Hurricane Season: Yet Another Hurricane Headed to Florida

[tdunc]

Official Rita thread? If this sucker hits Galveston, ooh boy. If you have seen pictures of what the storm surge did to the New Orleans coast, that is what the entire area of Galveston will look like, FLAT. Flooding won't be the issue because it will just run back into the Gulf after the fact. And the sad fact is that it will be completely leveled if it hits just right cause the biggest surge is on the right of the eye. There is a major industrial infrastructure around that area, not just oil refineries which is Huge too, but look, there is Texas A&M, Nasa Johnson Space Center 2 major Nuclear plants, up a ways near the water... Bad bad spot. Oh not to mention a Level 4 Biohard laboratory smack dab in the middle of the island not more than a mile from the water, which I don't know what I want to say about that... few images. Been having fun with Nasa's
"Worldwind" which is a global satalite dealie. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

http://www.photodump.com/viewer/tdunc/94.77379W_29.31163N.html
http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/about/index.shtml
http://www.utmb.edu/construction/ctiedlab.htm
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/index.html

Going to bed, hope for the best.

 

[hitssquad]

The hurricane-name lists

They skipped 'Q'? I've never seen the names get this far down the alphabet - I was kind of curious what 'Q' name they would use.

nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

"Six lists are used in rotation. Thus, the 2004 list will be used again in 2010."


cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/19/storm.names/index.html

The Atlantic basin has seen 17 named storms since the season began June 1, and only four are left on the list.

What's a meteorologist to do if the names run out? Go Greek.
[...]
The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are skipped because not enough names start with those letters, [National Hurricane Center meteorologist Daniel] Brown said.

Hurricane Alpha would be a first for the hurricane center.

"There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms" Brown said.

 

[Astronuc]

I believe that the 2011 list will not have Katrina.

IIRC, they retire names of the destructive hurricanes, like Andrew and Katrina.

 

[Moonbear]

I believe that the 2011 list will not have Katrina.

IIRC, they retire names of the destructive hurricanes, like Andrew and Katrina.

That is correct. When one is particularly destructive, they retire the name and replace it with a new one in the list.

I'm already getting emails from scientific societies setting up message boards to help place more grad students and scientists if Rita hits Galveston and Houston as hard as predicted.