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Hurricane season starts mid May and ends in November, this isn't the beginning of hurricane season. This is the beginning of old fart snow bird season.

"The Atlantic basin shows a very peaked season from August through October, with 78% of the tropical storm days, 87% of the minor (Saffir-Simpson Scale categories 1 and 2 - see Subject D1) hurricane days, and 96% of the major (Saffir-Simpson categories 3, 4 and 5) hurricane days occurring then (Landsea 1993). Maximum activity is in early to mid September."

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G1.html

Old mariner's poem about Caribbean hurricanes:

June- too soon.
July-- stand by!
August-- look out you must.
September-- remember.
October, all over.

http://travelwithkids.about.com/od/caribbeanfamilyvacations/qt/hurricane_seaso.htm

In all fairness. they held their last convention in Minneapolis and the MSM still lumbered them for a hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast that week.

The problem is the lazy vicious media, not the Republican convention.

This could be a boon, if they stick around and help with the clean up. Not that the press would ever notice.

Jewel: They'd notice, they just wouldn't report it. But If Debbie Wassername Shultz gave a half-empty water bottle to someone from the back or her limo the press would nominate her for a Nobel Prize.

It's Debbie Wassername Schlits, euphemistically speaking.

Actually, hurricane season starts on June 1, but, yes, why would anyone want their national convention in hurricane-prone areas?

Sorry, I'm as big a believer in the "party of stupid" label as anyone. But this one is a stretch.

The last hurricane to even threaten the Tampa area was about 7 years ago. And it didn't hit. This one isn't going to either.

The biggest disruption in Tampa is not likely to be the rains -- but the anarchist Obamanunists.

Anonymous and Peccable, you may be too young to make the association to the Wassermann Test, developed in 1906 to ascertain the presence of syphilis.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Wassermann+test

Once you make the association of Debbie to syphilis a lot of things start to make a lot more sense, and you're unlikely to have to fumble for a name thereafter.

Just tryna help.

Anything that shortens the convention is a plus. A tropical storm will have the side benefit of clearing out the occupy crowd.

OK, Vanderleun, The distribution of storms tends to bunch towards the tail of the season, as does the track grouping. It's 'cause the water gets warmer as the season progresses.(Been watching them here for a while.)
Go to:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
(National Hurricane Center)
Hit the 'satellite' link on the left
scroll down to 'sea surface temps'
Interesting...

But you need to note that it's the end of August, and we're up to Isaac, meaning I in the list of named storms. We've had 8 named storms so far this season that nobody not within 50 miles of salt water has noticed.
BTW, Ike, that smacked Houston-Galveston, was Aug 12th.

And now it looks like NOLA is once again in the center of the cone of uncertainty.

I wonder if Spike Lee and company are gonna accuse 0bama of blowing up the levees to drown black folk?