"Meteorologists from the National Weather Service (NWS) have confirmed that an EF-1 Tornado touched down in Allentown, PA on Saturday afternoon.
NWS Chief Meteorologist Gary Szatkowski says the tornado reached peak gusts of up to 95 miles per hour. It was on the ground for only two minutes, but caused damage one mile long, and 150 ft wide along East Center St." - Jason R. Hunter via Bookmarklet
"Hurricane Ike has re-intensified, and now has Category 4-strength winds, according to the latest data from the Hurricane Hunters. Both an Air Force and a NOAA aircraft recorded surface winds of 135 mph this afternoon on the northeast side of Ike. Category 4 strength winds range from 135-155 mph. Infrared satellite loops show Ike is more symmetric now, with improved upper-level outflow to the north. Shear has fallen from 25 knots this morning to 15 knots this afternoon, allowing this intensification to occur.
All of the major models agree that Ike will hit eastern Cuba on Sunday night. After this point, the models continue to diverge. A southern camp of models, the ECMWF and UKMET, take Ike across eastern Cuba and into the western Caribbean, then across the western tip of Cuba or Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. These models predict an eventual landfall near the Mexico/Texas border a week from now. This track would bring tropical storm conditions to the Cancun/Cozumel area beginn - Jason R. Hunter via Bookmarklet
We don't need Bush's help. Actually, I don't want his help. We can take care of ourselves. - ::Kristen::
Oh. My. This is insane. Hopefully each of them will weaken as they approach and the Southeast will be spared. - Abby Martin
ew. I hope we have an Eastern Seaboard next week. One is bad enough, but three .... in a row! - Sean Hanna via twhirl
Son of a... :( Looks like I'm getting a lot of rain soon.. - Dennis Jackson
from the looks of it right now, this storm has the potential to make Gustav look like a spring drizzle. and its headed right for us. its predicted to be a CAT4 over Cuba - Bahamas. - Carlos Ayala
Ike is definitely the strongest of the 3 so far, and the latest computer models have it coming to Florida next week. The poor carribean can't catch a break. Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica and the Bahamas may not have as much time to recover as we have. We still have standing water from Tropical Storm Fay. - Bwana McCall
Best wishes to you and yours- stay safe. - Abby Martin
I like ::kristen:: You get gold stars today. - Geoff Schultz
This reminds me of the computer game Life where you have a bunch of gliders moving across the screen in the same direction... ah yeah I'm a nerd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Jason Kaneshiro
Jason - Didn't see you as the nerd type ... but you're right :) - Charlie Anzman
These have postponed a visit from my Dad (who lives on the west coast of Florida) to my home in Virginia. I'm bummed. - Jody C
The National Weather Service has redone numerous pages for better coverage of the Tropical Storms and Hurricanes and also just introduced Widgets for your website / blog. http://www.noaawatch.gov/widge... - Charlie Anzman
Looks like there's a mad scientist in the Côte d'Ivoire who's aimed his world destroyer at Florida. - Daniel J. Pritchett
@Cian Glad to hear you're enjoying- hope your browsing is going faster! - Cooliris
I really enjoy this plug-in, and have added it to a couple of my blogs as well. It's cool to really immerse yourself in the pictures sometimes. - Ian May
"Forecasters say Hurricane Ike has strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm in the Atlantic with maximum sustained winds near 135 mph.
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Earlier Wednesday, Ike became a Category 3 storm and the third major hurricane of the Atlantic season.
Ike's center was located about 620 miles northwest of the Leeward Islands and was moving west-northwest at about 17 mph.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say the storm is expected to continue on its current track Thursday before turning more to the west. It's too soon to tell which land areas could be threatened." - Jason R. Hunter via Bookmarklet
...dammit, I wasn't interested in Chrome until I saw this. - Heather
I see this more using chrome than anything else -- doesn't matter what web app it is (google apps, plurk, etc) I see that message constantly! - Nicholas Kreidberg
Jason: And you have actually used Chrome? I got the Chrome Fail screen while doing about: -- seriously I think I have seen it fail more than actually display pages - Nicholas Kreidberg
"And in the very next sentence it says "Such creatures produce a continuous glow, in contrast to the brief, bright flashes of light produced by "dinoflagellate" bioluminescent organims that are seen more commonly lighting up ship wakes and breaking waves." The effect Zadadka is speaking of is from dinoflagellate which are plankton... and plankton are not bacteria. Thus Dotorg is right." - Jason R. Hunter
Its a double edged sword for the guy taking this girl on the date - as the night wears on, the girl gets easier but also smaller breasted :/ - Zach Landes
I dunno about you but that'd be some warm wine or tequila after awhile. - Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah, the arm wine wouldn't work too great, but if you filled it with Captain Morgan's and drank cold Dr. Pepper all night, you wouldn't even notice the liquor was warm. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
i've been laughing over this the bra for the past week now. if they sold it in my size, i'd totally buy it. though my husband said that if they did the beer would get warm before i could drink it all. :/ - faboo mama
