Extremely Interesting Area of Low Pressure north of Libya

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#21 Postby terstorm1012 » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:49 am

looks like this storm we've been tracking could be responsible for the ferry disaster on the Red Sea.... :(
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#22 Postby TheEuropean » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:22 am

terstorm1012 wrote:looks like this storm we've been tracking could be responsible for the ferry disaster on the Red Sea.... :(


I don't think so. Here is a satellite pic of the area from last night, 00z:

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(Source: University of Dundee)

The small swirl in inner egypt are the remnants of the med. system we looked at. The red sea is to the right of the system.

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#23 Postby Epsilon_Fan » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:51 pm

It made landfall in Libya, I have no surface data from there.

Sorry I was talking about that 1995 "hurricane" in the Med.
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#24 Postby TheEuropean » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:17 pm

Epsilon_Fan wrote:
It made landfall in Libya, I have no surface data from there.

Sorry I was talking about that 1995 "hurricane" in the Med.


Yes, that was the system I meant and that made landfall in Libya in January 1995.
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#25 Postby Epsilon_Fan » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:12 pm

ah, alright, I wonder if there's any info online... off to Google :)
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#26 Postby StormScanWx » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:23 pm

I wonder if this was the system that sunk the ship in the Red Sea.

That is terrible. It was truely a tragedy at sea.
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#27 Postby TheEuropean » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:31 pm

StormScanWx wrote:I wonder if this was the system that sunk the ship in the Red Sea.

That is terrible. It was truely a tragedy at sea.



Right, this a tragedy in the Red Sea, but it was not the system we spoke about.
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#28 Postby JonathanBelles » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:43 pm

hmmm i was wondering if it was
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