On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:43:15 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Jul 31, 9:25?am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
patootie...

Lat/Lon of New York City

40.47N 73.6W

Lat/Lon of "Tropical Storm Chantal"

40.29N 62.7W

Damn - I didn't know New York City was in the tropics.

Who 'da thunk it?

It has to do with where the storm originated, skipper. :-)

It originated @ 36.1N 66.0W Skipper.

Which sure as hell ain't the tropics.

You guys just need more imaginative nomenclature. Out this way we get
winter storms that blow in from Hawaii. We call the phenomenon "The
Pineapple Express". They are tropical windstorms because they
originate in the tropics.

Um...I always thought the Pineapple Express was made your area of the
country a soggy, dull, barely habitable place to live. As in rain -
not necessarily because it was wind.

I always thought, and I could be wrong, that your winds came from the
Polar regions.