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(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Katia formed over the open Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, becoming the 11th named storm of the 2011 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters said.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Katia was about 535 miles southwest of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands and was moving quickly west northwestward across the Atlantic.
It was too soon to gauge the storm's potential threat to the U.S. East Coast or energy interests in the Gulf of Mexico with any confidence.
But Katia was packing top sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour and was forecast to become a powerful Category 2 hurricane by the weekend...
A new tropical storm has developed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and currently is headed on a path that would place it northeast of Puerto Rico by Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Forecasters haven’t projected Tropical Storm Katia’s path beyond Sunday but it is on a path that is slightly north of the one Hurricane Irene took. And the same general weather patterns remain in place that steered Irene northward and off Florida’s coast, according to the National Weather Service, Melbourne.
Katia currently is in the mid Atlantic Ocean and is on a latitude paralleling the north coast of South American. The storm has 40 mph winds and currently is moving west northwest at about 15 mph.
Tropical depression 12 is working its way into a hurricane today and is expected to be anointed a proper name later this week... Looking like a classic "Cape Verde" storm, Katia could reach landfall in the Leeward Islands around Labor day.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday the depression south of the Cape Verde Islands could reach hurricane strength Thursday, still far out in the Atlantic.
NEW TROPICAL STORM MOVING QUICKLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC
Yes, we're about to have a Tropical-Storm-turned-Hurricane develop in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean named "Katia." Today is the 6th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the northern Gulf Coast, and we're now talking about Katia.
You know, this is why meteorologists are in meteorology and not in creative writing or teaching Tone Deafness/Sensitivity 101. Hurricane names for the Atlantic are used every 6 years on a rotating basis, and this year we happen to have 2005's list. If you remember back in 2005, it was the most active hurricane season we've ever recorded -- we exhausted the English alphabet and had to use 6 Greek letters to name storms. When a hurricane is bad enough, they retire the name for sensitivity reasons. They retired Katrina and Rita.
What did they replace Katrina and Rita with? Katia and Rina. You've got to be burger-flippin' kiddin' me, right?
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
Daily KOS: Hurricane Katia set to form in Atlantic. Katia? KATIA? Are you freakin' serious?
Yes, we're about to have a Tropical-Storm-turned-Hurricane develop in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean named "Katia." Today is the 6th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the northern Gulf Coast, and we're now talking about Katia.
You know, this is why meteorologists are in meteorology and not in creative writing or teaching Tone Deafness/Sensitivity 101. Hurricane names for the Atlantic are used every 6 years on a rotating basis, and this year we happen to have 2005's list. If you remember back in 2005, it was the most active hurricane season we've ever recorded -- we exhausted the English alphabet and had to use 6 Greek letters to name storms. When a hurricane is bad enough, they retire the name for sensitivity reasons. They retired Katrina and Rita.
What did they replace Katrina and Rita with? Katia and Rina. You've got to be burger-flippin' kiddin' me, right?
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
reply to post by nightstalker78
Haha ok, your words are marked.
Lets hope so for Humanity's sake.
Are you a bettin man?
What odds will you take ?
edit on (8/30/11) by AllSeeingI because: clarity
Originally posted by MrWendal
reply to post by AllSeeingI
First off all, it takes Katrina's place because the name "Katrina" for a hurricane is retired. Just like the names Hugo, Andrew, Camille, and every other Cat 5 hurricane that made landfall and caused serious destruction and loss of life.
Secondly... your thread title is 100% premature and misleading. This storm can still go anywhere. You see the first image you linked? You see all those different color lines? Those are all possible paths that the storm could take. It is still possible that the storm remains on a southern path and hits Mexico and misses the USA completely.
and third, this has already been posted. Twice I believe.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
reply to post by nightstalker78
Haha ok, your words are marked.
Lets hope so for Humanity's sake.
Are you a bettin man?
What odds will you take ?
edit on (8/30/11) by AllSeeingI because: clarity
Oh,I'm a bettin man. I'm going to say now it's a 100 to 1 shot of hitting the US.
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
reply to post by nightstalker78
Its called planning ahead. The science exists to study and forecast such storms, why are you shooting the messenger, if you dont find this thread interesting go spend your time elsewhere.
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
reply to post by MrWendal
Posted before where? I did a search before I first created, and now again after I saw your post, and still find nothing under Katia relating to this storm anywhere.
As for misleading ? No, because at its current rate if its track remains as it is it would strike the US shoreline on 9/11 give or take a day.