I would not have believed this unless I had seen it with my own eyes. Below is the screencap. There are just no words for this level of stupid.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/tropical-storm-flossie-2-dead-north-carolina-after-flossie-barrels-through-us-mainland-storm-touches
(Yes the story is STILL THERE)
Meanwhile back in reality, the Baltimore Sun gets it right (as if that is hard):
The former tropical storms Dorian and Flossie are similarly facing unfavorable conditions thousands of miles apart, making it unlikely either will regenerate into tropical cyclones.
Dorian, which late last week was tracking toward the Bahamas with 60 mph winds, had a 20 percent chance of regaining tropical storm strength within the next 48 hours, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Tuesday morning. The storm’s remnants were disorganized thunderstorms a few hundred miles east and northeast of Turks and Caicos.
Flossie passed over the Hawaiian islands Monday, weakening into a tropical depression. Forecasters expect the storm to remain a depression for the next day or so, but to dissipate within three days.
The flooding in North Carolina was caused by flash flooding from a line of thunderstorms:
A series of thunderstorms moving across western North Carolina has triggered what meteorologists are calling major flash flooding. The Charlotte Observer reported that parts of Catawba and surrounding counties were under water Saturday.
http://www.charlottestar.com/index.php/sid/216080732/scat/a6c0447118ba14fb
![img-Tropical-Storm-Flossie-Track---Friday-July-26-11-a-m[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/img-tropical-storm-flossie-track-friday-july-26-11-a-m1.jpg?quality=83)
![flossie-01-7-26-2013[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/flossie-01-7-26-20131.gif)
504 WTPA41 PHFO 301445 TCDCP1 POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE FLOSSIE DISCUSSION NUMBER 23 NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI EP062013 500 AM HST TUE JUL 30 2013 FLOSSIE HAS WEAKENED TO A POST-TROPICAL REMNANT LOW. SATELLITE AND RADAR DATA AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SHOW NEITHER A WELL-DEFINED CIRCULATION CENTER NOR ANY WELL-ORGANIZED CONVECTION. IT IS NOT CERTAIN THAT THERE IS EVEN STILL A LOW PRESSURE CENTER AT ALL. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ASSOCIATED WITH A BURST OF CONVECTION DURING THE EVENING MAY HAVE DISRUPTED THE CIRCULATION. AN OSCAT PASS AT 1045 UTC SUGGESTS THE SYSTEM HAS OPENED UP INTO A TROUGH. THE REMNANT LOW OR TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST AT 10 TO 15 KT AND WEAKEN. FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INIT 30/1500Z 22.3N 159.8W 25 KT 30 MPH 12H 31/0000Z 22.6N 161.0W 20 KT 25 MPH...DISSIPATING 24H 31/1200Z DISSIPATED$$ FORECASTER DONALDSON
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Clearly a little problem with geographical knowledge here…
Oh, picky picky! It made good copy!
/sarc
So Much Hot Air, but it is coming from Donaldson!
And you thought that only CO2 had supernatural powers. Hurricanes, even weak ones, can morph into superstorms that can leap tall continents in a single bound!
Was the storm ‘barrelling through the US mainland’ to hit Hawaii supposed to be because of AGW? Ladies and gentlemen – another miracle, praise CO2, another miracle!
SOMEONE has to hold down the left side of a ‘Bell curve’ *; we now have our representative in this category.
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* A Gaussian function, a specific kind of function whose graph is a bell-shaped curve.
See also: “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
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Warmists will believe anything ….
Let the coachman know geography. It’s not a noble thing to know.
No doubt they verified the facts with their meteorological expert Mo War Ming!
Teleconnection?
The first sentence now reads Two people in North Carolina were killed over the weekend when
Tropical Storm Flossieheavy rains flooded the Piedmont area, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency.There’s still a fair amount of confusion trying to blend two stories into one (and the headline writer helps by including a tornado with Storm Touches Down In Hawaii).
This is really a head scratcher. Surely there’s no way that idiot really thought this was accurate in any way. It reads like The Onion; as a parody of CAGW alarmism.
Bizarre in any case.
A good discussion of the “Dorian saga” is here: http://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/dorians-ghost-still-haunting/
WOW! A storm that passed all the way across the mainland and then reformed off the pacific coast would be something! Sorry I missed it. I was snoozing.
Flossie got caught up in a Sharknado, and the sharks gently lowered it back down after it passed over California.
So these are the people writing the “it’s global warming, stupid” articles? Makes sense.
It’s called ‘multitasking’ – talking about several different thinkgs at once, in the same sentence. It is also called ‘political rhetoric’ or ‘dissociative schizophrenia’ in other contexts. 🙂
Story has gone now and the url has altered to http://www.ibtimes.com/do-not-publish-tropical-storm-flossie-2-dead-north-carolina-after-flossie-barrels-through-us-1362291
I hope they thanked you for the education.
Just tried the original. Access is now denied. Shame that nothing ever dies on the net.
Come on.
This is just a complete muck up by someone who was having a bad day.
We all have bad days sometimes.
These guys got a little geographically mixed up. No big problem.
My thoughts are with the families of the two real victims of the weather in the US.
If the author has the correct socio/political opinions or belongs to a protected group one can be sure that his/her hand is being held and comforting words are being cooed, “Everybody makes mistakes, you’ll do better next time.”
Is it a new thing to describe flooding as flash flooding? Surely flooding is always rapid by the nature of it? Well most of the time anyway. Is this flash business all just part of the climate change narrative?
We’re actually in a flood drought here in NC:
http://ncpedia.org/climate/floods
No doubt the decreasing trend in floods is due to Global Warming. (/sarc)
Did Obama fire his speech writers?
That baby was traveling FAST to be able to flood North Carolina on Saturday and hit Hawaii on Monday ~ 4,719 miles in 48 hours ~ 98mph. Is that a new speed record for a tropical storm?
They say ‘The Stupid, it burns’ but, in this case it burns like the interior of the earth (At Al Gore’s temperatures). 🙂