Category: Miscellaneous babble

TD 10 fizzled out and now there is TD 11, which looks like it won’t be much more than a big rain event for central Mexico.
From today’s noon discussion:

UPPER-LEVEL OUTFLOW IS VERY STRONG AND THE WATER IS WARM…HOWEVER…THE SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE VERY LONG OVER THE WATER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. ALTHOUGH NEITHER THE SHIPS NOR GFDL INTENSITY GUIDANCE MAKES THIS SYSTEM A TROPICAL STORM…I PREFER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION IN
FORECASTING THE DEPRESSION TO REACH STORM STRENGTH.

Saw this GoogleAd on a website I visit regularly. I’m not sure I’d want to buy something flammable to store things that are likely to catch fire and/or explode. I’d prefer those cabinets to not catch fire thank you very much.

Either there are a lot of people at work forgetting to type in the body of their email or there’s some worm/virus spreading through the hospital. All day I’ve been getting blank email messages from people in the hospital. I suppose there could be some glitch with the mail server that’s sending message bodies into the bit bucket.
I think I’ll go make sure my anti-virus software is updated, just in case.

With Irene forecast to spin harmlessly away back into the Atlantic, TD 10 has popped up to take Irene’s place. This is another one that looks like will take its time developing. If it does get stronger, TD 10 would become Jose.

Looks like Irene has managed to get back into warmer waters and more favourable conditions. After being downgraded back to a depression for a couple of days, it got back up to tropical storm status last night and is now headed on a track that takes it much closer to the US than a few days ago. May even become hurricane #3 by early next week.