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Can someone link to a good oil spill projection site?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 5/25/10 at 12:33 pm
or a good reference for where the oil is right now?
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Posted on 5/25/10 at 12:39 pm to Chicken
Posted on 5/25/10 at 1:29 pm to Chicken
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good oil spill projection site?
oxymoron.
Not so long ago they were saying this thing wouldn't spread west of the mouth of the river. Wrong.
And that the oil was 15 miles off the coast of Grand Isle, then a few hours later it was on the beach.
Nobody knows anything.
This post was edited on 5/25/10 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 5/25/10 at 1:33 pm to real
real, in your link, check out where the oil is on May 7th...then fast forward to today...so what happened to the oil that was converging on Florida? All of it just shifted west?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 1:39 pm to Chicken
quote:I know, Ive wondered about this myself. All i can guess is that the wind and currents are moving it like that.
real, in your link, check out where the oil is on May 7th...then fast forward to today...so what happened to the oil that was converging on Florida? All of it just shifted west?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 1:54 pm to real
This time of the year, all we ever have is southeasterly winds. You may get one or two days with a slight northwest wind after a front, but the strong, persistant winds are always out of the southeast. Due to this, Louisiana is screwed, and Flordia is safe. The Florida talk was all media hype unless a storm forms in the Gulf and changes the dynamic.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 2:11 pm to real
I am sure the winds and currents moved it there, but did they push 100% of it back west? was it just on the surface when they made that May 7th projection?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 2:19 pm to Chicken
I would think that the further it gets from the source, the more and more diluted and dispersed it's going to get. It might not have the output to actually hit Florida with any kind of significant concentration...unlike Louisiana, which is so much closer to the spill. I am guessing that those maps are made through viewing satellite imagery, and they simply might not be good enough pictures to see the really diluted stuff...but doesn't mean that it isn't there.
Posted on 5/25/10 at 4:48 pm to Chicken
I see what your saying. It moved a hell of alot in less than 48 hrs if this right. Im not real sure where the advocate is getting this information from. LSU maybe?
Posted on 5/25/10 at 6:55 pm to Chicken
www.skytruth.com
Posted on 5/25/10 at 10:37 pm to real
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If you use the slide ,it shows the oil as it moves from day to day. You have to click on the "Tracking the Oil section"
Honestly, that looks like a bunch of random shapes centered around the rig site. It did not seem like a normal progression to me.
Posted on 5/26/10 at 6:34 am to Decatur
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Honestly, that looks like a bunch of random shapes centered around the rig site. It did not seem like a normal progression to me.
Wouldn't the chemical dispersant alter the shape of the spill as it drops from the surface?
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