Hurricane Harbor: Quiet in the Tropics... too quiet..Meteor or Fireball along Mid-Atlantic Last Night? Enjoy the Weekend..

Ever teach kindergarten? I have...

When it's too quiet you better start looking around the room to see why and count the heads of the kiddies to make sure they are all there and no one is stuffing something dangerous into his mouth...or sticking is fingers into a light socket he took the cover off of......

Quiet is good when you want peace and quiet and I do. Quiet is not good down the line and that line being the Tropical Choo Choo Train that runs from Africa to the Leeward Islands. There's a wave train forming and pretty soon you're going to hear that whistle blowing and see the flags being hoisted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAa83gP9vc

When I was just a baby my momma told me that when it's hurricane season you can feel it in the sky..in the rain... in the air. My grandma who was raised in Tampa would shake her head back and forth and stare at the sky and declare "this is hurricane weather" and she was usually right. Old timers knew...

You see what that wave train does exactly is it adds moisture to the air the way you stoke a fire.

Then the train engine gets HOT and steamy like the tropics and it's starts rolling down the tropical tracks..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXgGnKhEdQ

That's how it works. When does it work? Soon....

We aren't there yet, but the Mother Nature is doing her job adding moisture to the atmosphere

Heating up the ocean until it's just the right temperature to start boiling...

Look at those waves lined up like planes coming in to land at MIA or FLL in Mid January..

It's all in the timing...

You are here:

You should be here this weekend:

Botton line today is................. my job here is to highlight and point out to you what is coming down the track. My job is not to rewrite what the NHC or NWS site says and put up better graphics. My job is to highlight areas to watch that may pop down the line..in a few days, in a week or so... down the tropical line. My job is to remind you that we are at the beginning of the process and you need to stock up on supplies, make a plan and go to the beach this weekend because gang.. you may not be able to in a few weeks...when you are getting ready to send those kiddies off to school again and those kiddies be wondering if school will be cancelled by a Labor Day Hurricane.

In other news of the METEORology world lol... what was that meteor that lit up the Mid Atlantic last night? Fireball reported looked like a space ship returning to where the shot off the last one in Virginia... or a meteor that drove up the Highway 301..

No I didn't see it but I watched my Twitter feed go crazy... and the video of it streaking across the sky was taken here in Raleigh and posted by WRAL last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCemrCO3l1I