I guess the next item will have to be beer goggles. - Jesse P. Luna
Chris, you just turned this into a site about nothing. ;) - Kevin C. Tofel
I think the beer goggles come free with any beer you buy Jesse ;) - Earl E Morningwood
Great way to have cheap, but warm beer. - Rachel Baker
The one time you want your girlfriend or wife to have small boobs. - Christopher Welle
Going to be popular in the UK since they like warm beer. - Christopher Welle
"Gustav roared over Cuba's Isle of Youth at 2 pm today, and is now clobbering the western tip of Cuba with 145 mph Cat 4 winds and a storm surge estimated at 18-23 feet. This will be a massive disaster for Cuba, as portions of the stretch of coast to the right of where Gustav will make landfall are heavily populated (Figure 2). Furthermore, Gustav's hurricane-force winds extend out 60 miles from the eye, meaning that the western reaches of the capital city of Havana will receive a formidable blow. Havana's construction is fairly dilapidated, and Category 1 hurricane winds will do heavy damage. Adding to the catastrophe will be rainfall amounts of up to 25 inches, causing dangerous fresh-water flooding. Gustav is likely to be one of the five most damaging hurricanes in Cuban history. Fortunately, Cuba has a top-notch hurricane civil defense operation, and I'm confident they have gotten all of the population at risk out of harm's way." - Jason R. Hunter
"Gustav roared over Cuba's Isle of Youth at 2 pm today, and is now clobbering the western tip of Cuba with 145 mph Cat 4 winds and a storm surge estimated at 18-23 feet. This will be a massive disaster for Cuba, as portions of the stretch of coast to the right of where Gustav will make landfall are heavily populated (Figure 2). Furthermore, Gustav's hurricane-force winds extend out 60 miles from the eye, meaning that the western reaches of the capital city of Havana will receive a formidable blow. Havana's construction is fairly dilapidated, and Category 1 hurricane winds will do heavy damage. Adding to the catastrophe will be rainfall amounts of up to 25 inches, causing dangerous fresh-water flooding. Gustav is likely to be one of the five most damaging hurricanes in Cuban history. Fortunately, Cuba has a top-notch hurricane civil defense operation, and I'm confident they have gotten all of the population at risk out of harm's way." - Jason R. Hunter via Bookmarklet
"Today is the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic hit on the Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama coast. Unfortunately, I think that people living in New Orleans should mark the anniversary of Katrina by getting the heck out of the city. You live at the bottom of a bowl, ten or so feet below sea level. This is not natural. Nature wants to fill up this bowl with huge quantities of Gulf of Mexico sea water. There is a storm capable of doing that bearing down on you. If you live in New Orleans, I suggest you take a little Labor Day holiday--sooner, rather than later, to beat the rush--and get out of town. Gustav is going to come close to you, and there's no sense messing with a major hurricane capable of pushing a Category 3 storm surge to your doorstep. Don't test those Category 3 rated--but untested--levees. Conventional pre-Katrina wisdom suggested that the city needed 72 hours to evacuate. With the population about half of the pre-Katrina population, that lead time is about 60 hours. With Gustav " - Jason R. Hunter via Bookmarklet
Flickr should give me this view natively. I love to see which of my photos have made it to Interesting or Explore. Cool little web app! - Josh Bancroft
I've used this before to check out some of my stats. It's unfortunate that Simon Blint is staring back at us in your "Most viewed from the past 30 days" section, but I guess it's good to keep bringing notice to the story. What a tool. ;) - Chris Luckhardt
Like the "ego surf" part at the bottom. :) Been a while since I checked it, kinda cool to see some of my photos being used by people. - Jason R. Hunter
Anthony... try emailing to a non-gmail account that you have access to. Doesn't work for me, but incoming email still does via POP - Jim McCusker
I just came in my office, looks like my open session is still working as well as my mobile session. EDIT: won't let me send e-mails. bah. - Aaron Myers
just got this. google word's it as if it's my fault that my account is "experiencing errors." afraid to say that systemwide errors are occuring? - Andy Sternberg via twhirl
Just tried logging in secure. Not working. - Roberto Bonini
HTML mode is apparently working. Add "?ui=html" to get to it. - Ambar Pansari
I tried to set up Gmail IMAP in Outlook today, so this could be my fault... it was pretty wonky when I did it, but overall was a huge fail. Thunderbird also fails with IMAP. Sigh. I blame Google overall - the IMAP reliability factor is garbage. - Vince DeGeorge
I'd be all over that , like a fat kid on a twinkie - fotographic
I'd be all over that like a fat dude on Paris Hilton - Josh Haley
Now that is funny! McCain should take comedic lessons from Paris. Hmmmm, that energy plan actually sounds respectable (on the surface that is). - Darrell Bell via twhirl
If you asked her what the Oval Office was, do you think she would know? - Chris Rivait
Hmmm, mildly NSFW, definitely inappropriate if pregnant ladies are in the workplace, clearly too true to life, and absolutely LOL; oh yes, I will continue to LOL - Pete Delucchi
"Recording the Birth" was my favorite, should have been captioned with a Qik video url. - Jody C
I needed to be reminded to keep my top on ;-) - Kate Kapetanakis
