Comments on: Hurricane Noel

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:25:56 +0000

Steve, they are still finding bodies on Hispaniola, but it looks like Tropical Storm Noel will be the deadliest storm of the year.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:46:14 +0000

We have so much dead wood in the pine forests that any time the humidity drops below 50% they issue a fire warning. Everything drains so fast into the sand that the effects of the rain from last week don’t last very long.

Georgia got a little rain from that system, but it never made it into the Carolinas.

The weather is really messed up.

By: andante

andante — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +0000

Our weather gurus have said we could use rain from not one but two tropical storm systems, and fast.

Here in central N.C., between Noel off the coast and a high pressure to the north, we are forecast to have 15-30 mph sustained winds today. No rain. Fire weather, in other words.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:46:17 +0000

Those of us who went through T.S. Allison in 2001 understand that storms can do very little wind damage but wreak extensive death and destruction with rain. As you said, it doesn’t matter to those who are killed, just what aspect of the storm killed them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:56:55 +0000

We really could have used a tropical storm this year to make a pass through Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:57:18 +0000

not that i’m wishing a hurricane on anybody, but too bad it couldn’t swing over geogia and fill up lake lanier.