Tropical Depression Claudette – Final
Position: 31.3 N 87.2 W [ 7 AM CDT 1200 UTC].
Movement: Northwest [320°] near 12 mph [19 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1011 mb ↑.
It came ashore a little after midnight near the Coast Guard station on Okaloosa Island which would have made things exciting on the Destin bridge. It is now in Southern Alabama as a rain event. While the center of the storm was within 5 miles, it passed to the East and didn’t have much of an effect. It mauled the West coast of the bend from from Apalachicola, by Panama City, Freeport, South Walton, etc., but didn’t have much effect on anything West of the center. This is the final report.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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we had a doozy of thunderstorm yesterday [don’t know if it was connected to claudette], and overcast skies and breezier than usual weather today, with intermittent rain. mostly the cats are a little puzzled over where their sunbeams have disappeared to.
.-= last blog ..I’ve always said that Woman’s Best Friend is a Big Black Dog =-.
I doubt it was related, because I didn’t hear thunder all day, and have rarely heard it during hurricanes or tropical storms.
well, it was mostly a deluge, not much thunder, a few close calls with lightning.
.-= last blog ..I’ve always said that Woman’s Best Friend is a Big Black Dog =-.
We’ve been in a monsoon for too much of the summer. It’s a good thing that Al has been packing on the pounds or people might conclude the climate has been changing.
There have been weeks when the mushrooms have looked moldy.