At the risk of becoming OT ... as a fellow Floridian ... This is IMO an unfair slap at NOAA. The prediction technology is very imperfect and they will be the first to tell you so. The Tampa landfall guess was ancient history (and I now live in (near) Tampa so I try to listen to what they are saying). When you watch the weather channel etc. with detailed current info, you soon learn of the "spaghetti models" which are the dozen sometimes widely divergent prediction tracks. They can't all be right.
The worst fear at the EOC centers is a major Cat 3 or more passing northward, just west of St. Pete with the CCW wind rotation shoving tons of water up into Tampa Bay. They believe that thousands in Pinellas Co. will wait until it is too late to get out, being dependent on 3 cross-bay bridges and the Skyway bridge, or Rte 19. When this happens I suppose they (the survivors) will all blame the prediction models too. Tampa has dodged the bullet again but that can't last forever. - Bob > but the weather reports said that Fay wouldn't even > come close to Clewiston. They said it would make landfall near > Tampa. So I didn't plan on driving out of the range of Fay. Instead Fay > is taking the same route that Wilma took back in 05. I am still in "shell > shock" from Wilma. > > Thank you NOAA for your good(??) work again. ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
