Uncle SAL VS The Boy Child - Hurricane Season 2009

Well seriously...every year around July people begin writing the Obit for the hurricane season because ______________________, ______________________ and _______________ are going to be a BIG problem and every tracker, researcher and tropical met gets moody.

Once, long ago we used to say someone needs a long stay at a place named the Neil Frank Home for the Tropically Insane ;)

Thinking now days we need a big Sandals resort on some tropical beach where we can drink Hurricanes and light incense and dance the tango in hula skirts and Hawaiian shirts.

I can tell things are getting bad by the number of texts I am getting in the morning around the time the Tropical Weather Outlook comes out.

SAL:
Read about it here:

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic2/misc/sal/info.html


El Nino:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño-Southern_Oscillation

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/elnino/index.html

Both of these things can have a strong effect on the 2009 Hurricane Season.

Trying to keep this simple here as there are so many big words to use but .... dust is moving west as it so often does this year, wrapped up in African waves and along the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone.

El Nino creates strong winds from west to east that tend to blow apart waves trying to develop and move this way.

The waves get caught in the cross hairs..as a friend of mine likes to say.

Doesn't mean we won't have a season just it's not going to be 1995 or 2005 again this year and am sure most of those living in the tropical basin will be thrilled. But, to think you don't have to worry is misleading, you do... stock up on batteries, on water, on supplies and keep watching.

Don't ever let your guard down because when you do..is just when they sneak up on you.



So.......will see if SAL upsets the tropical cart or if El Nino will huff and puff and blow the tops off the clouds ... time will tell.

If you are really losing your mind and/or bored silly... check out your favorite 80s musicals on youtube :)

Here's 3 of mine... that mean so much to me..hey, was the 80s... and I lived it in L.A. No hurricanes of the tropical type..











Night..sweet tropical dreams..