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
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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
James Taranto of the WSJ uses a headline in his Best of the Web report called “Someone set us up the bomb” or something close to that. Under this are headlines or lead-ins that make no sense because the writer, perhaps, knowing what he or she wanted to say did not know how to say it. Reporters and headline writers should know that words have meanings. The person or people responsible for this nonsense should go to remedial writing school.
Gone – like it never happened. Cowards didn’t even apologize. That isn’t unexpected and is a marker of a systemic problem with MSM and climate hysteria reporting. It is that kind of reporting that gets people killed or convinces them to stop listening (which can get them killed, too).
Darn that Climate Chaos(TM), ANYTHING can happen now!
Gee, global warming must really have accelerated continental drift, to bring North Carolina up under Hawaii like that. /sarc
Give Carey Vanderborg a break. Were all of you at your best at 8:18 on a Monday morning?
On the other hand, I doubt I could make this mistake at 2:00 AM, after a wild Friday night turns into a Saturday.
On the third hand, Carey’s mistake makes my own blunders look a little less stupid, in comparison. Therefore I am thankful for the Carey’s in the world, (except for the ones that wield political power.)
This story needs to be tagged “Jump the Land Shark”.
Wow. Bigger than the permanent storm that makes up the eye of Jupiter.
The US … a wild tropical place, one of the sunburnt countries where Don Juan is found … strange things happen there!
Well Hawaii, Florida, the Carolinas – these are the sunny warm states aren’t they? How far apart could they be?
For the geographically challenged, Hawaii is the next state west of North Carolina. They can drive there if they like. Unfortunately, I have actually met people who appear to believe that version of geography. Nothing else will surprise me.
This is not a joke.
At an NCAA womens softball championship game I asked on of the players from a California team what part of California the team was from?
The response: “The top of California.”
They walk among us and vote and will possibly be the future leaders of this country.
“Journalists” are people who get paid to fill media with hype to sell ad space and attract and maintain readers.
This sort of article is just a great example of why forgetting quality of hype is the key flaw in the media industry business model.
My hometown of Hickory got absolutely throttled by rain/flood. I had no idea it was from a PAcific tropical storm. Learn something new every day.
I am currently living in Roanoke, VA. By the 15th of July, we had already exceeded 2012’s rain total by 6″. Wettest year I have ever seen. We may hit 50″.
Latest weather from Hawaii
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Sunshine+records+broken/8728279/story.html
Everyone except the Environment Canada loves the weather: Sunshine has now become “extreme weather”
Vancouverites have been walking on sunshine for the whole of July as the month breaks records Wednesday and becomes the sunniest and possibly the driest the city has ever been.
Vancouver has had almost 400 hours of sunlight in July, surpassing the 388-hour record set in 1985.
And if not a single drop of rain falls by 11 p.m. Wednesday, July will also become the city’s driest month ever.
“This has been the most ideal weather I’ve ever experienced. We get to walk, cycle and garden all day,” said Garry Wolfater, who moved to Vancouver 38 years ago. “I wouldn’t mind having this until November.”
Like Vancouver, Victoria is also on the brink of breaking its record for sunniest and driest month ever recorded with 422 hours of sun and a rainless July.
But while the dry, sunny spell has allowed residents to bask under the sun longer, Environment Canada meteorologist David Jones said the extreme weather has had some negative effects on the environment.
Incidentally does anyone knows if a hurricane has ever managed to cross the Panama Isthmus and actually been a hurricane in both the Atlantic and the Pacific?
It seems to me that this might possibly happen if the conditions were just right.
It’s amusing to read the comments conflating the geographical and meteorological ignorance displayed in the article with those who espouse the demonstrated and accepted facts and realities of climate change (including 98% of atmospheric scientists, who should know). In my experience, wholesale geographical and meteorological ignorance combined with a grasp of zero actual facts such as what appears in the article is the sole province of the climate change denial crowd.
@Joe Kirklin Golonka – except the evidence before you clearly shows it is not. So either your expereince is very limited, or you are lying. Or perhaps you cannot comprehend what you just read?
Interesting. But I will not make an asinine generalization about alarmists based upon your rantings.
@ur momisugly Joe Golonka
Please provide with citation what “98% of atmospheric scientists” accept as “demonstrated and accepted facts and realities of climate change”.
tty says:
July 31, 2013 at 1:11 am
They have, generally not at Panama, which doesn’t get hit by many hurricanes. When the storm reaches the Pacfic, it’s renamed to fit into the eastern Pacific name list.
It should be an easy search to find examples or a full list of named storms.
Joe Golonka, WUWT certainly gets its share of commenters who exhibit a bit of Shadenfreude when the other side makes a mistake. I hope at least that you’d agree this was a pretty major mistake, even if the consequences of the mistake are trivial. A blog that doesn’t aggressively censor cannot avoid this type of behavior.
That people self-select the things they want to read, and tend to cluster with like-minded people, reading articles that intrique them is also not surprising. But I have tried to engage many times on “Real”Climate and on Greg Laden’s blog, only to have my reasonable comments and contradictions completely deleted. This is a far worse offense, IMO.
If you want to see a discrepancy in qualitative communication levels, and decision making around what constitutes “unhelpful” comments, you really should go over and read the Bore Hole comments at RealClimate. There are some brilliant observations and penetrating questions in those threads (not saying all, of course) and yet, Gavin and Eric and Mike sh**can them, because they cannot tolerate questioning of “the narrative” or “the cause.” Greg Laden and John Cook also do the same thing, and you see much less dissent in their comment threads. Over time, direct censorship eliminates some dissent, but mostly people who dissent are disenfranchised, and so correctly (IMO) conclude that those blogs are nothing more than propaganda echo chambers, not places to learn or participate.
This is why WUWT is so popular compared to RealClimate or SkepticalScience. I was checking out SkepticalScience the other day after reading some additional ClimateGate material, and they don’t have a link to a single ClimateGate e-mail, as they pretend to authoritatively dismiss all negative criticism of “Real”Climate scientits in their pertinent articles. Their tacit message, “don’t read the incriminating evidence, just accept what we tell you about it.” This sort of controlling mindset is thick in the CAGW world. It’s an infected pustule on all honest debate.
Anyway, check out the Bore Hole, and SkepticalScience’s articles on ClimateGate, to see that I’m not BS’ing you. After you read some of the censored comments (on Greg Laden’s blog, you never see them, so you’ll never know what was posted) ask yourself if you prefer free discussions, wherein you’ll always get some degree of chortling and Shadenfreude (I confess to have these myself, from time to time – and by the way, for more examples of this, check out climate related comments at ThinkProgress, DailyKos, Huffington Post, DeSmogBlog, BadAstronomy), or if you’d rather have discussions lorded over by gate-keepers like Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, Greg Laden and John Cook. Maybe you’ll start to prefer this forum, as opposed to one in which the operators can’t hide their inclinations as thin-skinned, totalitarian-minded control-freaks?
tty says:
July 31, 2013 at 1:11 am
Incidentally does anyone knows if a hurricane has ever managed to cross the Panama Isthmus and actually been a hurricane in both the Atlantic and the Pacific?
It seems to me that this might possibly happen if the conditions were just right.
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http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/B5.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E15.html
Rain in Maine falls mainly in the Seine http://climateaudit.org/2009/01/19/rain-in-maine-falls-mainly-in-the-seine/