Oh goody! Forecast for 2013 hurricane season

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I was thinking of buying a pop up gazebo for my backyard. Earl ate my last one though, so maybe not the best idea lol

Damned northeast weather!

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Eh. Ill believe it when I see it.

[mrsjuleshs]

I swear this is the SAME article they release every year and just change the dates. I'm with skipping on this one (but will stock up on the essentials going into hurricane season like we do every year).

[LeggsBenedict]

I'm not even going to fucking read that.

17 YEAR CICADAS. BUG ZOMBIE HORDES FROM THE GROUND, PEOPLE. FUCK.

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Mar 28, 2013 20:20:41 GMT -5 mrsjuleshs said:

I swear this is the SAME article they release every year and just change the dates. I'm with skipping on this one (but will stock up on the essentials going into hurricane season like we do every year).

Especially living in Texas. We get fucked a lot by hurricanes.

[bluetopaz]

I also like how Dr. Gray out at Colorado State (how does a hurricane expert end up in CO anyway?) is allowed to revise his predictions 2 or 3 times during the season. ^o)

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Mar 28, 2013 21:08:27 GMT -5 @smace said:

I'm in Florida. We get hurricanes, sure, but usually most are nothing awful and we don't live on water. I can only recall two years where the storms really affected our daily lives.

Well, three if I count when I lived in Tampa.

My grandma is about 2 seconds from the beach. The ONLY damage she has had since living there in 1971 is two shingles flew off her roof. She is on the Atlantic seaboard in Melborne

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Mar 28, 2013 21:13:07 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 28, 2013 21:01:36 GMT -5 bluetopaz said:

I also like how Dr. Gray out at Colorado State (how does a hurricane expert end up in CO anyway?) is allowed to revise his predictions 2 or 3 times during the season.

NOAA and NCAR, the two major climate and atmospheric research labs, are both based in Colorado

Climate variables are not fixed or 100% predictable, so as the season progresses, specific event predictions are update but the general patterns (which this is dealing with) based on information from the past years and current variables (ocean temperatures etc) are able to be put out with decent accuracy.

i know, it still has just always struck me as funny.  

I'm a native Floridian and know hurricanes are nothing to mess with.  I have my water, batteries and cans of tuna ready to go on june 1, but the early predictions--good or bad---never mean too much to me.