Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Quoting InconceivableF6:
there is no such thing as being civil.It's called the Internet.

LOL...Probably the most true statement ever on this site.

Quoting cat5hurricane:

Ok, I hear ya.

Yeah, my ignore list is infinitely long and it still isn't enough during the heart of hurricane season. :-P

But I guess that's just how the ball rolls. I guess the best thing for us as bloggers to do is keep on posting our info and use that ignore feature when we need it.

Quoting MississippiWx:
Gotta love JFV. You know, one of the blog admins just needs to post his information. As in his name, address, etc..Can easily be done through his IP address. After going around ban after ban, admin is totally justified in doing that since he continues to break the rules of this website.

He may be a troll, but I don't think it justifies posting his personal data on the site. What are you going to do, troll back? Make his life horrible? That makes you no better than him.

Lets go Nashville Predators.......!!!!

Evening all....A little excitement there for a blog or 2.....keeps the circulation going at least....

did the SunshineStateCarnage get lock up

Quoting Tazmanian:
did the SunshineStateCarnage get lock up

Taz, glad ya got your old name back.....didnt know what to call you before...T&T..just didnt sound right....anyway, lets hope all is good for you now :)

Quoting EYEStoSEA:


Taz, glad ya got your old name back.....didnt know what to call you before...T&T..just didnt sound right....anyway, lets hope all is good for you now :)

Taz changed names? /leaves in december and comes back in may

Quoting hydrus:
Pottery iz gettin wet..

Not yet.
Been threatening all day....

Like the idea from above about Texas getting some rain. Not a drop of rain in over 4 months in San Antonio, and it's really starting to affect things. Most of us assume a tropical storm is the only way to get rain at this point.

Quoting EYEStoSEA:


Taz, glad ya got your old name back.....didnt know what to call you before...T&T..just didnt sound right....anyway, lets hope all is good for you now :)

it is thanks

Quoting Tygor:
Like the idea from above about Texas getting some rain. Not a drop of rain in over 4 months in San Antonio, and it's really starting to affect things. Most of us assume a tropical storm is the only way to get rain at this point.

Believe me....we're all rooting for ya'll dry Texans.....rain, rain, rain come on......

Uhh, can someone tell me what happened? Seemed like we had a troll attack.

Quoting pottery:

Not yet.
Been threatening all day....

Hello Pottery, good to see ya. Locals here in Ms seem pretty confident the levees are gonna hold up pretty good.....hoping they're right....now is just wait and see time....

WSI: Multiple US Hurricane Landfalls Expected in 2011
Weather Authority Expects Another Active Season with Gulf Coast Under Greatest Threat .......
Outperforming other, primary, public forecasters on named storms by 25% since 2006, WSI (Weather Services International) predicts 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 intense hurricanes (category 3 or greater). These 2011 forecast numbers are above the long-term (1950-2010) averages of 12 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 intense hurricanes and match the averages from the more active recent period (1995-2010) of 15/8/4. The current forecast is a reduction from the previous forecast made in December for 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 5 intense hurricanes.

“We have reduced our forecast numbers to ‘active-normal’ levels since the recent North Atlantic weather pattern has resulted in a cooling of the tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures. Further, the La Nina event weakened a bit more quickly than we first expected, reducing the possibility of a favorable wind shear environment during the upcoming tropical season,” said WSI Chief Meteorologist Dr. Todd Crawford. “We do expect another active season in 2011, although not to the level of 2005 or 2010. However, while we expect less overall activity this year, we do expect a much more impactful season along the US coastline. The US has been spared from any landfalling hurricanes since 2008, and the hurricane drought in 2009 and 2010 is relatively rare in the historical record. In fact, the US has not had a three-year stretch without a hurricane landfall since the 1860s. Further, 80 percent of all years in the historical dataset have had at least one hurricane landfall in the US. Our recent good fortune in avoiding landfalling hurricanes is not likely to last.”

Crawford also indicated that the Gulf Coast was under a significant threat for hurricane landfall in the upcoming season.

“The lack of US landfalls in 2010 was primarily due to a persistent western Atlantic trough that essentially protected the US East Coast from any direct hits. We do not expect this feature to be in place this year during late summer and fall when most tropical storms occur. Further, the Gulf and Caribbean sea surface temperatures are particularly warm this year, and we expect more development in these regions and less in the eastern tropical Atlantic. Storms developing in the Gulf and Caribbean are a much greater threat to make landfall along the US coast than those that develop off the coast of Africa. For this reason, and since our hurricane landfall prediction model suggests sharply increased chances of US landfall in 2011, especially in the western Gulf states, we expect two or three landfalling hurricanes this season. This is not particularly unusual, since historically 43% of years have had multiple hurricane landfalls. The forecast numbers from our model are quite similar to those prior to the 2008 season, when Hurricanes Dolly, Gustav, and Ike impacted Louisiana and Texas.”

Energy traders, insurance professionals and risk managers look to WSI for accurate, timely weather information around the clock and across the globe. The next seasonal forecast update, which will include forecasts for summer temperatures, will be issued on May 24. The next update for the 2011 tropical season will be released on May 25.

About WSI
WSI (Weather Services International) is the world's leading provider of weather-driven business solutions for professionals in the energy, insurance, aviation and media markets, as well as multiple federal and state government agencies. WSI is a member of The Weather Channel Companies and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts with offices in Birmingham, England. The Weather Channel Companies are owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital. More information about WSI can be found at http://www.wsi.com.

Quoting eddy12:
There is no way to ban someone ip ban will not work you can log on from public hotspot or aircrack a wireless connection or use a proxy server

Getting around an IP ban is trivial for anyone with even a small knowledge of networking protocols. I agree with eddy 100% on this. Sometimes, depending on your ISP, it can be as simple as power cycling your modem and you can get a new dynamic IP assigned to you. If you get into MAC spoofing there is another avenue...easy peasy.

