Frozen fun from Hot Tampa Bay....

 

Laura & Marco sitting in a sea.....

A couple of anxious early days here in Florida have turned into relief and memes while the gulf coast braces for double impact. 

And decisions have to be made....

Bracing for disaster!

C’mon Weather Channel....Isaias will brush the US East Coast over the weekend, but this is totally fear mongering!! 

ISAIAS

With everything else going on in this country and the world, this storm seems to be getting limited attention.  Local meteorologists don’t seem to be overly concerned and there doesn’t appear to be a run on anything.  

Many of us are still sheltering or working at home.  Others may just be numb to 2020. 

I suppose we’ll know more tomorrow once Isaias moves over the mountainous island of Hispaniola.   

And then this happened...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article242864096.html

'nuff said.....

 

Happy New Year!?

Early look at the 2020 hurricane season shows just a 10% chance for below normal activity and a 45% chance for a normal season.  Read about Colorado State University's Phil Klotzbach's first review for 2020: 

https://www.theledger.com/news/20191229/will-2020-give-florida-break-in-hurricane-season

Hello Humberto ...... and goodbye!

Never a real threat to the west coast of Florida.  Glad to see this one also turn away from Florida and the US mainland (following Dorian 2 weeks ago).  

We’ll keep an eye on the 2 disturbances in the Atlantic as well as the coast of Africa as we work through the peak of the season!

Dorian Projected to Spare Tampa Bay area

With the projected turn, parts of Tampa Bay left the cone with this morning's 8am ET update.  This is the 11am update where the entire Bay area is outside of the cone.  

We stay on guard and hope for more turning to protect the east coast of the US and the Bahamas!

Dorian!

We just returned from a summer-long RV trip across the country to be welcomed by the Florida State of Emergency ahead of Hurricane Dorian.

As we've monitored its progress over the past few days we've become concerned, however, I always feel better when we are in the center of the cone five or more days out.  As the storms tend to move (not always) as they get closer and observing over the past 15 years, it seems like when we are NOT in the cone of uncertainty farther out, we end up in it closer to landfall. 

Case in point:

While we are still in the cone, it's looks like the predicted storm path could turn north once over the peninsula.  Not good for our state in general, but being in the Tampa Bay area, we feel for the other side of the state but also stay focused on our locale.