In the Cone Zone... Life in Miami

It's sort of normal, not a lot of hype just yet as Emily is far to the South and an uncertain visitor. It is after all over a thousand miles away and has been not the most reliable girl to work with but the guys at the NHC seem to be giving her a chance of straightening up her ADD act and getting herself together. Online comments on message boards have been somewhat unkind... she was called a tease.

We will find out soon, as the hurricane hunters are out and about and hunting her true center this morning.



Personally, I think she looks better in ways this morning then she did overnight. I also think a center is pulling itself together, as evidenced by her photogenic image above from the Navy site. I bet the Navy could find her center...



There are two main track ideas developing and two different scenarios for this lady with two faces. One is that she will stay weak and track west towards Florida and into the Gulf and the other is that she will slide up the East Coast of Florida, remaining just off shore for most of the way and up towards the Carolinas. With every bit she moves west, she has to make more of a sharper turn to stay on track with the cone shown above. Small storms move west, stronger storms get picked up by higher level steering winds and like to flirt with danger and troughs. Small ones are sort of like annoying 14 year old stoners who insist that weed doesn't make you spacey and walk around in a cloud going "huh?" and losing things all over the place... "go with the flow, it will be fine... leave me alone, let me do my own thing" mentality. I really hate quoting a Farrelly Brothers Movie but sort of like Dumb and Dumber they dumb their way west across the Caribbean in hopes that as they approach their thirties and the Yucatan they will figure out how to pull it together or find a lucky lotto ticket somewhere and it will all work out someday.

Okay, in a very introspective mood here as I type at my mother's dining room table and reflect on my life and all the people I've known and known to either screw up or fly straight and you just never know when you look at kids or teens which ones will make it out there in the big world.

Emily is like that right now. She is an unknown, but I have a feeling she is going to make herself known real soon.

It's easy to just look at Tropical Storms as scientific, weather phenomenon and nothing more. I'm not a scientist, I am a writer and an observer of life. I like to view them as entities which is what they are... they have a beginning and an end and a life in between. They have a nature all their own, each different from the next. You have to treat them differently, keeping in mind climo... they don't just do what we want them to or wish them to... nope. Well, some do what we think they will and some don't. Betsy was a bitch to track, Georges did what he wanted and just kept going, Andrew turned dramatically and ramped up and some... follow the plan as if they were preprogrammed.

Let's see who and what Emily really is and while we are at it where she is, because where she is will generate the next cone and the next set of models.

As for me... I'm going shopping and going to find a quiet place to work today and get some things done. I've got decisions to make and need to figure a few things out that are harder to figure than where Emily's center is just now.

Take care and be well and find happiness today and every day and keep watching the tropical weather with me.

Besos Bobbi

Ps... GREAT show last night at www.hurricanecity.com with a trio of great storm people. It was fun calling in and talking to Jim and everyone else. You can sign up for www.hurricanecity.com and become a member and get the archived shows. Jim's site is a work of art and he is one heck of a tropical artist... great mind, wild sense of humor and he knows his stuff... trust me!