Tropical Storm Chris Has Formed

[Beyond Belief]

Two o'clock track is still staying beneath keys heading into gulf. update at 5



http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/145247.shtml?5day

 

[Becba]

One weatherman commented today that this storm has the potential to be an Andrew, hitting Miami area and then heading towards MS, LA or TX once it is in the gulf.
Got my fingers crossed for everyone.

 

[curious1]

There is a Hurricane with my name on it this year so watch out lol!!!

That one's gonna do a lot of damage!!!! I'm gonna be banned now aren't I?

 

[christine2448]

Look out y'all here I come....Hurricane Chris. (Ammy, now would be the perfect time to come to GA

 

[englishleigh]

Sorry to make light of this & act like a 4th grader, but my BIL I'm (still) ticked at is named Chris. Hee hee.

OK...seriously...this could be a scary one. We are 4 hours inland from the Gulf and anything that hits Mobile, Panama City, Pensacola, FL panhandle, we generally get a taste of, if not the brunt, as in 1994 with Opal, and with Ivan in 2004. We're watching. We need the rain but not the winds and damage.

 

[Dark Knight]

Tropical Storm Chris rapidly ran out of steam in the eastern Caribbean, losing so much strength Thursday that forecasters who once thought it could become a hurricane said it likely would weaken to a tropical depression by evening instead.

At 2 p.m. EDT, Chris had top maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, just 1 mph above the minimum to be a named storm and down from 65 mph Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center of the storm was about 225 miles east-southeast of Grand Turk Island.

The third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was moving west-northwest near 12 mph and was expected to move away from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands later Thursday, forecasters said.

"It's pretty much a skeleton at this point," hurricane specialist Jamie Rhome said. He said the thunderstorms that a tropical system needs to grow have been blown away by other winds in the atmosphere. Forecasters now think it isn't very likely that it will become a hurricane, but intensity predictions are tough to make.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060803/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather&printer=1

 

[curious1]

Good news for anyone in it's path.

 

[Jeana (DP)]

Why do they name hurricanes after women?

Because they come in wet and wild and when they leave they take your house.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Why do they name hurricanes after women?

Because they come in wet and wild and when they leave they take your house.

LOL Jeana, good one. Thanks

 

[Dark Knight]

Why do they name hurricanes after women?

Because they come in wet and wild and when they leave they take your house.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!