Are We Having Fun Yet?
Tropical Storm Flossie had the power sucked out of her by wind shear and cooler water as she was about to beat up on the big island of Hawaii, but they got some rain and 20-foot waves. As a consolation, TBogg reports there was 5.4-magnitude earthquake centered 25 miles south of Hilo.
Tropical Storm Erin seems poised for a Thursday night landfall around the Texas-Mexico border with 50-mph winds and rain.
Tropical Storm Dean is scheduled to be a Cat 1 hurricane when it moves through the lesser Antilles around the island of Dominica on Friday. What it does afterwards is the dependent on how strong the ridge above it is. In any case, the reduced wind shear and warmer water in the Caribbean ensures strengthening, probably to Cat 3 status.
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Texas can use the rain, but I’m glad I’m not near Erin’s likely landfall. Dean troubles me (the storm, not the party chair)… neither the models nor the history of storms near that track gives me insight at this point as to who gets to play host.
Yes, we’re having fun yet, and as usual this time of year, we’re contemplating where we really should move by next season. Hey, it could happen.
Right now there are too many variables in play – the big ones being the strength of the ridge which is keeping it on a westerly track, and the strength of the storm which would spin it more to the north.
In any case, Dean looks to become a nasty piece of work for someone to absorb.
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