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!
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving in the Tropics! Hurricane Season Ends with Only Tropical Storm Chantal Making Landfall in USA. Major Canes Out at Sea Til Sadly Melissa Slammed Jamaica with Historic Hurricane Force Winds... Winter on the Way I'm Happy to Say! Thankful for All My Weather Friends ;)
Black Friday is all about cold air.
Buy hoodies, boots and gloves!
There's a very old saying "don't take any wooden nickels" and I'll add that should be remembered when the GFS promises a named tropical system in December in Florida when cold fronts reign across the South. Cold weather with dry air behind it all the way down into Florida. Miami may or may not participate but it's beginning to look a lot like Meteorological Winter and that's in 5 days when the calendar flips to December.
Thanksgiving scatters snow in the Midwest.
It already snowed in Minnesotta yesterday.
More is on the way behind that.
The front is draped across South Florida.
No named storm is in sight!
Over the next few days I'll write something on the 2025 Hurricane Season as it ends officially very soon. I'm a Capricorn, while I am not boring, I do like traditional dates and November 30th it's officially over. As for the seasons I go by Meteorological dates so on December 1st Winter begins officially for me. I do pay attention to the Winter Solstice and it deserves it's own attention especially in a year when the Polar Vortex may be a term as popular as Rapid Intensification was in 2025 with our Major Hurricanes.
Our Season was a Tale of 2 Seasons.
Perhaps 3 in ways.
The early weak Tropical Storms.
Chantal did make landfall in the USA.
Went deep into NC over Raleigh & beyond!
The clean up from flooding is still going on.
Carrboro, Durham, Chapel Hill had flooding.
People seem to forget that....
..while high giving "no hurricanes in USA this year!"
There were a plethora of Invests.
Some elevated to "any time now" status...
...yet they faded away.
I was at OBX with the Invest nearby before Erin.
Major Hurricane.
Cat 3, Cat 4.... Cat 5 oh my!
It did miss making landfall...tho it impacted NC.
Erin then moved close to landfall and...
...pulled out at the last moment.
Something changed after Erin.
The predictions for a backloaded hurricane season veried and the season came alive when Humberto went Cat 5 as the calendar turned towards October and it ended when Melissa broke through the dam and made it into the Caribbean and aimed itself directly at that pool of hot water South of Jamaica as if it had been reading posts on X showing it where it needed to go to explode. And explode it did and with that explosive energy we had the strongest gusts every recorded by recon in the Atlantic Basin EVER!
While the USA did not get a direct hit by a hurricane, Jamaica got a Cat 5 that'll be remembered forever and be written about in the history books. More on that later in future blogs.
The season was a tale of two seasons in that many storms were forgetful and not worth remembering and struggled greatly to even keep their name and other storms took off as if they were on steroids exploding and putting on quite the show.
Barry remnants were or weren't involved in Tx flooding.
December 8 Days Away - GFS Wishing on a Tropical System in the Gulf. EURO SEES NOTHING. I Want Snow..............
December 1st.
We have a odd feature on the GFS...
(has to be the GFS right?)
Is that a V for victory!
A heart :)
A Bat Symbol?
Whatever it is... it's in SW Carib.
And there's a moisture feed near the Gulf.
The Euro does not show that...
...but does show convection in same spot.
And a moisture feed up near the Gulf.
This would be Post Season development should it..
..develop.
Tuesday it's up over Central America
That could bring serious rains to that area.
It's a fast mover.
Wednesday it's up near the Yucatan
Obviously trying to connect with a front.
The EURO Sees NOTHING.
Thursday it's on the move.
It's got a name? A game plan??
The EURO sees NOTHING.
Friday GFS has a system near you know where.
Where no chaser wants to chase this year.
Or for a few years.
The EURO Sees NOTHING.
Saturday GFS has it off the Carolina Coast. Really this should be named Zippy!
Cause it's like Zipping along...
The EURO sees NOTHING!
Many will say the MJO but we have waited for the cavalry to come many times this year heralded by models and rarely was in there where we thought it would be.
