They slowed down the forward motion significantly and moved it more to the west, which is an interesting trend. Now we're looking at landfall sometime mid-week next week.
Initial NOAA forecast is for a Hurricane in a few days — possibly Category 2.
Would be Isaac if it forms into a Tropical Storm.
Current GFS models put it near the straights of Florida by Friday.
All is hedging on a mid-Atlantic ridge. If it moves to the east, Isaac would spin of into the Atlantic. If it stays in place, Katie bar the door.
Maybe the GOP will consider a city outside of a hurricane zone next time, like Buffalo or Cheyenne, Wyoming??
I just hope if it comes to SE Virginia, it destroys my house that way I don’t have to deal with a flooded basement, downed trees, and no power for 2 weeks. I’d rather just build a new house.
I heard the Obama people have been working on a hurricane machine.
You can take it to the bank: the week before, after and during Labor Day WILL HAVE some major tropical activity near or in Florida.
Period.
Who was the genius who booked the GOP convention in FL around Labor Day? Barack Obama?
I live in Tampa. I see it year after year with few exceptions.
In accordance with the silver lining theory, the poor occupy critters who have no place to go but the sidewalk will be just blown away...or at least get very wet. Nothing dampens enthusiasm like a good hard rain.
It’s really hard for a storm at this latitude to effect the “left” coast of Florida without first riding up the mountains of central Cuba and the length of the Florida peninsula. This means the storm that reaches the convention will likely be a tropical storm at most. Although that means the weather will be lousy getting to and from the convention, once inside, life’s easy. The only folks that could really be affected are the idiots outside trying to wave signs.
If there are some bad, even discomfitting, weather conditions, it'll definitely affect the Occupy creeps and rioters camped out here and there in Tampa.
Their tent cities will be awash in water, wind, debris, human waste, condoms, floating "Blame Bush" posters.....and misery.
Inside the Convention Center, the delegates and other personages will be dry as dust and happy as larks.
Let it rain! Let it rain! Let it rain! (tra la)
Leni
Better than a systemic depression..I think. :)
They slowed down the forward motion significantly and moved it more to the west, which is an interesting trend. Now we're looking at landfall sometime mid-week next week.
The past 6 weeks or so there has seen a parade of storms and depressions moving in a stately fashion from the eastern Atlantic across the Caribbean to Mexico that has brought a rainy season, the first in many years, to coastal Northwest Florida and an August that has not gotten out of the 80s. Yesterday it was in the 70s all day. It is very pleasant. Normally we expect many days of 95-103 degrees this time of year. The situation promises to continue for a while yet.