Monday, August 25, 2008

8/25 - 6pm - TS Gustav, Website Issues

Tropical Storm Gustav was upgraded from a depression/tropical wave and is expected to hit Haiti as a hurricane tomorrow afternoon. The track right now takes it through Cuba and possibly into the Gulf if it doesn't veer to the west:



The spaghetti charts look like this NHC track, with a couple models taking it over to the Yucatan Peninsula. This is another game of wait and see we're going to have to play this week.

We've got a daily chance of rain around here for the rest of the week as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay slide northward. Our best chance for rain looks like Wednesday as the bulk of the precipitation comes close to us. The GFS wants to shift most of the moisture off to our east, whereas the NAM has most of it coming over us. I'm partial to the NAM because of the what the system is doing on radar right now, but we'll watch it to see which model is right.

I've been having bandwidth issues with my main website lately due to my new mobile website. Problems right now range from the podcast being down to images and menus not showing up. To fix this problem temporarily, I've shut down and removed the mobile/iPhone site. I'm working on an alternate hosting solution for it, so it should hopefully be back up sometime in the near future. As far as the issues with the main site, it should be fully functional within the next few hours.

UPDATE 7pm: The main website is now fully operational and I'll be working on a fix for the mobile site this week.

1 comment:

Charles Loring said...

Hey Ryan. I wanted to give you an update on Fay's rain shere. Right now it isn't raining, but it did rain for most, if not all, of the day today and we have had 3.8" of rain thus far with A LOT more expected tomorrow. Hope you guys gret some too.