Do You Remember September? Is there a Tropical Storm Kyle down there today who wants to dance...

Getting harder and harder to ignore the Tropical Disturbance down in the Caribbean.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/carb/loop-avn.html

I know people would like to but you can't just ignore the things you don't like and live in a fantasy world. Can you? Well, some can but the rest of us have to dance in the real world.

The real world. It's not a house in Key West or a suite at the Ritz. It's the tropics and it's September and in September you remember hurricanes. Rule of thumb #1 in the hurricane basin!

So, what is down there today? A big mass of clouds that is going to give more rain to Puerto Rico and possibly move north if you believe the models yet how can you believe models that don't have a good starting point.

Every great novel needs a great beginning. Every great love story has that first moment when the young lovers eyes first meet and they know deep down in their soul they will never forget each other. It's like remembering something that never happened before and yet it did. A deja vu sort of moment. A cleansing of the heart. I am sure you remember it. Hasn't everyone been in love at least once in their life? Well, it's that way with hurricanes and tropical storms. There is that one satellite image that hits you just so while you are searching the Atlantic Basin for storms, swirls or even cloud masses resembling storms and you think "wow, has that look" and you know it's not going away. It's not falling apart. It's a keeper. Probably the K storm at that.

I'm in a quandary today or was. Couldn't decide what to write and I knew it was time to write. And, yet my brain is a bit foggy from a sinus headache or something and still half asleep as the coffee ain't doing it for me this morning. I need real coffee like Starbucks or Caribou or a cafecito on Lincoln Road or Calle Ocho.

In the end despite all the things I thought I might write on such as recovery from Ike, why all the REAL meteorologists don't think we are having global warming yet the young ones want to jump on the popular band wagon and play that song so their papers can get published and peer reviewed and why message boards seem to be slowly dying as people can't stop texting probably a friend to post and should I keep the sidekick or go blackberry? Just so many things not all that important to write on today once I really looked at the sat loops and saw this thing down there in the Caribbean trying to organize and get attention. So attention it gets as it deserves it.

As for me.. I seem to be taking a mental vacation. I am going sightseeing in my mind today. Places and faces from my past that seem to compete with my present and the path I am on right now. No models are going to work with me today. Not for Kyle and not for Bobbi. I am as constant as the moon and as unpredictable as quicksilver.

I thought on going down to Key West this weekend but was too tired for the ride and so happy to be home in my bed. One of those times you want to give thanks for what you have and that it didn't get blown away perhaps. Going to read the paper. Take a walk. Watch the Dolphin game. Write. Work on Bills. Maybe I'll color my hair. Maybe I'll just lay in the friggin' back yard and drink a beer and blast Kiss Country if there is a breeze. That's what we do Down South in those dog days of summer before Autumn sets in and we think on what to cook for the Jewish Holidays next month. Maybe if I watch the game on my little walkman that has batteries in it for the storm that never came watching the Fins lose will be easier.. won't seem as real if they are only 2 inches by 3 inches?

Something is down in the Caribbean and the MJO is oozing it's way back into our side of the world and we will ramp up on tropical activity again soon.

So, get out those old CDs or LPs or bake a cake or do whatever rocks your boat because we are going to be tracking really soon.

The cute men in their flying machines are going to go up into the air and try and figure out if we have a tropical depression or a storm named Kyle later today.

Will they find the K Storm?

Lot's of luck... they've always been a bit sneaky if you ask me.

Love and kisses... Bobbi from tropical Miami thinking it would be nice to be at the boardwalk or out on a long pier watching the waves roll in.

From the NHC's Update at 8 AM

"A TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD
FORM LATER TODAY AS THE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD.
AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TO
INVESTIGATE THE SYSTEM THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL AFFECT PUERTO RICO...THE VIRGIN ISLANDS...
AND THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLAND THROUGH MONDAY. INTERESTS IN THESE
AREAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR PRODUCTS FROM THEIR LOCAL WEATHER
FORECAST OFFICE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SYSTEM."






Do you remember the 21st night of september?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember how we knew love was here to stay

Now december found the love that we shared in september.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember the true love we share today

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days