Spinning The Air
In the western Pacific region they are called typhoons, but Category 3 by any other name is a mess. My old stomping ground on the island of Okinawa is about to get a visit from typhoon Longwang. The briefing on that one at Kadina AB would be good for a few chuckles.
Closer to home the Mayan god Huracan would appear to have made time for the possibility of another visit according to Tropical Weather Outlook:
A vigorous tropical wave centered a couple hundred miles southeast of Jamaica is producing cloudiness and thunderstorms over much of the central Caribbean Sea. This system has become better organized today… and upper-level winds have also become more favorable for a tropical depression to develop during the next day or so. An Air Force Reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system tomorrow… if necessary. Interests in Jamaica… the Cayman Islands… and in the northwestern Caribbean Sea should closely monitor the progress of this system over the next few days as it moves west-northwestward at about 10 mph.
At this point we know the drill.
