Hurricane Harbor: Alvin Almost a Done Deal. Possible Tropical Games in Atlantic ... Models Be Modeling. I'm Going Shopping... But Not for Hurricane Supplies Today LOL Who Am I? Do You Know? IYKYK

Gonna do something different today and go totally Old School Bobbi and write more and post less images. First off the images change faster than the moves of Mahi Shriners dancing in an Independence Day Parade. And, Independence Day on July 4th is our next big holiday weekend. Wondering what letter we will be on in the Atlantic and whether we get early development or a delayed start to the 2025 Hurricane Season.

I'm currently underneath that blue blob on the image above, however looking out the window it's a wall of cotton white clouds in all directions. I'm find with that as it's keeping the temperatures down and I'm not in a rush to get to knee deep in summer as I was raised in perpetual summer in Miami. The day reminds me of LA when a late night and early morning cloud bank lingered before evaporating for a few hours around Noon and that's fine with me.

Alvin is on the verge of forming. Systems that develop in the CAG (Central American Gyre) have an awkward phase in development that's much like watching paint dry. Plain and simple. Parts of the system begin to look as if they are going to swirl around a developing center and then it looks crappy. Usually, just about the time it looks crappy is when it suddenly develops. This applies on both sides of the CAG be it in the EPAC or in the BOC ...that little cradle region in the Gulf. As it's currently at 90% in the 2 day and the 5 day ....any day now it'll get designated.

Listening to music. I didn't say I wouldn't post lots of music that matches my mood.

The real question is what our soon to be Alvin will do down the line. Sometimes they swirl near the coastline, dance parallel and then fade away. Other times they take aim at the coastline and then where does all the tropical moisture go? Does it pump up energy in a system moving across the country and get injected into that system creating more weather havoc? Or does some of it's DNA merge across Mexico and hook up with a weak area of low pressure and take on a life of it's own? Truth is currently we don't know. Recently the GFS has taken a hurricane towards Florida and one up along the Gulf's low coastline and sometimes hooks it off into the Bay of Campeche. Personally I love getting rid of our first BOC sacrificial system that is offered up to the spirits of the Mayans and then we can move on to the real heart of the Hurricane Season. Seasons that don't have a sacrificial system swirling in the BOC towards land are usually tricky. Keep that in mind.

Who am I for new comers? Born and raised in Miami but I've lived in NYC and LA. LA in the 1980s was awesome and I'm glad I'm old enough to know how awesome LA was in the 80s. 1990s I was back 'home" in Miami. I come from a Jewish background so I'm offline on Satuday and for various holidays that coincide with the start of the hurricane season often but cheesecake and ice cream buffets at the Temple make you forget anything else........almost. In September this also is an issue as the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane made landfall on Yom Kippur aka "Day of Atonement" and I'm guessing many flappers from Chicago and New York pretty much thought the world was ending and they better atone so there you go.

I'm a writer. I dance as a hobby. I do weather as part of my life skills and by that I mean I research, lecture, write and sometimes chase weather. I specialize in Hurricane History and I love maps. Maps sucked me in as a child to weather in that I was already obsessed when they'd show weather maps on the TV where I'd stand in awe as I love maps. Nuff said on maps. I dance. I watch TWC (when I do) on mute with closed captions so I can turn it up if anything is interesting as I'm otherwise listening to music or some video. I'm a multitasker tho I'd say most chasers are......

I was raised in a very Southern area and can be very Redneck old Southen as my Grandma Mary (who was really special as all know by now) and quite the Southern Belle who'd walk the little dog and stare up at the sky like the guy in Twister watching the clouds debating if all hell was gonna break loose any minute. As a girl growing up in Tampa...........ball lightning came into her house through the chimney (that's what she said) and danced around the house chasing her under her bed. After that she had quite the obsession with watching for thunderstorms in Tampa which can take up literally your whole day. My Great Grandfather was said to sit out on the porch staring out at "The Gulf" (that's what they called it always) watching thunderheads build up in awe. Weather is in my blood obviously.

Lastly I have a degree in English that I obviously don't use here as my grammar sucks more than my mother's math sucked, but it's a blog and online is online it's not the Great American Novel. I have a degree in International Relations which involved a while lotta maps ;) and most of a Masters with an emphasis in Post WW2 and Russian Studies yet I never wrote the paper as I got married, moved to California and had a whole bunch of kids and worked with people who were resettlling from Russia and Iran into the LA community. Definitely an International edge to my work HAHA tho to be honest I put on Women's Programs in LA so think fashion, music, food and fundraising more than anything else. It was the best of times..... Then I moved back to Miami and remembered I get headaches during the rainy season. It didn't rain much in LA (Melrose to be exact) so I kind of forgot about the headaches.

