Rita

[chestnutcurls]

Helen....we called it.

Rita is forecast to continue on a west-northwestward track through the Gulf of Mexico over the next 12 hours. A turn toward the northwest is anticipated Thursday night and Friday.

The projections are more northward than what they were saying yesterday. I think they just didn't want to scare people.

Oh, and we're at 95 degrees today. Happy first day of fall.

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[calypsobard.livejournal.com]

and a very happy first day of Fall to you as well!!! :D

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Yay fall!

[stacye13.livejournal.com]

The weather guy I heard on the radio on my way in said we would hit a record 98 today! Phooey!

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

According to my Weatherbug we're at 91 right now, so I think he was lying. :)

[stacye13.livejournal.com]

When I got in my car at lunch, the temp said 102. But it had been sitting in the sun!

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

-hifive- Yup! I saw that this morning and felt both vindicated and even more worried.

Have you seen what it's doing now?
It's even further east than they predicted. Pull up the pressure gradient overlay. It looks to me like it's just following that pressure gradient... which would be very, very bad because it would put it on the same course Katrina took.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Yikes. :( It looks like it's stabilizing now, though.

See...they need us. They don't know what's going on without our forecasting skills. :)

[helenangel.livejournal.com]

Exactly! =) I need to drive down there and bang down the door until they let me in & listen to what we have to say!

"I'm sorry, but your computer models cannot compare to my and my good friend Brenda's innate forecasting skills." =D

[gator618.livejournal.com]

If Rita ends up making landfall close to where Katrina did, it's going to be nearly as eerie as Frances and Jeanne last year making landfall at nearly the same spot only three weeks apart. This time they are just over three weeks apart. I wish hurricane season was over already. :(