Tropical depression likely in Caribbean. Get Ready America

[SAMSON123]

Get ready america if this turns into a tropical storm or worst a hurricane your disaster is about to be magnified exponentially. There is also a hurricane on the Pacific side of Mexico...should it cross over Panama and reform in teh Gulf..Oy Vey!!1

Tropical depression likely in Caribbean

National Forecast weather.com
42 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tropical disturbance over the western Caribbean Sea continued to strengthen, and has a high 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression later Friday or Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Friday.

It is projected to cross Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula over the next day or two. But after that, weather models were divided on where the system would go.

Half of the models projected the disturbance will head into the western Gulf of Mexico toward the northeastern coast of Mexico. The other half showed it going into the central or eastern Gulf, where BP Plc is trying to clean up its massive oil spill.
If a storm does form, it will be named Alex.

Earlier Friday, the NHC said the system, located between Honduras and the Cayman Islands, had a 70 percent chance of developing into a depression.

An Air Force Reconnaissance plane was approaching the system to determine if a tropical depression had formed, the NHC said, adding, "Upper-level winds are becoming more conducive for development."

Separately, the NHC pointed to another large but disorganized area of showers just east of the northern Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean associated with a tropical wave. But the Center gave this system a low 20 percent chance of developing over the next day or two, which was up from a projection earlier Friday of just 10 percent.

Energy traders keep a close eye on storms that could enter the Gulf of Mexico and disrupt offshore U.S. oil and natural gas production or refinery operations along the coast.

Commodities traders likewise watch storms that could damage agriculture crops, such as citrus and cotton in Florida and other states along the coast to Texas.

Pricing of insurance-linked securities, which transfer insurance risks associated with natural disasters to capital markets investors and can be used to hedge other weather risk exposures, can also be affected by the path of a storm.

[SAMSON123]

Darby strengthens to major hurricane in Pacific


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MIAMI (AFP) – Hurricane Darby picked up strength Friday in the Pacific off the coast of southwestern Mexico and became a Category Three storm on the five-level Simpson-Saffir scale, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.

Darby is the second powerful hurricane in the eastern Pacific after Hurricane Celia, swirling in open seas just north-west of Darby. Celia briefly strengthened to Category Five status, but by 1500 GMT had weakened to Category Four.

Neither Darby nor Celia pose an immediate threat to any coastline.

Darby, which is far from the southern Mexican coastline, packed winds of near 115 miles (185 kilometer) per hour, with higher gusts, the Hurricane Center said in a statement.

"Some fluctuations in intensity are likely (Friday) and Saturday, but a gradual weakening is forecast thereafter," the NHC said.
At 1500 GMT the eye of Darby was located south of Mexico's southern Pacific some 245 miles (395 km) south-southeast of the famed tourist beach of Acapulco, moving towards the west-northwest at around seven miles (11 kilometers) per hour, the NHC said.

Meanwhile out in the Pacific swirled Celia, packing winds of near 150 miles (240 kilometers) per hour.

Celia was also heading in a west-northwesterly direction, moving at near 13 miles (20 kilometers) per hour, though it was forecast to slow in the next days.

Celia "is approaching cooler sea surface temperatures, and weakening is expected during the next 48 hours," the NHC said at 1500 GMT.
The other major storm in the Pacific so far this season was Tropical Storm Agatha, which slammed into Guatemala in May, unleashing heavy rains and floods that left some 275 people dead or missing across Central America.

[SAMSON123]

Meteorologists closely watching Caribbean storm

June 25, 2010 11:16 AM Posted in: News

National Hurricane Center meteorologists are closely watching a developing low pressure system in the Caribbean Sea between Grand Cayman and the coast of Honduras.

In an 8 a.m. advisory, the center reported a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane will investigate the disturbance later today to determine if the season's first Atlantic tropical cyclone has formed. Since yesterday, the system has become more organized, with falling pressures and increased shower activity. The center specialists give it a 70 percent chance of becoming a cyclone during the next 48 hours.

If a storm forms, it would be given the name Alex. Early runs of the computer models meteorologists use to forecast a storm's probably track indicate the storm could eventually make landfall anywhere between Central Mexico and northwest Florida.

Meanwhile, the hurricane center also is watching another weather system just east of the northern Leeward Islands. Any potential development of that system would be slow to occur, the hurricane center advisory stated.

Officials are concerned about what impact a storm could have on the oil spill recovery operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

A reported prepared by the hurricane center on the likely impacts to the oil spill can be found at nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/hurricanes_oil_factsheet.pdf .

[240 is Back]

Great news.

Hey guys, should we end the oil drilling ban now?  Should we just keep on drilling and pumping as two hurricanes converge on the biggest oil spill in human history?

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[24KT]

Great news.

Hey guys, should we end the oil drilling ban now?  Should we just keep on drilling and pumping as two hurricanes converge on the biggest oil spill in human history?

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa

You know what Sarah would say? ...DRILL BABY DRILL!
After all, ...what's a few oily fish?

