(Sigh) Yet Another Storm Northern Mexico
2018 is going down as famously flaky for "predicted" storm paths and intensity from the National Hurricane Center. Nevertheless it takes only one real wolf... Sergio is forecast to cross the Baj...
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Jeezo, what in the world has gone wrong with NOAA? Has it gone political or stupid? I took two semesters of Geoscience class in college almost fifty years ago.
We were taught hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms were "Hot sea surface temperature, hot humid air machines"
Sergio has been crawling along over water about seven degrees too cool to support a hurricane. Couple that with mild dry air, wind shear, and other factors and it has looked to me all along what hurricane or even tropical storm was wildly optimistic for landfall on the Baja peninsula.
It may well end up that Sergio hits the coast with breezes and light drizzle then fizzles out to overcast skies.
And we pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a National Rumor Service?
We were taught hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms were "Hot sea surface temperature, hot humid air machines"
Sergio has been crawling along over water about seven degrees too cool to support a hurricane. Couple that with mild dry air, wind shear, and other factors and it has looked to me all along what hurricane or even tropical storm was wildly optimistic for landfall on the Baja peninsula.
It may well end up that Sergio hits the coast with breezes and light drizzle then fizzles out to overcast skies.
And we pay hundreds of millions of dollars for a National Rumor Service?
