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Please... Nothing more than a Tropical Storm, eh?

Had a little shower build up to the northwest of me this a.m., but alas it moved east and never made it here. Got some rain in northern Oklahoma, but it doesn't look like it's headed this way either.

There is a tropical storm heading this way hopefully.

Current outlook is for Mexico.


data from a reconnaissance plane and radar from Martinique showed the small but well-defined center of Ernesto moved westward just south of or over St. Lucia early this morning. Based on the aircraft and surface observations...the initial intensity is set at 45 knots. These winds are confined to a small area north of the center. Fast-moving tropical cyclones typically do not strengthen much and in fact...latest satellite images indicate little change in the structure of the cyclone.

Ernesto is moving toward the west or 275 degrees at 18 knots
embedded within a fast easterly flow south of the subtropical
ridge. This steering pattern should keep the cyclone on a general
westward track for the next 2 to 3 days. By the time Ernesto
reaches the western Caribbean...the steering flow is expected to
weaken and Ernesto is forecast to slow down. The combination of low
shear and high upper-ocean heat content in the western Caribbean
Sea would favor some intensification...and Ernesto is forecast to
become a hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean Sea. The official
forecast follows the intensity consensus...but one should note that
both the SHIPS and lgem intensity models are forecasting a stronger
hurricane.

Most of the track guidance is in pretty good agreement that Ernesto
will be racing westward across the eastern and central Caribbean
during the next 2 to 3 days. After that...track models diverge
considerably and some models keep Ernesto on a more westward
track...while another group turn the cyclone more to the
northwest...depending upon how the models depict the strength of
ridge to the north. Nevertheless...all indications are that Ernesto
will be moving across the northwestern Caribbean Sea in 4 to 5
days.



Read more at http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/at201205.disc.html#duwceeiMv0ROqLw6.99

Just read it hit 113 in Oklahoma yesterday, so guys be careful out there. It doesn't take long to get overheated, and recovery takes far longer than you may think.

We've been tracking Ernesto at work, and most of the computer models don't look like it will push any weather north. It's sad to think that a tropical storm/hurricane may be the only thing that breaks the current weather pattern.

Other than moving feeders to deeper water, my lake has been put on the back burner again this year. Landscaping and saving the Bermuda have become the top priority. Again.

It was pretty hot out here yesterday. Not sure what the temp was, but after spending an hour in a local factory, it was like a cool spring day outside.

I don't know how the employees can handle the conditions. Pretty sad. This is the second filthiest place I have been in. The worst one was a foundry, which I refuse ever to enter again. These places have a pretty high turnover rate tho. You need eyes in the back of your head to walk into some of these places

It just boggles my mind on how some of these companies think. Take care of your employees, and they will increase your profits.

Sad, Sad, Sad
That is my limited rant.

Been there done that before going off to college and between college when I ran out of money (my parents didn't pay my way like some kids.)

Funny thing everyone of those factories is gone except for one. The one that is still here came through one day and fired every one that had over 15 years there. Didn't want anyone retiring and costing them more money.

I loved how they complained about the turn over but they didn't pay anything and working conditions were dismal. Down the road there was a union shop with better working conditions and better pay. You had to wait until someone died to get it. LOL Go figure.

I don't know how many times I was told to go home with no pay because the parts didn't come in. But they just couldn't figure out why there was no loyalty! And they also hired managers from the outside vs. promoting from the inside. And don't get me started on the loss of workers due to overuse injuries. I suggested they rotate people to prevent it, but that fell on deaf ears.

I swear it seemed like losing money and running incompetently was the plan in some of these places! Maybe just tax right offs for some fat cat?

I spent several years in a factory working in close proximity to a row of huge, plastic injection molding machines. The deafening shriek of the hydraulics, the smell of melted plastic and hot hydraulic fluid, the 115 degree air temperature, the 2" deep pool of hydro fluid that surrounded the machines.....all of those things can be gotten used too.

Realizing that your good-paying, benefit providing, blue collar job has departed for territory south of the border, and is never coming back, is the part that required the most adjustment.

Mods, if this qualifies as a political statement, by all means delete this post.

I could get these posts moderated in a heartbeat...

I'm in a place like that. I work in Q.C.,so I do have A.C. But I use to work on the floor an it can get pretty nasty out there.

I could do it in a nanosecond George!

I could get moderated just by thinking of it.

I would not think this to be political. Maybe a hijack of sort's. This is private sector.

I am seeing stuff coming back to Michigan from across the pond, and below the border. Outsourcing at a certain percentage was actually mandated by GM, now Gubment Motor's (this may be political) They told their suppliers that this is the way it is, S+++ or get off the pot!

15 years later, we know that this don't work!, and reality is slowly sinking in.

As an OEM Machine Builder. Working on a GM project was dismal to say the least. Getting paid took lawyers! If a company in the loop on a project failed, payments were held up to everyone else. This strategy by GM infiltrated to the rest. A Tier 1 company, not more than a mile from here, adopted this practice. Talking to a good friend who is in position there. They lost 19 OEM's in one year. They have a bad reputation now, and no one local will work with them.

What about all this Japanese stuff that entered into the picture? Trial and error I suppose, but it ended up on the error side!

Pretty silly, but an employee had to log so many hours a month in "the facility" learning Asian techniques, or they were demoted. It's a warehouse now.

No offense to anyone, but that's not how we operate in The USA! It can be tested, maybe hurt, but never broken!!!

I predict you folks up North & East are going to get nailed with record snow fall this winter, start digging out the snow blowers and long johns …..it's coming

I hope so, as we need the moisture to replenish the water table.

Looks like the northern half of the state may be getting some rain. It would appear to be a decent, slow moving rain also.

There is a severe thunderstorm warning for south of my location in Mi. More toward you guy's in Indiana. They mentioned that this storm could produce hail in the 1 inch size. I have never seen hail that large before.

That's one thing on my bucket list. To actually witness a real hail storm

Well once again I look to the west and see the sun setting (no clouds) and look to the east and see the rain and thunderstorms dumping inches of rain. Of course it is all moving east. There is a small area that seems to be sucking up all the moisture, So much in fact that they have had their 21 wettest season on record while the rest of the state is suffering the dryest ever. I am convinced that it must have something to to with it being an election year. You know the drill....the top ten percent having 90 percent of the wealth....Just not sure how it is all being pulled off?

Jkb take a trip to Oklahoma in the spring.....Just make sure your driving someone elses vehicle. Also stay in a motel. Baseball size hail is a very scary sound when your in a small camper. But the thunder did make the rios gobble like nothing I had ever heard before.

Temperature gauge in my pickup said 115 on the way home from work Thursday evening. It was saying 112 today. Lots of fires the last few days.

O.K. you win!

Had 1 7/8" rain in less than 2 hours this afternoon. The storm was moving East at 50 mph and they said to expect 70 mph winds.

Gotta go out tomorrow and look for storm damage.

Ended up catching the tail end of the storm tonight and managed 1.25" Did not do much for the pond but it will sure help the trees and grass. Will take anything we can get. Hope some of the rest of you are getting some moisture tonight.

Good to hear Ozarkstriper....We got zilch, again.