Tropical Depression Ana – Final
Position: 17.5 N 68.0 W [ 4 PM 2100 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [285°] near 24 mph [40 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1011 mb ↑.
It is 140 miles [225 km] West-Southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico. All tropical storm watches discontinued as Ana has degenerated into a remnant low pressure trough.
This is the final advisory.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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whew. dodged that one too.
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Don’t bet on it. This system disappeared before when it was TD 2 and came back badder than ever. I want it inland and gone with an icicle through it’s center of circulation after the way Claudette appeared.
have to agree with you on the icicles.
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I remember cleaning up after Ivan and seeing the SOB reappear in the Gulf. I just don’t trust them any more. We have been having zombie tropical storms that just refuse to die.
I’m in Citrus CountyFlorida and I know this area is overdue for a big cyclonic hit ,the last one in 1993 didn’t even get named as it was in March. Ana could have a bulls-eye set on the nature coast of Florida!
Claudette wasn’t much more than a thunderstorm with delusions of grandeur when it came off the peninsula into the Gulf and was a tropical storm in a day. Ana had a lot of problems in the Atlantic, but things are a lot kinder for storms in the Gulf.
It did looked like it wanted to hang just off the coast and rake the whole state. I’m watching the area to make sure it doesn’t come back.
yep, ivan the zombie hurricane.
elena was the one that taught me not to turn your back on a hurricane. 🙂
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Ah, yes, Elena, the commuter hurricane. Two friends of mine have a comedy routine about evacuating with their kids and un-evacuating as Elena went back and forth in the northern Gulf. They picked up the habit of consuming huge quantities of butter pecan ice cream during hurricanes because of Elena. There was a birthday party and the child loved butter pecan ice cream. So the ice cream was purchased, but then it had to be eaten when they evacuated rather than let it melt. So when they un-evacuated they bought more ice cream with the same result.
It ended with the child never wanting another scoop of butter pecan in her life but my friends were hooked on it whenever a storm threatened – it was a tradition.
that’s an even better story than my friends, 2 or 3 families who got up a convoy and evacuated to tallhassee, only to have elena follow them, so they evacuated to somewhere in mississippi [i forget where], only to have elena follow them.
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That’s why we need more North-South roads around here, because inland is the only way to go if you decide on evacuation. There’s a Ramada Inn near Huntsville that’s my target location. Even if the sucker follows you, it will be worn down by the time it gets there.
huntsville?! that’s bullseye territory for tornadoes. opal was the only hurricane i’ve ever evacuated for. we stayed just south of chattanooga, amid tornado scares all night long. i-65 nearly all the way home was lined with pine trees with all their tops twisted off.
but yeah, definitely need to be able to get out of here in more than one direction.
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Opal was when I found it by following the exploding electrical substations North.
I got a couple of breaks from Koshka’s howling by whipping out my trusty chain saw and dismembering a few of those pine trees laying across the road. I don’t know what happened after I came through, but the way was open North. Even long haul truckers make way for people with chain saws.
There is a Builder’s Square conveniently close, a Sears store with a decent selection of yard tools, and a laundromat with large washers and dryers. I bought my first generator at BS and took it back with me. They allowed pets, although that isn’t normally policy. [People don’t argue with you when you are soaking wet, and have a credit card… and a chain saw]. The whole first floor turned out to be people who knew my Mother from her time on the local town council or working at the local supermarket, so there was no problem with her poodle… they knew better than to approach him.
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