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Hurricane Central / 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predictions

« on: May 10, 2010, 12:56:40 AM »

What's your predictions for the upcoming hurricane season, beginning June 1st?

Mine are for 20 tropical storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes.

Reasons?

- Record-level sea surface temperatures observed in the Atlantic, surpassing those recorded in 2005. In addition, TCHP is at the highest level ever observed for this point in May.
- Below-average upper-level wind shear across the development regions of the basin, running between 5 and 35 knots below normal.
- El Nino is dying or already dead as we speak. The Nino 3.4 region is down to 0.0C which is exactly neutral. The other Ninos are either neutral with a warm bias or remaining at weak El Nino status, but are expected to decrease to "neutral" before the start of the hurricane season. A neutral to cold bias or weak La Nina is predicted for this year's hurricane season, which is similar to what we saw beginning in the autumn of 2005.
- Above-average moisture is forecast for the Atlantic during this year's hurricane season as below-normal air pressures are expected throughout the hurricane season. This will disallow dry air and Saharan dust to roam the Atlantic as it did in seasons such as 2007. African (Cape Verde) waves will be allowed to develop free of too much African dust and subsidence.

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Local Forecast / Operant - Vesper (August - September 2005)

« on: May 09, 2010, 07:44:35 PM »

Thanks for not helping me a couple months back, folks. Well, here's your chance to save face. After months of research I found that the song I was looking for was "Vesper", the 14th and final track on an album called "Encoded" by jazz band "Operant".

It's like my second favorite TWC instrumental because it reminds me of my 1st favorite, "eye of the storm - Stephen Arnold" (obviously, the StormAlert hurricane music) from my favorite year of my life, 2005, when my life was intimately glued to TWC, my favorite channel (at the time, before it started sucking in 2006). This song was played after Storm Alert was over for about 12 hours during the demises of Katrina, Rita...possibly Wilma and/or Ike as well? It takes me back to Katrina, the most exciting time of my life yet, and it's the best most underrated saddest most emotional "aftermath" instrumental that exists.

Is there anyway I could listen to the whole song for free? I'm not asking to download it or anything, there's just no videos of it on Youtube or anywhere else I could find online and I've been looking for it for nearly five long years (since 2005) I want to be fully reunited with it. The only thing I can get so far is 30 lame seconds which isn't the best part of the song anyway. Help?