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Hurricanes get a lot of attention, but there are plenty of other weather phenomena that need to be watched. The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron is already gearing up for those missions. Winter operations begin for 53rd Weather Reconnaissance...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 04:41 PM PST
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On Tuesday morning, there was no Hurricane Otis. Instead, there was just a tropical storm carrying winds of about 50 miles per hour. Every single model used to predict the behavior of such storms called for Otis to remain a tropical storm. Instead, it...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 05:32 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by jeremybloom
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 08:13 PM PDT
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Hurricane Lee, as predicted, “strengthened at an exceptional rate”, going from 80 mph to 130 mph wind speeds in the past 12 hours. Warm waters and favorable atmospheric conditions will favor further intensification in the next 9 hours to Cat 5 at 160...
by AKALib
69 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 03:37 PM PDT
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Just a Thursday evening update on Hurricane Lee. It intensified FAST. From 80mph at dawn to 105mph at 11am to 130mph (Category 4) as of 5pm Eastern time. Lee may become a Category 5 overnight or tomorrow morning, at this rate. It will be traveling over...
by Torta
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on Thu Sep 07, 2023 at 02:36 PM PDT
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If we are lucky Hurricane Lee will harmlessly develop into a major category 4 or 5 hurricane as it passes north of Puerto Rico and the islands of the Caribbean over the next week, then shoots the gap between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda before recurving...
by FishOutofWater
111 comments
on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 02:15 PM PDT
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I know it’s early in it’s development stage and hasn’t even become a named storm as of yet. But here we are with a newly formed tropical wave(13) and it’s expected to become a named storm shortly. If it does, it will be named ‘Lee’ in the list put out...
by CreekSider
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on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 10:45 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden arrived in Florida Saturday for an aerial tour of Hurricane Idalia's destruction and a firsthand look at a city recovering from the storm. But he will not be seeing Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican president candidate who suggested a...
by Associated Press
167 comments
on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 11:44 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by jeremybloom
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 08:30 PM PDT
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I want to thank you all for the kind words and concern about the storm and we came through just fine. The storm gave us some wind and rain and debris and a few limbs down and some power outage but otherwise we are fine. Twenty miles north and west of...
by Vetwife
57 comments
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 12:35 PM PDT
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Hurricane Idalia packing 130 mph winds made landfall around 8:00 a.m. EDT near Keaton Beach, FL. Conditions were ripe for rapid intensification over the warm waters of and the moist atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico. Besides strong winds and heavy...
by AKALib
42 comments
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Hurricane Idalia, currently sporting 90 100 105 110 130 mph winds, is headed towards the neck of the Florida Gulf coast on Tuesday/Wednesday. Conditions are ripe for further intensification over the next 12 hours over the warm waters of and the moist...
by AKALib
82 comments
on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 12:34 PM PDT
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Morning! I don’t know as of writing this whether I will be online today or not. It’s going to depend what Hurricane Idalia did. I’m writing this on Monday, just in case. Already canceled ...
by FloridaSNMOM
46 comments
on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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I don’t know where to start. My son had to be rushed to the hospital last week with kidney stones...Stayed a week including cardio problems….could not remove but inserted a stint or tube or something and another developed and been to the hospital three...
by Vetwife
282 comments
on Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 08:39 AM PDT
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Tropical storm Idalia, currently off the coast near Cancun, Mexico, is expected to strengthen to a Cat 3 Hurricane and head towards the Florida Gulf coast on Tuesday/Wednesday. Conditions are ripe for intensification over the next 24-48 hours over the...
by AKALib
67 comments
on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 04:37 PM PDT
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My home state of California recently survived Hurricane Hilary, who brought an earthquake with her as a housewarming present. 18 years ago today, another famous tropical storm was promoted to ...
by jck
118 comments
on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 05:30 PM PDT
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You see, the beauty of a CULT is that, when you have a constituency comprised of enough sociopaths, bigots, supremacists, nationalists, the willfully... even deliberately ignorant, and also, to be fair, a certain percentage of good, honest, decent but...
by Jay B
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on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 03:09 AM PDT
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Welp, the end timers must be quivering in anticipation. Right when Hilary is coming into San Diego, now there’s word of a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Ventura County. Put that on your Bingo card. According to USA Today: An earthquake with a preliminary...
by zenbassoon
81 comments
on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 04:48 PM PDT
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People from California, prepare but don’t live in fear. I am praying for you. Not, faux-Christian praying as a church person who has no compassion for folks who are different from myself or “Godless Liberals!” I am very worried about the storm that is...
by katepez
9 comments
on Sat Aug 19, 2023 at 12:34 PM PDT
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