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.

Comments

[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