That said.........there is a high to the North and often when there is a large high pressure dome, things to the South try and spin up so there's some minimal logic for this illogical season. Everyone is pointing to the December Storm in 1925 which is nice but while the Charleston was all the rage in 1925 there were barely any hurricanes let alone tropical storms or tropical depressions. Not exactly a good analog year for 2025 though they both have 25 in their year. Giggling. 1925 was a very, very slow hurricane season but a strong El Nino and known more for the Tri State Tornado Outbreak in March. The Great Gatsby was out but not as popular as Scott had hoped it would be as it was a bit depressing, and sadly he never knew it would one day become the Great American Novel. He continued watching Zelda, writing over her thoughts and stories and life went on far from hurricanes in the Gulf.
My brother texted me earlier today.
He sent me THE MODEL showing a track across Florida.
Asked "what's the time table" ???
I responded. 1925 wasn't exactly an analog year and few other models are as excited as the GFS.
He sent me a smiling fast like he was just kidding. (trust me he's not lol he's debating buying water!!)
So what do I think? Let's talk on this tomorrow. If more models of any kind jump on this and some AI models have shown interest then we will talk more on it.
I will say the set up ...if it produced a system ....even a weak one it could possibly help push Winter along as December is indeed Meteorological Winter and IF this tried to form it would be a Ps vs a new exciting trend for tropical development in December 2025.
One Hit Wonder Weak System maybe............cannot rule it out.
But I'm watching the snow on those models I posted and wishing they got South of the Virginia, NC line. What the EURO does show for later in December is a dipping, diving cold front but alas it's all rain :(
Only thing I will say is this lines up with the odd year of 2025 where things tried to form in the Gulf and yet they took shape off the Florida Coast on the way to slide by the Outer Banks. Note 1925 TS track and weather map.
Melissa Record Breaking Wind Gust 252 MPH! Bickering on X About Long Range Snow Models. Promise Me a Sliver of a Chance of Snow & I'll Follow You Forever :) I Look at Models I Only Believe It When I See Flurries Faliing.... Be Kind.
First thing I want to mention is the story that took over Weather X last night and that is the announcement that Melissa had the strongest "wind gust" measured by a dropsondes at 252 MPH. Again, this is a "Wind gust" not sustained winds and people need to remember that. I remember when the gust was measured as many of us were online monitoring the Recon feed in real time and there was discussion on whether it would stand up under evaluation as accurate. Any rare measurement as such is carefully researched by the NHC to be sure it was accurate as accuracy is their middle name. It also comes in as the 2nd strongest on Earth that we have measured in a Hurricane!
So typical sometimes of a huge monster storm checking in late in the season. In 1992 after we went without any named storms all through June, July and early August Andrew formed. 1992 has to be one of the hottest, most unbearable summers in Miami I have ever lived through. And, then came Andrew and Andrew as we all know did Rapid Intensification and after turning towards a late Summer trip to Miami went Cat 5 in real time as all of Miami watched in horror. No escape route present and Andrew ripped across South Florida taking aim again on Louisiana.
I was worried about something in the SW Caribbean that might move up into the warmest water just South of Jamaica and I had mentioned it many times as history shows the Caribbean produces monsters in late October. A few online called me out as hyping and trying to scare people for click bait purposes. Really, I have never posted anything for Clickbait. I don't have a button on my blog for donations, if someone reads me on X or elsewhere such as the blog that's good and I hope I have helped. I specialize in knowing Hurricane History very well and the signs were there and yet few westbound tropical waves made it into the basin. So rather than forming in the SW Carib from a CAG that was constantly forecast but barely showed at all this year............a westbound wave went right for that hot spot and exploded into Melissa one of the strongest storms ever measured in modern times.
This is my OMG image I keep to remember.
Solid ball of deadly, destructive winds.
The more you know about hurricanes...
...the more they get to you.
Still in awe.
Death toll still climbing. Luckily they had warning.
There was no warning for many others....
...that litter history with details from journals.
Before blogs there were weather journals!
