Posts from — September 2019

Position: 40.0N 58.0W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [030°] near 20 mph [31 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 100 mph [155 kph].
Wind Gusts: 120 mph [195 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 380 miles [610 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 80 miles [130 km].
Minimum central pressure: 965 mb ↑.

Currently about 525 miles [ 845 km] South-Southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland.

This is the final NHC advisory

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

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Position: 18.0N 57.2W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [295°] near 16 mph [26 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 105 mph [165 kph].
Wind Gusts: 130 mph [210 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 80 miles [130 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 25 miles [ 35 km].
Minimum central pressure: 976 mb ↓.

Currently about 385 miles [ 625 km] East of the Northern Leeward Islands.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for St. Maarten; St. Martin; St. Barthelemy; Saba and St. Eustatius.

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

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It’ll be double rations of grog all around in the galley as ye throw the pasta and pesto down your gullet for the final day of Pasta Week, on Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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Belay that! ‘T’would be better done by swilling lambrusco directly from the flask!
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Position: 34.0N 63.9W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northeast [055°] near 23 mph [37 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 120 mph [195 kph].
Wind Gusts: 135 mph [215 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 220 miles [350 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 90 miles [150 km].
Minimum central pressure: 952 mb.

Currently about 130 miles [ 205 km] North-Northeast of Bermuda.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Bermuda.

At 4PM CDT Bermuda is experiencing Hurricane force winds.

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

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Position: 15.4N 51.8W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [290°] near 15 mph [24 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 65 mph [100 kph].
Wind Gusts: 80 mph [130 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 45 miles [ 75 km].
Minimum central pressure: 997 mb ↓.

Currently about 675 miles [1085 km] East of the Leeward Islands.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for St. Maarten; St. Martin; St. Barthelemy; Saba and St. Eustatius; Barbuda and Anguilla.

This was Tropical Depression Ten.

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

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Position: 29.8N 95.5W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North [360°] near 6 mph [ 9 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph [ 80 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1007 mb.

Currently about 10 miles [ 15 km] Northwest of Houston, Texas.

Imelda made landfall at 1PM CDT.

10PM CDT: This is the final NHC advisory.

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

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Position: 13.7N 46.7W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [285°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1006 mb ↓.

Currently about 1030 miles [1660 km] East of the Leeward Islands.

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

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Position: 31.3N 71.0W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East-Northeast [075°] near 12 mph [19 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 115 mph [185 kph].
Wind Gusts: 135 mph [215 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles [280 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 60 miles [ 95 km].
Minimum central pressure: 951 mb.

Currently about 370 miles [ 595 km] West of Bermuda.

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Bermuda.

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

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Position: 30.3N 75.1W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: East-Northeast [075°] near 8 mph [13 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 90 mph [150 kph].
Wind Gusts: 110 mph [175 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 30 miles [ 45 km].
Minimum central pressure: 966 mb.

Currently about 625 miles [1000 km] West of Bermuda.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Bermuda.

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

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Día de la Independencia
Estados Unidos Mexicanos

¡Viva México!

Some background on 16 de Septiembre and El Grito de Dolores.

Position: 29.4N 77.6W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: Northeast [040°] near 3 mph [ 6 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 90 mph [145 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 25 miles [ 35 km].
Minimum central pressure: 988 mb ↓.

Currently about 785 miles [1260 km] West of Bermuda.

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

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The Day of His Noodly Appendage

The holiest of holidays for Pastafarians, is of course the birthday of His Most Holy Prophet, Marco Polo (b. Sept 15, 1254), who brought the word of his Noodly Appendage back from the East. As Talk Like A Pirate Day falls on September 19th, this five-day period constitutes Holy Pasta Week, during which spaghetti is consumed liberally. With a nice Chianti until the last day when it’s grog for all.

Position: 27.6N 77.3W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northwest [335°] near 6 mph [ 9 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Wind Gusts: 75 mph [120 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 160 miles [260 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1000 mb ↓.

Currently about 85 miles [ 135 km] North of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas.

At 4PM CDT: The government of the Bahamas has discontinued the Tropical Storm Warning for the Northwestern Bahamas.

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

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Yesterday the Annals of Improbable Research recognized the 2019 winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes.

Included in the research receiving awards: pizza as a defense against disease; how wombats produce cubical ‘poo’; the biomagnetic properties of the American cockroach; et alia.