Hurricane in Lake Superior?!?!?!

[h4ppy]

It was pretty windy up here too, yesterday. You know what that means?

Catagory 7: End of the World.

(I am never gonna let CBS live down that atrocity)

 

[SonicX]

I think it's more likely for a hurricane to form in the Medditeranian than the Great Lakes -- larger sea. Although, the desert to the south probably doesn't help it much.

There have been 5 reported hurricaned that formed in the Mediterranean basin, though meteorologists are still uncertain whether those storms were tropical or extratropical. The last one occured in 1995.

The hurricane this year must have been hurricane Vince, which formed off the coast of Morocco at 33° latitude (the most northern hurrican in the Atlantic basin's history) and it made landfall on Portugal as a tropical storm (also first tropical storm to make landfall in Europe)

Furthermore, hurricane Vince became tropical over ocean water no warmer than 24° and strengthed to a hurrican category 2, while meteorologistis always claimed the aquatic temperature had to be over 26.5°C for a tropical storm to survive.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

No, I never stepped west of the Mississippi today. The buildings I was talking about is on campus.

Here's the best image I could get of it

Is that the Moos tower? cus it looks like that that is where I have all my orthodontic appointments.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

It was pretty windy up here too, yesterday. You know what that means?

Catagory 7: End of the World.

(I am never gonna let CBS live down that atrocity)

BEST.

MOVIE.

EVER.

 

[Perfection]

Is that the Moos tower? cus it looks like that that is where I have all my orthodontic appointments.

Yeah, that's Moos Tower. My dorm is only a couple blocks away from it.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Yay, I was right!

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

We are alomst into summer here and it still feels like winter here. I am in long pants and a jacket when I should be comfortable in shorter clothes now.

I wish we had weather like yours. It's been ~31 degrees C the last few days, but the humididty makes it feel like 45 Degrees C.

Oh yeah, you live in inferior hemisphere

Depends on what you define "inferior" to be.

If you like warm weather, sunny beaches and nice people (except for the idiot at my school) then were not inferior.

 

[Perfection]

If you like warm weather, sunny beaches and nice people (except for the idiot at my school) then were not inferior.

Northern hemispher has that too, but more of it, and better stuff too.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Northern hemispher has that too, but more of it, and better stuff too.

Nah, Australia is hotter and has a longer coastline than the USA.

Plus most people down (or up ) here are really nice.

 

[Perfection]

Nah, Australia is hotter and has a longer coastline than the USA.

Sheesh, first off, hotter is not always better. Take the best place in existance, Minnesota, for example, it's nice and warm sometimes, nice and hot sometimes, nice and cool sometimes and nice and cold sometimes. We've got warm climate but we got variety.

Additionally, there are places in the Northern hemiphere that are hot all the time, like the Sahara, which is way hotter!

As for longer coastline, who cares? That's what all the little nations below the U.S. like Mexico and the Bahamas are for! The Northern Hemiphere has far more coastline then the Southern.

Plus most people down (or up ) here are really nice.

Most people in Minnesota are nice, too.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Sheesh, first off, hotter is not always better. Take the best place in existance, Minnesota, for example, it's nice and warm sometimes, nice and hot sometimes, nice and cool sometimes and nice and cold sometimes. We've got warm climate but we got variety.

Additionally, there are places in the Northern hemiphere that are hot all the time, like the Sahara, which is way hotter!

As for longer coastline, who cares? That's what all the little nations below the U.S. like Mexico and the Bahamas are for! The Northern Hemiphere has far more coastline then the Southern.
Most people in Minnesota are nice, too.

I suppose so.

 

[FriendlyFire]

We had a micro-thunder storm yesterday

 

[amadeus]

Oh, I thought you still lived in Anoka, Perf. I guess not.

 

[Perfection]

Oh, I thought you still lived in Anoka, Perf. I guess not.

Well, my permanent adress (parent's house), is still in Anoka County. (Ever heard of Oak Grove?)

You're somewhere in Isanti county, right?

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

We had a micro-thunder storm yesterday

We had giant gust storms and a bit of thunder. A sprinkling of rain, too.

 

[Chieftess]

Google is nice too.

There's one storm called the "White Hurricane".

 

[Perfection]

Google is nice too.

There's one storm called the "White Hurricane".

Of course, that storm wasn't actually a hurricane It wasn't very hurricane-like really.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Most people in Minnesota are nice, too.

Wasn't there a thread here recently that said that people who live farther South tend to be friendlier than those who live farther North in their respective countries?

 

[Perfection]

Wasn't there a thread here recently that said that people who live farther South tend to be friendlier than those who live farther North in their respective countries?

Minnesota would be an obvious exception to the rule.

 

[Paratrooper]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.