The next thing I wanted to mention is the arguing online about how "stupid" people are to post long range Winter Forecasts as if we have not been posting long range models during hurricane season. Really? This is not new. Okay now we have AI models and many feel they are even more accurate than the EURO while possibly not as accurate as the GFS. Nothing is new in Weather and people have always posted models that push the boundaries on reality and wishcasting. Why people are being attacked as if they are quacks that somehow managed to get a degree in megteorology I don't know. I could say "jealousy" cause there's always someone wishing on snow that'll click on any model even 3 weeks out or more. Just promise me the chance of snow and you have my attention. I know they are not reliable and infact real snow storms in the South form in real time and usually the NWS is not very accurate more than 2 or 3 days out. Sorry but telling it like it is. A model shows the snow sliding South and everyone runs and shares it. Then a new run shows it pulling back up and Snow Lovers look sad and then the next model run shows maybe just maybe there's a chance.
Come on this is nothing new and I'd rather have a meteorologist explaining it's a maybe than having another TicToc video with a weather psychic who threw tarot cards and explains that Saturn will be conjuct the Moon and the cold will be a real thing and Neptune is watery so it's likely we will get 20 inches of snow in the South on November 30th! Really?? Really??? Choose your poison if you like boring go with those who never show anything past the 5 day and if you like to dream dangerously follow the poster that shows you there's a sliver of a chance of a snow storm. Life is about choices, choose carefully and stop being mean to someone who you are only giving advertisement to your viewers who may want to see longer range model. You're only giving that person more attention and more clicks. And there are people who read the Almanac and believe and others know it's good bathroom reading!
Many feel they are more superior than others because they don't share snow forecasts more than a week out. Okay. Good for them. It's a big world. Somewhere between always and never is where you will find me. Below is an image from a video on YT that I noticed today. I have watched him sometimes. I'll admit if he promises me the slightest chance of snow flurries in North Carolina I will watch why he thinks that even though I've seen 20 posts on X so far today showing me the same thing.
I mean do you believe in Santa Claus?
Do you believe in the little elves?
Do you believe in his workshop at the N Pole?
It's one of the most accepted ornaments around.
Santa smiling as if he has our favorite
(fill in the blank)
Yet is there really a Beauty Queen Barbie in his bag?
As a child I wanted the fancy Barbie.
My mother was not a fan.
I guess she bought off Santa.
I got some knock off dupe from a drug store.
Really, it was horrible.
I was told I was ungrateful.
Because I said "it's not a real Barbie"
I was just being honest.
My Uncle Howard tho....
...would come thru every year.
He'd visit Miami and ...
....bring me a Birthday Barbie :)
I could see my mother pursuing her lips.
Uncle Howard was fun!!
Seriously everyone get a grip.
It's X it's not the Family Bible!
X is one part news one part entertainment.
YouTube has something for everyone.
Use your remote and choose wisely.
You don't have to attack someone ....
....don't be so judgey.
I don't believe a model for snow until....
...the snow begins to fall.
Miller A Miller B Miller C
I don't care.
I adore Mitch for posting these!
Be kind.
Be nice.
We are not that "stupid" we just wany snow.
Any chance at all we will talk on it!
I saw Santa in Savannah this week!
I know Santa isn't real....
...even tho TV Mets have been known to dress up as him!
I just wanted a sexy, cute Barbie with heels.
It's free to wish.........
....free to believe.
Like Charlie Brown the snow is stolen ....
...by the mean Snow Queen!
But that's another story for another day.
Sweet snowy dreams,
BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on X
and ps if I get a bit of Northern Lights...
...I'd be so fricking happy too!
Wishing, praying, smiling.
My brother Ronnie loves this song.
He believed less in Santa....
...and more on Kellier Pickler who he had a crush on.
Hurricane Season Over in 11 Days. End of Nov is a Time When Surprise SW Carib Systems Try and Form BUT It's a Real Long Shot!
We had Melissa near a peak in the chart above. End of November has a little hill. Before it descends into December. And Game Over!
