WILMAAAAAAAAAA!
Oct. 19th, 2005 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordinistaSorry. Couldn't resist.
So, the storm jumped from a Cat 2 to a Category 5 storm overnight. Yay.
It also looks like it's going to skim right between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby avoiding Cuba's mountainous terrain, which would weaken the storm significantly. Double yay.
So far, the "cone of uncertainty" is very large. Fnar. S'gonna hit Florida; that much is pretty much guaranteed. Triple yay.
Looks like it'll weaken before hitting FL, at least. *crosses fingers*
And if all of this wasn't bad enough, it was delivered this morning by an annoying meteorologist, who was the stand-in for the meteorologist we prefer watching in the morning (he's on vacation). This woman has way too much difficulty with the cue-cards, man. Such a ditz.
Par example:
"You'll see here between... [pause] ...Cuba and the Yucatan, right here. Here we have warmer... [pause] ...water. And that warmer water will provide... [pause] ...fuel that will feed the hurricane."
She also focuses on Orlando weather and never what's going on on the coast. :P
...And, yes, I do have a preferred meteorologist.
I'll probably go out today and fill up the car. It's pretty empty. We're pretty good with supplies, though picking up another carton or two of water can't hurt. And I might even swing by our local British import shop, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mscongeniality shared some of her PG Tips with me, and it's become my crack. Granted, some people (like my mom) would argue that I have "too much tea." I, however, disagree. No matter how much tea I have, it's always just enough. XD
Pfah. Too much tea. I've never heard of anything so ridiculous.
So, the storm jumped from a Cat 2 to a Category 5 storm overnight. Yay.
It also looks like it's going to skim right between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby avoiding Cuba's mountainous terrain, which would weaken the storm significantly. Double yay.
So far, the "cone of uncertainty" is very large. Fnar. S'gonna hit Florida; that much is pretty much guaranteed. Triple yay.
Looks like it'll weaken before hitting FL, at least. *crosses fingers*
And if all of this wasn't bad enough, it was delivered this morning by an annoying meteorologist, who was the stand-in for the meteorologist we prefer watching in the morning (he's on vacation). This woman has way too much difficulty with the cue-cards, man. Such a ditz.
Par example:
"You'll see here between... [pause] ...Cuba and the Yucatan, right here. Here we have warmer... [pause] ...water. And that warmer water will provide... [pause] ...fuel that will feed the hurricane."
She also focuses on Orlando weather and never what's going on on the coast. :P
...And, yes, I do have a preferred meteorologist.
I'll probably go out today and fill up the car. It's pretty empty. We're pretty good with supplies, though picking up another carton or two of water can't hurt. And I might even swing by our local British import shop, because
mscongeniality shared some of her PG Tips with me, and it's become my crack. Granted, some people (like my mom) would argue that I have "too much tea." I, however, disagree. No matter how much tea I have, it's always just enough. XDPfah. Too much tea. I've never heard of anything so ridiculous.
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Date: 2005-10-19 12:41 pm (UTC)What makes me shake my head is the boi's mother. She was complaining (as is her wont) about how we could expect a colder winter this year because "we haven't had any hurricanes."
Bwuh? Twelve named hurricanes this year. The average is SIX. We're at the end of the alphabet. How can she say we can expect a cold winter just because our Central Florida didn't get any storms? (Don't get me wrong -- I'm all for a cold winter. I'm ready to sacrifice black chickens just to get a cold winter. But she's got a bunch of tropical plants in her garden, and cold winters mean she has to cover them and coddle them and... yeah, not my problem.)
I know she meant that no hurricanes have hit our area specifically (touch wood), but it was still an absurd statement to make, IMO.