Hot off the presses...

"Like the ocean, the atmosphere also has waves. Large-scale
atmospheric waves form over Africa during the African summer monsoon
season, track east to west, and emerge over the Atlantic Ocean near
the Cape Verde Islands, where they often serve as the nucleus for a
powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane. Well, the African Easterly Wave
Factory is exceptionally busy right now, and there are three very
impressive looking waves with plenty of spin lined up across the
continent.

http://www.swsports.org/images/africa_sat_aug30.jpg

The western-most wave, just coming off the coast of Africa today, is
particularly impressive. This system has a very large circulation with
plenty of spin, and is already developing some concentrated heavy
thunderstorms over the waters south of the Cape Verde Islands. This
morning's QuikSCAT pass saw winds of 50 mph near the heaviest
thunderstorms. Wind shear is a moderate 10-20 knots over the storm,
and is expected to remain in the low to moderate range the next few
days. NHC has given this system a medium (20%-50%) chance of
developing into a tropical depression by Saturday. The models have
been very aggressive developing this system over the past few days,
and chances are good that this system will become a large and powerful
Cape Verdes-type hurricane next week. It is too early to speculate
whether this storm might end up recurving out to sea or not.

The other two waves lined up behind the wave moving off the coast are
also likely to be a threat to develop once they move offshore Africa
next week. The long-range GFS model develops all three of these waves.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Hot off the presses...

"Like the ocean, the atmosphere also has waves. Large-scale
atmospheric waves form over Africa during the African summer monsoon
season, track east to west, and emerge over the Atlantic Ocean near
the Cape Verde Islands, where they often serve as the nucleus for a
powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane. Well, the African Easterly Wave
Factory is exceptionally busy right now, and there are three very
impressive looking waves with plenty of spin lined up across the
continent.

http://www.swsports.org/images/africa_sat_aug30.jpg



Last week when I was at my son's new beach house, the sellers, realtor and
my son/DIL were all getting ready to head off to the attorney's office for
the closing. One of the remaining issues unresolved was confirmation that
flood insurance was in place. (it was resolved before they closed).

But, the sellers, probably concerned that there would be a delay in closing,
were telling my son that since 1954 there had been no flooding of the area
due to storms or storm surge. My son responded with, "well, that's
encouraging".

Me, with my big mouth, added, "That means it's long overdue".

Seller didn't appreciate my humor.

Eisboch

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:17:14 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
Hot off the presses...

"Like the ocean, the atmosphere also has waves. Large-scale
atmospheric waves form over Africa during the African summer monsoon
season, track east to west, and emerge over the Atlantic Ocean near
the Cape Verde Islands, where they often serve as the nucleus for a
powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane. Well, the African Easterly Wave
Factory is exceptionally busy right now, and there are three very
impressive looking waves with plenty of spin lined up across the
continent.

http://www.swsports.org/images/africa_sat_aug30.jpg

Last week when I was at my son's new beach house, the sellers, realtor and
my son/DIL were all getting ready to head off to the attorney's office for
the closing. One of the remaining issues unresolved was confirmation that
flood insurance was in place. (it was resolved before they closed).

But, the sellers, probably concerned that there would be a delay in closing,
were telling my son that since 1954 there had been no flooding of the area
due to storms or storm surge. My son responded with, "well, that's
encouraging".

Me, with my big mouth, added, "That means it's long overdue".

Seller didn't appreciate my humor.

ROTFL!!!

Oh yeah - I imagine that wasn't politic.

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
Hot off the presses...

"Like the ocean, the atmosphere also has waves. Large-scale
atmospheric waves form over Africa during the African summer monsoon
season, track east to west, and emerge over the Atlantic Ocean near
the Cape Verde Islands, where they often serve as the nucleus for a
powerful Cape Verdes-type hurricane. Well, the African Easterly Wave
Factory is exceptionally busy right now, and there are three very
impressive looking waves with plenty of spin lined up across the
continent.

http://www.swsports.org/images/africa_sat_aug30.jpg



Last week when I was at my son's new beach house, the sellers, realtor and
my son/DIL were all getting ready to head off to the attorney's office for
the closing. One of the remaining issues unresolved was confirmation
that flood insurance was in place. (it was resolved before they closed).

But, the sellers, probably concerned that there would be a delay in
closing, were telling my son that since 1954 there had been no flooding of
the area due to storms or storm surge. My son responded with, "well,
that's encouraging".

Me, with my big mouth, added, "That means it's long overdue".

Seller didn't appreciate my humor.

Eisboch

Just how high above sea level is the house?
With all this global warming and rising seas, my home province could become
an island.

"Don White" wrote in message
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Just how high above sea level is the house?
With all this global warming and rising seas, my home province could
become an island.


I am not sure what the actual elevation is at the house, but I am quite
certain that a major hurricane could easily cause a storm surge that would
get to it. We just don't get storms that strong, that often here.

I doubt global warming will affect it in his lifetime.

Before we bought the house we are in, we looked at another one not far from
where my son bought his. In fact, you can see it from his back yard.
There's an area where, unlike his property, the houses are built on very
high, steep cliffs.

The one we looked at was high on this cliff, overlooking Cape Cod Bay. The
distance from the rear of the house to the cliff edge was about 60'.

I loved the place and was very interested in buying it. Then, someone
advised me about erosion of the cliff due to storms.
It was averaging something like 8 inches a year. I remember mentally
calculating what that meant, and was still interested until I found out the
rate of erosion was just that .... an average. Some years it didn't erode
at all. Some years it lost 20 feet.

That killed that purchase.

Eisboch

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:27:03 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


I doubt global warming will affect it in his lifetime.

And according to this study, the La Palma tsunami won't either.

http://www.physorg.com/news77977989.html