It’s a little odd that the NHC issued both a tropical storm watch and hurricane watch for the same area at the same time. I’m half expecting that they will post a correction for a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch.
It is, seemingly would illustrate a lack of confidence in the forecast.
Maybe just a misfire and they’ll straighten it out on the next one.
Oh, we had a fun little moment, speaking of weather, passing thru Tahoka TX on the way to NM a couple of weeks ago. The storm chasers making some IMAX movie all passed us and I swear we saw some circulation in a field off to the left of us. For the first time ever we pulled over because the wind was so strong it was pushing the car sideways (we lived in West TX for many years and have taken a direct hit by a tornado in 1994, so we are not wimps).
We later found out a semi trailer had been blown over by winds not far from where we were and winds were clocked in excess of 84 mph. A car was not the place to be! I prefer hurricanes to tornadoes myself!
:)
Do you think that it might be the time to upgrade the thread to Front Page News? It is on my paper’s front page.
I don’t have much confidence in the NWS forecast. It’ll be interesting where this thing goes.