rock you like a hurricane
This has got to be the weirdest hurricane season on record. Two major
storms hit Florida, with another on the way thanks to Hurricane Jeanne’s 270°
stunt, and now Ivan’s back from the dead (!) and gunning for Houston.
From the Weather
Underground:
after considerable and sometimes animated in-house discussion of the
demise of Ivan…in the midst of a low-pressure and surface frontal
system over the eastern United States…the National Hurricane
Center has decided to call the tropical cyclone now over the Gulf
of Mexico Tropical Depression Ivan. While debate will surely
continue here and elsewhere…this decision was based primarily on
the reasonable continuity observed in the analysis of the surface
and low-level circulation.Once the low pressure area reached the Gulf of Mexico it began to
gradually develop convection and a surface circulation. Satellite
images…recon data and buoys in the Gulf of Mexico indicate that
the system is organized enough to be classified as a tropical
depression. The current southerly shear over the depression is
forecast to relax a little…enough to allow the system to regain
tropical storm status before landfall.
Seriously! Animated discussion!