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Hurricanes 2020

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by tochatihu, Jul 31, 2020.

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    I'm late to start this year, but it has some interesting events.

    H. Douglas stayed offshore Hawaiian islands

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    which was pretty darn lucky. Atlantic TS Isaias rained on Puerto Rico but I missed catching the doppler rain totals. Isaias is now a hurricane and may stay offshore Florida's east side.

    Predictions for Atlantic hurricane season were all above average I think.
     
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    'isaias shifts west, closer to florida'
     
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    OOOh closer. Maybe some winds then. Rain will be about the same either way.
     
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    hurricane warning in effect from boca to volusia county. heavy rain and winds expected.
     
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    down graded to tropical storm, thankfully
     
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    Isaias onshore rain has been light so far.
     
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    something to be thankful for in 2020
     
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    As I have bashed MA for having positive testing above 10%, allow me to amend that. Since June 7, positive tests have been below 5%, More recently most days have been below 3%. That state is doing testing very well and that is also something to be thankful for.

    Overall too-high value of that metric came from inadequate early testing and they fixed it.

    Maybe I should move this to the appropriate thread. I'll take @bisco 's advice on that :)
     
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    yes, good idea.

    maybe we need a 'good news 2020' thread, covering any and all good news :)
     
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    isaias to reform into hurricane before hitting carolinas
     
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    I nominate anyone with >39k PC 'likes' to start the good news thread.
     
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    Have a look at the rain prediction for DC area:

    TROPICAL STORM ISAIAS

    Looks like they're gon na need better drainage
     
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    and ma is gonna get bupkis, in the middle of a drought
     
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    In this forecast case, your bupkis is close to a trillion liters. Work on that optimism Mr. B.
     
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    i'm saving it up for the good news thread
     
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    bad news: boston forecast for .25 inches of rain :unsure:
     
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    comin' through!
     
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    Pictures? Local news?

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    we dodged a bullet, didn't even see any trees down on our walk this morning.

    there are some localized outages in the region, but nothing serious fortunately.

    only had 1/4" of rain. no tornadoes reported that i saw.

    our daughter is in the catskills, power is going to be out for a few days, it went right through albany.
     
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    I did not post pre-season 2020 Atl storm predictions but here are August updates (named storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes)

    NOAA – 19 to 25, 7 to 11, 3 to 6
    CSU – 24, 12, 5

    Both are higher than average years.