Hot. Hugh High Owns the Atlantic Refusing to Leave. Models Quiet. GFS is Even Quiet. 2012 Hurricane Season .. A Similar Year Heat Wise in the Carolinas.

 

When you can't get the GFS to blink...

wink ....

or fantasize.

There's not much to say.

The Huge High owns the Atlantic.

Like some strange Picasso painting of a face.

Grinning. 

NHC hung the Closed for 7 Days sign up.

(tho pop up things do happen...

..like Andrea)

There's not much to say.

You can stop reading now ...

..and skip to the song.

Or just keep reading.

Your choice.

I'll be honest with you. I do not like heat. Why anyone would like heat I don't know. When they put up a picture of Hell it's not an Autumn Countryside or Snow covered chalet; usually Hell is portrayed as a deep vacuum of flames and misery. Why would anyone like heat? Sure Sunny and 75 makes for cute Country Songs and people in love frolicking in the waves. 

And, the media with a lack of anything to talk on since it suddenly seems we won't have WW3 because of the "12 Day War" that seems to have ended has nothing else to talk about other than "oh my gosh it's HOT" and why any reporter anywhere would not know than in NYC they open up the fire hydrants and let kids play is beyond me. I get it in that it's a "News Story" but after the first or second day of 100 degree heat along the I95 corridor and reminding people it "feels like 115" gets old fast...the way bread goes moldy in hot, humid conditions. It's like offering someone a pumpernickel bagel with moldy cream cheese and a piece of limpid lox that went bad the day before and asking them if they want a Coke or a Pepsi with that. 

Enough is enough. It only makes me feel hotter every time someone posts another story on how hot it is. 

I remembered this week why I stayed in Raleigh after moving here after I got married years ago. We had talked on moving if I was unhappy and that seemed a plausible option. When I realized I didn't have a bad headache every day for 5 months of the year here as I do in Miami I stayed. I go to visit often as I have kids there and I do so love Miami, but Miami doesn't love me. Miami teases me from May til late October with headaches and I had to live on Tylenol and often Tylenol 3 or Darvocet or some strong pain killer when it was bad. Turns out I'm allergic to mold and there's a whole lot of mold in Miami Dade Soil that I am actually allergic to. I lived years in LA and never had a headache. I forgot I had headaches it had been so long. And, one day in late August I took the kids to the park and I got this pain in my head and then I remembered.......... "oh I get headaches in Miami" yes that happened. Oh, yes I did try lots of migraine meds most make my violently sick...tho after I throw up I fall asleep for a few hours. I get Cluster Migraines in Miami, the magazines say mostly men get them but magazines lie. Did that spot cream you bought from an advertisement work? 

Anyway, the excessive heat will go away. We will get back into a nice routine of "not so bad" in July according to the meteorologists I trust. 

But since many of the records broken these last few days were records made in 2012, I thought we'd compare the seasons. 2012 was a beastly hot year in both North and South Carolina, record breaking heat was the name of the game. And the first storm of the season formed on May 19th and died on May 22nd. It formed closer to the US but it was another system that formed in the Atlantic and left as soon as it came. Actually I remember going to the beach for Alberto in Wilmington. It was offshore. Great waves, awesome wind. I love the wind.

We just had the A storm this past week.

Out in the Atlantic.

I don't always belive in long term models, but I always look. I don't always believe forecasts about how dead the tropics will be through the 2nd week of July, though I share them. Often things pop up the way Andrea did. NHC was running it's "gone to lunch" "nothing for 7 days" graphics and 4 days in Andrea popped up. There's a whole lotta moisture in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. An Upper Level Low that gulps too much moisture can sometimes transition into a tropical system. High, long term heat to the North can often help get something going to the South of it. Waves are making it further and further West each day.

So let's wait and see what happens in reality vs forecasting. There may be shear there, but this is not a satellite image of what it looks like when the Tropics are dead. Usually there's barely a cloud there at all. So let's see what happens in real time.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on X where I mostly do weather

Elsewhere if you find me I do whatever.

Ps I know some people like peanut butter on pumpernickel but sorry it didn't really go with the story as takes a lot of time for peanut butter to go bad. I know iCyclone loves heat. I have a daughter-in-law I love who never complains it's hot because she loves heat. We are all different. And, that's good. It's what makes life interesting. Enjoy the song. For the GFS that couldn't even get it up for one small tropical storm aiming for New Orleans.