Satellite of Wilma

[rocco322]

Can some of you take a look at this satellite image of the hurricane and explain to me why the eye has stayed centered over Cozumel for over 24 hours?? <br><br> Satellite Link<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/visir/atlantic/visirjava1.html">cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropi...java1.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Tell me you don't see man's fingerprint...<br><br> Any thoughts about the significance of Cozumel? Here's my two cents...<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozumel">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozumel</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Cozumel was sacred to ´Ix Chel´, the Maya Moon Goddess, and the temples here were a place of pilgrimage, especially by women desiring fertility."<br><br>The Wikipedia on Ix Chel...<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ix_Chel">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ix_Chel</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"In Maya mythology, Ixchel or Ix Chel was an earth and moon goddess, patroness of weavers and pregnant women. She was married to Voltan but mother of the Bacabs by Itzamna. She was also known as the "Lady Rainbow" and was usually shown in Mayan art as an older woman dressed in a skirt with crossed bones on it. As well,<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> she was depicted with a serpent in her hand. Ix Chel is frequently depicted with a great jug that is filled with water. According to myth, she dumps over this jug full of water to send floods and rainstorms down to Earth.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> In this myth she is generally associated with being destructive, deathly, and demonic; others portay her in a more benign light."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/visir/atlantic/visirjava1.html">cimss.ssec.wisc.edu Satellite Link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...get the Lou Reed song "Satellite of Love" out of my mind for the rest of the night <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br><br>I confess that meteorology is one subject I know virtually nothing about, and having lived first in the midwest, then on the California coast, and I know even less about hurricanes than about tornadoes.<br><br>I do know that Maya prophecy, like many other native prophecies, says this is the last round up, the calendar ends in 2012 and so does, if not THE world, then THIS world. I don't know if official Hinduism believes we are in Kali Yuga but I for one am certainly watching for Kalki Avatara.<br><br>I was really struck a few weeks ago by the fact that after the flooding of Mayan villages with mud, the government simply declared them graveyards and that was that. No effort to recover any bodies.<br><br>Anyone an expert in Mayan prophecy, or know of a thread here on RI that might discuss it? <p></p><i></i>

[maggrwaggr]

I went to bed last night just as the eye was touching Cozumel. I expected to wake up and find the damn storm out over the gulf. Yet there it still was, spinning right over Toulum like a stuck record.<br><br>Just. Plain. Weird.<br><br>I don't see the hand of man, I see the hand of global warming causing unprecedented weather weirdness all around the globe.<br><br>Don't forget Spain was just hit with its first tropical storm in RECORDED HISTORY.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

Must have missed that. Thanks for the heads up.<br><br>" Vince, the 20th named tropical storm in the Atlantic this year, is the first storm of its type to reach Spain in recorded history, the National Hurricane Center said."<br><br>It really isn't nice to fool {with} Mother Nature. <p></p><i></i>