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2011 100 Post Marathon #8 – Uh, Guys

As hurricane Irene heads for Canada, I noticed this at the National Hurricane Center site: Note the area marked 1 in red near the coast of Africa. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LOW PRESSURE AREA LOCATED ABOUT 400 MILES SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS … Continue reading

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2011 100 Post Marathon #6

Here are some bloggers near Irene’s path that you should check in on: Sister Toldjah [Twitter] Wyatt Earp – Support Your Local Gunfighter [Twitter] Dana – Common Sense Political Thought Others will be added. If you can… About the 2011 100 Post Marathon. Tweet Sphere: Related Content

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2011 100 Post Marathon #4

After a good night’s rest I’ve walked the dogs and had two cups of coffee. It’s time to crank this marathon up to high. Why a hundred post marathon? Read about it here. There is really only one story today – Irene. As I write this, the center of the storm is in the vicinity … Continue reading

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2011 100 Post Marathon #3

Are you handling the blistering pace of 100 Post Marathon posts? All eyes, of course, are on coverage of hurricane Irene. Florida was spared. So, how come we spent a good part of the afternoon fighting flickering power? I gave up on resetting the two clocks in the house that still require human action – … Continue reading

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Random Bits

Just a few random thoughts for a Friday morning. We are only a week away from September 1st. That’s how long you have to participate in the bRight & Early 2012 Presidential Primary Poll #11. The poll is in the sidebar, and although participation so far has been rather low, the results so far are … Continue reading

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Warm, Sunny, Florida

Not. OK. It’s going to be sunny, but that warm part is right out the frost laced window. As I sit here in Central Florida typing this, it is 30 degrees outside. As in below freezing. I know my friends farther north will be laughing at me saying that 30 degrees is a warm spell. … Continue reading

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Halp Algore, UR R Only Hope

Central Florida, and by extension me, is in some desperate need of a bit of global warming. The two hours before dawn Wednesday will be the coldest, perhaps the coldest on record in Central Florida. Forecasters are predicting lows just below freezing with some cold spots in the mid 20s. The wind chill will make … Continue reading

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Erika

Tropical storm Erika has formed in the Atlantic. Here’s what the National Hurricane Center had at 5am: AT 500 AM AST…0900 UTC…THE POORLY-DEFINED CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ERIKA WAS ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 17.0 NORTH…LONGITUDE 59.0 WEST OR ABOUT 280 MILES…455 KM…EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS. ERIKA HAS BEEN MOVING GENERALLY WESTWARD NEAR 5 MPH…7 … Continue reading

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Ana, Bill, and Claudette. Oh My.

It’s how these things go. Ana, the first named tropical storm of this season, has been downgraded to a tropical depression. Bill is now a hurricane. Claudette, which just kind of popped up, is a storm and has already made landfall in the panhandle. Let’s start with Claudette: AT 400 AM CDT…0900 UTC…THE TROPICAL STORM … Continue reading

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Keeping an Eye on Ana and Bill

June – Nada. July – Zilch. First two weeks of August – more of the same. But now on the 15th of August, the 76th day of the 2009 hurricane season, we have not one, but two tropical storms to keep an eye on. Ana is first in line. It could impact the Leeward Islands, … Continue reading

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