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Senior tropical meteorologist/Business Continuity Manager. University of Miami Alum. CFCP certified by DRII. BS meteorology, MS meteorology All views my own

Pearland, TX
Joined November 2012
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Public service announcement: The hurricane cone is NOT the cone of uncertainty. It is NOT the cone of impact. It merely depicts the area where the storm will be based upon historical error. An ensemble probability is a better approximation of the uncertainty
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what is with the GFS insisting on a November TC outbreak in the Atlantic?
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One last US tropical threat? GFS is insisting on a Hawaii threat late next week. However, the far more likely scenario is a hurricane passing a fair distance south of the islands as per GDM Plenty of time to monitor
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Thankfully, Arnab has weakened a fair bit before making landfall. Well timed EWRC
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no matter what Earl Hebner or Helen Keller, I mean IMD, says, this is approaching super cyclonic intensity
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IMD obviously does not look at data This was 100 kts many hours ago. Even the blind can see this is more than the 70 kts they say it is
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This escalated quickly
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I see that in IMD land, this is merely a tropical storm
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pay no attention to the apparent formation of a concentric eye. This is only a tropical storm. Science be damned
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how many more times does the gfs have to predict a bullshit phantoncane? And it's not like it is doing this 10 days out. It for a full day had one inside of 5 days. Nobody believed it, as nobody should Shows what a joke our global model is
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Think Disturbance 63, the East Coast storm, is starting to detach from the front. Also seeing anticyclonic flow aloft over the low now
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Very surprised JMA is ignoring the AI models and is still taking Changi toward Taiwan
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Regarding the clock issue with BYU, how in the world does the final play only take 3 seconds? I don't think the stadium clock started with the snap. Now, that does not excuse the lack of a PI call. Even an AEW ref could have seen that
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and ND is NOT a playoff team They need to go buy a QB. Carr simply is not hacking it against the top teams. He beats up on shit teams, but cannot get the win against the elite
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of course, no flag on an obvious DPI Refs need to understand, they ARE deciding the game by not calling obvious penalties. Same thing last week on Alabama
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when forced to pass excessively, CJ Carr cannot hack it. Rick Meier 2.0
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CJ Carr is NOT a top level QB. Has always struggled against real teams
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Did Guam ever get lucky. Eyewall missed them by about 6 miles
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One ultra scary radar image. Any north wobble is a direct hit from a likely violent typhoon on Guam
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Champi is intensifying rapidly. Northern eyewall could strike southern Guam as a violent typhoon in about 12 hours
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seems the college rule on a catch is you have to have the ball for a minimum of 5 business days
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