Today should be an interesting day to check the Belize web cam as the hurricane is already getting close to land. Maybe late this afternoon or evening, expect landfall, then a sharp turn to the NW or NNW. Martin will be an interesting powerful low to watch. The forecast pressure was to be a 927 autumn low late this week. Basically a superstorm. Squally weather may become interesting in SE Florida on web cams next week!! If indeed it happens. Couldn't rule out the Carolinas or Virginia, possibly.
Not happy with Lisa's projected turn into the Gulf. Don't want anyone else to have to deal with her but I think we have had more than enough for this year and several to come. As for that other low, well we could use some rain, just not a hurricane or tropical storm's worth, as it has been pretty dry since Ian.
That other low will probably be more of a Miami problem than a West Florida problem. It could possibly recurve to the Carolinas or Virginia Capes areas. We know that a tropical or hybrid tropical storm might occur. Or it may just stay a non-tropical low and cause tropical storm-like conditions. That kind of system can happen any time of year. In February 1994 I experienced one of those coastal lows that brought a couple days of tropical storm-force winds, minimal tropical storm force, steady rain, warm and humid conditions, while it was cold in the Northeast with an ice storm and a wild weather system bringing sudden 60-degree warmth, then heavy snow behind the cold front. We were on a 2-week vacation in Jupiter at the time, and we had been having a very tough winter in Syracuse at that time. Needless to say, I would take the warmth, humidity, steady rain and wind over the snow, freezing rain and sleet.
LOL, I'd take a tropical storm over an ice storm any day. I've lived through too many of those frigid things in the past and the only ice I ever want to see again is in my iced tea or Blue Hawaii.
It is weird but after being down here for 8 years, ice storms and blizzards seem like a different world and almost unreal anymore. Kind of like hurricanes did to me when I lived up north. I know they are real but they seem very distant at the same time.
They seem distant, the hurricanes, that is, unless you watch the live TV coverage of them. As you know, the damage, when you see it personally, is likely worse than what they show you on TV. What's on TV doesn't justify what you REALLY see with your own eyes, as you have experienced with Ian. Blizzard, ice storms would seem distant till you experience them yourself.
And the fact that I am no longer experiencing blizzards and ice storms firsthand gives me that distance. Even here because ours was all wind damage and not storm surge we didn't experience quite the hell that places like Ft Myers, Sanibel and Pine Island have and most of the debris from the storm has been removed so mostly all that reminds people of Ian are the blue tarps on roofs and demolished lanais or carports. and some missing windows or siding.
Don't worry, Laura, that storm that is now Hurricane Lisa, it isn't going to regenerate at the Bay of Campeche due to strong wind shear. If this were summer, it might be a different story. Not in November. Lisa is now close to making landfall. The web cam at St. Pedro Airport in Belize shows the strong winds, maybe tropical force, and it is pouring with dreary, ugly skies with globules of low clouds, like what Syracuse might get on a cold autumn day with soaking rains like we get sometimes. It is NOT cold in Belize; it's likely in the high 70s. The web cam is on You Tube.
That's good, my cousin would not like a storm with her name on it being a super-itch like the one that had mine and no one needs that kind of misery. I am sorry Belize is having to deal with it, that area gets hit just way too often.
Usually Belize gets hit with either tropical waves or storms, but mainly the heavy rains from the Central American Gyre. What is the next name on the list after Martin? Your cousin's name is the N name?
Today should be an interesting day to check the Belize web cam as the hurricane is already getting close to land. Maybe late this afternoon or evening, expect landfall, then a sharp turn to the NW or NNW. Martin will be an interesting powerful low to watch. The forecast pressure was to be a 927 autumn low late this week. Basically a superstorm. Squally weather may become interesting in SE Florida on web cams next week!! If indeed it happens. Couldn't rule out the Carolinas or Virginia, possibly.
Not happy with Lisa's projected turn into the Gulf. Don't want anyone else to have to deal with her but I think we have had more than enough for this year and several to come. As for that other low, well we could use some rain, just not a hurricane or tropical storm's worth, as it has been pretty dry since Ian.
That other low will probably be more of a Miami problem than a West Florida problem. It could possibly recurve to the Carolinas or Virginia Capes areas. We know that a tropical or hybrid tropical storm might occur. Or it may just stay a non-tropical low and cause tropical storm-like conditions. That kind of system can happen any time of year. In February 1994 I experienced one of those coastal lows that brought a couple days of tropical storm-force winds, minimal tropical storm force, steady rain, warm and humid conditions, while it was cold in the Northeast with an ice storm and a wild weather system bringing sudden 60-degree warmth, then heavy snow behind the cold front. We were on a 2-week vacation in Jupiter at the time, and we had been having a very tough winter in Syracuse at that time. Needless to say, I would take the warmth, humidity, steady rain and wind over the snow, freezing rain and sleet.
LOL, I'd take a tropical storm over an ice storm any day. I've lived through too many of those frigid things in the past and the only ice I ever want to see again is in my iced tea or Blue Hawaii.
It is weird but after being down here for 8 years, ice storms and blizzards seem like a different world and almost unreal anymore. Kind of like hurricanes did to me when I lived up north. I know they are real but they seem very distant at the same time.
They seem distant, the hurricanes, that is, unless you watch the live TV coverage of them. As you know, the damage, when you see it personally, is likely worse than what they show you on TV. What's on TV doesn't justify what you REALLY see with your own eyes, as you have experienced with Ian. Blizzard, ice storms would seem distant till you experience them yourself.
And the fact that I am no longer experiencing blizzards and ice storms firsthand gives me that distance. Even here because ours was all wind damage and not storm surge we didn't experience quite the hell that places like Ft Myers, Sanibel and Pine Island have and most of the debris from the storm has been removed so mostly all that reminds people of Ian are the blue tarps on roofs and demolished lanais or carports. and some missing windows or siding.
How is your house coming along? I know you are still waiting on the insurances. Is much of the damage fixed?
Don't worry, Laura, that storm that is now Hurricane Lisa, it isn't going to regenerate at the Bay of Campeche due to strong wind shear. If this were summer, it might be a different story. Not in November. Lisa is now close to making landfall. The web cam at St. Pedro Airport in Belize shows the strong winds, maybe tropical force, and it is pouring with dreary, ugly skies with globules of low clouds, like what Syracuse might get on a cold autumn day with soaking rains like we get sometimes. It is NOT cold in Belize; it's likely in the high 70s. The web cam is on You Tube.
That's good, my cousin would not like a storm with her name on it being a super-itch like the one that had mine and no one needs that kind of misery. I am sorry Belize is having to deal with it, that area gets hit just way too often.
Usually Belize gets hit with either tropical waves or storms, but mainly the heavy rains from the Central American Gyre. What is the next name on the list after Martin? Your cousin's name is the N name?
Yes, Hurricane Laura was bad; it hit Lake Charles, a city that had a bad hurricane year. The name was retired.