Look At These Pictures of Hurricane Isabel!

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[Duke]

I do believe these pictures are real, but I doon't believe they are Isabel or any other hurricane. On the first one, the scale of the clouds is all wrong for it to be 30 miles away, and even if it was, 30 miles is nothing in the ocean. The seas would be far rougher than they are showing. Plus, you can see the shadow of the cloud front on the water. That storm is less than a mile away, and much more localized than a hurricane - just a squall. That's why the seas haven't kicked up yet.

The second one could possibly be from Isabel, but waterspouts are just like tornados. They don't usually spawn during a hurricane because the overal organizing force of the hurricane prevents anything that local from forming before it is swept apart by the bigger storm.

 

[Timmotheus]

Originally posted by neon_duke
I do believe these pictures are real, but I doon't believe they are Isabel or any other hurricane. On the first one, the scale of the clouds is all wrong for it to be 30 miles away, and even if it was, 30 miles is nothing in the ocean. The seas would be far rougher than they are showing. Plus, you can see the shadow of the cloud front on the water. That storm is less than a mile away, and much more localized than a hurricane - just a squall. That's why the seas haven't kicked up yet.

The second one could possibly be from Isabel, but waterspouts are just like tornados. They don't usually spawn during a hurricane because the overal organizing force of the hurricane prevents anything that local from forming before it is swept apart by the bigger storm.

Well, I just pulled that "30 miles away" thing out of my ass in order to show that it could be far away. It wasn't an actual guess.

 

[Attila_Da_Hun]

Those are not from the hurrican.

 

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by Jpec07
Um, the Hurricane is probably about 50-200 miles away when these pics are taken. (I mean, look at the distance between the bottom and the arms; that distance measures nearly 5 miles...).

Maybe, but that doesn't mean the waters directly under the cloud formation should be so still...

 

[bmwx]

Wow... impressive to say the least.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
The first one is totally fake. If there's a hurricane in the ocean, why are the waters 20 feet away from it so calm?

Ah - you've probably never been on one of those ships. I'd say the barge itself is at least a mile long, if that helps for perspective.

My problem is the clouds directly above the ship - they're way too close - am I wrong?

 

[Frustrated Palm]

Yeah, Isabel was strong, but there have been stronger (Im not talking about the 33' hurricane). It wasnt too bad at my place, at least not as bad as other places that I have seen. The power didnt go out (thankfully) since our power cables in our neighborhood are underground. We did lose some siding however and a window cracked (not because of something hitting it, the winds were just strong enough. There was a small crack in the first place, the winds just made it bigger). Before the hurricane came, We filled three 22 gallon Rubbermaid tubs full of water. Never needed them .

The wind was really strong. People went out to the beach in the middle of the storm as well (crazy dumbnums), which is really stupid. Watched the news all day...

 

[Nightmage82]

Originally posted by Timmotheus
Well, I just pulled that "30 miles away" thing out of my ass in order to show that it could be far away. It wasn't an actual guess.

lol, not an 'actual' guess? i know what u mean though. it could well be 30 miles away. and isn't the point of a storm 'front' the fact that the seas can be anything they want to be until the storm gets to u? i dont think they necessarily HAVE to be choppy just cause a storm is x miles away. or maybe the storm had passed? thats why the ship was heading 'towards' it...

 

[Frustrated Palm]

Well, most ships can take it. A tanker though you have to think about. They are the longest ships in the world, in cant handle really big choppy seas...

 

[Attila_Da_Hun]

Originally posted by Attila_Da_Hun
Those are not from the hurrican.

did anybody bother to click the link there?

Meteorologists (including Dr. Steve Lyons, the Weather Channel's hurricane expert) agree that the photos displayed above are not pictures of any hurricane at all, much less Hurricane Isabel, which struck the eastern United States in September 2003 — they depict shelf clouds or wall clouds typically associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes rather than hurricanes, and the water in the first picture appears too smooth for the area of an approaching hurricane. (Even if these images did depict the approach of a hurricane, they're too old to be photographs of Hurricane Isabel — these same pictures were circulating as photographs of Hurricane Claudette back in July 2003 and of Cyclone Indigo in April 2003.)

Some believe the photographs to have been taken in the midwestern U.S. or Great Lakes region, although at least one source identifies the first image as being a picture of Tropical Cyclone Graham, which hit northwest Australia in February 2003.

 

[Nightmage82]

Originally posted by Frustrated Palm
Well, most ships can take it. A tanker though you have to think about. They are the longest ships in the world, in cant handle really big choppy seas...

i think the bigger the ship the more easily it can handle choppy seas. think how much a rubber duck rolls around in a bath and how much you do in comparison. bigger weights are harder to move. of course there is a limit. the hull of a tanker can be breached just like any other ship and due to its inflexibility im guessing it needs to be stronger than a regular ship. though im no expert

and attila, thanks for that.

 

[Mopar Muscle]

that would be fun to be there, just to jump around in the fast winds and fly a little bit when you jump.