Holy shit Rita is huge!
 

I have the news on tv and this thing is a category five and is absolutely fucking huge. The radar shots are absolutelyu amzing. Hopefully it will lose some steam somehow before it hits landfall again.

Hope our friends in FL that were/are effected by the storm ar ok. And if you are along the part of the coast it's on a track for now be safe.

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It will lose its steam, it will drop to a 3/4. Then it will fire back up to likely a "6." It will probably hit landfall as a 4. However, this one has a shot at hitting landfall as a 5.

Living in the south, some things you come to know as the bible :)

The Gulf is highly conducive to canes. It isn't large, but it can produce them from scratch. Something to think about :(

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Yeah... it's interesting to see how some stuff affects the hurricanes.. like with Katrina having a gust of warm air actually take some steam out of the storm before it hit the gulf.

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The eye of this thing is incredible... in the satellite shots you can look straight down through it and see the blue of the ocean. It's huge.

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They are saying a cat 4 when it slams the Texas Gulf Coast.

The traffic is bumper to bumper coming in to San Antonio, Austin, and

Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas.

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Rita is looking like a monster right now:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/g8/latest_g8wv.gif

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/RITA...0921222835.jpg

Here's another one from the Navy's website:

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looks exactly like andrew i remember that fucker. wait till the sun hits it today i bet it will go to 6 and come back to 5 no cat 4 my friends. water temps on the gulf are perfect for the storm during the day.

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There is no category 6, but it can be a bitch of a 5 :( If it hits as a 5 it will only be the 4th one to hit the US since they've been recording them. Scary shit.

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Looking at infrared and recon this morning ... looks like an eyewall replacement cycle - where a new outer eye replaces the inner - has begun. Will probably weaken now with a possibility to restrengthen again later depending on the conditions.

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Nice pic ...

http://linkification.com/linked/rita_eye_cat5.jpg

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Damn.. nice pics....

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And yet if I took a photo of a toilet flushing after putting in some of that scrubbing bubbles cleaner, it would look the same. http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/unsure.gif

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You must have one big toilet - how big is your ass. :yowsa:

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If the warming of the oceans stays this way or continues, as scientists suspect, these "oddities" are going to become the norm.

If it's not that way already.

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Are you wrankling for a personal invitation? :blink:

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I just fugured that after all the talk of your balls and head, your ass had to be next. ;)

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There is no "6" LOL

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml

Which Bible is it you know?

The St.Brittany version?

:burn:

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How would you like to be an insect at the rim when it gets flushed? It's all about scale.

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"rim" is a disgusting word...

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As opposed to "minge". :p

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" Holy shit "

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You mean the same cheap effect they use on Dr. Who when the phonebox gets swept into an event horizon? http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/tongue.gif

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nerd

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nerdy dweeb...

"EXTERMINATE!!!"

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Funny thing about Dr. Who ... it just never made as much sense to me after I quit smoking pot.

Odd, that ..

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Funny thing about Dravyk.

Odd, that ..

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smeghead! :p

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You're on a roll today, Colin. :)

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sometimes shit happens

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Sums up my entire view of the universe.

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Now the new eyewall is contracting. COULD strengthen one last time now.

VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 22/2043Z
B. 25 DEG 50 MIN N
89 DEG 25 MIN W
C. 700 MB 2320 M
D. NA
E. NA
F. 124 DEG 123 KT
G. 033 DEG 12 NM
H. 911 MB
I. 12 C/ 3054 M
J. 19 C/ 3064 M
K. 16 C/ NA
L. CLOSED WALL
M. C015-40
N. 12345/7
O. 1/1 NM
P. NOAA3 1818A RITA OB 46
MAX FL WIND 133 KT NW QUAD 1910Z
EXCELLENT RADAR PRESENTATION
OUTER EYEWALL CONTRACTING