Upgrade to TS Richard at 11 Expected

Fun to think while they sit at the NHC working hard on a new graphic package and trying to revise the discussion to reflect the new data from the Recon plane and data streaming in I am sitting here listening to Jimmy Buffett and talking to one of my favorite hurricane friends about hurricanes and pin ball and possible analog years for this long, hurricane rich season....

Lucky me... in my favorite purple tank top and my favorite purple plaid flannel shirt waiting for my hair to dry enough to straighten it listening to the wonderful Jimmy Buffett; truly the patron saint of tropical storm watchers!

So we have a S l o w l y developing Tropical Storm down there that may fester down there for days...down there lol. Oh sorry, trying to be good here. Truth is as much as I hate watching the Pacific storms you have to watch for parallels in steering currents as they often do show their hand. So, there is Megi in the Pacific moving very, very slowly and exploding as slowly and it seems like it has been on the maps now forever so wondering what that bodes for Richard's future track. I say future because today is a present lol (sorry... I'll be good I promise) because the ONLY thing we really have to worry on is the end game here with Richard, not his loops but where he is going down the road and that is a hard road to see right now as models show him looping about for a while. Will see if the models are right or wrong.



Would keep watching the NWS reports for various cities to see when they decide to take him seriously.

"THE LONG RANGE MODELS AT THIS TIME...TAKE DEPRESSION #19 WEST INTO
THE YUCATAN PENINSULA AND WEAKENS IT...WHICH IN TURN WILL ALLOW
FOR THE BREEZY CONDITIONS OVER SOUTH FLORIDA TO RELAX BY EARLY
NEXT WEEK TO LESS THAN 15 MPH. HOWEVER THIS CAN CHANGE DEPENDING
ON THE TRACK AND STRENGTH OF DEPRESSION #19. FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION ON DEPRESSION #19...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST
FORECAST FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER."

That is out of Melbourne, FL and yeah it occurred to me this morning we are all Storm Stalkers not so much as Chasers or Trackers, we wander around the web trying to sniff out signs and clues to show us what is really happening with the storm that the official sources are not saying publically using all our sources and sites.

What do they tell me this morning? Upgrade at 11. He is pegged as Richard on a few sites already... has been for a few hours.


So...while I sit here with the King of Jimmy Buffett watching the soon to be Richard spin on a satellite site and debate whether they will paint the whole Gulf of Mexico into the long range map or wait and see if he likes Tampa or Pensacola or does he dream of listening to some good jazz in Nola...

Only time will tell and I'll be here to update y'all so keep watching, keep reading, keep stalking :P and keep smiling as you try to keep up with me my crazy friend and friends of the friend of the sailor ;)

Besos Bobbi