IOTD: Tropical Depression Fay (1)
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Hurricane Gustav exploding! (1)
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Hurricane Gustav is strengthening rapidly in the warm ocean waters south of Hispaniola today, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and a minimum surface pressure of 982 mb indicated in the 11:00 am advisory. The only factor that could contribute to Gustav weakening is a passage over the center of Cuba, which is not being forecast by any of the models, so this storm is almost guaranteed to become a monster. As seen below, ...
Hurricane Gustav Threatens Haiti and Cuba (1)
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Hurricane Gustav Heading For Haiti Peninsula Waking up to a 85mph Hurricane Gustav in the Central North Caribbean Sea just off the south coast of Haiti. Gustav strengthen nicely overnight as the inner core became well established. Once again this region of the Caribbean will see another storm within a week since Tropical Storm Fay slowly tracked over some of these same waters and mountainous islands. Although, this time around were not only dealing with ...
Intensifying Gustav bears down on Haiti (1)
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Hurricane Gustav intensified remarkably overnight, and is poised to deliver a heavy blow to Haiti early this afternoon as a Category 1 or 2 hurricane. Gustav intensified from a tropical depression at 11 am yesterday to a Category 1 hurricane last night in just 16 hours, tying Hurricane Humberto's record--set just last year--for the fastest intensification from first advisory to a Category 1 hurricane. (Actually, Humberto did the feat in 14 1/4 hours, but both ...
Tropical Storm Gustav (1)
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Hurricane WARNINGS in Haiti and Cuba Hurricane Watch for Jamaica GUSTAV WEAKENS A LITTLE - CURRENTLY A TROPICAL STORM The latest National Hurricane Center advisory (8am EDT) has winds at 60 MPH and pressure of 997mb. Gustav's track should take it into the Gulf of Mexico where it is expected that it will become a major Hurricane. This will largely depend upon whether or not it goes over Cuba. Some models are predicting central pressure ...
A strengthening Gustav takes aim at Haiti (1)
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Tropical Storm Gustav intensified rapidly from a mere disturbance to a strong tropical storm in just a few short hours. At 1:33 pm EDT, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft measured a surface pressure of 996 mb at 15.8N, 70.5W, at the center of a closed circulation. Top winds at the aircraft's flight level of 2200 feet were hurricane force, 74 mph. Top winds measured at the surface by the SFMR instrument were 60 mph, ...
Tropical Storm Gustav forms (1)
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The Hurricane Hunters have found data supporting the upgrade of Tropical Depression Seven to Tropical Storm Gustav. At 1:33 pm EDT, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft measured a surface pressure of 996 mb at 15.8N, 70.5W, at the center of a closed circulation. Top winds at the aircraft's flight level of 2200 feet were hurricane force, 74 mph. Top winds measured at the surface by the SFMR instrument were 60 mph, on the southeast ...
Strong earthquake hits southern Tibet (China Daily) (1)
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LHASA -- A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rocked Zhongba County, Xigaze prefecture in the southern area of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region at 9:22 p.m. on Monday, but no casualties have been reported.
Beautiful tornado today in CO! (1)
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Photogenic land spouts touched down today east of Denver, CO between 2330 and 00 UTC in Douglas, Elbert, and Arapahoe Counties, as merging outflow boundaries interacted with airmass storms/brief supercells across the CO High Plains. The outflow boundaries were clearly evident on Denver radar, with the tornadoes touching down as the outflow boundaries collided with the storms. Given the very weak low- and deep layer shear across Colorado, it is highly unlikely that these tornadoes ...
Biden wants to spend $1 billion monitoring peer-to-peer networks (18)
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The best way to judge a society is to judge how well it takes care of those unable to take care of themselves — like music and film executives, for example. Motivated by profit and self-interest, they have been unable to stop digital piracy from eroding their relevance and profit margins at home or abroad. Fortunately for them, there's Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden to the rescue. Reports PaidContent: Biden this year "proposed a $1 ...
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Paul said:
Wow...not but a day after I was up in the air about the election, Biden says the one thing that makes me sway the other way.
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Steve Sill said:
Politics as usual. For anyone who thinks that Obama is going to change the world, please wake up and remember that he is a politician.
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Rob said:
just lock hime in a room with lessig for a few hours.
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Chris Schrier said:
sigh.
Rosetta Prepares for Meet-Up With Asteroid Next Week (1)
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Asteroid Steins imaged by Rosetta's OSIRIS camera in two locations. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make an historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on September 5, 2008 at 20:58 CEST (Central European Summer Time), 2:58 pm EDT (US Eastern Daylight Time.) A few days ago, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction maneuver using images from the spacecraft's cameras to calculate the asteroid's location, to optimize its trajectory for the fly-by. Rosetta will rendezvous with the asteroid ...
NASA images archive (5)
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This is semi-old news, and I’ve been meaning to mention it, so here ya go: NASA has put up a vast archive of space images on a site they named, for some reason, NASA images. They have a ton of very cool images there, I must say. When they load, they are fitted to your screen, but then you can zoom in or out, which is fun. There are descriptions on the sidebar (generally tapped ...
