Tropical Storm Christobal
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After two weeks with no t.v., I turn it on to hear the newsfolk saying that the weatherpersons are watching crystal ball.
It took me a few minutes to figure out that they had NOT come up with a more accurate method of predicting the weather than they currently use, that they were actually watching "Christobal."
It took me a few minutes to figure out that they had NOT come up with a more accurate method of predicting the weather than they currently use, that they were actually watching "Christobal."
Looks like somebody checked the radar.Tropical storm warnings for the Carolinas.
Yo BeachSio2--batten down the hatches!
I was in Charleston yesterday and there was a little rain in the morning but outside of that it has been bright and shiny. Looks like the worst is offshore for now, but the outer banks won't be as lucky. Now for a little advice, be very wary of the Weather Channel. They turn into the Scare America Channel in the summer. I always have to remember to tell my mom not to watch it when there is an active storm. Also, they don't have a real tight grip on some of the coastal models regarding waves. One event in particular killed me.
One time, I ran into stormtracker Jim C. on the beach and I overheard him during his shoot saying that the house behind him was going to get impacted by 20-foot waves. Well after the shoot, I introduced myself and we were talking and he asked me what I thought about the storm and the size of the waves that were expecting to come in. To his question, I said that it's not physically possible to have a 20-foot wave with the impending storm at the dune where we were standing. He looked at me in disbelief and said, well that's what "the models" said it would be. To which, I said, but isn't the storm surge only expected to be 7-9 feet, and he said yes. Then I finished with explaining that if you have 9 foot storm surge on top of a 1 foot high tide, the maximum the water depth could be at the shoreline 75 feet away from us was only about 10 feet so how do you get a 20 foot wave in 10 feet of water. He once again responded with, well that's what the models say and headed off to get out of the rain.
For clarification sake since he nor the producers understood the model outputs. A wave can only be around 75-80% of the water depth so the model's predictions were for offshore not on the beach. The maximum that the wave could have been was around 5-7 feet at the shoreline and even smaller where we were standing.
...who needs TWC when we have the Haiku Hero that sets the record straight? I think we just hired you full time. ;-)
The weather channel is a joke, it's just a media outlet to sell plywood and generators for Home Depot. If you want a real forecast go for www.nhc.noaa.gov or www.wunderground.com neither have any other "interests" involved. Now if your looking for an invite from out of town friends that are further inland tell them to tune into the weather channel.