Winter Storm Warning for Parts of the East Coast.... Warm Weather Everywhere Else. But That's Changing Soon. May Have Been a Warm Christmas BUT New Years Eve Will Be Cold in Some Places Even Florida! Death of a Giant... Neil Frank Dies at Age 94.

Bookend Winter Storms.

West Coast....

NYC Metro, NJ, NE

Upstate New York!

Everywhere in between....

...asking what happened to Winter?

Note it will return soon.

Warm Christmas.

Cold New Years Eve!

In my world 2026 brings back Winter.

60s are gone.

70s are gone!

Even in Florida!

As I said in the previous post Mother Nature is quite the Trickster this year with a roller coaster ride through Winter where you'll keep both your flip flops and your winter boots ready for whatever the forecast throws at you.

In Monsey NY my daughter is preparing for a Winter Storm that may or may not be blizzard like and may or may not dump tons of snow or miss them to the North or South. It's a difficult system to predict down to the detail but there are maps everywhere and arguments online as to whether it'll go wide right or wide left.  To be fair it's a place where snow easily finds you. But fast moving systems such as this throw wrinkles into the forecast always!

So watch your local experts, best Weather Apps and if you are into TWC or Fox Weather or Weather Nation settle down with a cup of Hot Cocoa and enjoy the show.  Here it's gray, cool and warm enough to have some windows open to air out the house yet cold enough to keep them barely open. I do so love fresh air!

In other weather news...... I've been way overdue to post this sad news. Dr. Neil Frank died at age 94!

Link to this image above below.

The man from Kansas.....

....became the Hurricane Expert.

Hurricane Preparation especially!!

I kind of put off talking on this as to be honest time flies and once upon the time he was a Director of the National Hurricane Center and though it was way back, there probably was not a more Iconic Director than Neil Frank. I had a best friend who moved to Miami from Upstate New York and she had the biggest crush on Neil Frank; more like King of the Weather people until he moved to Houston and she found Bryan Norcross. Neil Frank blew into Miami as if he was a real hurricane, a storm with a plan to make sure Floridians living within shouting distance of the beach were aware and prepared and knowledgeable about the dangers of Hurricanes. People were moving to Miami, buying waterfront property on cities newly built around layers of canals that all had "waterfront lots" on both sides of the coast and the agents that sold them the lots told them not to worry on Hurricanes. Something about the Coral Reef offshore protects us from hurricanes they were told.  So in the off season he would often go to some of these waterfront paradises and pretend to be taking surveys and ask the owners if they knew how to prepare for a hurricane. They were sure they told him hurricanes would not be a problem. Truth is sometimes it takes a while to get hit by a Hurricane as Tampa, Miami and Marco Island know but when they do there's no turning back the clock to before the hurricane and everything is changed forever. The mere word "Cone" sets people off to Public in search of water, batteries and of course beer!

That's Marco Island under construction.

I do mean under construction literally.

It was built over wetlands .... swamp.

Close up

Everyone has water nearby :)

And lots of swamp land.

And the beautiful Gulf.

Very in Hurricane Country!

Neil Frank left the NHC for Houston in 1987

5 years later when Hurricane Andrew formed....

...his fans in Miami jumped into action!

They'd been taught the dangers!

Really few like him.

I'd add in Dr. William Gray from CSU!

For these giants in the Hurricane world it wasn't about politics or click bait or anything other than to educate about the public on the dangers of hurricanes and the science of hurricane forecasting. Both strong willed, both opinionated but both were all about weather. My brother actually was given some old Hurricane Tracking Charts from the NHC after meeting him while visiting the site. My brother and my friend Sharon could wax poetic on this giant of a man that was a legend in his time.

Neil Frank is synonymous with Hurricanes, now and forever!

So are we ready for 2026? Heard a rumor Senor El Nino is very ready.... 

Besos BobbiStorm

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We may have missed Neil Frank in Miami, but he was all too ready to sing Hello Texas!