Comments on: Kyle causes little damage; Laura forms http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/2008/09/29/kyle-causes-little-damage-laura-forms/ Brendan Loy\'s hurricane blog Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:09:13 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve Sadlov http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/2008/09/29/kyle-causes-little-damage-laura-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Steve Sadlov Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:28:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/2008/09/29/kyle-causes-little-damage-laura-forms/#comment-1106 The real weather news will be this winter. Actually, it will start before winter, although, for all intents and purposes, conditions will be those of winter. I hope I am wrong, but that is my prediction. The real weather news will be this winter. Actually, it will start before winter, although, for all intents and purposes, conditions will be those of winter. I hope I am wrong, but that is my prediction.

]]> By: Alan Sullivan http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/2008/09/29/kyle-causes-little-damage-laura-forms/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 Alan Sullivan Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:23:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/weathernerd/2008/09/29/kyle-causes-little-damage-laura-forms/#comment-1105 Brendan, you might have added context by quoting more than one sentence of my remarks about the North Carolina storm. I would have designated that, and not Laura, because the former was about to hit an unwarned coastline. NHC is not a scientific agency. Sometimes the need to alert the public should outweigh the concern for proper scientific categorization. BTW, the NC storm retained a highly banded structure on radar far inland, which indicates a name would have been fairly well justified. Brendan, you might have added context by quoting more than one sentence of my remarks about the North Carolina storm. I would have designated that, and not Laura, because the former was about to hit an unwarned coastline.

NHC is not a scientific agency. Sometimes the need to alert the public should outweigh the concern for proper scientific categorization.

BTW, the NC storm retained a highly banded structure on radar far inland, which indicates a name would have been fairly well justified.

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