We still have way too many forest fires still burning, but already, the Apalachicola National Forest and areas eastward are getting persistent light rain, with bigger showers offshore and headed our way.
There are many mechanisms in nature here in Florida that quite literally depend an occasional tropical storm or hurricane.
Starting early this year, eh?
I remember 5 years ago I was on vacation in Florida and the Weather Channel was going on about a Tropical Storm Barry heading our way. They reuse names quickly, I guess.
With any hope, hurricanes this year won’t be politicized like Katrina and Rita and governors will actually ORDER EVACUATIONS. And the Dems think the Republicans have the lower IQs...at least we actually get the crap out when there’s a category 5 200-mph wind hurricane coming straight for us.
We lived in VA Beach from 2000-2004 while my husband was in the Navy and only had to outrun Isabel (they sent my husband’s sub out to sea. THAT’S another fun story) Now we’re in Maryland just down the road from NAS Pax River, so this is our first hurricane season I won’t have to worry about my husband getting sent out to sea. Something tells me I have a lot to learn....
As an aside, our RINO governor is in Israel pursuing trade agreements.
From the NHC Forecast Discussion #1 :
INITIALLY...THE SYSTEM APPEARED TO BE A SUBTROPICAL STORM. HOWEVER...DEEP CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED NEAR THE CENTER DURING THE PAST HOUR AND THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE LOCATED NEAR THE CENTER...SUPPORTING A TROPICAL CLASSIFICATION. BARRY COULD RETAIN SOME NON-TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE CYCLONE IS EMBEDDED WITHIN A STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY SHEAR AND IS HEADING TOWARD COOLER WATERS. THEREFORE...NO SIGNIFICANT STRENGTHENING IS INDICATED BEFORE IT REACHES THE COAST. BARRY SHOULD BECOME EXTRATROPICAL BETWEEN 24 AND 36 HOURS.
The satellite picture shows a convection plume forming this afternoon, and a few hours later ( i.e. as of now ) it has been swept to the northeast away from the poorly defined center of circulation.
This has exactly the same appearance as the vaunted shear effect that predominated last season.
Had 18 inches of rain all of last year in south Texas where I live. 30 inches so far this year bring on the rain! I make a living off of wildlife we need the rain...calm wind lol
Atlantic Storm names
2007
Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy
I would also like to give a shout out to all the Texas farmers and crop dusters for the great year that we have had so far!
It’s not a hurricane.
TS Barry might be coming from the South but the rain is COLD. I just stepped outside and that rain is ice cold. Of course, it is nice to have had a very cool afternoon today due to the cold rain.
Hurricane season is over. This “Barry” storm is the season’s last gasp.
Serious question: is “Barry” the shortened form of some longer name? i.e., “Harry” for “Harold” or “Billy” for “William.”
I can’t imagine that someone would just name a child “Barry.”
I just got off the phone with my son in Tampa. He said they have tropical storm warnings and its raining cats and dogs there.
There may have been storms in the 1950s, 1960s and even 1970s that are of the current size of Barry -- with 50 mph winds -- that would not have made much news back then.
It was a while before there were weather satellites taking pics of the Gulf and the Atlantic.
So the fact that we have a number of named storms in the last few years would not have happened in the 1950s -- storms that appeared, were named and then disappeared off the coast of Africa may not have made any weather history book.
Today we can take pictures of the thunderstorms at your grandmothers house, and save them to tell your grandchildren... About the thunderstorm on the way to grandma's in 2007...
***BREAK***
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
351 AM EDT SAT JUN 2 2007
FLZ047-054-020845-
INDIAN RIVER-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
351 AM EDT SAT JUN 2 2007
...FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN BREVARD COUNTY...EASTERN
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY...
AT 348 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS AND STRONG WIND GUSTS TO
45 MPH OVER MICCO...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER SHOWER ACTIVITY
MOVING NORTH ALONG THE COASTLINE ACROSS INDIAN RIVER AND BREVARD
COUNTIES WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ROTATE...AND THEREFORE PRODUCE
FUNNEL CLOUDS THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM WHICH MAY EXPERIENCE GUSTY WINDS
AND FUNNEL CLOUDS INCLUDE INDIAN HARBOUR BEACH...MELBOURNE BEACH...
WEST MELBOURNE AND SUNTREE.
FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN OCCASIONALLY TOUCH DOWN AND PRODUCE BRIEF...SMALL
TORNADOES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.