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Tropical storm Wilma (will it be hurricane)

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Published on: October 17, 2005

The National Hurricane Center is now tracking Tropical storm Wilma I posted about this before when it was still Tropical Depression 24 The BBC is running a story on how this is already affecting Gas Prices. Now if we get another Tropical storm (or higher) we will be looking at using the name Alpha.

Tropical Depression 24

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Published on: October 16, 2005

The NHC is now tracking tropical depression 24. If this turns into a Tropical Storm it will get the name of Wilma, which is the last name in the list of names for this year.

Hurricane VINCE

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Published on: October 9, 2005

We are now on Hurricane Vince now. After this storm we only have one name left in the names this year. If we get 2 more named storms, we will have a stormed named Alpha. I half hope that we do get a storm with the name Alpha just for the fun of it. We[…]

Canceling my Post Gazette subscription

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Published on: October 9, 2005

Since I got my RSS news aggregator going on my web site, and I am starting to get more and more of my news off of the Internet, and reading less and less of the news paper I think it might be a wise thing to do to just dump the paper. At this time[…]

Tropical Storm/Hurricane Vince

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Published on: October 5, 2005

The NHC is right now tracking a posable Tropic Depersion just south of the Gulf of Mexico, The same Gulf that powered up both Katrina and Rita. Could we be looking at another Hurricane and this one would have the name Vince.

Only 2 more names left

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Published on: October 5, 2005

For the Storms of the Atlantic we have only 2 names left this year: Vince & Wilma. After which we go to the Greek alphabet. Tropical storm TAMMY is now formed and headded to Flordia and Georgia.

Tropical Depression 19

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Published on: October 1, 2005

Well TD19 has formed. It is not the same system they have been watching for the last few days. They are still watching the one south of the Gulf of Mexico, but TD19 is now formed, they are expecting this to turn into a tropical storm. If this one does turn into a tropical storm[…]

Another Tropical Wave in the Alantic

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Published on: September 27, 2005

The NHC is tracking another Tropical Wave in the Alantic (well in the Gulf) They don’t expect it to become much of anything, but just keep an eye down there as the end of the week comes by. Lets hope it dies out before it can form into anything, that is the last thing that[…]

News and blog RSS feeds I follow

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Published on: September 27, 2005

I have added a “News aggregator” And over time I will be move all the RSS feeds I read from the RSS readers on my computers to the web based system, so I can have access to it anywhere. Also I am making it available to every one on the net since these are things[…]

A union backing a Republican??

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Published on: September 26, 2005

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette is running an artical on how the Fire union is backing Republican canidate for mayor of Pittsburgh: Joe Weinroth. I did not belive this when I read it at first. But being this is Pittsburgh I will still put my money on the Democrate canidate to win. You know the 2[…]

Bush asks people to conserve gas (again)

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Published on: September 26, 2005

Bush has asked people to conserve gas again. I have a way people can conserve gas. I have posted about this before. But I will restate it since I think it is a good idea. You can bike to work. The good thing about this, is it just might save you time in your day.[…]

Good news about Rita

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Published on: September 23, 2005

I just checked the NHC web site and saw that Rita’s wind speed is down to 135MPH, that is still high but only a Cat 3 level. So maybe it might loss some more speed before hitting land, and lets hope and pray that there is no major damage or that there is no loss[…]

$5 per gallon gas price?

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Published on: September 22, 2005

CNN is reporting that gas prices after Rita could spike to over $4 maybe $5 I will have to get a picture of it. I have a picture of the $3+ gas price from here in Pittsburgh I don’t drive but I know this will even hurt me, because the companies that deliver the food[…]

From the NWS

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Published on: September 21, 2005

WTNT63 KNHC 212351 TCUAT3 HURRICANE RITA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 650 PM CDT WED SEP 21 2005 …RITA BECOMES THE THIRD MOST INTENSE HURRICANE ON RECORD… DROPSONDE DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT 623 PM CDT…2323Z…INDICATED THE CENTRAL PRESSURE HAS FALLEN TO BELOW 899 MB…OR 26.55[…]

Hurricane RITA is now a Cat 5

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Published on: September 21, 2005

I just checked over at the NHC‘s web site, and according to them Hurricane Rita is now a cat 5 Hurricane with wind speeds of up to 161 KNOTS and the pressure at 700 MB. I wonder what will happen to the coast of Texas now? We saw the damage that a cat 4 (Katrina)[…]

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