Okay, I'm back. I needed a vacation from the vacation. Differing weather temperatures and going from warm & balmy to a cold sunrise walk on the river in Savannah was a fast wake up call I was headed back North even if North Carolina is still Down South. Add in around lots of kids who are regularly sick, coughing and a bad stomach flu that was all the rage in South Florida that hit my husband more than me, tho I definitely was not myself and needed to detox a bit. In truth there's not much to say. I had thought on discussing this yesterday, but wasn't really ready and watching patterns that are persisting and models that are randomly showing development mostly on ensemble models are not enough for me to hit the go button. But it's worth reminding people the end of Hurricane Season is not until November 30th and often there's a slight bump in the graphic around that time.
Dry cooler air to the North. Holding strong along the Tenn/NC border. Little more moisture further Soiuth.
There's been this persistent convection... ....bubbling up, pulling West, fading away S of Cuba. Also weak, Westbound waves in SW Carib.
It would be a real long shot. But I never say never.
To the North folks in NC wishing for Snow. Hoping end of November brings flakes. Also a long shot but never say never.
Note that weak fronts come down. Turn into Stationary fronts. Then warm fronts on Nov 25th. Nov 26th strong cold front.
I pray for many things.
I pray for my kids. My friends. My husband and myself.... ....my country, the world!
And I pray when in Miami that.... ..there will be leaves left on the Maple Tree ....when I get back to Carolina! Yes there were!!
My family loves to have birthdays in November.
The next gen is heavily Scorpio...
And there it is.... but day by day more leaves swirl down to the ground. North Carolina is beautiful. From the Mtns......
Hurricane Season Slowly Ending. Fronts Are on the Move. 2025 Delivering an Early Real Winter for the USA! Thoughts on Life in Miami Watching Airplanes Land and Ships Going Out to Sea.
Fronts.
Some convection in EPAC but nothing from NHC.
Fronts draped across the Atlantic...
From the Yucatan across Cuba and beyond.
Westbound waves that didn't get the memo.
The door is about to shut on 2025 Hurricane Season!
Regular readers of my blog or comments of mine on X will remember I have been mentioning "fronts" for literally months. Fronts barely ended as Summer took control of the tropics and they resumed their movement across the satellite imagery that we all watch and to me that was a sign we would have an early, real Winter. Early weather people watched the skies, the slight differences in temperatures and the movement of the air as well as the trees, the crops and the animals. Everything is connected when it comes to meteorology and as for hurricane season everything is connected to oceanography and the currents in the ocean that in small ways change the way the atmosphere flows different from year to yeat. Had Katrina not hit the Loop Current in the Gulf it may never have become as strong and memorable. The Canary Current in the Eastern Atlantic this year had a strong impact on moderating our hurricane season until Melissa slipped through and made a historic Cat 5 Landfall.
One year fronts deliver fronts to cities along the coast and in other years fronts sweep them out to sea and act as the great defender of coastal cities. How the fronts flow be it fromWest to East or after a while once they begin descending a bit more to the Southeast from the Northwest and you feel the air a bit drier and cooler and then you begin to dream on Fall and Winter. In Miami you begin to dream that a cold front will actually make it down into the area that is strong enough to wear boots and your rarely used winter weather wardrobe. It's a brief window trust me in Miami. When the Arctic suddenly decides to fly South for the Winter you begin to notice all the "snowbirds" that literally jumped on the first flights out of New York and rush to their "Winter Place" and the traffic overnight goes crazy and lines appear at all the restaurants and local kids basically hate the tourists...especially from certain places.
I'm staying by one of my kids who lives on the Northern edge of Hollywood Florida and I regularly hear the planes coming in for a landing at FLL airport and the familiarity of it is a bit wild. It's a memory from my childhood from the years my parents moved out to the Suburbs from the Road Section of Miami near downtown and life was punctuated by the steady flow of planes to our North descending towards landing at MIA airport that was just to the NE of where we used to live in Westchester. I spent hours as a kid sitting out on the front porch that faced North watching planes when bored descending in their landing pattern as they would seem to glide slowly a bit lower, lower and then out of view behind the tall pines trees. In those days that part of Westchester and West Miami had no tall buildings, just one story CBS homes and one story neighborhood stores on the Tamiami Trail now known as Calle Ocho or just 8th Street!
