A writer and a tropical muse. A funky Lubavitcher who enjoys watching the weather, hurricanes, listening to music while enjoying life with a sense of humor and trying to make sense of it all!
Friday, December 13, 2024
Back from Holiday..........Dreams of Snow Collide with Atlantic/Caribbean Spin in December?????? Odd Year...
This is an unusual signature.
I'm not expecting much.
But I'd be a miss if I didn't mention it.
Top right you can see the swirl.
It's swirling West of WSW
Some models have shown it spinning up, coming together in some manner and moving West and at some point it fades away or gets picked up. I'm not really expecting anything and I'm basically wishing and dreaming on snow but figured I'd throw it out there.
Good Mornin' from Beaufort South Carolina. A Cold Morning! Beautiful Town with a Whole Lot of Hurricane History. Beaufort Inn Awesome Place to Stay!!
Woke up in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Life doesn't get sweeter than this.
I wasn't supposed to be here this morning. We were going to drive to Florida which really I can do another time, but there was some business thing for my husband and I figured I'd see the kids and it got rearranged so my husband suggested since we had started driving we could spend the night in Savannah or somewhere in South Carolina by the coast where I love to wander around and soak in the Southern Charm. If you know me, my family lived in the South since the 1880s and parts of my family on my mother's side go back to the first Jews who went to Savannah in 1733!! This literally is Southern Heaven to me as well as a bit of Hurricane History as the 1893 Sea Island Hurricane blew through here literally and many of the old Victorian places here were built after the hurricane or fixed up and repaired after the hurricane. Such is life along the Hurricane Coast!
You get the idea. Block from the Bay.
Hurricane History of Beaufort.
The really BIG storms.
1893 Hurricane Track below.
Late August.
Tracing the High Pressure...
.....then BAMN into the coastline
Note the Sea Islands Hurricane impacted Savannah too..
The pirate history here is off the charts as well as hurricane history!
There's that moment tho....
...you just feel so at home.
Like Key West and Charleston...
...but not.
My brother said.......
Has water.
Has a bridge.
Has sailboats.
Has hanging moss.
"I wanna live there"
;)
Apparently Jimmy Buffett slept in the hotel I was in...
Makes sense....feels like Key West.
Then we drove up the coast to Pawley's Island where I danced on white soft sand in my cowboy boots wrapped up in a Sherpa Jacket and it was freezing cold with a wild wind blowing. Love wind, love fresh air, love the smell of the sea and the marsh in Low Country.
I just want to remind you that even tho it's quiet in the tropics there is still weather.
December 1st! Hurricane Season Over......Meteorological Winter Begins! Winter Dreams & F Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda. Keep Donating to Help Those Trying to Get Back to Normal in NC & FL.
Out with the old.....
......in with the new!
There's obviously moisture down there...
...in the SW Carib.
Down where it belongs.
Clouds off OBX Brrrrrrr
Was 30 Degrees in NC....
...before Sunrise.
Remember this only tracks the center.
Strong weather happened outside the center.
2024 Hurricane Season shown above. Nothing hit Miami or OBX ...go figure. There was a bevy of Hurricanes no one remembers as they stayed far out in the Atlantic in the shipping lanes. Yet everyone remembers Beryl that began the season and Debby and Helene and Milton. There were many other memorable ones such as the No Name Storm that swamped parts of East NC in flooding that the NHC refused to upgrade even though it had a closed warm core and winds close to 70 MPH! But I'll let that go now that I ranted and move on.
I think we should move on. But, I show this video above because it was a memorable storm that impacted my area even inland and it shows the harsh truth that not only did West NC get historic Hurricane Helene but it's worth remembering that Eastern NC also was impacted by tropical weather without a name now dubbed a 1,000 year storm.
2024 Hurricane Season was especially harsh on North Carolina and Florida; obviously the two states that tend to get hit the hardest by Hurricanes but this year was especially hard, harsh and historic. Heavy hitting and in both states the clean up goes on and on and on. Feels endless in ways. The Mid Atlantic I may mention got lucky this year.
As I always say Hurricane Season is locational in perception, if you had a hurricane harass your town then you remember it always, if not it's forgotten the way those storms out in the Atlantic in the shipping lanes that didn't land on anyone's radar are not even a blip in anyone's memory. To this day ...people keep asking me why they skipped over several letters.... they didn't obviously so I'll show a few many never knew.
In the Carolinas it's been beautifully cold, we are in peak of the season leaf wise or just past peak. Fall collides with Winter and I love that. I don't like to miss a minute of Winter up here and if I go anywhere it'll be Colorado to visit my son and his family there and/or Upstate NY to visit a daughter and grandson there.
Miami is penciled in for later this week or more specifically Hollywood Florida where my husband has business and I have several kids who live there to visit and a best friend to hang out with...and we really, really need alone time. Then back to NC to appreciate the layers and nuances of Winter.
I'll talk more on the hurricane season soon, but really I think we are knee deep in holiday decorations and holiday music and collecting gifts for friends and donating to those who need who are still homeless living in tents in the mountains of NC in the harsh cold weather that many love to go visit to see snow and ski but remember while you are there at some resort there are many without a home, trying to get a trailer or something they can live in while volunteers bring them supplies and they try and get back to some sort of "normal" life that is normal in that schools are open but nothing is normal.
And, I'll say that again and again...........after a hurricane hits hard.........nothing is normal for a long time.
I'm blessed to be in boring Raleigh (it's not so boring, but it usually avoids the worst of the weather) and my youngest son is here in the house with his steady girlfriend whose oh my gosh adorable and I'm under the covers typing on my weather journal I share with the world while sipping coffee and trying to remember what I want and need to take to South Florida for a fast trip in and out with stops a long the way.
Sweet Wintry Dreams,
BobbiStorm
Ps So many songs I could leave you with today but my mind is on Scott..specifically F. Scott Fitzgerald and a short story he wrote that was a sort of his own muse to go deeper with the themes that he expanded on his Winter Dreams taking them to New York City and writng The Great Gatsby. If you read my bio... I have degrees in English and International Relations; a good part of a Masters in English that's heavy in Scott and Zelda that I never finished because life got busy. So enjoy the pretty imagery and if you get a chance, make a cup of hot tea, coffee or buttered rum and listen to the story Scott wrote when he was young about Winter Dreams. Ice Castles, oh my..........brrrrrr.
Location: Miami, Raleigh, Crown Heights, Florida, United States
Weather Historian. Studied meteorology and geography at FIU. Been quoted in Wall Street Journal, Washington Post & everywhere else... Lecturer, stormchaser, writer, dancer. If it's tropical it's topical ... covering the weather & musing on life. Follow me on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/#!/BobbiStorm
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