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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 15:38:23 GMT
The coast of Africa has a regular choo choo train of storms lining up off of it at present.  Where will they go?  ?? It's that time of year......my husband is fixated on the Tropical Updates on the Weather Channel.  How BIZARRE!! Almost exactly a year from when this was posted, there is currently a storm in the Gulf with the same name and spelling!!How can this be??? Don't they recycle the names??? Anyway, we are watching the current Debby, closely. We may get swacked. All the models show different trajectories at this time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 16:52:06 GMT
I read somewhere that this was the first time in about 100 years that there have been 4 storms before July 1st.
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Post by htmb on Jun 24, 2012 20:56:53 GMT
My Florida children are reporting hours of much needed rain so far. Hopefully, it will keep up at a steady pace, minus the wind. Due to the recent drought, overuse of the water supply, and ground water pumping, our springs in north Florida are running dry and we have reached a critical turning point. www.gainesville.com/article/20120623/ARTICLES/120629805?tc=cr |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2012 21:50:32 GMT
Just came in here to see how you Florida & Louisiana people are doing.
Re: names -- I don't think they recycle them unless they become full-blown hurricanes. Still, to use Debby for a tropical storm less than a year later is just sloppy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2012 21:52:48 GMT
Hey ~~ I just thought of something! ;D
At the moment, Debby is expected to head toward Texas. If it goes far enough inland, it will hit that big ole city that had a soap opera named after it and ....... well, you can figure the headline. ;D
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Post by fumobici on Jun 24, 2012 22:48:06 GMT
Hey ~~ I just thought of something! ;D At the moment, Debby is expected to head toward Texas. If it goes far enough inland, it will hit that big ole city that had a soap opera named after it and ....... well, you can figure the headline. ;D Nope. No idea what on Earth that might be.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2012 5:40:23 GMT
Looks like Debby has completely changed her mind.  |
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Post by htmb on Jun 25, 2012 7:59:23 GMT
I'm looking forward to hearing back from my children. It looks like they are having some very severe weather from the reports I've seen. Currently they are under several different emergency warnings: flood, tornado watch, high wind, tropical warning, river flood warning. Certainly not a hurricane, but nothing to ignore either. My son goes to work in the early hours of the morning and will be crossing through a very low area of the county in the dark storm. Not something I am happy about at this moment. As I mentioned earlier, we desperately need the rain, just not the other mess that goes along with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2012 10:38:16 GMT
Yes, Debby does seem to be rather fickle at this point. Her projected path has altered almost completely since yesterday morning.
Here's hoping yours remain safe htmb.
Some tropical storms and even lesser categorized weather systems have reeked worse havoc than many hurricanes. All it takes is a huge system to stall out for a day or so and flooding etc. are real hazards.
Just as Nor'easters that pass through New England and other parts of the Atlantic coast
can wipe out whole areas of beaches along with houses foolishly built on the dunes to begin with. One seldom hears of these in the media until the damage is done.
My fear is this season is going to be very active. The Gulf and the Atlantic waters are extremely warm, more so than usual due to an unprecedented mild winter. It won't take much for these storms to spawn I'm afraid.
And, as mentioned, this is the earliest in memory that at least 4 storms have been named.
It's going to be a long summer.
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Post by htmb on Jun 25, 2012 17:29:58 GMT
All so true, casimira. The only thing I think I dislike about living in a coastal state - and I'm a life-long Floridian - is worrying about hurricanes and tropical storms. So far, so good at home, but it's going to be a long few days of waiting out the weather. Let's hope for a calmer rest of the season.
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Post by htmb on Aug 22, 2012 10:22:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 11:49:40 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 23, 2012 12:11:46 GMT
Tampa streets are very prone to flooding in heavy rain. There's also the potential for loss of electric power, closed gas stations, limited water, etc.