Note West Miami Middle just South of MIA.
Not much happens weather wise in Miami. Kids don't have Fall nor Spring nor Winter, just an almost eternal Summer and any changes in the weather is a big deal. Some winters it's so warm you don't even realize it's Winter at all. Fall means Football! Winter means Christmas Lights on houses that twinkle pretty in the tropical balmy night and everything is decorated at the Mall. Spring means Mango trees are in bloom, everyone complains but they love the fruit when it's ripe. Then comes Hurricane Season a Summer Fall Blended period when you know something might happen, but probably nothing will.
Watching planes take off and land if you lived near the airport was fun. They didn't fly over your homes disturbing your daily life, they just were there to watch when bored or daydreaming where those planes may be flying to or flying in from. And the kids who were especially observant and weather oriented would watch for the planes to note if they were suddenly taking off to the West and that meant a cold front really, really, really was coming into Miami. A "Cold Front Coming" is often featured on the news the way Miami is often in the Cone 7 days out and by the time the hurricane really gets going we are no longer in the Cone and the Hurricane went somewhere else; such was life with cold fronts as well as they were often advertised but generally a no show when all was said and done. But when the planes landed at MIA out of the East and there was a chill in the morning air and they were taking off to the West we all knew the cold front was real and here!
Then my parents moved to Miami Beach not far from the Fountainbleau near 41st Street aka Arthur Godfrey Road and the North runway at MIA directed the planes down 41st Street as they took off to the Easst and out over the ocean. The Taxi Cabs would suddenly be filled with passengers clogging up the small town feel of Miami Beach growing up as the "Snow Birds" were flying in on added flights. Note most big streets in Miami have multiple names, gets confusing when you're given directions but I digress.
When a few of my kids moved to Brickell downtown the planes would fly over the top of their beautiful Condo with the pool on the roof and would pass ridiculoulsy close to the top of the Intercontinental Hotel next door! Suddenly, after years in Raleigh in the suburbs, I was watching planes take off again from their balcony facing North.
The purpose of this blog this morning is to highlight how much watching the clouds, the satellite imagery and the actual day to day movement of planes, taxis and restaurants filling up will tell you about the weather and what may be an early winter or a late barely there winter.
I was told my Great Grandfather who I never met would sit on his porch in Tampa and look out over Tampa Bay watching the tall thunderheads climb into the sky. Apparently he was a sky watcher, and loved weather and clouds. He'd tell my Grandma who was terrified of thunder as they once had lightning come into the house through the chimney when she was little in Tampa and "dance all around the parlor" and he'd tell her when there was cold air coming and when a tropical storm might be on the way. While walking the dog with her a little girl she'd show me how the wind was moving in all directions pressing down and it was going to rain in a little bit and in a little bit out of nowhere there was a rainstorm. Got weather genes ;)
Imagine my Great Grandfather was always sure when a tropical storm was going to rock Tampa's world and knowing that and being accurate without the use of the GFS 10 Day that offers you a landfalling Hurricane always on the 10th day, tho the hurricane never shows the way the cold fronts often fizzle no matter how much talk there is on the weather that a cold front might be coming. Yet apparently my Great Grandfather was always right. Most often the tropical storm would slide by in the Gulf, but he knew from the way the wind blowed and the air flowed it was time to board up.
Miami life is about fishing so everyone who fishes knows the moon phases and checks the weather. Miami life is about boating so as soon as you have a boat that you park behind your house on the Coral Gables Waterway as my son does...the boat owner suddenly has Weather Apps, Tide Apps and doesn't have to have his mother call him and remind him not to take the boat out to Stiltsville because a bad line of storms is coming in because he knows. I could go on and on but I think I made the point and for anyone here who grew up in Miami whether it was in West Miami, Hialeah or even Miami Beach they can tell you we all watch the clouds, the weather, the sunrises and sunsets and wait for that much heralded day when a Cold Front will drop-down into the 40s and kids go giddy while parents hunt for their winter clothes.
