Thoughts on Chantal and 2025. Snow on a Beach in SC & Same Beach Gets Landfall of 60 MPH Chantal. Raleigh in the Cone, Getting Weather... Living in the Moment and Blogging.
Chantal has good form inland.
Moving into NC now as I type.
Check her out.
Defineable center.
Bands and a tail.
Moving NNW at 8 MPH.
40 MPH winds.
At 2 AM Chantal peaked out at 60 MPH exceeding expectations and forecast wind speed and had she sat a bit longer and drifted along she'd most likely have hit hurricane status; most Chantal storms are short lived, out at sea and rarely make hurricane. I fell asleep after the 2 AM advisory. She made landfall around Litchfield Beach which is just North of Pawley's Island and South of Murrel's Inlet. It's one of the most beautiful areas of the world if you like ocean and low country and I do.
'Okay it's a small spot.
Need to zoom in some.
Hard to even find Litchfield as ....
...usually comes up as Pawleys.
There's a link to this video of the same beach in January.
They had snow in January. A rare SC beach snow.
This morning they had a Tropical Storm.
You'll excuse me if I wander a bit in my weather diary online here this morning. The window is open, the sliding glass door to the porch is open.... it's not hot, it's sort of weirdly misty but not foggy and the light is filtered by the tropical moisture moving into my back yard. And even though I did have plans to go down to New Bern today to watch sailboats bobbing in the water and I wanted to see the waves on the river vs go all the way to Wrightsville Beach where I've watched many tropical storms and a few hurricanes slide by offshore. New Bern has been there a long time, it was the original capital of NC, and I can go wander around and take it all in as we do often when I'm in a mood to get out of Raleigh but I wanna see the water vs somewhere further inland up the road.
They say there's something about years that have weird anomalies and it snows in places it rarely snows ... such as the beach in South Carolina and I'm not so surprised now that it did make landfall there and I'm wondering on what more the 2025 Hurricane Season will bring to the Carolina shores.
I've lived here more than 16 years here and that's a fact that's hard for my head to wrap itself around. Probably because I go down to Miami often, and yet the Carolinas are now home. I knew that had happened when I had this crazy dream one night and I was telling someone how my husband was running some sort of restaurant or little Inn with food and in the dream they asked where and my mind visioned South Carolina ... Pawley's Island and as I was waking up I literally had the thought "wait you didn't say Key West?" as I'm so pathetically analytical I can analyze my dreams while in the dream. I woke up thinking "oh my goodness" no way.... thinking have I really become a Carolina Girl? And, that was the moment I knew I had indeed made that geographical shift in my tropical geist :)
Will see what we get in Raleigh today and the general Durham, Cary area.
We are all a bit flood shy in the Carolinas and more so this morning after watching horrific imagery that all is Deja Vu for us of the tragedy in Texas on July 4th Weekend. Justin Michaels is talking on The Weather Channel explaining in a soft way that there's a reality that sometimes people are never found when missing in a flood and they have been buried somewhere else and it's not easy. Well said. Flooding from a Flash Flood or a very wet hurricane are the ones where they write in the history books 2,000 + died or estimate "at least 80 people" and it sounds odd that someone's life is divided down to the phrase "many still missing" and yet it happens over and over and over. Flash Flooding happens often in an area where flash flooding happens frequently and sometimes people in those areas are less likely to take the warning seriously and especially when the "Flash Flooding" warning comes in the early hours of the night when most are sleeping. It's like getting a warning on your phone in Miami at 3 PM that there's a Severe Thunderstorm Warning at dismissal and you watch as the children dash out to the car while there's cloud to ground lightning every single May and June. It's a mad dash to get in the car and you may frown but when you live in a Monsoon Tropical environment the world doesn't stop for severe thunderstorm warnings though we do stay extra alert and run fast.
So back to the tropics. You can see the wave train in effect in the Atlantic and it's worth noting that the last few waves came off near the beach in Senegal and that's when we get closer to the time of year when we take said waves more seriously. You can see the rain in Texas that's seriously been there since Barry made landfall as a meager, mishaped ball of tropical energy that gained fame as being part of the reason the flash floods happened in Texas. I can ....but I won't.......go back to posts online and here where I made jokes that were part playful and part a clue that the moisture from Barry would eventually move inland and up through Mexico into the SW and Texas and possibly meet up with a bit of rain from Flossie as well. This was a done deal, but the actual event of a flash flood at the worst possible place and time were yet to be determined.
Camp Mystic is on the water...
..as most camps are in fact.
A river a lake.
Places that provide recreation.
In happier times.
It's beautiful countryside there.
I've spent some time in San Angelo nearby.
Backroads there are OMG.
But flash flooding is ten times OMG NO!
Not going to say more except....
...prayers for the friends and families.
Next 5 days of rain ...
..as in where does Chantal's rain go.
Up into Virginia.
Up into DC and Baltimore.
Never forget Delaware.
Could it get up into PA?
We will see.
My husband does Financial Planning and he often tells clients in bad times when the economy is down that money doesn't dry up it just goes somewhere else. There's always some part of the economy that gets money when another area of the economy shuts down. When people are not buying houses they are investing money somewhere else usually. Or they sit on cash but the money is there waiting to invest somewhere else. He was raised in the hotel business in upstate NY and that's why the dream was about him running some sort of hotel... logical. Funny how we study one thing and then do another. We figure we will live somewhere then end up another. Funny how a little beach on the edge of a marsh can get both snow and a hurricane in a 6 month period.
Just a slip of land.
I'll update later today.
Right now I just want to enjoy the quiet of a Sunday morning when the mist seems to be moving in and the rain is not that far way from me as I sit here and type.
Oh and keep an eye on the NE Gulf as there's still rain there over warm water, you never know maybe it'll get it's chance next? As long as we have fronts on the move and we do, we have to watch tail ends of the fronts. I'm also enjoying the windows open and the temperature being 77 degrees......God Bless! Hopefully things stay simple and not too dramatic as we have had enough drama this July 4th Weekend!
Besos BobbiStorm
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Looks like a restaurant in Pittsboro
Today's a 2 for 1
I'm in the Cone
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