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Post by casimira on May 15, 2020 21:44:24 GMT
There is a tropical storm system brewing that is predicted to turn into Tropical Storm 'Arthur'. Tropical winds may occur in SE Florida as early as later this p.m. Jeezums, it's only the middle of May!! The season for this officially doesn't begin until June 1st.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 16, 2020 4:20:34 GMT
Well, it's tomorrow where I am, and it still hasn't been named. It could still dissipate and Arthur might have to wait for another storm.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 17, 2020 3:34:12 GMT
Arthur got his name at last, just in time to fade into oblivion.
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Post by casimira on May 17, 2020 11:32:49 GMT
FARTHUR...farewell...
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Post by casimira on May 18, 2020 11:53:31 GMT
Apparently, Arthur is not finished with us yet.
Now a Tropical Storm, he is forecast to lash out on the East North Carolina coast sometime today.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2020 12:13:29 GMT
Rip tides (rip currents actually) are expected to be the big impact of this storm.
So the beach-crowders rebelling against quarantine may be swept out to sea before they have a chance to come down with COVID.
That’s almost biblical...
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Post by casimira on May 19, 2020 11:37:37 GMT
More like poetic justice...
Some people did have to be rescued that were caught in a rip tide while foolishly out swimming in the ocean.
Were it not for the sound of their screams that some kind soul heard they would have been swept out and drowned to death.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 19, 2020 15:28:19 GMT
It didn't look like that to me either. It is just supposed to dissipate in the middle of nowhere.
If we were nice people, we would worry more about the super cyclone, the biggest in history (global warning?), about to hit the India/Bangladesh border tomorrow.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2020 16:53:54 GMT
Now we have Bertha which sprang from the thighs of northern Florida rubbing her bosom against South and North Carolina.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2020 23:15:27 GMT
Somebody's been in quarantine too long.
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Post by Kimby on May 28, 2020 1:05:17 GMT
Two named storms already and Hurricane season doesn’t start til Monday....
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Post by casimira on Jun 2, 2020 21:10:03 GMT
Tropical Storm Cristobal presently in the Gulf lingering around Mexico. Projections show him moving slowly toward SE LA.
It will be several days before we know more definitively just how much this will impact us here.
Not so much the wind that I'm concerned about but the ensuing precipitation i.e. flooding.
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Post by casimira on Jun 3, 2020 12:26:32 GMT
Keeping a keen eye on this current storm.
Damaging and deadly flooding already happening in parts of Mexico and Central America.
As it is expected to move northward over the next few days, alerts have been issued for the US Gulf Coast from Texas to the Florida panhandle.
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Post by casimira on Jun 6, 2020 11:52:08 GMT
TS Cristobal expected to make landfall in SE Louisiana this weekend.
Rainfall of 4 to 6 inches within an hours time likely with totals of up to 12 inches in and around the Metro New Orleans area
Sandbags at the ready.
New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board announced early this a.m. that not all of their pumps are in working order.
Not looking forward to this event.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 6, 2020 12:02:16 GMT
Good luck Casi.
At least the garden will get a good watering....
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Post by Kimby on Jun 6, 2020 14:25:08 GMT
Fingers crossed for NOLA, casi.
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Post by casimira on Jun 8, 2020 11:53:29 GMT
It was a long weekend here. Lots of rain and wind gusts, many of them quite strong. Some street flooding in the metro area.
Thanks Mick and Kimby for the well wishes.
He made landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi and Grande Isle. Strong storm surge. Coastal MS. got most of the worst of him.
It was a strange, very disorganized system.
Breezy and rainy weather to continue most of today.
It was a good "dry run" for us and the area for future storms.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2020 12:19:25 GMT
Maybe it blew all of the covid-19 away.  |
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Post by htmb on Jun 8, 2020 13:26:14 GMT
Certainly nothing like the hit on Louisiana, but here in North Florida we had three days of torrential rain and some tornados from bands coming off the storm. City streets were closed in parts of Jacksonville, as well as a section of Interstate 10. The city of Orlando had a confirmed tornado in the downtown center, Fortunately for us, our rivers were a bit low due to less precipitation in the spring, so we shouldn’t have a problem once we start to dry out a bit.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2020 18:33:24 GMT
Yes, I saw on the news that northern Florida was quite inundated.
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Post by htmb on Jun 8, 2020 18:56:10 GMT
We have continued to have short little storms off and on throughout today, and the air feels as humid as a warm bathtub when it’s not raining. I admire our roofers. They were here about 7:30 this morning and work furiously in between the rain showers.
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Post by casimira on Jun 9, 2020 12:43:45 GMT
It remained breezy all day yesterday on into the evening. Really quite pleasant.
This particular system is forecasted to travel all the way North up into Canada.
Flash flood watches traveling that far is unprecedented making it the nations farthest traveling tropical depression in more than 2 centuries of record keeping.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2020 19:18:16 GMT
I saw that tropical storm Edouard, which poses no threat to anybody, is still the record breaking earliest 5th tropical storm of the season in history. What next?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 6, 2020 21:50:26 GMT
This advisory from 30 minutes ago explains why we're getting so much rain where I live. Guerrero is the state west of Oaxaca.
The Tropical Depression "CINCO-E" has formed to the south of the coasts of Guerrero. It presents a displacement towards the west-northwest at 20 km / h and favors the potential of intense rains in Guerrero and Oaxaca.
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Post by casimira on Jul 10, 2020 11:40:38 GMT
Tropical Storm Fay is currently tooling up the NE Coast of the Atlantic. Due to make landfall on Long Island sometime tonight and/or tomorrow.
Not a particularly life threatening event, they will likely see quite a bit of rain and some high winds of maybe 50 mph.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 10, 2020 12:37:11 GMT
Though the storms so far have caused minimal damage, having had SIX named storms at this early point in the 6-month long hurricane season is almost unprecedented.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2020 14:24:20 GMT
I read that Massachusetts could have some flooding as well.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2020 19:20:15 GMT
Gonzalo is on the way from Africa, and the storm forming in the Gulf of Mexico should have a name by tomorrow.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2020 15:32:24 GMT
The depression in the Gulf still has not received its name (which would be Hanna), but in any case it apparently wants to visit the Texas coast.
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Post by casimira on Jul 24, 2020 12:23:15 GMT
Yes, TS Hanna aiming for SE Texas. We will likely get alot of rain here from her.
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