TD 27 Forms in the Eastern Caribbean...

Good evening America and ships at sea in the Caribbean. A new tropical system has formed.

Tropical Depression 27... with designs on being Gamma..

Sounds other worldly doesn't it? Come on... like some hurricane wandering through a segment of Battlestar Galactica... three eyes... some pukey green and purple color... glows in the dark...

Told a friend that I would come on and post if the depression formed and so it did... and so here I am. He is an honest and true friend and I owe him so here I am... the season isn't over until the fat lady sings and yet...we don't even know what sex Gamma is.... maybe she is one those New Age storms... the Metro Storm of the year 2005... she/he..whatever... right now it is just a number... number 27.

So...there I was tonight.. watching President Carter being interviewed tonight on CNN.. a man of integrity, honesty and his own convictions. Few leaders today like that man..for good or bad with regard to his politics... he is an honest man with conviction and not afraid to voice his opinons. More worthy of the title than many who voted for him way back when even realized. More than just a peanut farmer from Georgia wearing Jeans on TV.

Flipped back and forth to the weather saga and saw bits and pieces of the TWC special on this season which I may watch later this evening if I am up that late..

Sharon called from the bus terminal in Boston on her way back to Maine.. we talked tropics and life... She asked me if I have had enough of hurricanes yet...

What a year...my kids have. My youngest daughter wants to go to high school in NY and college in Boston. My youngest son wants to go to Maine or Boston where he can watch the Redsox on TV any day of the baseball season. Odds are I may end up ... up north some day. I'll buy lotto tickets..I'll pray...hope I can go back and forth and find a way to do both... freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Freedom is the money to travel...

So.... what do they say on local Miami TV about Tropical Depression 27?

They showed the graphics that everyone on all the boards spoke about that will influence TD27.... the high pushing it west and then ?? who knows where the depression goes. They did mention there is a small river of a weakness to its n and that is what is creating a nw sort of movement but they said that would be temporary and then the high takes over... and then... we wait and see. ??? again and again...

As a student of tropical weather it is exciting, amazing and mesmerizing to watch this season unfold. I'm not going to lie and say otherwise. Trackers and Chasers like me wait years for a year like this. And yet....on a humane level I feel for people who are simply overwhelmed with the number of storms this year that have affected cities... populated areas... the mainland. Often we have a lot of storms but they all go out to see like good little fishies. Not this year..

Yes the water is very warm and shear has been light but more so a problem has been that the steering currents are pushing them towards land and not out to sea.

Possibly that is also because we have had so many Caribbean storms vs Cape Verde/Atlantic storms... Atlantic Cape Verde storms always have the favored option of curving out to sea... Caribbean ones like Gulf of Mexico ones become landlocked and you know someone...somewhere is going to get it.

You can't have major population centers along coastal hurricane prone areas and then complain that hurricanes go where they have gone for centuries before ocean front condos and big fancy bank buildings were built there. Then again if the New Madrid Fault Blows...don't complain people live there... we live on a fluid earth that is always moving both beneath the ground.. shaking it or hit by storms that are caught up in the atmopheric flow... This is our world... and it's the only world we've got so let's learn to find a better way of responding when people are in trouble and storms and earthquakes happen.

So.................now someone tell me.....................is Gamma a he or a she or do we just call the rest of them IT or THEY? Curious.

Bobbi...going to listen to what Mr. Drudge is rambling about and see if he found any interesting new lyrics to play.... how else am I going to keep up with the Governor race in California??

And...if the San Andreas goes suddenly... Matt will be there...with pictures and a breaking news... developing....