Canadian Model Calls for FL/Texas Landfall? And, Storm Fury Trivia

Is the Canadian crazy or does it know something we should pay attention to?

A real closed circulation sliding through the Florida Straits and slamming into Texas or does it need to be sent back to the factory to be hit up the side of the head or whatever they do to wayward models?

Either way.. cut and paste this cute little link and watch a storm blow up on the north side of Cuba and dance across South Beach or slither it's way through the Florida Keys and then slam into Texas... interesting, fiction or fact?
Time will tell.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/cmctc2.cgi?time=2007071500&field=850mb+Vorticity&hour=Animation

I'm a little skeptical.. but well... keep watching.

So...decided to post a link here to something that you can all read up on and wonder about... a project called STORM FURY where we tried to make a difference in the world and control hurricanes or modify them so that they might not turn into major category five storms and just stay at lower levels.

HaHa.. you thought it was about me having a temper tantrum didn't you? Come on, confess... not about a pissed off Bobbi Storm.. nope, about trying to control or modify weather to help mankind.

So... going to use Wiki as a source because it seems there are a lot of people with a lot of time who do nothing at all but write columns on Wiki and they are chock full of information. Accurate info to because you see somewhere someone is checking on them always and anything bad gets taken out a whole lot faster than a mistake in World Book!

People think Google will take over the world.. I would fear Wiki! :)


So...
From Wiki online where you can go to learn much about everything and a lot about nothing!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane


A paragraph from a larger article "Artificial dissipation" is cited below:

"In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States government attempted to weaken hurricanes through Project Stormfury by seeding selected storms with silver iodide. It was thought that the seeding would cause supercooled water in the outer rainbands to freeze, causing the inner eyewall to collapse and thus reducing the winds. The winds of Hurricane Debbie—a hurricane seeded in Project Stormfury—dropped as much as 30%, but Debby regained its strength after each of two seeding forays. In an earlier episode in 1947, disaster struck when a hurricane east of Jacksonville, Florida promptly changed its course after being seeded, and smashed into Savannah, Georgia.[46] Because there was so much uncertainty about the behavior of these storms, the federal government would not approve seeding operations unless the hurricane had a less than 10% chance of making landfall within 48 hours, greatly reducing the number of possible test storms. The project was dropped after it was discovered that eyewall replacement cycles occur naturally in strong hurricanes, casting doubt on the result of the earlier attempts. Today, it is known that silver iodide seeding is not likely to have an effect because the amount of supercooled water in the rainbands of a tropical cyclone is too low.[47]"

Personally I have to give these folks a real "A" for EFFORT here. They tried, what have we done in the last few decades to try? Yes, there were some problems. No, it didn't have any real long lasting effect. Yes, there were some problems that some attribute to the seeding and others attribute to weather conditions... not sure we will ever know for sure as the program was disbanded. But, an amazing group of people participated and tried to make a difference. I give them a real A for effort and thought I would highlight this project that was known not for storm trackers fighting with each other and being angry at the world but trying to take apart the fury from a storm and in even some minor way control it.

Weather modification is being used in many places.

Do we? Would we know if we were? Do we care or bother?

Seems to me in a time when many worry on global warming and globalism and our future destiny on this planet that the power that learns to control or modify weather will control much power indeed.

The real Lex Luthor (Metropolis not Miami) knew that ....




China knows that...it's worrying on the Olympics... (right, sure it is)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13107271/site/newsweek/
(Can China Control Olympic Weather? Newsweek)

When will we?

Right now we aren't sure if the Canadian is or isn't right but if it keeps projecting this and some other model hits on it as well... we will be that much more a believer in this South Florida storm.

Have a great week, a great Monday... a great, great, great everything.

Over and out, Bobbi Storm
Ps... I have of course always been a little partial to the Canadian Model :P
smiling... sigh...