Hurricane Rita

Post by **mikepepler** » 21 Sep 2005, 19:41

MacG wrote:
mikepepler wrote:"Deal with reality or reality will deal with you"
Dr Colin Campbell
Are you SURE it is Campbell? I think it is Matt Savinar.

I thought so too, until someone corrected me. I checked in Savinar's book, and it is indeed him quoting Campbell.

grinu · Post by **grinu** » 21 Sep 2005, 19:42

Hurricane Rita continues to grow stronger over the Gulf of Mexico. Top winds are estimated to be 150 mph, a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropi ... enter_news

DamianB · Post by **DamianB** » 21 Sep 2005, 20:51

LATEST RECON INDICATES 185 MPH FLIGHT LEVEL WINDS IN RITA

The latest recon report indicated the pressure in Rita has fallen to 920 mb and the maximum flight level winds were up to 185 mph. AccuWeather.com Meteorologists believe Rita has become a Cat 5 hurricane.

http://home.accuweather.com/index.asp?p ... ccuweather

DamianB · Post by **DamianB** » 21 Sep 2005, 20:57

"Hurricane paths are like spinning the bottle, you don't know where they're going to hit until about three hours from landfall,'' said Matthew Simmons, chief executive of Simmons & Co., a private investment bank in Houston for the oil and gas industry. ``Anything south of Corpus Christi and we're fine. It could be Pearl Harbor.''

Bloomberg.com

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:06

000
WTNT63 KNHC 211955
TCUAT3
HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
255 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005

DATA FROM RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT RITA HAS REACHED
CATEGORY FIVE INTENSITY WITH ESTIMATED MAXIMUM SUSTAINED SURFACE
WINDS OF 165 MPH. THIS WILL BE REFLECTED IN THE 4 PM CDT ADVISORY.

FORECASTER AVILA

$$
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MI ... 1955.shtml

Also had a peak at the satellite snaps. Its grown enormously today. Really quickly. Now looks very similar to Katrina at her worst.

Post by **clv101** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:14

The pressure is still higher than Katrina so there's still potential for further intensifying. Am I right in thinking intensifying is more pronounced after dark sine the temperature gradient is steeper then?

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:23

(pinched from TOD)

andyh · Post by **andyh** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:28

Somewhat black but someone has to say it:

Houston I think we have a problem.............

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:28

Gasoline, Oil Jump as Refineries in Path of Hurricane Evacuated
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... QYFvwrjOIs

``The Houston area is ground zero of the refining industry,'' said Rick Mueller, an analyst with Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Tilburg, the Netherlands. ``If it suffers the scope of damage caused to refineries in Louisiana by Katrina, we could see rationing and queues at the gas pump. This is something OPEC can't do anything to remedy.''

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:32

CNN has an interesting Poll running:

"Should state and federal governments suspend gasoline taxes during the current runup?"
http://money.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/20253.html

(the link is to the results page)

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 21 Sep 2005, 21:55

fishertrop wrote:Rita animation

Nice find... and amazing. Its only a 50 minute cycle but (to my eyes) you can see it getting bigger...it seems to jump back down in size a bit when the cycle restarts.

Looks like theyre getting a spot of rain in Havana too.

heinbloed · Post by **heinbloed** » 21 Sep 2005, 22:05

Good one , andyh ! HOHOHO ....
As soon as the hurricane season is finished at the gulf region - 30/11 as far as I know - the north sea storm season starts .....
I think I put on my old Neil Young record now, The Hurricane .

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 21 Sep 2005, 23:31

000
WTNT63 KNHC 212146
TCUAT3
HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
545 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005

...RITA BECOMES THE FIFTH MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD...

DROPSONDE DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE
AIRCRAFT AT 416 PM CDT...2116Z...INDICATED THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS
FALLEN TO 904 MB...OR 26.69 INCHES. THIS MAKES RITA THE FIFTH MOST
INTENSE HURRICANE IN TERMS OF PRESSURE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN.

RITA CURRENTLY RANKS BEHIND HURRICANE GILBERT IN 1988 WITH 888
MB...THE 1935 LABOR DAY HURRICANE WITH 892 MB...HURRICANE ALLEN IN
1980 WITH 899 MB...AND HURRICANE KATRINA LAST MONTH WITH 902 MB.

FORECASTER STEWART

$$
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MI ... 2146.shtml

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 22 Sep 2005, 00:42

More detailed info on Rita can be found here, http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/f ... &posts=299

jcw · Post by **jcw** » 22 Sep 2005, 01:55

Now the third most intense ever recorded:

000
WTNT63 KNHC 212351
TCUAT3
HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
650 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005

...RITA BECOMES THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD...

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MI ... 2146.shtml

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Hurricane Rita

Rita CAt 5 - official.

.RITA BECOMES THE FIFTH MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD...