Pick a track, any track..

All lead to Labor Day rain-out for Northern Gulf Coast! - HLG

EEK

We could end up like Vermont if this forecast pans out.  Looks like the tropical system will sit right over us.

BB

SUCKS FOR THE GULF COAST

The GFS has been wobbly on this one (understandable since a center hasn't been defined yet) but it looks like a wet weekend for the Gulf Coast.  Time to head to Korea.

BB

Tropical Storm "Talas" Unusually Structured

The tropical storm ("Talas") currently off of Japan has had very unusual structure from it's genesis. The core has been very dry, and very large, as an extremely large radius of thunderstorm bands has swirled around it. No real eye-structure has evolved, but the storm is still forecast to make typhoon status before land-fall on the main island, Honshu, of Japan. - HLG

Tropical-Storm/Typhoon "Talas"

"Talas" is currently a strong TS, and is forecast to be a typhoon just barely moving towards the Kyoto region in Japan. Amazing how the forecast track then leaps over Honshu, and then races off to the NE. Regardless, looks like lots of rain for central Japan. - HLG

Al Gore Calls Man-Made-Climate-Change Skeptics Racists

Al Gore: Climate change skeptics are like racists
Posted on August 29, 2011 - 15:24 by Starr Keshet


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Al "ManBearPig" Gore is on a roll again! 

Yes, just a few weeks after publicly flipping out about global warming, Gore compared the struggle against racism in the South to his personal crusade to convert climate change skeptics.

"There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that,'" Gore said in a recent interview with FearLess Revolution founder Alex Bogusky.



"That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won. And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better. And we have to win the conversation on climate."

The former VP and one-time presidential candidate also proposed that the masses adopt an organic vegetarian diet, as industrial agriculture "is part" of the problem.

"[We simply must find] more productive, safer methods that put carbon back in the soil to produce safer and better food,” Gore insisted emphatically.

The Forecast "ZOO" for "Katia" ...

and more complaining, of course, about the intensity models, or lack there-of. The end of the models show everything from a TS to a Cat-5 hurricane! Did we forget to leave out Tropical Depression and/or Extra-Tropica? Then we would have covered everything possible! - HLG

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED...

My esteemed colleague, HLG, has already posted a few times about Katia's march to the Northeast.  Attached are some of the GFS ensembles that show Katia trying to teach New York a lesson in "not mocking the weather."  Similar to what happened in Katrina, people became complacent about the weather and developed a "couldn't happen here mentality."

BB

Hurricane Katia to Threaten East Coast on 9-11 Anniversary?

Now that Katia is a robust tropical storm, and forecast to make Major Hurricane status, what is to stop it from at least getting close to the east coast? Hard to see what that is in the upper levels as they are set up for the next week. If it does make the east coast, that would be very, very, close in time to the big 9-11 anniversary events in DC and NYC. Oh my! - HLG

Extent of Flooding from Irene

Nice maps showing the areas that had heavy flooding, including those with 100-year-floods in red. Hard to tell them the storm was over-reporter/hyped, etc. - HLG

Irene 2 Point Oh?

The models for "Katia" (which replaced Katrina in the name cycle) are very tightly clustered, even on the edge of the time-line. Looks like this could be another east-coast event if it pushes just a bit further than the models think. -HLG

HOORAY FOR THE GFS

GFS Forecast at 147 Hours

GFS INITIALIZATION FOR TODAY

As they say "Nailed it!"

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"Irene" Starts to Transition to Extratropical

Still categorized as a hurricane on Saturday afternoon, Irene started to entrain so much dry air that it was losing tropical characteristics, which hardly matters to New York since the storm surge hand is already dealt. - HLG

"Irene" Continues to be Exceptional

Even though the storm has slowly been losing tropical characteristics, the large area of very juicy air around the core is still clear in this SSMI composite of atmospheric moisture content. The dry are pouring in across southern Virginia and NC is well below the core of the storm. Not good news for the expected rainfall totals in New England. -- HLG

IRENE STILL PRODUCING LARGE WAVE HEIGHTS

Wave heights reaching over 20 ft at 44014 - VIRGINIA BEACH 64 NM East of Virginia Beach, VA and still 100 nm from the storm.

