Quiet Atlantic or Playful Possibilities?

The glass is either half empty or half full and the way it's been this Hurricane Season is more like ...

Look there's something in the glass, sniff it..what is it? Taste it fast, carefully, wow... water.

This season has been like a trip through the desert on a horse with no name looking to find rain fast before he wants to lie down and play dead because it's too vicious out there for tropical entities. And, yet..storms keep rolling off of Africa and trying to make it was bound like lemmings on the way to the sea.

A good illustration of this is below. Check out all those cute little retro white dots in the Atlantic ocean pressing down on the once tropical Atlantic. Cold air and unfriendly to tropical waves.



It takes a delicate balance this time of year to make a storm in the great big ocean and yet every October one comes along somehow, somewhere looking for a funky track to take or a cold front north out of the tropics. Problem this year in the pudding is that one has to form to get that far down the road.



Just north of South America there is a system that looks really nice but it's hugging the coastline after partying in Trinidad and if it has any energy left it may make it into the Caribbean. May is a big word this season, it's at least an ounce of water in a glass.

Further out in the Atlantic is the wave that I am watching. It's big, really big and has nice color and has been moving and grooving along the ITCZ which is more than most waves have done (shows life) and if it could lift just a bit further north (but not too far north like Henri) it could possibly be a player.

I'm sniffing but I can't tell for sure what it is.. vodka or water? Either way there is something there to watch.

Pretty soon it will be totally all over. October all over. It's a rhyme guys, hang with me here.

In reality it is except for the dreamers and schemers who are always trying to scam one more system to life, just one before winter pushes in and takes over the map with cold fronts, ice storms and noreasters.

So, come on my pretty wave, give it one for the gipper and give us something to talk about before we shut the door on anything more than a post analysis of the overly quiet 2009 Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Season.

And, remember...while waving hats on how lucky we were in our part of the world the weather conditions that brought us a quiet season caused misery and despair elsewhere.

Look back up once more at that red colored wave in the middle of the Atlantic. Notice how it looks a bit like a flying dinosaur? Been my experience when they have enough to them to start playing "name that cloud" with them there is something there to talk about and this one was worth talking about.

Heading into the last long holiday weekend of the fall for me and will be off line until Sunday Night. Would like to come back on and see that the wave is alive and my favorite college football teams won!

And, next week I am back in the land of heat, humidity and hopefully tropical rain!

Besos Bobbi