Month: August 2006
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John And Ioke Continue To Make The Pacific King in 2006
Good afternoon everybody. I plan to have an edition of both Tracking the Tropics and the Hurricaneville Storm Report out later. Right now, I want to talk about the latest activity in both the Eastern Pacific and the Central Pacific. In case, you haven’t been aware, or have been like me and totally focused on…
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Recalling Katrina One Year Later
Good morning everyone, Well, I’ve been obviously busy working on the web site over the past couple weeks, and particularly the past several days so I haven’t had the chance to take a step back and recall the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. However, with the news specials, and most importantly, Spike Lee’s documentary,…
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Interesting Situation Developing With Ernesto
Good evening everyone, Listening and watching the latest reports, particularly from the Weather Channel, it appears that we could have a very interesting situation developing. Regardless if Ernesto regenerates into a hurricane, or tropical storm (if it does weaken to a depression), the tropical system is still going to pump in moisture ahead of the…
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Ernesto Ready To Re-Emerge Over Water
Good evening everyone. Sorry that I was away, but I was very tired on both Sunday and most of Monday. During that time though, I’ve been watching the situation with Ernesto. Ernesto actually became the season’s first hurricane for a brief time on Sunday morning. However, it was already situated to both Cuba and Hispaniola,…
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Debby Doesn’t Appear To Be A Threat, But Disturbance Could Be
Good morning everyone, Well, I’ve just updated the home page with the latest information on Tropical Storm Debby. As of 5:00 AM Thursday morning, things remained status quo with the minute tropical storm. Maximum sustained winds remained about 45 mph with gusts over 50 mph while the minimum central pressure rose slightly to 1003 mb,…
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Way To Go Rockey!
Good afternoon everyone. As you probably have noticed if you’re a frequent visitor to the web site, I’ve been working hard on changing some things around as well as update the site with new material. I’ve added a couple more book reviews for the months of July and August, and as I have mentioned to…
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Tropical Researchers Put Aside Differences To Warn About U.S. Hurricane Problem
Good evening everyone, I had quite a busy day today. Went to the dentist, did some shopping, and most importantly, have begun to write up some new articles for the web site. Anyway, I’ve been updating some aspects of the web site including my links page. In the course of finding new links for the…
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Pacific Still Where The Action Is
Good evening everyone, Well, as usual I’ve been away with other things over the past week. The lull in the Atlantic has a lot to do with it. However, I usually try to at least post some articles by this time. Thank goodness for the blog. Hopefully, this latest tropical depression that formed near the…
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Could The Fourth Time Be The Charm?
Well, if you are a person living along the coastline of the United States from Maine to Texas, you certainly hope not. So, far this Atlantic Hurricane Season, things have been quite tranquil even by normal standards. Early on, it seemed that things were on par for a above normal season. By the second week…
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Activity Trying To Percolate In The Atlantic
Good evening everyone. Well, the past couple days, I’ve been watching like everyone else the tropical disturbance trying to take shape off of the Southeast coast. The disturbance formed along an old frontal boundary that had been stationary across the Bahamas and Southern Florida. Sometimes, you can get a tropical depression or storm to emerge…