Quick Caribbean Thoughts on Making a Roux

Down in the Caribbean... is a little system with less than a 30% chance of formation.

It has earned the yellow circle honor which is sort of like at least coming in with a bronze medal at the Olympics or ... a certificate of merit or... well it's more than a brownie point and less than a slice of pie!

We watch. The models do call for slow development and yet it doesn't look ready for prime time in my mind. So, I am watching and sharing what I am watching with you.

You decide?

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/carb/flash-vis.html

Is it more in the Caribbean or is it oozing over into the Pacific or ...is it just sitting on simmer like a good roux?

You see everything we look at is linked in some way to something else ... be it football or cooking, there is always a connection. Normally I go long with football but since this past week was a Bye Week for the Miami Dolphins I am going to go with making a roux.

http://www.cajun-country-foods.com/makesauces.html

Takes a while for a good roux to come together, you can't just hit one minute in the microwave and expect it to pull together. And, sometimes... especially in the Caribbean they simmer down there and suddenly spin up late in the season. Remember Wilma? Explosive development. But, that only happens after it pulls together and right now we are missing ingredients still. Time to go to Trader Joe's and look for that important ingredient and take your time, enjoy the trip because nothing is happening today.

Also.. hard to see all those cold air clouds in the Tropical Atlantic near Florida and see how a strong system could develop and go that way just now.. maybe in a week like the models predict. A crazier, lower November sort of track I could see as we are meteorologically really in November right now not October. There is frost in North Carolina, there was snow in Pennsylvania and cooler weather in Florida before Halloween which is when the first cold front usually meanders down and dies out just north of West Palm Beach. Even the buzzards are back in Miami gliding about in all their beauty at the top of the courthouse...that usually happens way later in the month.

Picture I took on Monday. Early bird special there.. if you look closely you can see the birds buzzing around coming in for a landing. Taken from one of my favorite places, patio outside the Historical Museum and Library complex downtown. Sometimes, you see it in the movies.. makes a great backdrop!




http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iO0mBPWy-AkhOlIetI54F5SHjwqQD9BCA20G0

Good blog with great pictures of the birds sunning themselves on the Miami Dade Courthouse...vultures, hawks..what is in a name after all?

http://flamingofotos.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

So... keep watching...but don't worry on it just yet as it can just as easily go poof in the tropical night! Remember, if there is only a 30% chance it could form that means there is a 70% chance it won't form. Think on that a bit.

As for me... going to take a shower and do my hair and get some work done!

Besos Bobbi

Ps... I am beginning to believe there is nowhere more fun in South Florida than the Hollywood Boardwalk at night..great people watching. Then again The Waterways is wild as well for people watching set against the backdrop of palm fronds and life..so much life.