Sudden Flash Floods Devastate the South... Worse than Hurricane Ivan?

This is the state of the world today. A slow moving, sort of.. kind of stalled out front is inching it's way East.

Note two things here. Steering patterns are weak and it's almost May and there is a cold front that dropped temperatures in the Carolinas and snow in Minnesota.

Let's look at another familiar view from Intellicast. I like the big wide view as it shows many things...

Note the Eastern Pacific looks colorful... ready to pop in time for the start of their season May 15th maybe.

Remnant moisture is hanging out in the GOM at the tail end of the front that produced flash floods.

Low latitude waves rolling off the coast of Africa. 

It's sunny in Miami where I am ...or close to Miami as I'm in Hollywood, Florida and happy to be home.

So here I am watching everything from CNN to TWC to CNN online to AOL front page for nostalgia sake and the big weather story is about Flash Floods that have caused more damage in Northern Florida than Hurricane Ivan may have... 

Dave Schwartz is back on TWC. Weather is back on TWC. Mike is out in the field on TWC. 

Check it out. It's like 1997... like yesterday once more... la la la la la...

So I sit here on my Spring Vacation that may segue into Summer... watching weird weather stories on TWC and following alone on Twitter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxsWIYJI2A

AOL:

And this tells the real story.

FLASH FLOODS..........
ANNIHILATE............
SOUTHERN STATES............

The water rose at astonishing heights, roadbeds gave away... motorists were trapped on I-95 and train tracks were washed away. They had more rain in towns in Northern Florida that some dry states get in two years.

I'm going to spare you incredible pics of me at the ocean yesterday in the water dancing around happy to be home or drinking a hurricane at Fat Tuesdays in Ft. Lauderdale and another day I'll tell you how AMAZING the new Marlins stadium is in Miami. Awesome.. beautiful, wonderful... incredible.

Today is a day to dwell on how random weather is... how it can come up behind you when you aren't watching and hit you with the fury of a Category 2 Hurricane when you were expecting twisters to be out on the plains not in Alabama and North Carolina.

The more we know about weather... the less we know about the wicked randomness of it.

It's the shock ...the surprise... the sudden quality of how the fabric of a normal life can be ripped away and you never saw it coming.

That my friends is why you need to watch the weather....

Your app...

Your favorite web site..

Stay on top of the weather... before it's on top of you...
My personal prediction for this hurricane season is that North Florida will be in play for early GOM systems.. more rain for water logged places just trying to clean up... stay tuned..

Besos Bobbi
Ps at the Marlins game with my brother Ron who was doing his thing with the Red Cross informing people of their new app. Oh..and the Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves... a shut out ;) Stay tuned for my post waxing poetic about the beautiful new stadium...where the Orange Bowl used to be..