 

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Great New England Hurricane of 1938

Still the strongest in US history to hit Long Island and New England, estimated to be Cat 3 at landfall. Look at the track for this storm, and the pressure map just off of the Outer Banks. Amazingly similar. Yes, Irene isn't as strong at the core, but the track is even closer to the main coast-line than the GNEH of 38 was, and Irene appears to have a larger wind-field, but that is harder to guestimate. Regardless, the clean-up will certainly be more than what it was in 38, in the depths of the LAST depression!- HLG

Full Hurricane Warning from Boston to South Carolina Border

And every mile in between. Anyone ever seen this? Certainly not in modern (i.e. internet!) history. - HLG

Ooops! Typhoon "Nanmadol" Will HIt Eastern Taiwan

... and following little more closely here in Korea, since the models have been biased to the east on this one form the initial.

Meanwhile, "Irene" is such big news, they posted the track on the Joint Typhoon Warning Center site, in their track format. I have never seen that for an Atlantic storm.

HLG

Super Typhoon "Nanmadol" 2011

Amazing how the areas covered by tropical cyclones varies so much. This is Super Typhoon "Nanamadol", while creeping up the coast of Taiwan, appears to be sparing a direct hit, thankfully.

Meanwhile Long Island in the US should get mentally prepared for as large of a storm surge as seen on that coastline, in US history. This is no hyperbole. The Great New England Hurricane (yes, that is the name) of 1934 is the previous record holder, but the surge-trap, that is the New York Bite could make this one worse, especially on western Long Island, where the mega-city of New York lies. The recovery from this event could be long and more painful than the storm itself. - HLG

Giant Plankton Bloom off New Jersey?

Or is this a government project attempting to place surfactants ahead of the path of Irene? Will it work? Look now, for whatever it is will be thoroughly mixed into the deeper ocean by the winds of Irene. - HLG

Very Nice Hurricane Irene Tracker from ESRI

ESRI, the world leader in GIS, is supplying a very useful GIS site tracking Hurricane Irene, including Twitter/Flicker feeds, radar, and storm surge info. - HLG

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/hurricanes/latest-news-map.html

"Irene" from MODIS

She sure is a beautiful storm, even as she was raking The Bahamas. - HLG

Looking More and More Like a Historic Storm

You can go ahead and retire the name "Irene". Won't be used again if this solution holds... - HLG

THIS WILL LEAVE THE IRENE IN A
STEERING PATTERN THAT SHOULD KEEP THE HURRICANE ON THAT GENERAL
HEADING AS IT MOVES VERY NEAR OR OVER MID-ATLANTIC COAST. THE TRACK
GUIDANCE HAS COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT ON THIS SOLUTION...AND THE
CONFIDENCE IN THE TRACK FORECAST IS INCREASING. THE NEW TRACK HAS
BEEN NUDGED WESTWARD AND IS CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF THE GUIDANCE
ENVELOPE.

DC SWAMP LAND

... and they thought the earthquake was bad.  How much water can you pump up the Chesapeake Bay before you completely flood DC?  This could get ugly.  No?

BB

First Cape Verde Storm of the 2011 Season

Although NHC is obviously busy with "Irene", it looks like the first true Cape Verde storm of the season has formed, with lots of warm Atlantic ahead. This will be, and probably already should be "Jose", although it is still at red-circle on the NHC map.
HLG

The Eye of "I-Rene"

You heard it hear first, but expect the main-stream media to steal it, own it, and then make you want to puke after you hear it for 1,000th time.

The Eye of "I-Rene", the "Eye"-Storm is emerging this morning. Expect the East Coast of US to officially freak-out when the storm makes Cat 4 by mid-week. - HLG

THE LONG ISLAND SOLUTION

Say what you will - but the GFS has forecasted a I-95 solution for the last four model runs.  Hitting the Outer Banks, across Norfolk, surge up through the Chesapeake and then into Bayonne.  Imagine the costs and the damage.  I'm going with "A" in HLG's post because I'm a Joe Bastardian at heart.

BB

"Irene" Similar but Worse than "Isabel" 2003?

Hurricane Isabel in 2003 caused a very bad storm surge in the northern Chesapeake Bay. If Irene 2011 stays on the forecast track and intensity if could be as bad as Isabel was. A slight tweak to the east could easily make it worse for the Chesapeake, but slightly further east than forecast cone could be nothing at all for most of the Chesapeake.

