Looks like WILMA and ALPHA predictions were OVERLY Dramatized

Well, Alpha certainly was.

May the hype be with you.

I would bet the predictions didn´t seem overly dramatic to the guy who got killed when the tree fell on him. It´s all relative.

The Yucatan got wiped the fuck out for Christ Sake!

They should have good rates in December.

Havanna Cuba is flooded, thats right flooded from storm surge, and it extends out from there. That is probably a developing story. Live shots showed Waves hitting the sea wall along the city and going over in to the streets, and THIS was at 11 am eastern. If you have seen high surf hit the coast along parts of PCH between SF and LA then you have an idea of how high the splashes were going, but not hitting a mt. and going back. But coming down into the street and flowing into the city.

Cozumel and Cancun were destroyed, and who knows what happened to Isle de Mujheres (speeling).

Alpha is becoming part of Wilma as we watch. Those two will then give off energy to a Low pressure moving into the NE and help create a possible hum dinger of a Nor eastr. Maybe not.

Still time left in the season for more Hurricanes.

the flooding is extensive all over florida

Yes, Wilma was very bad for Mexico and Cuba, and for seventeen souls in Florida who lost their lives.

Key Westers got the worst of it, with the storm surge,but Wilma did not "wipe out" Florida agriculture, and the damage in the more metropolitan areas was no where near as bad as the Media will now try to make you believe.

Remember that right after Rita, the reports were that the impact to oil production less than might have been anticipated? And yet, a few days later, there were reports that xomething like 90% of our oil producing capability was knocked out. And yet, gas prices have been dropping steadily since then.

A healthy skepticism is in order this week. With the plamegate investigation drawing to a close I would expect lots of diversions to be put out.

The Governor of Quintana Roo said that he plans to have hotels in Cancun going again by December.

Hi RE Alpha and Wilma being underrated here is data. what is true I do not know. If you are on the east coast, planning to go or know someone back there, PLS read - what is true I do not know.
First link: [link to headlines.accuweather.com]
SUPERSTORM 2005 TO HIT NORTHEAST Posted: Monday, October 24, 2005 at 3:07 PM EDT by AccuWeather.com News Director Steve Penstone
Excerpt: [WILMA has] "....re-energized into a Category 3 hurricane. AccuWeather.com meteorologists say by Tuesday it will bring severe weather conditions and the potential for more flooding to the Mid-Atlantic and New England states paraphrased: Very high winds rain and flooding a "perfect Storm"

Second link: [link to www.rap.ucar.edu]

Third link: [link to www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov]



SUPERSTORM 2005 TO HIT NORTHEAST
Posted: Monday, October 24, 2005 at 3:07 PM EDT
by AccuWeather.com News Director Steve Penstone


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STATE COLLEGE, PA (AccuWeather.com) -- Hurricane Wilma has cut a deadly swath across South Florida, and has re-energized into a Category 3 hurricane. AccuWeather.com meteorologists say by Tuesday it will bring severe weather conditions and the potential for more flooding to the Mid-Atlantic and New England states.

Wilma is being blamed for at least one death in Florida - a falling tree limb killed a Coral Springs man. Flooding was extensive from Naples south through the Florida Keys, while on the east coast high winds caused extensive damage in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties. The storm knocked out power to an estimated half-million consumers.

AccuWeather.com meteorologists say Wilma and the remnants of Tropical Storm Alpha will be drawn north along the Atlantic coast. By Tuesday they will be absorbed into a large low pressure system that will develop off the Virginia Capes, forming a "super-storm" that is expected to bring wind, rain, snow and flooding to the Northeast.

There is the potential for extensive wind damage, especially in coastal areas. The wind and snow could uproot trees and snap limbs that haven´t shed their leaves. That could lead to the potential for power outages if the trees strike power lines.

There are Flash Flood Watches and Warnings in effect today from the Delmarva to central New York and southern Vermont, and Winter Storm Watches are in effect in the northern half of those states.

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The red areas on the 30-day precipitation map shows indicate more than 10" of rain, and any additional rain is not good news for New England residents, who have endured flooding and evacuations over the past month. New Hampshire Bureau of Emergency Management spokesman Jim Van Dongen says the state can handle up to 2" of rain, but there is "little wiggle room" if more rain falls. Van Dongen adds lakes in New Hampshire are normally drawn down at this time of year, but the lake levels are currently higher than they normally are during summer months.

Van Dongen says there is no concern about dams in the state. Earlier this month the Whittenton Pond Dam on the Mill River above Taunton, MA came close to breaching, but managed to hold. Late last week, engineers from the public and private sector lowered the water level in the pond from 12 to 8 feet, constructed a new rock spillway in less than 48 hours and removed the century-old wood dam.

According to AccuWeather.com meteorologists, this storm will be much different than the Perfect Storm of 1991. That storm, formed in part by the remnants of Hurricane Grace, produced little rain, but strong persistent winds along the coast spawned huge seas, along with extensive wave damage and flooding.