Warning I can go long on the Kurds so don't even ask me. Did you know Kurdish Women are tought Fighter Pilots in a part of the world where most women cannot wear pants let alone show their cute new haircut. But the Kurds do so get lost in the shuffle.

Back to the blog. There's not much to say.

I have gone on endlessly about being Hurricane Ready and preparing for Hurricane Season. Either you believed me and have an overabundance of tuna and a can opener and peanut butter and crackers or you will show up when there nothing left on the shelves of your local Publix.

Oh heritage... well I met a few Ancestry Cousins that are meteorologists and now good friends. Obviously in my blood as is photography. Distantly related on my Grandma Mary's Morris side to the photographer who showed us what the aftermath of the Galveston Hurricane was ... his family was originally listed as dead but they survived. Go figure.

The old country was "Philly"

After getting Malaria in Key West...

...they went North for a year or so.

Originally England.... somewhere. Manchester?

Key West in the 1800s did not have running water.

Just cistern water which had larvae in it often.

They moved to Tampa as Tampa had running water.

Now you know the rest of the story.

So while waiting for Alvin to get it's act together.........and waiting to see how the next set of model runs play out.... I'm going shopping.

As I was raised in a part of Florida where most people had airboats parked in their front yard to go fishing or hunting in the Glades... I'm a big Redneck... very Southern. I'm also a bit bouchie and like nice things that call to my artsy side so Lord only knows what I'll buy later today as I'm somewhere with real shops, real stores and a wide array of life that's way wider than what I normally see in Raleigh.

Raleigh is good. Raleigh is nice. Raleigh is polite. Raleigh is growing, yet traffic isn't anything like Miami. I got remarried and moved to Raleigh. Really. Tho I am in Miami often visiting the kids and best friend.

So now you know way more than you need to know about me.

Oh, I'm also a Capricorn but I'm a fun Capricorn as some people (usually Sagitarrians) think Capricorns are boring. We are not. We are practical but fun. Really!

Have a blessed, beautiful day.

It's all a waiting game right now as Saharan Dust colors white cars a dusty rose. The High sets up and at times flirts with The Gulf (that's what Grandma Mary called it) and then inhales and snaps back into the Atlantic just East of The Gulfstream and allows hurricanes to barely slide by Miami the way Hurricane Floyd did on it's way to North Carolina. Sometimes it does not and it builds in and South Florida gets slammed with a Hurricane Andrew or Betsy. Note if South Florida gets hit from like Andrew and Betsy and Katrina... you may want to pay Close attention in Louisiana and Mississippi!

Just saying.

Not proofing.

Have places to go and things to do today...........

Once a season in the beginning I do this and hope very few people read it other than the Sagitarrian who thinks Capricorns are boring. Note another Sagitarrian friend who has his Mercuty in Capricon conjunct my Mercury in Capricon is very funny and thinks I'm funny so hahaha. I like astrology, lots of maps.

Sweet Tropical Dreams

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Elsewhere whatever.

I do to Insta more for my kids and some friends so who knows what I post.

I do post on Bluesky more so when it's busy.

Ps.........I have a few friends who write. I joke I'm a Muse yet it really is true and don't ask as I don't amuse and tell. But I met a nice young girl in a bookstore yesterday in Concord Mills where I bought 2 purple pens because they write smooth and I was in the mood. When I mentioned I like 1.0 pens vs fine and it's hard to find pens I enjoy she totally understood and went long on explaining how they write smoother and dark and they "flow" and I smiled and said "so you're a writer" and she looked a bit sad and said "well I used to be" and I told her....(note not grammar rules here) ...I told her "well you ARE a writer, you just aren't writing at the moment" and she stared back at me kind of poignantly and said "you're right" as if some light went off in her head suddenly. I smiled and nodded and said ..."yes, you are a writer you're just not writing at the moment" and she smiled the way people do when they meet a kindred soul and I thought.. "wow there you go again pushing people to write" and then I smiled too with maybe a giggle.

Oh I lived in LA near where they filmed this dance scene below and I'm an 80s girls when it comes to music....that and Country and a bit of Broadway as I spent most my early years studying drama! Also the backlot at Paramount was always fun ;)