So we have to choose, as professionals.

A) Major flooding disaster for Chesapeake
B) Minor flooding in the Chesapeake
C) No big deal
D) President Obama gets stuck at Martha's Vineyard, and can't return to Andrews in DC.

Weather in Google Maps

Rain or shine, see the weather in Google Maps

Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 7:43 AM

Whether you’re organizing a trip overseas or a picnic at a local park, knowing the weather forecast is a crucial part of the planning process. Today, we’re adding a weather layer on Google Maps that displays current temps and conditions around the globe, and will hopefully make travel and activity planning easier.


To add the weather layer, hover over the widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps and select the weather layer from the list of options. When zoomed out, you’ll see a map with current weather conditions from weather.com for various locations, with icons to denote sun, clouds, rain and so on. You can also see cloud coverage, thanks to our partners at the U.S. Naval Research Lab. And, if you look closely, you can also tell if it’s day or night around the world by sun and moon icons.

Enabling the weather layer also gives you an instant weather report for friends and family living around the world. For example, it looks like my family in London isn’t experiencing the best summer weather right now:


Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city will open an info window with detailed data like current humidity and wind conditions, as well as a forecast for the next four days. Below is the upcoming forecast for my location in wintertime Sydney, which seems to have the similar weather as London!

Changing the units of wind speed (Mph/KMph) and temperature (F/C), and enabling or disabling the clouds (when you’re zoomed out), can also be done from the left-hand panel.


Get started now and check out the weather layer here.

Update 8/18/11 at 3:30pm: We've updated the post to clarify that while the cloud data for this layer comes from U.S. Naval Research Lab, the weather data is from our partner weather.com.

IRENE TO VISIT THE EAST COAST?

From FWSAAB's Tropical Storm Forecast Center - Irene looks to be making a visit to the East Coast with each numerical model run.  We are awaiting our forecast input from our Asian Coorespondant HLG, but our other meteorologists (at least those that bother to post) seem to feel that the East Coast will feel the effects.

BTW - WHERE ARE THE OTHER FWSAABs?!?!?!

BB

Some Good News from Korea Flooding

The deadly rainy season in southern Korea this year, has led to some good news. The country is going to vastly upgrade the weather radar system, and the density of hydrologic models. - HLG

KMA to upgrade weather forecast system
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The Korea Meteorological Administration will upgrade the weather radar network to enhance its forecast accuracy by 70 percent, the state weather agency announced Thursday.

In a press conference to mark a two-year-anniversary of the inauguration of Ken Crawford, vice administrator of KMA, the No. 2 of the agency said futuristic services will be implemented to provide accurate and comprehensive information for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

“A dual polarized radar will be adopted to raise the accuracy of forecasting the precipitation ― we will be able to reduce 70 percent of the errors in predicting the amount of rainfall. A village-scale forecasting model will be developed using the supercomputer center in Ochang, North Chungcheong Province, for ‘warnings on forecast.’

“Foundations will be in place to develop an urban weather information, forecast and warning system critical to public safety and quality of life in the mega cities of Korea during a period of rapid climate change,” said Crawford.

The KMA will also launch a National Climate Data Center to jump-start the meteorological industry and make the data “understandable, usable and accessible. Crawford has also pushed to adopt “science and operations officers,” who will bridge the meteorologists and administrators.

“The advancement will bring up the KMA to a new level,” a KMA official said.

Crawford flatly denied that the agency has been incompetent in providing accurate information about the massive downpour which pounded the country for the past couple of months. While the agency has been praised for correctly predicting rain-or-shine days, its forecast on the amount of rainfall has been poor. When the nation reeled from more than 500 milliliters of downpour, the agency was criticized for its management.

“According to a report, on a 0-1 scale, weather agencies around the world were marked 0.2 with their progress in forecasting rainfall of more than 400 milliliters. In case of precipitation of more than 500 milliliters, the chances are less than 10 percent,” he said. “The forecast of heavy rain is one big problem among meteorologists,” he said.

Crawford admitted that reading and analyzing Korean climate was tougher than expected.

