Erika's Demise...

Erika collapsed today into a group of interconnected swirls of circulation centers and was deemed a "remnant low" or some such handle and she will be watched for possible regeneration later on down the road. That means that some of the models refuse to let her die and see her coming back to life in the Bahamas or Florida, possibly an Anthropologie store if she can find one.

This makes many in the Lower 48 extremely happy that they can go to the beach and frolic this Labor Day Weekend and enjoy the last official weekend of Summer.

I've had a long day, busy with personal things and watching Erika here and there as well as the ever changing models.

There is an African Wave but until it is at least an Orange Alert I just can't seem to work myself up over it and if something is called "vigorous" shouldn't it be orange not yellow?

Saw Mums on sale tonight at the market... orange, yellow..the colors of fall.

So ends the ongoing drama of a storm that no one could ever get right, models forecast an intense hurricane, others forecasted a weak storm.. others were right and had it fade away.

Truth is ... it's a very unfriendly water vapor out there in the tropics and I don't see how Erika is going to be reborn and if she is... don't think she will be Erika. Possibly, at the end of the front in the Atlantic something could form.. don't know for sure. I'm just watching.

Watching the Miami Dolphins on a winning streak in a sweep of the pre-season games and enjoying that glow of a Dolphin win ;) Hoping that glow does not fade away when the prime time season begins...for now I am glowing...

Erika is not glowing, though she is showing some signs of life on the various loops that trackers watch by the dim light of the laptop when all the world is sleeping, looking for a tower or a burst of convection or a possibility of perfection ...that one wave that doesn't get away.

Official comments from the NHC in it's last advisory written by Avila on Erika. Note, they are looking for ship reports and hold a narrow door of opportunity for Erika to come back but I really think she is fading away.

FORECAST VALID 07/0000Z...DISSIPATED

REQUEST FOR 3 HOURLY SHIP REPORTS WITHIN 300 MILES OF 16.8N 65.6W

THIS IS THE LAST FORECAST/ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER ON THIS SYSTEM UNLESS REGENERATION OCCURS.

$$
FORECASTER AVILA

And, I am going to sleep...in the glow of a Miami Dolphin Win and a pretty productive day!

Sweet Dolphin Dreams... Bobbi