Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
Been married for 6 years now. Doesn’t really seem like it’s been that long.
The Tropical Meteorology folks over at Colorado State (the Klotzbach and Gray group) are forecasting another busy season this year with 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes (5 of which will intense hurricanes). It’s similar to their forecast this time last year but with fewer hurricane days.
According to their summary of last year’s season, last year’s season turned out to be a dud (thankfully) because of El Niño. With it dissipating, this year could turn out to be a busy one. I hope the storms continue to stay away from here though. They also predict a 73% probability of a tropical storm making landfall along the east coast, 66% for a Cat 1-2 hurricane and 50% for a Cat 3-5 hurricane. The probabilities in the Lowcountry area are much lower though.
The NHC forecast will probably be similar, although it’ll be a few more weeks before that one comes out.
My 20 year high school reunion coming up this year had me Googling the names of some of my former classmates, just for fun and to see if I could find anybody.
What surprised me was how few people I found. The names I did find had such a small Googleprint that it was difficult to tell if it was the person I was looking for. Most of what I did find were just names in press releases or news stories, but not much else.
A few explanations come to mind:
By Occam’s Razor, the real explanation is probably #4.
What do you do when you don’t have the $$ to shell out for a satellite dish?
The odds of guessing correctly are 50/50, but the probability you will get it wrong is 90%.
Happens to me more often than I’d like.