“Forecasting in Korea is much harder than forecasting in Oklahoma,” the U.S.-native said. “There are three oceans, seashores, hills at every ear and a demanding public. But the weather has too many dividends. With a slight shift of wind, which heavily affects rain, it could change so much. It is an impossible problem,” he said.

By Bae Ji-sook (baejisook@heraldm.com)

Urban Flooding Kills Four in Pittsburgh

Heavy Rain, Traffic and Low-Lying Land Contributed to Deadly Pittsburgh Floods
Published August 20, 2011
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August 19: Romy Connolly is lifted from a rescue boat by Pittsburgh emergency responders after being caught in a flash flood, in Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH – The flash flooding that killed four people and forced others to swim to safety or climb onto car roofs was a freak accident caused by heavy rainfall that overwhelmed the sewer system just as rush-hour traffic clogged low-lying city streets, officials said Saturday.
A mother and her two daughters died in Friday's flood after becoming trapped in their vehicle and rising water pinned it to a tree. Another woman's body was washed into the Allegheny River, where she was found Saturday morning.

Back-to-back storms pounded the city with 3 to 4 inches of rain. The water drained rapidly onto Washington Boulevard, a main street near the Allegheny River on the city's east side, with a force too great for a pair of sewer pipes 9 feet in diameter. The torrent blew off 60-pound manhole covers,
"We had geysers here," said Raymond DeMichiei, deputy director of the city Office of Emergency Management.
"There's only so much any drainage system can handle," said Jim Struzzi, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. PennDOT maintains the roadway, but the city is responsible for the pipes underneath, part of aging sewer system.
The area's topography presents near-perfect conditions for flooding.
Hills line both sides of the section of Washington Boulevard that flooded and the boulevard itself slopes down as it stretches north toward the Allegheny River. When heavy rains hit, water rushes in from three directions.
The low-lying area was apparently once a creek bed and "the watershed is huge for this," DeMichiei said.
Flooding is not uncommon in the area, but this was "a little bit more spectacular than usual," he said.
Rescue crews used inflatable boats to reach drivers marooned by flood waters as deep as 9 feet, while others swam to safety on their own.
Rhodearland "Bob" Bailey of Penn Hills, who is about 80, was rescued from the roof of his car.
He said he heard a woman yelling for help but couldn't see anything because the water was coming down so fast, he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
"I've never seen nothing like this in my life," he said. "Lord have mercy."
Authorities identified the mother and children who died as Kimberly Griffith, 45, of Plum, and her daughters, Brenna, 12, and Mikaela, 8, Pittsburgh public safety director Michael Huss said at a Saturday news conference.
A woman who answered the phone at the family's home said relatives weren't ready to comment on the loss yet. The family lives in a neat brick home where a few cars were in the driveway Saturday afternoon but the middle-class neighborhood was mostly quiet.
The girls were students in the Plum Borough School District, which issued a statement of sympathy to the family Saturday. Grief counseling will be available for students Monday and Tuesday.
"In the days and weeks to come, we will remain attentive and responsive to the needs that emerge from this tragedy as we attempt to cope with this loss," the statement said.
The body of a 72-year-old woman who had been reported missing Friday was found in the river near the Highland Park Bridge on Saturday. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office identified her as Mary Saflin of Oakmont.
In 1998, a thunderstorm accompanied by a tornado that struck Mount Washington touched off worse flooding in the area, though it did not result in deaths. The flooding covered a swath about two miles wide, making it appear that it was part of the river.
DeMichiei said emergency officials will discuss steps to avoid future tragedies from flooding at the site.
Educating people about the danger of being in a vehicle in a flash flood is key, he said. For example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has distilled its advice in such situations to a slogan: "Turn around, don't drown."
"If water starts coming up the side of your car, get the hell out and get to higher ground," DeMichiei said.
Witnesses described Friday's scene as chaotic.
The water was so deep that rescuers in a boat intent on rescuing a man from a tree floated over the Griffiths' car without realizing it.
"The bottom of the boat didn't even scrape against the top of the car," DeMichiei said.
People were clinging to trees, poles and car roofs, KDKA-TV reported. One woman tried to scramble to the roof of her car but the water was moving so fast, she was dragged along in it,then grabbed on to a truck.
"You started to see -- even a red dump truck floating," Marion Marty of Sarver told the station. "I mean, I never saw anything like it before in my life!"
"We had cars fully covered and we didn't know they were there," DeMichiei said. One man appeared to be standing in waist-deep water, and it wasn't until crews reached him that they realized "he was standing on his SUV," he said.

