Zombie Hurricanes

IVAN is back?

[lgn1]

Im not sure if the people over at the national hurricane center are on drugs, but the remenents of IVAN gave us a beating in cape breton (Nova Scotia) as a barametric low before passing up over Newfoundland and towards Greenland.

These boys just renamed another storm IVAN in the gulf of Mexico. Isn't that a no no. This one is going to visit Texas. Is IVAN a zombie Tropical Storm?

Oh by the way, it looks like Jeanne is going to hit Florida as a category 2, and Karl hitting Iceland as a tropical storm.

Global warming, what global warming.

[grandpa]

Well, I looked around and speculated and pontificated to no end about what might have been happening... then I found this map [image4.flhurricane.com].

I seems to have taken a 180 at the Alabama - Tennessee border and moved back into the Gulf. Maybe you imagined all the low pressure activity... Hurricane envy? ;)

[Liane]

Grandpa is right. What happened is that Jeanne's effects were felt in Nova Scotia, not Ivan.

[lgn1]

No, we were to far north for Jeanne. Apparently what happen was that the bulk of IVAN headed north, hit some polar air off of Newfoundland, and became a barametric low, which can produce Cat 1 winds.

A little piece of IVAN went east over the atlantic,
south, and then back west into the gulf of mexico, in a large circle, for a repeat performance, but this time as a tropical storm.

I don't agree with naming the storm IVAN again, as a large portion of it went north, and this just confuses people.

[lawman]

So is little Ivan a result of polar air or global warming?

[KeithDouglas]

Weather woman on my TV said last night that Ivan had split in half. Some of it became rainstorms that went north and another part stayed in the Carribbean. Anyway, that's what I heard.

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here's more info:

[nytimes.com...]