O/T Hurricane Season

[tarquinbeech]

On 18th Sept......8 days after the statistical peak of the Season, we are still tracking Jose, Maria and Lee in the Atlantic, plus Norma, Otis and "un-named" off the Mexican West Coast.

Jose is threatening the New York coast, but the main interest is the rapid strengthening of Maria which is set to become a +120 mph, Cat 3 tonight.....and is following an identical track to last week's Irma.

The already-devastated Leeward Islands will be hit later tonight and tomorrow, with Puerto Rica and possibly Cuba again later this week.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc

[CmonUSexyStylishPies]

Light drizzle here, a bit of grey cloud.

[Mapperleypie]

Light drizzle here, a bit of grey cloud.

Just stopped here. A balmy 15 degrees c.

[crazyfists]

Abit cold up here in Leeds, started off ok but glad I didn't put my washing out as raining now. PHEW.

[SwalePie]

On 18th Sept......8 days after the statistical peak of the Season, we are still tracking Jose, Maria and Lee in the Atlantic, plus Norma, Otis and "un-named" off the Mexican West Coast.

Jose is threatening the New York coast, but the main interest is the rapid strengthening of Maria which is set to become a +120 mph, Cat 3 tonight.....and is following an identical track to last week's Irma.

The already-devastated Leeward Islands will be hit later tonight and tomorrow, with Puerto Rica and possibly Cuba again later this week.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?atlc

Maria now Cat 4

[tarquinbeech]

Maria now Cat 4

Judging by the posts on here Swale, nobody cares......a few hundred more people might die, islands and communities will get wiped out..........but unless it affects their holidays....they couldn't give a toss

[Mapperleypie]

Judging by the posts on here Swale, nobody cares......a few hundred more people might die, islands and communities will get wiped out..........but unless it affects their holidays....they couldn't give a toss

Brexit Britain in a nutshell.

[upthemaggies]

Back up to cat 5 now. If this becomes an annual event, some of those islands are going to become uninhabitable unless you can afford to build a house that can withstand this sort of thing, but what is the impact on tourism going to be? It must be making people think twice about holidaying in that area - or at least at this time of year.

[sidders]

Judging by the posts on here Swale, nobody cares......a few hundred more people might die, islands and communities will get wiped out..........but unless it affects their holidays....they couldn't give a toss

Some comments:
1. I remember you downgrading Grenfell in its first few days as just another fire
2. Does Trump - the withdrawer - still think there's no such thing as climate change
3. Have you any idea of the numbers who died in Bangladesh while all this was going on? Thought not... you couldn't give a toss

[SwalePie]

Some comments:
1. I remember you downgrading Grenfell in its first few days as just another fire
2. Does Trump - the withdrawer - still think there's no such thing as climate change
3. Have you any idea of the numbers who died in Bangladesh while all this was going on? Thought not... you couldn't give a toss

The Bangladesh situation has been buried under the avalanche of easy reporting of the Caribbean/American disasters despite the scale of the tragedy in Asia dwarfing any issues over the Atlantic. Says a lot about the world in which our news machine exists these days and also what people want to hear about and consider newsworthy.