[George Whorewell]

There is more oil in North America than in the middle east right now. Enviromentalists and their whackjob lobby have pushed offshore drilling into the gulf and other extremely dangerous areas for the human population. Meanwhile Alaska is off limits, the entire pacific ocean is off limits and outrageously stupid and ineffective "alternative" energy is slowly being shoved up Americas ass.

Windmills+ Solar=  Largely Ineffective, astronomically expensive and would take 100 years to be developed on a large enough scale in this country to have any substantial effect on energy production ( not to mention windmills are also bad for the enviroment, but don't tell anybody).

Nuclear= Excellent, clean and much safer than the enviromentalist nut job lobby would have you believe. Unfortunetly, opening a nuclear plant is a beaucratic and enviromental freak show of red tape and regulations.

The electric car= Will never, ever, ever work; Has been touted as the next big thing since the 1910's

Alternative fuels= The biggest scam the enviromental lobby ever perpatrated on both the American public and international community. Criminally ineffective, inefficent, expensive, damaging to the enviroment and useful as a permanently rewewable atm for special interest groups and farmers.


We should continue to conduct offshore drilling in unpopulated areas where there will be a minimal effect on nature and the human population. Such drilling should be heavily regulated and monitored ( which up until now it had not been) and the only alternative energy worth promoting is nuclear.  

[SAMSON123]

There is more oil in North America than in the middle east right now. Enviromentalists and their whackjob lobby have pushed offshore drilling into the gulf and other extremely dangerous areas for the human population. Meanwhile Alaska is off limits, the entire pacific ocean is off limits and outrageously stupid and ineffective "alternative" energy is slowly being shoved up Americas ass.

Windmills+ Solar=  Largely Ineffective, astronomically expensive and would take 100 years to be developed on a large enough scale in this country to have any substantial effect on energy production ( not to mention windmills are also bad for the enviroment, but don't tell anybody).

Nuclear= Excellent, clean and much safer than the enviromentalist nut job lobby would have you believe. Unfortunetly, opening a nuclear plant is a beaucratic and enviromental freak show of red tape and regulations.

The electric car= Will never, ever, ever work; Has been touted as the next big thing since the 1910's

Alternative fuels= The biggest scam the enviromental lobby ever perpatrated on both the American public and international community. Criminally ineffective, inefficent, expensive, damaging to the enviroment and useful as a permanently rewewable atm for special interest groups and farmers.


We should continue to conduct offshore drilling in unpopulated areas where there will be a minimal effect on nature and the human population. Such drilling should be heavily regulated and monitored ( which up until now it had not been) and the only alternative energy worth promoting is nuclear.  

I think it is clear to everyone that WHOREHEAD has figured everything out for americans ...that or he is a representative of BP or similar oil company. Did you notice the gusher of oil in the Gulf Of Mexico WHOREHEAD? Maybe that is reason enough to NOT drill off shore. Imagine if that oil gusher occurred on land in america and similarly was NOT able to be stopped. WOuld you be happy to see oil flowing everywhere in america killing crops, land, people, water wells, rivers, lakes, animals etc FOREVER?

Solar Power... I guess no one told WHOREHEAD that the petrochemical industry OWNS THE RIGHTS TO SOLAR POWER and have so for quite a few years now... So do you really think they are trying to develop solar power as it should so it can be an  alternative (and free) energy source...I THINK NOT.

Electric Cars...Guess who owns the patents to that as well? Think the gasoline companies, which are also the petrochemical companies, want cars running on electricity or water or coal gas or any other NON OIL product?

Wind turbines...I would be willing to bet the Wind Turbine industry is being groped by the petrochemical industry as well. Once again who would invest in an energy alternative that bring extremely cheap if not free energy to consumers?

Maybe the petrochemical industry is afraid there will be sun spills, wind spills, nuclear spills and electric car spills and therefore do not want these industries to advance beyond the primitive stages they have been stalled at for decades. Maybe it is because they don't want to lose a DIME OF  PROFITS. They will however settle for Ocean Oil Gushers that will kill beaches, sea food industry, whole states if not country...that is acceptable somehow...

[George Whorewell]

I'd respond, but the brutal self owning you just gave yourself doesn't warrant a reply.

[SAMSON123]

I'd respond, but the brutal self owning you just gave yourself doesn't warrant a reply.

I accept your SURRENDER...

[George Whorewell]

Optimism is a good characteristic for insane people to have. 

[GigantorX]

Great news.

Hey guys, should we end the oil drilling ban now?  Should we just keep on drilling and pumping as two hurricanes converge on the biggest oil spill in human history?

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa

You're an idiot. Oil rigs get shut down when a storm is in the area.

[SAMSON123]

You're an idiot. Oil rigs get shut down when a storm is in the area.

Well asshole it looks like this storm is in the area (you think they are shutting the rigs now?)... maybe you should follow it hourly and watch as it crashes in to the rigs in the gulf and pushes the oil further inland as well as causes toxic rains to fall

http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/situationpagenews.asp?sit=6572&fm=12

[Fury]

You're an idiot. Oil rigs get shut down when a storm is in the area.