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Weather
Hurricane Idalia
Idalia has intensified overnight.Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft showed believable surface winds of 50-55 kt and a central pressure falling to around 989 mb. The wind data is also confirmed by NOAA buoy 42056, located just southeast of the center, which has reported maximum 1-minute adjusted sustained winds above 50 kt within the past hour or two. These data support raising the initial wind speed to 55 kt.
Over the Gulf of Mexico, the environment is forecast to become conducive for significant strengthening of Idalia due to a new trough dropping south over the western Gulf of Mexico as a upper-level ridge builds near the cyclone. Additionally, Idalia will be moving over waters near 31C
rapid intensification is becoming increasingly likely before landfall, and the NHC forecast now explicitly indicates it between 24-48 h in the forecast. This is consistent with almost all of the regional hurricane models and the SHIPS rapid intensification indices, which are 5-10 times the climatological mean. The new prediction shows a 100-kt hurricane over the eastern Gulf of Mexico at 48 hours, but Idalia should keep strengthening up to landfall along the Gulf coast of Florida.
This one looks nasty! Watching.
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Business
The Recreational Marine Industrial Complex
It’s a well established fact that Washington D.C. has become the “coctail-partying” junketing capital of the United States—only, up there in D.C., they call it “lobbying.” Every sin has an euphemism.
Now, the NMMA (National Marine Manufacturers Association) has decided to join the party; after all, they have access to some pretty tempting hardware, and that’s where the money is—up there, North of Richmond.
Care to guess who gets the final bill for this move?
We’ll see.
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Law & Order
The State of Law & Order
When our Justice System breaks down, as was the case with “prosecutor" Monique Worrell, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution ensures that the law abiding citizen still has the means to defend themselves from those dangerous thugs that have been invigorated by a malfeasant system. It’s a “fail safe” built into our system of justice. Unfortunately, there are states that don’t respect that enumerated safe-guard.
And then there are states that not only respect the Constitution, but actually do something about dangerous malfeasance.
Thank you Governor DeSantis; good work!
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