While it is certainly a possibility that Isaac will head towards the Tampa area, it is really too early to tell. Weather forecasters like to latch onto an idea and blow it out of proportion, particularly when it comes to forecasting the path of major storms.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 12:13:50 GMT
Quite naturally all of us here are keeping our eyes peeled on this storm. It's too early yet to tell but, some of the models show different trajectories. Much depends on if or when it does hit open water after swacking Cuba and what kind of turn it would then make. With the anniversary of Katrina being less than a week away people here are getting nervous. It is that time of year when all these storms start spawning. That Gulf is awfully warm right now, as is the Atlantic. |
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Post by htmb on Aug 23, 2012 16:17:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 16:35:14 GMT
It looks like Joyce already got dibs on that course rather than Isaac.
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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2012 0:50:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2012 15:04:45 GMT
Today is the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew which hit in 1992. I imagine that's on a lot of Floridian minds right now. And you know, I'm just worried sick that the Republicans might get their convention cancelled.  heh heh heh heh heh heh heh |
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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2012 15:10:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 16:24:33 GMT
Yes, the last I heard was Florida/Alabama Gulf Coast etc. which we will surely get the effects of .( Btw I swore the next dog or cat we got I was gonna name 'Feederband'. ;D) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 16:32:17 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2012 16:36:13 GMT
I'm sure we will get some of it, too, but it's always such a pain waiting to see which direction something might take as it sits off the coastline. I never remember which side of a storm is supposed to generate the most damaging winds and tornadoes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 17:47:17 GMT
The winds and tornadoes are always of concern of course but, it's the surge and the stalling out that really effects the area around here. Being at the center of the eye is one thing but the rising waters tides etc. coupled with a stalled out system are the potentially most damaging to low lying areas such as coastal La.
Where abouts are you Htmb?
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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2012 19:05:44 GMT
Casimira, I'm half way between the Atlantic and the Gulf in the northern half of the state, so we don't have surge to worry about. The main danger here is high winds (we have an extensive tree canopy and most of our electrics are above ground), plus localized and river flooding. A few years ago when we had two hurricanes back to back the rural area where I lived at the time was one of the last to get electrical power. We were without a total of almost three weeks. Of course, all of that pales in contrast to those who suffered after the likes of Katrina and Andrew. We've been very fortunate. I grew up just off the bay in Tampa where there was a big potential for storm surge damage. If a storm headed into the Tampa Bay area that would be a major concern for the Republicans as the convention hall is located near the water in an area that flooded completely when I lived a mile and a half away as a child. We have had a delightful break in the weather today. The high has been about 85/29 degrees with low humidity. The nice weather won't last, but it's a sign of more to come down the road. October is usually a wonderful month weather-wise  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 19:22:17 GMT
Those were the storms that finished off my parents. What was even more unbearable to me during my multiple daily phone calls is that the people on the other side of the street got their power back 48 hours before my parents.
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Post by htmb on Aug 24, 2012 19:51:10 GMT
Those were the storms that finished off my parents. What was even more unbearable to me during my multiple daily phone calls is that the people on the other side of the street got their power back 48 hours before my parents. I'm sorry for your parents, and what a terrible time for you. What I remember most about that period was the extreme heat and humidity. It was annoying to me, but for someone older it must have been devastatingly tough. I roamed the house all night long, just trying to find a place to sleep that was comfortable. I Usually ended up sleeping outside on the porch, and then still had to go to work the next day. Much of the time at home was spent in the nearby lake, which was also the place to bathe for three weeks. Still, I was very lucky. I suppose the area where your parents lived has a lot of retirees, Kerouac, because when I went to Weeki Wachee in June they were having a hurricane preparedness event for all the oldsters who had been bussed in for the morning. There were all kinds of booths set up with information geared towards how to prepare for a weather disaster. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 20:22:08 GMT
They went to buy ice in the Wal-Mart parking lot every day for their cooler, but living out of a cooler for 2 weeks is just horrible.
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Post by htmb on Aug 25, 2012 12:41:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2012 19:40:53 GMT
Excellent establishing shot for what comes next....  |
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Post by htmb on Aug 25, 2012 20:12:11 GMT
Tampa Bay area under tropical storm watch; Isaac continues to strengthenWe received our first emergency weather alert today notifying North Florida inland residents of the potential for strong winds and flooding. We will almost surely remain on the eastern side of the storm which will have the potential for damaging winds and tornadoes. I am sure they are closely watching the tides down in the Tampa Bay area. A high tide combined with strong winds will not be good news.
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