SUCKS FOR FLORIDA

As HLG points out - 97L looks bad for many areas - especially Florida in the latest GFS run.  Funny how the models ignore the fact that they are over land...

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97 L Looking Bad for Greater Antilles

And the Florida beyond that?

Very juicy air, well developed circulation, and favorable upper-levels ahead. Looking bad for the big islands the Caribbean, then a US landfall??

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tpw/natl/anim/latest72hrs.gif

Largest Plankton Bloom in Satellite History?

Massive plankton bloom seen from MODIS in the Barents Sea.

"TROPICAL STORM" GERT

They are just making stuff up now....

BB

CAN YOU SPOT THE TROPICAL STORM?

If you can - then you must work at the National Hurricane Center.  If you can't - then you are a rational meteorologist that does not call every swirl in the Northern Atlantic Ocean (which is part of a frontal system) a Tropical Storm...

Apparently this will be a year with a high-level of tropical activity, one way or another.

BB

Perfect "Eye" of Huricane "Eugene", and the Wrath of Gore!

Hurricane "Eugene" had one of the best eyes I have seen in MODIS, which may have been the inspiration behind Al Gore's recent Global Alarming rant..


"Some of the exact same people — by name I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this," Gore said Thursday. "And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: 'This climate thing, it's nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn't trap heat. It may be volcanoes.' Bullsh**t! 'It may be sun spots.' Bullsh**t! 'It's not getting warmer.' Bullsh**t!"

Abalone Everywhere!

Tropical Storm "Muifa" passed west of Seoul yesterday. It was a rainy/windy event, but not severe in the city. The southern coast of Korea got more of of the brunt of the storm, when it was still a typhoon. Over 6 people dead or missing, and the abalone farms were heavily hit in the coastal waters. - HLG

Two "M" Storms

You just don't see this in the Atlantic.

Two Pacific typhoons, "Muifa" and "Merbok" on consecutive passes of MODIS in the PM. "Muifa" was approaching Okinawa the other day, which took strong hits from the leading and trailing eyewalls of Muifa. Merbok is heading towards Kamchatka, so should die quickly, but as of this writing just developed a nice eye.

Here in the Land of Dawn, the freedom-fighters keeping watch on the commies to the north and west are awaiting 1 to 2 days of large, slow-moving Muifa. The storm is long past it's peak, has drawn in dry, dirty, Chinese air, but the strong side is going to pass right up the coast of the West Sea (Yellow Sea to you commie lovers). Hundreds have died in the peninsula of Korea during the flooding of this rainy season, so conservative guesses are dozens more with this event.

HLG Chief, Far East Division-FWSAAB

More "Headwinds" Coming for US Economy?

Forecast for 2011 Hurricane Season Grows Stormier, Says NOAA


Published August 04, 2011


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Hurricane Bill hovers 820 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on August 21, 2009. Bill was a category 3 hurricane with 115 MPH winds at the time.

The forecast for the upcoming hurricane season looks more severe than earlier models had predicted, the nation's top meteorologists said Thursday.

The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will produce 14-19 named storms, 7 to 10 of which will become hurricanes, the U.S. government's weather agency said Thursday -- raising its hurricane forecast to an 85 percent chance that the season will be above average.

"The atmosphere and Atlantic Ocean are primed for high hurricane activity during August through October,” warned Dr. Gerry Bell, lead hurricane season forecaster at the National Weather Service.He warned that 2011 will have 14 to 19 named storms, up from a May pre-season prediction of 12 to 18 -- a prediction that includes the tropical storms that have already occured.


Bell said. "There is no reason that people should be complacent. We're now entering the peak months of what is expected to be an above average season."

Several climate factors support the increased forecast, including the possible redevelopment of La Nina, reduced vertical wind shear and lower air pressure across the tropical Atlantic.

"Disasters can strike practically any time and anywhere." Steve Woodward, FEMA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Response concurred. "Now is the time for you and your family to get prepared."