Hurricane Season is on it's way out the way a plane descending just North of Tamiami Trail is about to land, we know Hurricane Season is about to end. Sure, surprises always happen but so far we made it through another year without a landfalling, hurricane slamming into South Florida. Life is good. Kids go "Shrimping" in Biscayne Bay in Winter about ten days or so after a full moon and then bring them home to serve at a holiday party. In the old days I had frends who went with their family out into the Glades hunting on their Air Boats aka Swamp Buggies and yeah big block parties.
When you live close to the water, near clouds that are always changing and weather that can get wild during Monsoon Season you pay attention to the little things. If you are really observant and know you can tell the exact moment it's going to actually rain like crazy from the drop in the air temperature. You just know.
I am sure I drove Mike crazy responding "fronts" back in June and July .... because it's all about the fronts that are for real stronger now and what appears to be a Winter to Remember across the USA. Hopefully, I'll be back in Raleigh soon and I can begin my prayers for snow again. I'll be honest, as a kid I'd pray for hurricanes much to my parents chagrin and my Grandma Mary would say in her very Southern Accent "oh you don't want one of those terrible storms, when I was a girl they........" and I'd think to myself quietly "Yes Grandma I do" but I'd just listen. In Raleigh I rarely hear the planes except for one that takes off every night on some International Flight just before Midnight or I hear helicopters flying low towards the National Guard Armory in Youngsville.
Listening is good sometimes.
Writing is good sometimes not being sure where you are going but knowing the message you want to deliver.
Like the Old Time Seminoles who would take the canoe down the Miami River in the early settler days and warn the Brickell family that they traded with that a "Big Blow Is Coming" because they'd watch the way the Sawgrass out in the Glades would blow, lie and by the direction and they knew a hurricane was coming without the GFS telling them they'd get hit in 10 days but not really. They were definitely more reliable than the GFS and maybe as reliable as the EURO though they could not give specifics, just a "Big Blog is on the Way" and that was appreciated by the early locals that knew them. My family was living in Key West back then before moving up to Tampa and they watched and waited on those tropical cyclones too as it's part of life in South Florida.
Wild being back in Miami and Hollywood going between kids and friends and family and watching the little things I did as a child and remembering how much knowledge I gained by the way the clouds looked, and the direction the planes were landing in this city built around airport travel and how the surf looked in the Bay as to what weather was coming down the tropical road.
No Hurricanes currently being talked about except for the College Football kind at UM of the Ice Hockey ones in Carolina.
Good video below where Joel Franco shows where to watch planes land at MIA. This honestly was a treat for kids to go with their parents, get out on the car hood and watch the planes land. Hey no video games, no Internet and no Game Boys ......this was a big deal. Funny because my son who lived on the Bay had an App that showed him which boats and ships were coming into port. That's Miami always watching people come and go on planes, boats and trains. Trains is another blog for another day.
Thanks for reading if you got this far!
A two for one song blog today.
Sweet Weather Dreams,
BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on X
The song below was a favorite song ...
... maybe it was the purple skies.
Looks like Northern Lights?
"Caramel Colored Sunset Sky"
Fell in love with this song with that line.
And yeah we watched planes take off often!
And people were always coming and going...
...out of lives.
Remember the sky is your window to the world!
And may it'll just tell you what weather is on it's way!
Tropics Quiet Thru December According to NOAA Sites. 17 Days Til Hurricane Season Officially Over. Space Weather in Fashion. Small Plane Delivering Relief Supplies for Jamaica Crashes in a Backyard in SFL 2 People Died. Melissa's Misery Lives On. Coast Almost Clear...
Using some NOAA graphics of a different kind that show nothing is expected to form through December 2nd, 2025 when the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season is officially over. There have been hurricanes in December; tropical systems but they are rare and usually far away from land. Should I say land in the USA? Perhaps. Low riders in the Caribbean or far out at sea. So far the coast still seems clear!
