Comments on: There are interesting things going on in the Atlantic Basin, hurricane-wise https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507838 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:13:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507838

Tropical Storm Lee.

For a second there I read that as Tropical Stan Lee ie. Spiderman’s creator. 😉

There is actually quite a bit left of this no-longer named low pressure system,

I thought they just changed the name to ex-Storm Lee after the downgrading?

Interesting hurricane graphics – any idea how Human Induced Rapid Global Overheating (HIRGO) as I prefer to call “Global Warming” might be affecting them? (A whole big topic of its own I know.)

]]> By: khan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507837 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:58:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507837 Memories of Agnes: I followed that hurricane up the coast on a bus trip from AL to NJ.

]]> By: mark https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507836 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:20:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507836 khan:
For watershed maps, check with the US Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, the district office that includes your state. For Maryland, the url is http://md.water.usgs.gov/; Pennsylvania is http://pa.water.usgs.gov/. They have been coming up with lots of online versions of their traditional paper maps, data, and reports.

Central Pennsylvania was severely flooded by a huge amount of rain, that can be attributed to a weather pattern controlled by (former) Hurricane Lee. It has been about the worst since Agnes in 1972.

]]> By: khan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507835 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:21:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507835 There’s been several days of rain in SW OH.
Lee and Katia are in a conspiracy?

BTW Greg, can you suggest a good watershed map? I want to see where all the floods go.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507834 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:33:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507834 Well, to be fair, this whole hurricane thing has gotten much worse since then.

]]> By: hoary puccoon https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507833 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:57:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/09/08/there-are-interesting-things-g/#comment-507833 “Faith killed two people who were busy trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat. That’s enough to make a sailor superstitious!”

Two people who thought they could cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat in the middle of hurricane season??!?! It’s not called superstition when you’re afraid to do that. It’s called sanity.

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