5 day forecast shows this becoming a hurricane and taking a sharp turn north, towards the Gulf.Posted on 10/15/2005 1:53:14 PM PDT by Blogger
5 day forecast shows this becoming a hurricane and taking a sharp turn north, towards the Gulf.
LOL!
yikes!
Geez.
Oh well, the supplies I have been 'laying-in' for the flu pandemic will work as well for a hurricane.
...Slowly moving depression gradually organizing in the western Caribbean...
At 11 PM EDT...0300z...the government of the Cayman Islands has issued a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch for all of the Cayman Islands. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours. A Hurricane Watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.
At 11 PM EDT...0300z...the center of Tropical Depression Twenty-four was located near latitude 17.0 north... longitude 79.0 west or about 215 miles... 345 km... southeast of Grand Cayman and about 125 miles... 205 km...southwest of Montego Bay Jamaica.
The depression is moving toward the southwest near 3 mph... 6 km/hr... and this general motion is expected to continue during the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph... 45 km/hr... with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast... and the depression could become a tropical storm on Sunday.
Estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb...29.62 inches.
The depression is expected to produce rainfall of 3 to 5 inches over the Cayman Islands and Jamaica... with isolated totals of 6 to 10 inches possible.
Repeating the 11 PM EDT position...17.0 N... 79.0 W. Movement toward...southwest near 3 mph. Maximum sustained winds... 30 mph. Minimum central pressure...1003 mb.
An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 2 am EDT followed by the next complete advisory at 5 am EDT.
Forecaster Knabb
Right now, teh 'Glades is totally flooded, far beyond the norm as water management does it's thing once again.
If a hurricane comes through here, it will find lots of very warm water, thanks to water management and the sun. Not the thermal capacity of warm Gulf water, but not the cooling factor one might expect either.
FYI...
There goes the winter garden.
Thanks for the ping.
Nooooooooooooooooo! Key West better not get destroyed! I'm flying to Ft Lauderdale in 4 weeks then driving down to Key West for a nice, relaxing week off. Worst case scenario, I can stay in FLL or Miami, instead.
FINALLY, we get some good sleeping weather and yet another tropical system pops-up.
Guess it'll swing north once this cold front sweeps through.
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Thanks to you I'm gonna have the Flintstone theme song stuck in my head. I hope we sing How Great Thou Art today. I need something really good to knock 'the modern stone age family' tune out of my mind.
ping
The Rain State, hurricane state, tropical warning state? LOL
I wonder if the season will end with a whopper?
...Tropical depression moving little over the northwestern Caribbean Sea...
a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch are in effect for all of the Cayman Islands.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.
At 8 am EDT...1200z...the center of Tropical Depression Twenty-four was located near latitude 17.1 north... longitude 79.4 west or about 200 miles... 325 km... southeast of Grand Cayman.
The depression has moved little over the past few hours...but a general west or southwestward drift is expected during the next 24 hours. Steering currents are forecast to remain weak so some erratic motion is possible.
Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph... 55 km/hr...with higher gusts. Some slow strengthening is forecast... and the depression could become a tropical storm later today.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb...29.62 inches.
The depression is expected to produce rainfall of 4 to 6 inches over the Cayman Islands and Jamaica... with isolated totals of 8 to 12 inches possible.
Repeating the 8 am EDT position...17.1 N... 79.4 W. Movement toward...stationary. Maximum sustained winds... 35 mph. Minimum central pressure...1003 mb.
The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 11 am EDT.
Forecaster Franklin
Generally it's red wine that gives people a headache, and beer also affects some people that way. Nobody's sure why, but they think it's the sulfites in the red wine and beer that does it.
White wine doesn't have the high level of sulfites in it, and better aged white wines (and more expensive ones .. . natch) seem to cause fewer problems than cheap young wine.
I DO hope Wilma quietly fritters away and/or wanders off somewhere unpopulated and far, far away from our Gulf Coast. A deserted part of the Yucatan would be nice . . .
Thre more and the have to start names over with 'A' again. Has that ever happened before?
Wilma is the last name for the 2005 season. If another named storm follows Wilma, it will be alpha, beginning names from the greek alphabet.
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