Early Winter an Early Omen

related: United States Facing a Cold Winter Forget the Gas Pump -- Heating Bills May Be the Killer This Winter October 8, 2008 AccuWeather The AccuWeather.com Winter Forecast released today does not contain good news for homeowners in the East. Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi says, "The winter as a whole in the population-dense eastern third of the nation will be a one-two punch of higher heating prices and lower temperatures." According to Bastardi, the overall colder and snowier winter will be off to a cold start in December with perhaps the roughest winter month for much of the nation. It may finish with another cold spell in late January and February.. » read more

Desert Storm – "Landicane" Hits Australia

The majority of homes in Alice Springs were without power after the storm...everywhere was affected. I've never seen anything like it, not in this town.. » read more

HURRICANE 'IKE' PHOTOS

Sep 24, 2008 - 3:19:16 PM (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * * * * 1) A horse grazes beside a house, surrounded by floodwater, near Winnie, Texas after Hurricane Ike, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Ike was the first major storm to directly hit a major U.S. metro area since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005.. » read more

More to Come in Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season

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Violent Remnants of Ike Bring Deaths, Blackouts in Midwest

September 16, 2008 Boston Globe CHICAGO - Residents of the Midwest faced blackouts affecting more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooded homes yesterday after a weekend of devastating weather caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. Photo: Thomas Babu (from left), Daniel Pappachen, and Daniel M. Babu, holding son Aaron, 1, evacuated Sunday in Chicago. Summer has been brutal in the Midwest. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune) The violent weather in the Midwest, the latest in a brutal summer that has slammed parts of the region with severe flooding, brought Ike's total death toll to at least 39 deaths in 10 states from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley.. » read more

Hurricane Ike's Size Poses Huge Surge Risk: Discovery News

Sept. 12, 2008 Batman: Storm's coming. Jim Gordon: Storm's getting choppy…………   http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/12/hurricane-ike-surge.. » read more

Western Gulf of Mexico Live Buoy Data

Sept. 11, 2008   ----- Original Message ----- From: D To: <bellringer@fourwinds10.com> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:58 PM Subject: Siterun Contact Request from Linlar Services   Sender Message: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/buoy/West%20Gulf/buoy-xhtml.. » read more

Ike Threatens to Devastate Texas Coastal Towns

Sept. 12, 2008 GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to devastate coastal towns and batter America's fourth-largest city. Ike's eye was forecast to strike somewhere near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday then head inland for Houston, but the sprawling weather system nearly as big as Texas was already buffeting the Gulf Coast and causing flooding in areas still recovering from Labor Day's Hurricane Gustav. Because of its ominous size, storm surge and flooding were the greatest threats. In unusually strong language, forecasters even warned of "certain death" for stalwarts who insisted on staying in Galveston; most had complied, along with hundreds of thousands of fellow Texans in counties up and down the coastline.. » read more

Hurricane Ike Looms Off Texas Coast as Hundreds of Thousands Flee

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Hurricane IKE - Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Track Forecast Cone

Posted 91108 (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * * * * * Hurricane IKE Home   Public Adv   Fcst/Adv   Discussion   Wind Probs   Maps/Charts   Archive   US Watch/Warning   Storm Surge   Hurricane Wind Speed Probability 50-knot Wind Speed Probability Trop Storm Wind Speed Probability Maximum Wind Speed Probability Warnings and 3-Day Cone Warnings and 5-Day Cone Experimental Warnings and Surface Wind Mariner's 1-2-3 Rule Wind History Coastal Watches/Warnings and 5-Day Track Forecast Cone Click image to zoom out – Turn track off – Download GIS data Click Here for a Printer Friendly Graphic Note: If a storm is expected to dissipate within 5 days, its track will be shorter About this product: This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), hurricane watch (pink), tropical storm warning (blue) and tropical storm watch (yellow). The orange circle indicates the current position of the center of the tropical cyclone. The black line and dots show the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast track of the center at the times indicated. The dot indicating the forecast center location will be black if the cyclone is forecast to be tropical and will be white with a black outline if the cyclone is forecast to be extratropical. If only an L is displayed, then the system is forecast to be a remnant low.. » read more

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