Position: 12.3N 56.6W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [290°] near 20 mph [31 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 75 kph].
Wind Gusts: 55 mph [ 90 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 45 miles [ 75 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1008 mb.

Currently about 275 miles [ 445 km] East-Southeast of Barbados.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Barbados, St Lucia, and Dominica.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Puerto Rico, Vieques, Calebra, US Virgin Islands, and St Vincent & the Grenadines.

Invest 93 skipped the tropical depression stage and became a tropical storm this evening based on data from a Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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The vacation from noise is over as the military has apparently come up with enough of an explanation of the F-35 engine fires to allow them to fly again. It is amazing that they are considered ‘stealth’ when you can hear the things ten miles away.

A US government spokesweasel showed up on the radio telling me that my government was very concerned by the high level of civilian casualties in Gaza and that Israel has been told to take action to reduce them, while also announcing that the IDF has been allowed to remove tank shells from the US supply maintained in Israel.

If we don’t like what they are doing with their bombs and artillery, why are are we giving them more? The IDF took both high explosive rounds and white phosphorus ‘illumination’ rounds.

The Director of the CIA issued an apology to the Senate Intelligence committee for hacking into their computer system after initially denying that there any evidence that supported the claim by Senator Diane Feinstein. More troubling than the hacking was the fact that it was so easily detected. Frankly the CIA is supposed to spy on people, but they aren’t supposed to get caught doing it.