Hurricane Harbor: Still Quiet, Watching Areas That Could BUBBLE UP .. Close In ...But NOT Expecting Anything For the Next Five Days. That's Why We Call Them Homegrown Surprises.. Fall in All it's Glory Moving In and a Beautiful Video Production .. a Short Movie By Josh iCyclone of Hurricane Sally

Tropics still quiet and should be for five more days, yet so far I have yet to see a complete 5 day "nothing happening in the tropics" make it all the way through five days this year without something popping up. Cool air has descended upon many parts of the South, the cooler the weather is the higher up in elevation you go, and more is on the way. But we also have periods like today when it rains and rains and we wait for the next push of cool air while staring down to the South watching to see if anything might develop and sneak up our way between cold fronts. Maybe this is a mean teaser of an illusion but this taste of Fall seems like the real thing and if I sit quietly by the window long enough and don't get distracted I can actually watch the leaves turn colors.

One thing I do love about Mike is he is a man of his times, his seasons and he finds joy in every season ... even though the Hurricane Season is his prime time season. I'm pretty sure he's like that big brother that you wish you had who would send you Autumn Leaves from Wisconsin if you were living in the Florida Keys and then he'd bring them down himself and party with you a bit as he picked up seashells and packaged them up to take back to his friends or family back home where they don't have Florida sea shells. We should all have brothers like that or friends, ya know? But his webpage says it best, it's Fall and there is nothing officially going on in the tropics today and we are all smiling at Fall Weather which means cool by me and lower dewpoints in parts of Florida such as Tampa which does get more of a taste of cool air than Miami but where people get into the spirit buying their favorite frappe at Starbucks with a Fall sounding name.

I do love this site above so going to use it today.

Note the rain off the East Coast.

Shadow of a front draped across Cedar Key and Jax.

Wide Basin - there's fluff and stuff traveling west.

About as clear as the satellite gets in late September.

And on the IR Satellite we have a Low ...

...down in the Gulf of Mexico.

This is a great view.

Because there's two...

areas to watch.

Yet there's nothing expected yet.

So let's just enjoy the quiet.

It won't last long in the tropics.

I finally had a chance to watch this video.

When I say watch it - I mean savor it.

I like to savor good things.

It's been several crazy days in my world.

So the house is quiet, rain is steadily falling.

And I savored this video.

I really love this video and for the reason that he mentions in that it's rare to get good "hurricane video" at night with the lights and power out and just the sounds of random wind and things scraping against the building as you are hunkered down waiting for the eye. You get great "before video" and a bit of it "moving in" and then the estatic sense of the eye with it's abundant quietness after a cacophony of sounds of debris colliding in the dark outside or slamming into your safe spot where you have bunkered down and then the obligatory "after the storm" video. Google Hurricane Andrew and you will often see the same street sign trembling fast, shaking in the hurricane wind that was filmed from a chaser under an expressway not in the eye but deep in the storm. That video is annoying though the first few times it was fun to watch, because you want to say "is that all there is" and pretty much from the bowls of Hurricane Andrew that did make landfall in the darkness ...that was all there was for a while, til bits and pieces of video showed up.

A hurricane that provides a good view with lights on along a major street where power exists deep into the storm can teach others what a real hurricane looks like compared to an afternoon thunderstorm gone wild. The sheets of rain illuminated by a neon light still on at the top of a hotel or the waves in the water on the street where you live as you watch the current moving down the block towards your best friends house. One of my favorite storms that I was in (yes on purpose, chasing) was on a major highway where things are less prone to go bump in the night, hunkered down at a rest stop that was safe and the big street lights illuminated every moment of the fury of the storm. Once in a while a vehicle would drive by and in their street lights you had this magic motion picture show of the rain turning colors and you could actually watch it all in real time. It was a real storm trust me, but not a Category 3 Major Hurricane and though it did cause some damage no one's house was blown away but because there was power on at the Rest Stop I could rest, stare and watch it all happening around me.

I've done that from my front porch with my brother when we were safely protected from the wind on one side of the house and watched aluminum siding and roof tiles blowing down the street in the wind in the daytime, but again often storms do make landfall in the dark of night. Once that brother and I drove through a hurricane on Miami Beach to take a child to get stiches (no not from the storm but from jumping on his Grandma's bed and hitting his head on the headboard) and I'll always remember the street signs shaking and the hanging signal lights swaying in the wind with green and red colored lights turning the rain into that magic light show; on the way home the power was out and we just drove slowly through the dark, endless rain and strong wind taking it all in with the stitchd up two year old.

Living in Hurricane Country provides you with a multitude of hurricane memories from Major Hurricanes such as Andrew to smaller ones that did rearrange many things but clean up was fairly easy and not as painful as endlessly trying to keep the yard clean during Autumn in North Carolina where people battle daily to clean their lawns with blowers that are louder than the wind in a Tropical Storm. The chash of seasons goes on and on. I don't get that as I like the leaves on the ground, but whatever Miami girl Up North in the Deep South doesn't really get it totally.

It's friday morning, going into a nice Fall Weekend for me. Fall Weekend has to be in capitals the way Hurricane Season needs to be as I am sure it's a noun. Lord knows people who live where the seasons thrive wait for them through the hot dead air days of Summer previously known as the Dog Days of Summer. See capitals are important as they show how important something is or was in our lives.

So have a Wonderful Weekend and I hope and pray that all our landfalling hurricanes this year will be more like Sally, less like Laura and the Major ones like Teddy that stay far so far away out at sea. I'm not done with the Hurricane Season yet trust me, but I am loving Fall and football on TV and cooler air that makes taking a walk feel beautiful and opening my windows or sitting on my balcony sipping coffee smiling rather thank thinking "oh my God how much longer is this going to last" and in the Carolinas relief is in sight, yet I can't promise a hurricane might not come up from the Sorth and put on a good show so keep watching. And especially if you live in Florida along the Gulf Coast side that looks very much like a Carolina Beach or in Carolina Beach in North Carolina keep watching and as always Miami is not exempt from a hurricane. And Indian Summer often brings a relaxation of fronts anda storm can ride up the East Coast much like Isaias did back when we were in the regular alphabet. Oh and in Tampa, keep waiting for that October Hurricane y'all are sure will come once again as it did back when.

Thanks for reading along with me.

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