to note that it went from a cat 1 to a cat 4 in 12 hours when it was born, so intensity forecasting is INCREDIBLY unreliable. At this point, it is reasonable to expect anything from a cat 1 storm to a cat 4 storm to reach somewhere along the Texas coast by late Friday or early Saturday.
Oh, and here's a warning... Cut OUT the name calling and ultra childish behavior in this thread. For a lot of people, this is a good place to get info and discuss the storm. If you want to call each other names, take it to another thread.
So the projections go from New Orleans to Galveston to Corpus to Mexico etc. Seems like looking at all these graphics is a big waste of time until we get within a few days of impact. In the mean time it's just speculation as the computers continue to deviate. It's like the BCS computers in college football.
Someone who doesn't feel the need to troll message boards for fun. I'm interested in the storm updates from people who have genuine knowledge. I'd prefer to pass on your stupidity. Doesn't matter now, you are on ignore.
I appreciate the storm info. I have a genuine concern and am keeping myself as informed as possible. Can you remove the trolls from this thread though? They obviously don't care about Houston's well being and are only here to stir the pot. Check their post history if need be. Phelps and this other dude do nothing but bring negativity into an already touchy situaition. The rest of the posters here actually appreciate the info
New 0z models for Sep 9th are out. 0z GFDL 0z GFS 0z HWRF 0z UKMET 0z NOGAPS Southward trend in the models continues.
