Posts from — June 2022

Position: 21.8N 87.4W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: North [360°] near 6 mph [ 9 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 35 mph [ 55 kph].
Wind Gusts: 45 mph [ 70 kph].
Minimum central pressure: 1003 mb.

Currently about 480 miles [ 770 km] Southwest of Fort Meyers, Florida.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Florida Keys including the Dry Tortugas; Florida Bay; and the West coast of Florida south of Englewood to Card Sound Bridge.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the West coast of Florida south of the Middle of Longboat Key to Englewood; the East coast of Florida south of the Volusia/Brevard County Line to Card Sound Bridge; Lake Okeechobee; the Cuban provinces of Matanzas, Mayabeque, Havana, Artemisa, Pinar del Rio, & the Isle of Youth; and the Northwestern Bahamas.

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

[For the latest information click on the storm symbol, or go to the CATEGORIES drop-down box below the CALENDAR and select “Hurricanes” for all of the posts related to storms on this site.]

June 1^st:

The official start of the hurricane season.

Events:
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered by some to be the last religious martyr in what would become the United States.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine to count census returns.
1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

Births:
1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1780 – Karl von Klausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)

For some reason, I didn’t make the list. 🧙🏻‍♂️