Heads up Caribbean - Ivan's forming

TD 9 forms in Atlantic


Doesn't look like much now, but it is forcasted to become a hurricane before it hits the caribbean....


Oh yeah, and surf's up in Cali!
Hurricane Howard is heading northward, while it's likely won't affect California directly (as far as rain), the surf should kick up quite a bit.

[edit on 2-9-2004 by ThatsJustWeird]

Another hurricane? Jesus, Flordia now this.

That's not good at all for the North Eastern Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida. It probably won't come close to us in Aruba. We're 12.5N 70Wand td9 is already at 9.7N 29.1W (and they usually go North East). It might follow the same path as Frances. Pray it goes up north.

[edit on 2-9-2004 by TheBandit795]

I was wondering if there was anything else out there. It took me awhile to find this post though. The news and media are so focused on the hurricane about to hit that this one won't be talked about on the tv news until next week I believe.

Orion,

To get info on new storms you can check out www.stormcarib.com... or the tropical update of the weather channel. Stormcarib is usually the first one with the information.

Hrm, so we've had 4 tropical storms/hurricanes in 1 week, and now another one forming, (1 tropical hitting the carolinas, hermes and frances) then there was one in the pacific.. i don't think i've ever seen more than 1 hurricane in a week in the 2 decades i was alive.

I wonder why there is such an increase in storms these days..

Originally posted by crispexi
Hrm, so we've had 4 tropical storms/hurricanes in 1 week, and now another one forming, (1 tropical hitting the carolinas, hermes and frances) then there was one in the pacific.. i don't think i've ever seen more than 1 hurricane in a week in the 2 decades i was alive.

I wonder why there is such an increase in storms these days..

I guess you don't remember 1995.
We got up to the T named stormed. There were also had 4 hurriances at once then, it happened again in 1998...

For those not believing on global warming (including not signing the KIOTO agreement), they say (Mexico Meteorological institute) that Hurricane season could extend 1 month and have onther cat 3-4 hurricane after frances.

Likewise they are expecting another2-3 torpical storms and hurrinanes cat 1-3 in the pacific.

So much for ignoring Global warming....

You can't base a long term theory like global warming on a short term event. The climate changes, always has, always will. We're still in recovery from an ice age..thus the ice caps...not a normal state on the earth. This will continue to happen until the next climate shift and then the glaciers may begin to grow again. Before you go off thinking there has always been ice on earth and the global climate has always been as cool as it is now, maybe you should crack open a physical geography book. Hell, most of the warming tookthat has taken place in the last 300 years has preceeded the industrial revolution and rise in CO2. If the CO2 were the cause, we'd have to have seen those levels rise before the global temp. The CO2 is an effect of the warming trend, not the cause. If it were the cause, we'd have to be seeing the temp rise in the atmosphere which we are not. We are seeing a minute rise in surface temp on the earth and actually a little cooling in the atmosphere. There are several causes for this more proabale than the greenhouse effect. Rotation in reference to the sun, the sun's cycles themselves and maybe even increased activity geothermically in the aethenosphere.

Yeah, hurricanes are bad but are far from proving a scientific hypothesis to which most experts in climatology now seriously doubt...unless their political ties demand.