All the forecast rain is frontal boundary related.
I'll add Dabuh & I would say
"there's a face there in the red blob"
You can see the old frontal boundary and some areas of rain producing strong rain totals in Central America, but nothing tropical with a circulation just rain. The Auroras were the biggest story this week as we all turned to Space Weather and were in awe of colors lighting up the sky in places that rarely see the Northern Lights. While it was visible far to the South the satellite imagery below was pieced together and showed the image with what looks like a diamond necklace draped around the Canadian US border. That's wild!
That's it. Hung out with my brother this morning for a bit like old times at Starbucks in Hollywood Florida sipping an Iced Cream Brulee Frappe version of my favorite holiday drink and I got a Holiday Cup as a souvenier. The weather is still cool enough to actually sit outside in the shade in Florida. Haven't really had a chance to hang out at my favorite haunts where I grew up in Miami as many of the family have moved up to various cities in Broward County and I'll add they keep moving further North. They all moved for various reasons, lots of gated communities or little cul de sacs for the kiddies to play and lakes nearby and yet it seems a good part of Miami Dade County moved up here as the traffic so the traffic here is crazy and you can go 3 miles and never not be in some sort of School Zone. For real, not kidding. Yet it warmed up enough that I'm debating on whether wearing my boots or my sandals.
Kind of ironic to realize that the only "landfalling" named storm this year in the USA was Tropical Storm Chantal that went directly over my house in Raleigh. I'm happy as I have kids here and would prefer hurricanes keep sliding by South Florida and passing them over for places further up and out at sea.
I will add life in the cute little gated communities with lakes is not always quiet. Very sadly a small plane on the way to deliver relief supplies to Jamaica because of Hurricane Melissa, crashed into a lake crashing on the shore in the backyard of someone's home not in my kids neighborhood but looks very similar. Two people died, not directly related to Melissa but definitely a sad, tragic postcript related to Melissa.
When you have a deadly hurricane like Melissa...
...somehow the misery keeps going on.
Anyway... keep giving to charity.
Be super grateful West Florida got a break this year.
Tropical Quiet. Space Weather Came Alive Last Night Over Most of the USA. South Florida Excluded.... Cool Weather & Pretty Sunsets. Possibly More Tonight So Keep Looking Up!
Nothing for 7 days.
Seems MDR totally shut down here.
Fronts are in control
Officially Hurricane Season ends November 30th!
Snowed in parts of the South....
....USA is into Fall/Winter.
I'm in South Florida.
I had a happy family event to go to...
...happy to be here.
Frustrating to miss snow possibilities in NC
Missed the Northern Lights last night.
There may be more tonight...
Ever since actually seeing the Northern Lights last year I've been in love with them even more than I was when it was just a "bucket list" thing to do one day. The sky was purple, shimmering shades of purple with bits of green and I was in love and began following all the sites that follow whether or not there's a chance of having Northern Lights again. As fate would have it... in this part of brightly lit up South Florida the only real thing you see in the sky is the beam from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Seriously.
But as I looked at pics this morning that I had taken last night at sundown I smiled. I never understood how it was such a bit "bucket list" thing to do to watch the sunset in Key West. I mean, growing up, we had sunset every night and often lit up in colors you'd sometimes need to get a special effects team to do for a movie. I suppose I took it forgranted that everyone sees the sun set in the evening. But, in Raleigh the City of Oaks there are a whole lot of Oaks and Pines and the sky just rarely lights up as it does in Miami, Key West or Myrtle Beach where the kiss of sea air ignites a passionate show of tropical colors. This time of year in the winter is always awesome as the sunsets are soft and inspiring. So grateful to be here with the family to celebrate and spend time with my kids and friends here. And, I realized this morning I get to see the sky turn colors every night here so maybe not feel so bad I missed the BIG event in NC last night. And, hoping there will be more later this year I can catch when I am back up there.
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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