Lovely Rita, Meter Maid...

So, I'm looking at the IR loop for the last 12 hours of the Gulf of Mexico, and reading the latest on RITA from the NHC, and I have to say, it's a beautiful storm. It weakened slightly overnight, but now that the sun's rising over the gulf, I expect that to end.

Symmetry so nice you couldn't ask for better from what is essentially organized chaos. An eye so clear Visine could use it for commercials. Pressure so low it'll suck the coil out of your subwoofers. Sustained winds at 175mph.

I remember Georges from the mid 90s, which devastated Central America. We thought that was a nasty storm (and it was a category 5; 120 inches of rain fell in parts of Costa Rica in 48 hours; that's TEN FEET of rain in two days), but we've had two this year that dwarf it in size and sustained winds. Fortunately, we haven't seen rainfall like that and we aren't likely to since the storm can't draw from two oceans simultaneously here like it can south of Mexico.

Anyone in it's path, get out now. This one's looking worse than Katrina.

EDIT: The western edge got real rough in the last hour (new IR image just got added to the loop), which means it's hitting resistance. If it can't go west, the next option for a hurricane is north. This could be bad.

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid...

So, I'm looking at the IR loop for the last 12 hours of the Gulf of Mexico, and reading the latest on RITA from the NHC, and I have to say, it's a beautiful storm. It weakened slightly overnight, but now that the sun's rising over the gulf, I expect that to end.

Symmetry so nice you couldn't ask for better from what is essentially organized chaos. An eye so clear Visine could use it for commercials. Pressure so low it'll suck the coil out of your subwoofers. Sustained winds at 175mph.

I remember Georges from the mid 90s, which devastated Central America. We thought that was a nasty storm (and it was a category 5; 120 inches of rain fell in parts of Costa Rica in 48 hours; that's TEN FEET of rain in two days), but we've had two this year that dwarf it in size and sustained winds. Fortunately, we haven't seen rainfall like that and we aren't likely to since the storm can't draw from two oceans simultaneously here like it can south of Mexico.

Anyone in it's path, get out now. This one's looking worse than Katrina.

EDIT: The western edge got real rough in the last hour (new IR image just got added to the loop), which means it's hitting resistance. If it can't go west, the next option for a hurricane is north. This could be bad.

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid...

So, I'm looking at the IR loop for the last 12 hours of the Gulf of Mexico, and reading the latest on RITA from the NHC, and I have to say, it's a beautiful storm. It weakened slightly overnight, but now that the sun's rising over the gulf, I expect that to end.

Symmetry so nice you couldn't ask for better from what is essentially organized chaos. An eye so clear Visine could use it for commercials. Pressure so low it'll suck the coil out of your subwoofers. Sustained winds at 175mph.

I remember Georges from the mid 90s, which devastated Central America. We thought that was a nasty storm (and it was a category 5; 120 inches of rain fell in parts of Costa Rica in 48 hours; that's TEN FEET of rain in two days), but we've had two this year that dwarf it in size and sustained winds. Fortunately, we haven't seen rainfall like that and we aren't likely to since the storm can't draw from two oceans simultaneously here like it can south of Mexico.

Anyone in it's path, get out now. This one's looking worse than Katrina.

EDIT: The western edge got real rough in the last hour (new IR image just got added to the loop), which means it's hitting resistance. If it can't go west, the next option for a hurricane is north. This could be bad.