Alex

Tropical storm Alex has hit the Yucatan Peninsula, and apparently, crossing it fast! I'd say in the next six hours, Alex is already in the Gulf of Mexico. But it wont stay there for long.

Here's something I forgot to mention on my previous post; I am going to try to put my close up loop of Alex on Youtue. The image shown to the left is one of the frames; in fact, the most recent. The map still has crappy caliration, though.

Alex update

Tropical storm Alex is now 60 mph. But as it nears landfall, it will loose strength, but at the 24 hour mark, it will cross into the Gulf of Mexico, and 36 hours in, it will once again become a tropical storm, and soon after, a hurricane. It might hit the Mexican state of Rio Grande, but it might hit more south. Wherever it does, it will in 3 days. Click on the image to enlarge.

Alex predictions. And one other thing...

Click on the image to see where the numbers are.

As you can see here, Tropical storm Alex has formed, with current winds of 45 mph...

Aaaugh! Fail! It should say Alex is moving westnorthwest! I should edit that...nah. Too late.

So as you can see in the picture from Google Earth (doctored to see why I made the predictions) you can see arrows. The blue arrow shows that there will be some wind shear over the system after it transitioned into the Gulf of Mexico. This should cause Alex to only strengthen to 60 miles per hour. It might become a little stronger at 65 mph. The yellow arrows show how the lower level winds might merge a little where Tropical storm Alex is going. But I may have miscalculated the points in terms of speed, shown by the red arrows.

The twelve hour mark, which is in between point "s" and point "1," is the predicted point where Alex landfalls as a tropical depression. At 36 hours, in between point 1 and 2, Alex has crossed the Yucatan by now, and restrengthened to a tropical storm again. Alex's strongest point is at or just after point 2, 48 hours. By the time Alex reaches point 3, it has weakened to a tropical depression, and then the forecast stops.

As for the oil spill in the North Gulf of Mexico, many forecasters believe that Alex will screw up the oil by miles, causing countrywide damage. But Alex isn't going anywhere near that.

Wunderground.com says that the storm will reach hurricane status, but there's too much windshear. But Rio Grande still has to take cover, so too the Yucatan Peninsula and the south tip of Texas. Tropical storms can still do extensive damage.

Alex has formed

Yes, Tropical storm Alex has formed in the north Caribbean sea, but a lot of websites say that the storm will travel northward enough to screw up the oil spill even more. I respectively disagree, as my forecast shows Alex slapping the yucatan peninsula as a tropical depression, and then instead of traveling nor'northwestward, taking a more westerly path, hitting either North Rio Grande or Southern Texas. (Rio grande is a state in mexico, F.Y.I.) I do not have pictures yet, but in an hour or two I'll give a more accurate forecast of where the storm is going to go. After all, I have changed my method of storm tracking. My method of seeing where storms will curve is based on looking at the directions of the winds of which the storm is already going towards. Then I'll see based on the winds around it whether or not those winds are go for change. After all, wind direction doesn't keep doing what it does forever, it eventually changes.

Metop has caught a storm:

AAUGH! DATE FAIL!

Tommorrow is june 1st. How epic of a fail!

Official start of the 2010 Hurricane season!

Happy June 1st! Well, the record is now stopped, for three years now (2007, 2008, 2009) we had an early storm, but this time we have nothing early, if you do not count Tropical Storm Abrew, in the south atlantic. This is the atlantic record, right?

I can't show pictures right now, but I will probably start deleting the older posts if I run out of memory. It's just too much to... actually, maybe I'll delete the non-weather related stuff instead. Sorry for posting those cubing pictures...but I don't have a choice! I can't make another blog, I can't access the other ones, I have to do it on this one!

Hurricane Haven
I'll hopefully be part of the...do I bother saying it again? The title of the show is the title of this paragraph. It runs from 4pm eastern daylight time to 5pm eastern daylight time. For the confused, that's the time zone that New York is in. To tune in, just click the big button below. For further details, click the small button.
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As for activity in the tropics, there is not that much...

...sigh...

another cube.

I have to post another cube.

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