As the presumptive nominee to the King of the Peanut Gallery post for the month of September, a large and elaborate coronation ceremony was planned complete with much speechifying (I am an iBC outsider, from the boonies in western Virginia), slogan-promoting (iBC First!), and general revelry. However, with a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf [...]

Image: A potent 150 mph Gustav striking western Cuba.

Those of us who love the weather live for times when things gets “exciting,” and by exciting, I mean stormy, rainy, snowy, or generally any other state of the atmosphere that the rest of the population despises. But not today. Gustav is now a strong Cat. 4 [...]

Turning on the Weather Channel at around 11pm last night, I watched Dr. Steve Lyons, TWC’s “hurricane expert,” give his latest prognostication: Gustav was a dead fish. Haiti had ripped him a new one and wind shear from a departing upper level low was finishing the job. He noted that the computer models still had [...]

So far this year, 4 storms have entered the Gulf of Mexico–Arthur, Dolly, Edouard, and Fay. Not one of them has impact the oil infrastructure. Will Gustav follow them to the big, blue ocean in the sky? NO…

Update: What a difference 9 hours makes. Left for dead last night, Gustav put on an extremely quick [...]

UPDATED: Gustav unexpectedly stalled just offshore of Haiti last night. Thus, that country is getting owned right now with heavy rain that is likely causing severe flooding, but the storm has also weakened rather dramatically to, in my opinion, a generous 60 mph. Officially, nothing has really changed. The NHC still makes Gustav a Cat [...]