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#181 Postby cycloneye » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:01 pm

The numbers will change at 7:00 PM EST to coincide with 00:00z time.After the 2nd of April which is the start of daylight savings time the change will be at 8:00 PM EDT.

Countdown Ticker below with days,hours,minutes and seconds.



http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/cus ... &min=&sec=

Important dates prior to June 1:

1-March 15=Official Storm2k forecast Numbers Poll will start.

2- March 20=Official Start of Spring (Vernal Equinox) at 1:26 PM EST.

3- April 2=Daylight Savings Time begins.

4-April 4=Philip J. Klotzbach/Dr William Gray April 2006 outlook.

5-April 10-14=Hurricane Conference,Orlando,Fla.

6-April 24-28=27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology,Monterey,California.

7-Around Mid-May=NOAA first 2006 hurricane season outlook.

8- May 15= EPAC hurricane season starts.

9- May 29=Memorial Day.

10- May 31=Philip J. Klotzbach/Dr William Gray hours before 2006 season starts outlook.


Note=If anyone knows the exact date when NOAA will release their mid-may outlook you can post it and I will include it at the important dates list.

Also if anyone knows of another important date that is not listed here please let me know.
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#182 Postby southerngale » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:16 am

senorpepr wrote:
southerngale wrote:
Scorpion wrote:
CapeVerdeWave wrote:Would you like a Category Four or Category Five, Scorpion? Really?

Yes, I would not leave for anything.

Wouldn't your parents make you go with them, though?
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Southerngale, you get a fortune cookie for "keepin' it real."


yummy, thanks
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#183 Postby SouthFloridawx » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:16 pm

84 days
2022 hours
121363 minutes
7281825 seconds
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#184 Postby cycloneye » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:00 pm

83 days
2015 hours
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#185 Postby cycloneye » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:00 pm

82 days
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#186 Postby cycloneye » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:00 pm

81 days
1967 hours
118079 minutes
7084799 seconds
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#187 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:18 am

81 days
1951 hours
117101 minutes
7026116 seconds

wow. I think it is probably gonna start a little earlier though.
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#188 Postby HurricaneHunter914 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:38 pm

81 days
1946 hours
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#189 Postby cycloneye » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:00 pm

80 days
1943 hours
116639 minutes
6998395 seconds
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#190 Postby Scorpion » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:02 pm

Geez. This countdown is sure going by fast. Feels like a dejavu to last year. It was started 33 days ago, and in only 33 days we will be down to 47 days :eek: .
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#191 Postby f5 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:19 pm

before you know it Seniorprep will start posting Recon data and cycloneeye will be posting a storm discussion thread as well as the advisories from the NHC not only that we will start watching Max Mayfield with that oh no worst case scenario look on his face
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#192 Postby cycloneye » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:21 pm

f5 wrote:before you know it Seniorprep will start posting Recon data and cycloneeye will be posting a storm discussion thread


And also the many pages comments,sat pics,models threads. :)
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#193 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:59 pm

yeah. it's coming too soon. it seems like just yesterday it had just ended. well, after all, it was only about 3 months ago when zeta finally died.
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#194 Postby SouthFloridawx » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:22 pm

Time until Thursday, June 1, 2006 (UTC time)
80 days
1941 hours
116497 minutes
6989872 seconds

Alternative version
It is 80 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes and 52 seconds until Thursday, June 1, 2006 (UTC time)
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#195 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:57 pm

only 80 days....
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#196 Postby James » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:47 am

Just enough time to go once around the world. :lol: Just don't know where on earth the time is going.
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#197 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:46 am

yeah, this is coming WAY too fast.
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#198 Postby weatherwoman132 » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:53 am

way too soon.
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#199 Postby EDR1222 » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:26 pm

Without a doubt, way too soon.
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#200 Postby Weatherfreak000 » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:31 pm

I'll allready be monitoring the Caribbean and ITCZ zone come Mid/Late April considering the spin-ups we have allready been seeing. You never truly know what is gonna happen.
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