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Hurricane Danielle – Day 4 — Why Now?
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Hurricane Danielle – Day 4

by Bryan

Hurricane DaniellePosition: 18.2N 49.8W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [295°] near 18 mph [30 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 85 mph [135 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 30 miles [ 45 km].
Minimum central pressure: 990 mb ↓.

Currently about 795 miles [1275 km] East of the Lesser Antilles.

The storm apparently sucked in some dry air this morning, slipped back to tropical storm status, and is now re-strengthening.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

[For the latest information click on the storm symbol, or go to the CATEGORIES drop-down box below the CALENDAR and select “Hurricanes” for all of the posts related to storms on this site.]

2 comments

1 Bryan { 08.25.10 at 10:27 pm }

If The Daily Beast wanted to test Gulf seafood they should have had Rick Outzen go to the docks with a cooler and buy it so that they could be sure that’s what they were getting, and that it was fresh. Without genetic testing I have no idea what they got that was labeled Grouper, except that it wasn’t recently caught Grouper from the Gulf, as no one is fishing for it at the moment, and the season was closed until April.

If they were lucky, there might even have been some crab in the crab meat, but generally there is a lot of trash fish mixed in.

To say what they did was unscientific is an understatement. The way they did it, they couldn’t even swear under oath what they received. “Some guy with a web site” is not much of an expert witness.

As for your second example, you left out the small bit at the end saying the research was paid for by BP. Yeah, I’ll really put a lot of credence in that work…

You seem to think this is some kind of joke. People have died. People are losing businesses that have been in their families for generations. People are going bankrupt. People are being forced out on the street. There is nothing humorous about this situation. This is not going to be over for years, probably not in my lifetime. The oil is still there, under the water, and it still comes ashore alone the coast.

This is BP’s fault. If pensioners in Britain are in trouble because of the price of BP stock, they should be blaming the management of BP, not the immediate victims of BP’s greed.

2 Steve Bates { 08.26.10 at 9:56 am }

Anyone but a bloody Tory would know that the researchers are wholly owned by BP:

The research was supported by an existing grant with the Energy Biosciences Institute, a partnership led by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois that is funded by a $500 million, 10-year grant from BP. Other support came from the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Oklahoma Research Foundation.

Tell me, Duff, do you ever read anything about the spill not fully bought and paid for by BP? Right… I thought not.