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... Tropical Storm Goni is still on track towards Vietnam after killing at least 20 in the Philippines.

Looks like Tropical Storm Atsani will swing north of the Philippines, but then it will veer south and head for, you guessed it, Vietnam. Yikes.

Tropical Depression Vamco
Cat 3 straight through Manila, Cat 1 into central Vietnam. Crap.

Tropical Storm Eta
God: This is what you get for voting for 45SHOLE.

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Tropical Storm Eta (projection map, satellite)

Dayyum, billy.pilgrim.

Weaker, but slow moving and wet.

Lookout, Iberia:
Subtropical Storm Theta

Yet another one headed for Vietnam:
Tropical Depression Etau

[billy.pilgrim]

Hope they are wrong - again. But the map is showing a direct hit on Navarre.

[neoplacebo]

Hope they are wrong - again. But the map is showing a direct hit on Navarre.

Goddamn, I hope that Navarre place isn't named for or otherwise related to Peter Narvarro. If is is, they're fucked and should leave town now.

[billy.pilgrim]

Hope they are wrong - again. But the map is showing a direct hit on Navarre.

Goddamn, I hope that Navarre place isn't named for or otherwise related to Peter Narvarro. If is is, they're fucked and should leave town now.

Not him. Named for a Province in Spain, Navarre.

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It's shifted slightly east. With all the dithering in the Gulf, Eta can still get steered anywhere.

Goddamn, I hope that Navarre place isn't named for or otherwise related to Peter Narvarro. If is is, they're fucked and should leave town now.

The local periodontist practice is called The Gums of Navarre.
The beach is called The Buns of Navarre.
Unsanitary restaurants are nicknamed The Runs of Navarre.
The local neonazis are The Huns of Navarre.

This post is called The Puns of Navarre.

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Not him. Named for a Province in Spain, Navarre.

... Republic and military uprising

... The most reactionary and clerical Carlists came to prominence, ideologues such as Víctor Pradera, and an understanding with General Mola paved the way to the Spanish Nationalist uprising in Pamplona (18 July 1936).

The triumphant military revolt was followed by a terror campaign in the rearguard against blacklisted individuals considered to be progressive ("reds"), mildly republicans, or just inconvenient. The purge especially affected southern Navarre along the Ebro banks, and counted on the active complicity of the clergy, who adopted the fascist salute and even involved in murderous tasks. The killing took a death toll of at least 2,857, plus a further 305 dying in prisons (ill-treatment, malnutrition).

Navarre is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Santa Rosa County in the northwest Florida Panhandle. It is a major bedroom community for mostly U.S. military personnel, federal civil servants, local population, retirees and defense contractors....

Tradition!

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Don't you have a convent?

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Don't you have a convent?

Great minds . . . but I couldn't think of something funny to say about it.

[billy.pilgrim]

Don't you have a convent?

Great minds . . . but I couldn't think of something funny to say about it.

Today I learned that I'm either a Navarreian, or a Navarrite.
and that "During the American Civil War, despite the political ideology of citizens in the local area,[14] records make it seem as though the Axelson's were pro-union. This is substantiated by a record showing that, while many businesses in the area were becoming ruined due to the Union blockade of southern ports, the Axelson's shipyard was quite busy and prosperous, primarily from business completed with the Union navy and the United States Merchant Marines.[10]"

and

2017 and 2018 have seen a noticeable rise in civil activism in the Navarre area, with three notable protests occurring, all within the span of 12 months.

"The first protests recorded in the community occurred on June 9, 2017,[26] after the county unilaterally changed the town's nickname and locally popular sign. The change was made without the consent of the citizens of the town[27][28][29] and have sparked additional calls for the incorporation of the community as a municipality.[26][27][28][29]"

"In 2018, there were protests against the Holley-Navarre Water System."

[billy.pilgrim]

Hope they are wrong - again. But the map is showing a direct hit on Navarre.

This morning the path was to Tampa, by noon it was Navarre again and right now it looks like Cedar Key (one of John Wesley Harding's many old digs).

This thing could still go anywhere.

Plus Theta looks like it's headed to Portugal or Spain or could be a fish storm.

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This morning the path was to Tampa, by noon it was Navarre again and right now it looks like Cedar Key (one of John Wesley Harding's many old digs).

This thing could still go anywhere.

Plus Theta looks like it's headed to Portugal or Spain or could be a fish storm.

Eta gonna be a Cat 1 this afternoon?
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/ ... -storm-eta

Iota gonna form in the Caribbean?
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/vi ... -caribbean

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Hope they are wrong - again. But the map is showing a direct hit on Navarre.

This morning the path was to Tampa, by noon it was Navarre again and right now it looks like Cedar Key (one of John Wesley Harding's many old digs).

This thing could still go anywhere.

Now even further south, Homosassa Springs. It didn't stay Cat 1 for long, but it ain't over yet.

Plus Theta looks like it's headed to Portugal or Spain or could be a fish storm.

Fish storm, for now.

