Hurricane Erick and Other Fulfilled Forecasts

Hurricane Erick fulfilled the long-range forecast for July 4-11, 2013 posted during the third week of June. The area in and around Acapulco, Mexico (99 west longitude and 16 north latitude) was identified as likely to spawn a tropical system at that time.

On July 4th, the National Hurricane Center announced that a new tropical depression, dubbed TD Five-E, formed south-southeast of Acapulco, Mexico, at 98 west longitude and 13 north latitude--the exact area mentioned in the long-range weather forecast. Tropical Depression Five-E later developed into Hurricane Erick. Below is the National Hurricane Center map for July 6th.


The same forecast mentioned two other areas that might be affected by tropical systems: Tampico, Mexico, which lies along the Gulf of Mexico, and eastern Texas. The National Hurricane Center's Tropical Weather Outlook of July 6th informed of a surface trough of low pressure developing in the western and central Gulf that was expected to move slowly northward toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts. A day earlier, the Weather Channel reported that this tropical wave was bringing "a ton of rain to the northern Gulf Coast. Then on the 6th, "rainfall of 1 to 3 inches or more" was possible from the upper Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida Panhandle. At this time the low pressure system was named Invest 94-L, which sat roughly 250 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. This is exactly where Tampico, Mexico lies.

The last portion of the forecast defined the New England area as a candidate for a severe weather pattern or a tropical system. A severe weather pattern did develop over the area. On the 8th, Accuweather was warning of damaging storms from Maryland to Massachusetts. The Accuweather map below shows the flooding potential expected.


The National Weather Service began to issue warnings for heavy rain in Maine, locally heavy downpours and flash flooding for Massachusetts, Vermont, northern New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut over the next few days.


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Reasons for Unbelief

Aldous Huxley’s self-admitted reason for his unbelief. He says he had “motives” for not wanting to believe in God and so “assumed” he didn’t exist and “was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.” He confessed:

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. It is our will that decides how and upon what subjects we shall use our intelligence. Those who detect no meaning in the world generally do so because, for one reason or another, it suits their books that the world should be meaningless.

More recently, New York University Professor Thomas Nagel has said something similar: “I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers.” He continues: “It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want a universe like that.”

Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/is-god-imaginary#ixzz2Z20K4WMm