Quoting caneswatch:
Uhh, can someone tell me what happened? Seemed like we had a troll attack.

Hey it's almost "the season". Everybody's doing their warm up exercises. Spring training you know.

empty space created

so, have we had a 1st tropical wave emerge yet...
don't think we have, and what's the word on pre-season development.

That low in the N Atlantic sure is pretty. Messing with shipping for sure.

Quoting ShenValleyFlyFish:
Hey it's almost "the season". Everybody's doing their warm up exercises. Spring training you know.

EPAC starts in 4 days won't be long now bring it on

Quoting Seastep:
That low in the N Atlantic sure is pretty. Messing with shipping for sure.

pretty now monster later

Quoting cat5hurricane:

Nah. It's all good.

I can see that now LOL

Quoting ShenValleyFlyFish:
Hey it's almost "the season". Everybody's doing their warm up exercises. Spring training you know.

Yep, only a few more weeks before "the season." Someone got a hit though LOL

Quoting RIDGES:
Evening everyone. I see preseason has started. We need to have a fantasy league, with full draft, on who gets the most "going crazy" points. Extra points for picking the correct amount of responses to each of the trolls posts.

XD someone needs to organize this.

Quoting KEEPEROFTHEGATE:
pretty now monster later

monster later....Keeper, ya want to expound on that a little ?

Quoting HurricaneDean07:
so, have we had a 1st tropical wave emerge yet...
don't think we have, and what's the word on pre-season development.

. Possible, probably not until' about 2 weeks from now and the week before season starts.

Quoting EYEStoSEA:


monster later....Keeper, ya want to expound on that a little ?

when ya see em spin like that later in the hurricane season could very well be a monster barreling down

Quoting KEEPEROFTHEGATE:
when ya see em spin like that later in the hurricane season could very well be a monster barreling down

Ahhh, gotcha.....but even now looks a little intimidating..

Are you guys aware that there is a new fire at the Fukishima power plant?

http://leakspinner.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/zk 9fe.jpg

Link

Why is this not on the front page of every single newspaper in the world? Why are official agencies not measuring from many places around the world and reporting on what is going on in terms of contamination every single day since this disaster happened? Radioactivity has been being released now for almost two full months! Even small amounts when released continuously, and in fact especially continuous exposure to small amounts of radioactivity, can cause all kinds of increases in cancers.

One reason no one is reporting on this nor allowed to go inside the exclusion zone nor even measure the waters off of Japan is because of the following compiled by Makiko Segawa, a staff writer at the Shingetsu News Agency. She prepared this report from Fukushima and Tokyo for www.japanfocus.org:

Freelance journalists and foreign media are pursuing the facts, even going into the radiation exclusion zone. However, surprisingly, the Japan government continues to prevent freelance journalists and overseas media from gaining access to official press conferences at the prime minister's house and government

06z GFS forecasts a very favorable upper wind environment across much of the eastern Pacific approximately one week from now (May 16), with a pronounced light easterly shearing regime:



Extrapolation of this forecast, along with continued warming of the equatorial Eastern Pacific, lends credence to the likelihood that such conditions will stick around throughout the month. In short, if any disturbances take advantage of such favorable conditions, we might see our first tropical storm, Adrian, this month.

Quoting Bitmap7:

One reason no one is reporting on this nor allowed to go inside the exclusion zone nor even measure the waters off of Japan is because of the following compiled by Makiko Segawa, a staff writer at the Shingetsu News Agency. She prepared this report from Fukushima and Tokyo for www.japanfocus.org:

Freelance journalists and foreign media are pursuing the facts, even going into the radiation exclusion zone. However, surprisingly, the Japan government continues to prevent freelance journalists and overseas media from gaining access to official press conferences at the prime minister's house and government

And this is a bad thing? I don't think that the press should be excluded from the exclusion zone, as it is meant to protect the safety of all citizens, including the press.

Quoting cat5hurricane:

What is an IP ban? Do you know what that is exactly. Please explain. I want to learn.

xxx

Quoting EYEStoSEA:


Hello Pottery, good to see ya. Locals here in Ms seem pretty confident the levees are gonna hold up pretty good.....hoping they're right....now is just wait and see time....

What part of MS you from Eyes? I'm from the coast but we're being put on standby to respond to the flooded areas. I know they're saying the levees will hold, but the state at least is preparing for the worst.

Quoting HurricaneDean07:
so, have we had a 1st tropical wave emerge yet...
don't think we have, and what's the word on pre-season development.

We have already had two tropical waves emerge in the preseason.

Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical Astrological Service and Administration
Tropical Cyclone Bulletin #15
TROPICAL STORM BEBENG (AERE)
11:00 AM PhST May 10 2011
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Tropical Storm "BEBENG" " continues to move away from the country.

At 10:00 AM PhST, Tropical Storm Bebeng (AERE) located at 20.4°N 122.3°E or 50 km east of Basco, Batanes has 10 minute sustained winds of 35 knots with gusts up to 45 knots. The cyclone is reported as moving north at 10 knots.

Storm Signal #1
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Luzon Region
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1.Batanes

Additional Information
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Public Storm Warning Signals elsewhere are now lowered.

However, the western section of Luzon will still experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers with gradual improvement of weather late today.

The public and the disaster coordinating councils concerned are advised to take appropriate actions and watch for the next bulletin to be issued at 5 p.m. today.

I see nothing has really changed with this blog. Its a crying shame, I tell ya, that such a respectable blog gets tarnished by continuous drama and immaturity, thus driving some well respected and knowledgeable people away.