Florida braced for Eta as new study finds hurricanes staying stronger for longer

... In a record year for Atlantic hurricanes, the latest news came as a new study showed hurricanes are keeping their staying power longer once they make landfall, spreading more inland destruction.

Warmer ocean waters from climate change are likely making hurricanes lose power more slowly after landfall, because they act as a reserve fuel tank for moisture, the study found.

The new study looked at 71 Atlantic hurricanes with landfalls since 1967. It found that in the 1960s, hurricanes declined two-thirds in wind strength within 17 hours of landfall. But now it generally takes 33 hours for storms to weaken that same degree, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature.

“This is a huge increase,” study author Pinaki Chakraborty, a professor of fluid dynamics at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. “There’s been a huge slowdown in the decay of hurricanes.”

... The storm first hit Nicaragua as a category four hurricane and killed nearly 70 people from Mexico to Panama, before moving into the Gulf of Mexico early Monday near where the Everglades meet the sea, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph....

There was nowhere for the water to go across much of south Florida, which had already experienced nearly 14in of rain in October.

As much as 16in of rain damaged one of the state’s largest Covid-19 testing sites, at Miami-Dade county’s Hard Rock Stadium, officials said.

Throughout the pandemic, it has been among the busiest places to get a coronavirus diagnosis. The site was expected to be closed until Wednesday or Thursday.

Eta hit land late Sunday as it blew over Lower Matecumbe, in the middle of the chain of small islands that form the Florida Keys, but the heavily populated areas of Miami-Dade and Broward counties bore the brunt of the fury thus far.

It was the 28th named storm of a busy Atlantic hurricane season, tying the 2005 record for named storms, with the climate crisis driving more and fiercer tempests.

And late Monday, it was followed by the 29th storm – Theta.

The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Theta broke the record of 28 named storms in 2005....

Meanwhile, the new study published in Nature found that in 2018 Hurricane Florence, which caused $24 billion in damage, took nearly 50 hours to decay by nearly two-thirds after making landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Chakraborty said.

Hurricane Hermine in 2016 took more than three days to lose that much power after hitting Florida’s Apalachee Bay.

As the world warms from human-caused climate change, inland cities like Atlanta should see more damage from future storms that just won’t quit, Chakraborty said....

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It's been wet here, much worse east of me.

North Carolina Flooding Blamed for Six Deaths; Roads and Bridges Washed Out; Dozens Rescued

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Iota gonna form in the Caribbean?
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/vi ... -caribbean

Tropical Depression Thirty-One
Cat 2 landfall, poor Central America.

Next one?
Invest 98L

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(NC) Bridge splits apart during live flood report in ‘heart stopping video’



Now Tropical Storm Iota (each named storm is a new record) Cat 3 Nic-Hon landfall.

Invest 98E off southern Mexico's Pac Coast.

Typhoon Vamco now a Cat 3, will supposedly weaken before hitting central Vietnam as several have before it.

Now there's even one in the Southern Hemisphere, Tropical Cyclone Alicia.

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Now Tropical Storm Iota (each named storm is a new record) Cat 3 Nic-Hon landfall.

Now Hurricane Iota, now Cat 4 landfall. Rain bands now coming onshore 1.5 days ahead of the storm, up to 30" predicted.

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Worse . Terrifying sat pic. Still a TS through Tegucigalpa, TD into El Salvador.

Hurricane Iota now a Category 5 storm near Central America

... Authorities warned that Iota would probably come ashore over areas where Eta’s torrential rains saturated the soil, leaving it prone to new landslides and floods, and that the storm surge could reach a shocking 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) above normal tides....

Iota is the record 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. It’s also the ninth storm to rapidly intensify this season, a dangerous phenomenon that is happening increasingly more often. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more destructive storms.

Eta had hit Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane, killing at least 120 people as torrential rains caused flash floods and mudslides in parts of Central America and Mexico....

Over the past couple of decades, meteorologists have been more worried about storms like Iota that power up much faster than normal. They created an official threshold for this rapid intensification -- a storm gaining 35 mph (56 kph) in wind speed in just 24 hours. Iota doubled it.

Earlier this year, Hannah, Laura, Sally, Teddy, Gamma, Delta, Zeta and Iota all rapidly intensified. Laura and Delta tied or set records for rapid intensification.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate and hurricane scientists studied the effect and found “a lot of that has to do with human-caused climate change.”

This is the first time on record that the Atlantic had two major hurricanes, with winds exceeding 110 mph (177 kph), in November, with Iota and Eta, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. When Iota's top winds reached 155 mph (250 kph), they tied with 1999’s Lenny for the strongest Atlantic hurricane this late in the calendar year.

The official end of the hurricane season is Nov. 30.

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Tracking Two Areas for Possible Tropical Development

[billy.pilgrim]

Damn, now they saying at least 20 barges loose and much more severe damage.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/09/ ... 857987002/

Now it's up to 28 barges loose or sunk and at least 6 months to make repairs.

Yet after promises to monitor all barges, another broke loose a few days ago. Construction company had no idea when or how.
The report came from the property owners who found a barge had grounded
on their property causing damages to their seawall.