Tropical Storm Maria headed my way in St. Maarten ...2011

I'm not going to lie, I am actually very excited for this Tropical Storm! =D Its going to be fun as heck. Wish me luck everyone hoohaa!





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a reply to: Unvarnished

Tropical storm Maria is intensifying and expected to become a Hurricane. Looks like it's following the general course that hurricane IRMA did.



weather.com...

The track forecast

Track forecast for TD 15

The model forecasts on Saturday morning were in better agreement than on Friday, predicting that TD 15 would be steered west-northwest at speeds ranging from 10 – 20 mph through Thursday, bringing the storm through the Lesser Antilles Islands on Tuesday morning, to the vicinity of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico by Wednesday morning, and near the Dominican Republic by Thursday morning. Beyond Thursday, the path of TD 15 will depend, in part, upon what Jose is up to. If Jose is still wandering off the U.S. New England coast, this will create a weakness in the ridge of high pressure steering TD 15 to the west-northwest, and TD 15 will turn more toward the northwest or north-northwest. If Jose is out of the picture, the ridge could keep TD 15 rolling west-northwestward. In either case, it is possible that TD 15 will approach the U.S. East Coast more than a week from now. A strong autumn-like upper-level trough will be moving across the western and central U.S. late in the week. This will tend to pump up a ridge toward the northeast U.S. and northwest Atlantic, which could end up blocking TD 15 from moving out to sea.

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But why 2011.

a reply to: Unvarnished

I am actually very excited for this Tropical Storm! =D Its going to be fun as heck.

I bet you're renting. And not a homeowner.

posted on Sep, 8 2011 @ 08:48 PM

Either the OP found the time warp during the short time after hitting the Submit button, or this is a very old OP.


Edit: totally the latter. OP hasn't logged in for years.

last visit: May, 23 2012

How strange

a reply to: Nyiah

I don't understand -

If there was a tropical storm "Maria" in 2011, how can there be one with the same name now?

I thought the names were 'retired' once they had been used?

originally posted by: lostgirl
I don't understand -

If there was a tropical storm "Maria" in 2011, how can there be one with the same name now?

I thought the names were 'retired' once they had been used?

Um, no. Names are recycled, and only retired when one has made it's mark & is considered significant enough to warrant retiring.

a reply to: lostgirl

I thought the names were 'retired' once they had been used?

Only if it's a really, really big and nasty storm.
www.nhc.noaa.gov...

originally posted by: lostgirl
I don't understand -

If there was a tropical storm "Maria" in 2011, how can there be one with the same name now?

I thought the names were 'retired' once they had been used?

miami.cbslocal.com...

originally posted by: lostgirl
I don't understand -

If there was a tropical storm "Maria" in 2011, how can there be one with the same name now?

I thought the names were 'retired' once they had been used?

Retired if they were catastrophic hurricanes I think.

Thank you to all who replied to 'set me straight'!

And especially to
a reply to: Phage

thank you for the link - I enjoyed reading thru the lists of storm names for upcoming years!