New Oil Forecast Map: Spill 250 Miles from Key West by May 24

[salazarmms]

Source: NOAA Real-Time Ocean Forecast System

NOAA Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (ROTFS)

Projected trajectory of BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:

Leading edge of slick to be 250 miles west of Key West, Florida by May 24.

Read more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw3V33Lfovc

[HooptieWagon]

1. Which squashes your claim DH tar balls are washing up in Stuart. n/t

[Cetacea]

2. No it doesn't.

It may squash claims that tar balls from BP's mess are washing up on Stuart.

[HooptieWagon]

4. OP was claiming DH tar balls were washing up in Stuart in another thread.

That is speculation, tests have not yet determined the source of the Stuart tar balls. The tar balls washing up in Key West a day or two ago were determined to NOT be from the DH rig.
While some DU posters are engaging in wild speculation and hyperbole, I think it's best to stick to anger and criticism based on ESTABLISHED FACTS... there's certainly enough there already.

[salazarmms]

3. Tar balls arrive faster than the slick

just ask the people in louisiana and alabama and mississippi
tar balls float in and then a week or two later... well look what is happening.
keep listening to bp and the coast guard. the tar balls are normal. they are telling the truth, forget the evidence:

7 inch tar balls in Stuart...
"People are finding it right up in the wet sand area and it’s kind of unusual because in the last few years we haven’t seen a lot of tar on our beaches," says Perry.
The last time beach visitors had to battle tar balls was back in 2002, a problem fisherman suspect came from an offshore drilling operation.
http://www.wptv.com/content/news/martin/stuart/story/oil-samples-tar-balls-stuart-beach-hutchinson-isla/iQ4Kw6hMVUqt5NUrs6Qkcw.cspx

Vero Beach:
Saturday, a Vero Beach man and his wife discovered dozens of "tar pancakes" on the sand and in the water.
Michael and Jenny Risley said they made the discovery during their usual Saturday walk from Jaycee Beach to Humiston Beach.
He was concerned enough to bring the tar samples to a lifeguard at Jaycee Beach.
"They said they had been lifeguarding for 8 years and they had never seen anything like this on the beach before," said Risley.
http://www.wptv.com/content/news/indianriver/story/vero...

8 inch tar balls in Keys, Key West to Marathon:
Coast Guard Captain Patrick DeQuattro, at Coast Guard Station Key West, said the tar balls they found "range from the Dry Tortugas to 70 miles west to Key West to roughly the Marathon area, Bahia Honda State Park. Exposure to that type tar balls across approximately a hundred miles of the Florida Keys is unusual. I've been here a year. I've not had that type of exposure yet."
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Gov-Crist-Be-pa...