Funky African Wave

One of the nicest waves to come off of Africa this year so far is about to show it's colors and show us if it has legs and can walk on water.

Most fizzle when they hit the water but this one seems to have a developed system with it, even has what could easily develop into bands and it has been spinning as it danced it's way across Africa all day. I watched on www.weather.com on their interactive radar (hit International) as it wiggled it's way across Mali all the way to the beach at Dakar which is exactly where John Hope used to say they had to come off if they wanted to really be a player.

This one is dead on perfect. The Dvorak image shows it exactly over the spot on the bulls eye. However, it is a huge wave and may have multiple vortexes in it as most do and well... as always time will tell.

Small but visible center there:



My favorite or as I call it the XXXVirginSat



GFS model develops it as does the much teased Canadian that dreams hurricanes in it's sleep.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/cmctc2.cgi?time=
2008063012&field=850mb+Vorticity&hour=Animation

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/
namer/gfs/00/index_pcp_l_loop.shtml

(shows a significant storm of some sort in the Florida Straits on July 11th going into the Gulf... granted you can go to www.tarot.com and ask a question and a more reliable answer than the GFS 11 days out but fun to watch for disaster freaks)

Seriously... keep watching. Either way... this wave has the definite possibility of being the second Bertha to form this far out this early on...

What is in a name they say? Don't know for sure but we may soon find out.

Keep watching... as for buying water in Miami and New Orleans.. doesn't help to stock up on supplies over the July 4th weekend cause sometime soon you may need them and easier going to a quiet store on your own time than leaving work early in a mad rush to a store swamped with panicky people grabbing everything off the shelf they can..

This is just a wave watch mind you... but it has these delicate fingers sticking down into the water which can help feed the storm and SAL (dust) is low and shear has lessened and the MJO is all moving into place to make a Cape Verde Season a definite possibility for happening.

Pretty Wave with fingers ready to be painted oranges and reds..



Lastly...there is a swarm of red Saharan dust making it's way westbound and now is in the Bahamas.. hoping it goes north and misses South Florida because I am battling a summer cold and sinus infection and the thought of us getting a dust storm now has me not a real happy camper. Then again.. where the dust goes often shows the path for tropical storms later in the season.



Officially on Wave Watch status waiting for the real show to start. Stay tuned..

Besos Bobbi
ahhhh chooo!
:)

Close your eyes Bobbi... listen to the music..



(hope Sno is reading this ;) and watching... this one's for you!)