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Originally posted by Birdvol:
Global warming/climax change is de rigueur - who cares?

Freezing when it should/hot when it should be/ eh/ blame it on....something...climax change.

Sounds good to me.

Now, hand over the climax change money....or I'll let the most lethally boring man in the world, Al Gore The Bore to start speaking...you'll die listening...exposure time to death listening...one second.

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Originally posted by smithnsig:
We’ve been naming subtropicals for a while, but they are usually a transitional storm, from tropical to subtropical. Alberto will turn tropical when the upper level winds (cold frontal type) settle down. When this happens, the warm core moisture feeding will take over turning it tropical.

All this usually happens before rotational speed goes above 39kt. Alberto has rotation, is above 39kt. So there is no surface low turning depression, turning tropical storm. It has the wind characteristics of a tropical storm but still has cold core. Tomorrow when the uppers relax, the warm core will be fueling it and will be officially tropical in nature.

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Originally posted by blusmoke:
When the Weather Channel and all other sources weather starting selling fear.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
I live in Florida and do not remember ever naming storms till they reached tropical storm wind speeds.
Did this latest storm in the Gulf reach the speed needed to name it than drop down to speeds below tropical wind speed to stay a tropical storm.
Are we naming the storms now so we as a state can qualify for some sort of government relief.
I am confused.

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Until the early 1950s, tropical storms and hurricanes were tracked by year and the order in which they occurred during that year. Over time, it was learned that the use of short, easily remembered names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and reduces confusion when two or more tropical storms occur at the same time. In the past, confusion and false rumors resulted when storm advisories broadcast from radio stations were mistaken for warnings concerning an entirely different storm located hundreds of miles away.

In 1953, the United States began using female names for storms and, by 1978, both male and female names were used to identify Northern Pacific storms. This was then adopted in 1979 for storms in the Atlantic basin.

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, there is a strict procedure established by the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation. The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate. In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in a season, any additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet.