A Wet Day of Watching in Miami

Gonna be a really wet day of watching and waiting to see if anything develops out of the Bahama Blob currently creating lots of rain and wind across the South Florida landscape... a wet, windblown sort of gray day landscape too.

Woke up at 4am to heavy rain, tropical rain... windblown rain, torrential rain, sideways rain and strong lightning, flashing crazy lightning. Rained for hours and now there is a break in the rain. Gray cool skies and intermittent gusty winds.

Dolphin game at 1.. sort of kills the day. Don't want to watch and don't want to miss it. Might have gone away for the day but I am too die hard of a fan to get stuck on the road somewhere with cruddy reception on my little gizmo and not be able to watch some Dolphin Debacle unfold before my sad little eyes.

As for the tropics...

Karen lives, I don't care what anyone says. She is crawling along firing up strong convection and somewhere there is a center because it's not erratic, it's constant and consistent and that much colored convection means there is fire somewhere. Old adage you know.. you can't smell smoke without there being some sort of fire. This isn't virtual tropics we are playing, it's not paint by the numbers and these satellite images are not paint shop they are REAL.

So.... this is my take on Karen.
The upper level low is enhancing her convection and keeping her in the show. The shear is lessening but is still a factor. Water temps can't be that bad. IF she has any center there she will go for it.. she has a real will to live and glad she is entertaining you ;) and I know you really hate to write this one off ala Ingrid who was basically a cold hearted bitch compared to Karen. So.... I know she is the underdog of underdogs but if any "wave" can come back to life it would definitely be this one. Time will tell... so we watch. She might not make a comeback.. but while there is color... concentrated color... we may as well watch. Not much else to watch unless you want to stare at a blob in the Bahamas which will probably become some Hybrid storm with some name just so they can keep the numbers high... and issue advisories... got to give Avila something to do so he stays out of the fruit department at Publix talking to managers or the media..

Love you all... going to watch the fins and old TV and then think on what to do for the rest of the day.

As for Sukkos... it stopped raining just in time to go have wine and challah in the very wet sukkoth and then the rest of the 3 day holiday was beautiful, relaxed, spent time with my friends, family... good books, magazines, watched the clouds and it was good.

Now.. I'm watching the rain... I'll be back later today when there is something to really talk about tropically speaking.

For now.. enjoy... the great Karen at her best..