Leslie... a beautiful storm...

What I really want to write about tonight is the fact that Tropical Storm Leslie... is a beautiful storm. Beautiful in all her stages and phases,she illustrates the ages of a tropical system in the Atlantic. She has been a well formed storm. She has been an asymmetrical storm. She's had a hard to find pinpoint eye. She's had a strange wide tire like look with a big hole in the middle. She's looked like a donut. She's looked mean and lean. She's looked huge and scary. She's a fine tropical storm.

There is some compulsion by forecasters to take apart a storm and show all the ways in which she is wanting. Or they turn her into the second coming of Camille or Katrina. It's as if there is no in between. Now that we can look down into every cloud burst and watch for rapid intensification any system that does now oooh and awww becomes somehow mundane and mediocre.

Leslie is far from mediocre. She rolled off of Africa looking mighty find and worthy of interest on August 27th. A few days later on the 30th she was close to being a storm and was deemed an entity. The  models had in fact been playing with her from the beginning. On September 5th she became a hurricane, a bit of an underachiever always as had problems living up to her model forecast. Sort of a perennial B student that drives the teachers and counselors crazy as they explain how if she would only work harder she might make an A. Leslie however has been happy with a B. And, some how she seems wanting that she is not a Category 3 or 4 storm threatening the daylights out of Bermuda as opposed to a beautiful spinning machine moving slowly across the ocean, dawdling her way north to give Bermuda a strong glancing blow as she moves towards the far north Atlantic.

Forecasters look for problems and point out how she may or may not go extra-tropical or some similar status that defines not quite a tropical storm but kind of a tropical storm... looking for hints at her transition towards the end stages of her life.

How many storms make it from Africa as an entity to the Western edges of the Atlantic, get to see Bermuda and head north for Nova Scotia and the oil fields...and then on towards Great Britain. How many storms get to do that? How many storms get to be on the map so long, have a minimal impact with no loss of life or severe tragedy?

She is a Tropical Storm and a beautiful one. Plain and simple.

Why we have to be perfectionists when it comes to hurricanes I will never know. Look at her, she OWNS the Atlantic. If there was life on another planet, somewhere someone would be looking at Earth saying "man, look at that storm... what a big red spot she is on that Planet"

Not every woman is as beautiful as a Victoria Secrets model, yet many are extremely beautiful, sultry, sensual, sexy, smart and are made to feel as beautiful as a VS Model. However, with hurricanes we want them to either be Cat 3s or rip them apart into shreds dissecting all their multitude of problems. Let me tell you this... very few storms get as far as Leslie and very few are so much fun to watch as the stages of this storm. Sort of like a dime store novel... she tries and tries against adversity to pull it together and when she finally does we sit and complain she looks like a big tire or a donut.



Nice. Very nice. Very nice NOT.

Give her some respect... she's a beautiful storm.

That's my rant of the hour.... I want people to stop, take a look and appreciate what a beautiful storm she is and how far she has come... how far she will go and stop ripping her apart like in that  movie  My Fair Lady where they rip apart Liza Doolittle's performance and pat each other on the back for how they taught her to act like a lady giving her very little credit for her performance.

THE CONVECTIVE CLOUD PATTERN OF LESLIE HAS CONTINUED TO SLOWLY ERODE
AND CLOUD TOPS HAVE ALSO CONTINUED TO WARM SINCE THE PREVIOUS
ADVISORY. THE INITIAL INTENSITY REMAINS AT 50 KT BASED ON A BLEND
OF DVORAK SATELLITE INTENSITY ESTIMATES OF T3.0/45 KT AND T3.5/55
KT FROM TAFB AND SAB...RESPECTIVELY. 

THE INITIAL MOTION ESTIMATE IS 015/14. THERE REMAINS NO SIGNIFICANT
CHANGE TO THE PREVIOUS TRACK FORECAST AND REASONING

Since they have nothing to add... I'm not adding anything except just accept her for what she is... a well put together Tropical Storm that has been around longer than most and traveled further than most and she will be remembered.

Out in the Atlantic is another system pulling itself together, entering stage right ... keep watching. Michael is there as well... interesting in his own way, a bit unique but not Leslie.



Sweet Tropical Dreams..
BobbisStorm :)

Ps Just think we should give the old girl her due... and stop taking her apart cloud band by cloud band and slapping ourselves on our shoulders that she is not a Perfect Storm..