Hurricane season for the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico begins June 1 and lasts through Nov. 30. That's when about 90 percent of the storms make themselves present. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

2011 is unlikely to be as severe as the 2010 hurricane season, however. The 2010 hurricane season was predicted to be devastating, with as many as 14 hurricanes; it ended up as the third most active on record, though none made landfall in the United States.

The last hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Ike in 2008.

The outlook does not forecast when or where these storms will hit, NOAA experts cautioned

Beautiful "Muifa"

Some tropical cyclones are simply beautiful. "Muifa" was a pin-point eye last weekend, but I didn't see any high-res passes over it then. Now the eye is at least 150 km across, and the storm was just lovely in this MODIS pass from yesterday afternoon. - HLG, Chief Far East Division of FWSAAB

RADAR of the Day: Typhoon "Muifa" Approaches Okinawa

Typhoon "Muifa" Passing Just Left of Okinawa

Luckily the typhoon hasn't been "super" for days, but it still big and nasty, and a very large diameter eye now. The best bets are for a Shanghai landfall after that, hopefully sparing flood-ravaged Korea this time! - HLG, Head of Far East Office, FWSAAB

Swedes find UFO in Baltic Bathy!

Have Swedish Booze Hunters Found UFO on Ocean Floor?
Published August 03, 2011
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Team Ocean Explorer said this image shows 300m "drag marks" around an unidentified -- possibly flying -- object.
An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is a crashed flying saucer.
Lindberg's team, which has had success in the past recovering sunken ships and cargo, was using sonar to look for the century-old wreck of a ship that went down carrying several cases of a super-rare champagne. Instead, the team discovered what it claims is a mysterious round object that might (or might not) be extraterrestrial.

Lindberg explained to local media that his crew discovered, on the 300-foot-deep ocean floor between Finland and Sweden, "a large circle, about 60 feet in diameter. You see a lot of weird stuff in this job, but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round."
Adding to the mystery at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia, Lindberg said he saw evidence of scars or marks disturbing the environment nearby, suggesting the object somehow moved across the ocean floor to where his team found it.
It's not clear what to make of this report, or the video of the sonar scan that shows the object, but Swedish tabloids and Internet UFO buffs have had a field day. Some suggest the object is a flying saucer of extraterrestrial origin (and the seafloor scars were dug up when it crashed), though of all the things that might create a round sonar signature, that seems to be among the more outlandish. It might be a natural feature formation, or possibly a sunken, round man-made object. [UFO Battles Captured on Video? Not Likely, Expert Says]
Lindberg's claim that the object "is perfectly round" may or may not be accurate; while it looks round from the information so far, the resolution of the sonar image was not high enough to verify that it is indeed round. And while the lines that appear to be leading to (or from) the feature may suggest some sort of movement, it's also possible they have nothing to do with the object.
Lindberg himself did not offer an extraterrestrial origin, though he did speculate it might be a "new Stonehenge." [Dark Waters: The Most Mysterious Places in the Seas]
This is not the first time a sunken object has been presented as the solution to a mystery. Take, for example, the famous underwater mystery of the "Bimini Road," a rock formation in the Caribbean near the Bahamas that resembles a road or wall. Many New Agers and conspiracy theorists claimed the rocks are too perfectly shaped to be natural, and either were made by an unknown civilization or are possibly a relic from the lost city of Atlantis. In fact, geologists have identified the blocks as unusually shaped, but perfectly natural, weathered beach rock.
It's also worth noting that UFOs may not be saucer-shaped. The famous "flying saucer" description of the first UFO has since been revealed as a reporting error.
Lindberg said his team has neither the interest nor the resources to further investigate the anomaly. Deep ocean research is time-consuming and expensive. If the object were indeed a flying saucer, recovering it could potentially be worth millions or billions of dollars. If it's a natural formation, on the other hand, it would probably be a waste of time and mone

New Looks Very Bad for Tent Cities in Haiti

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WTNT35 KNHC 032332
TCPAT5

BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM EMILY INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 9A
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052011
800 PM EDT WED AUG 03 2011

...EMILY STALLS...STILL PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER HISPANIOLA...


SUMMARY OF 800 PM EDT...0000 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...16.9N 70.6W
ABOUT 75 MI...125 KM SE OF ISLA BEATA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...STATIONARY
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1004 MB...29.65 INCHES