Asteroids - Volcanoes - Coronal Mass Ejections CMEs and Other Natural Disasters That Can Happen on Any Given Day But Usually We Get Lucky. How Long Will Our Luck Last?

 

My Caribbean satellite image of the day above.

The non tropical kind as we are all about geology today!

Caught in the wind flow.... 

2 sides of a natural disaster.

Gray, caustic ash covering everything...

..beautiful colorful satellite imagery.

What do you focus on?

I took this picture years ago storm chasing.

It was the place to be....

...TWC was there as were all the media and chasers.

Not the worst storm but fun to be out in...

Most people look at the palm trees.

To me the wild part was the water.

In South Florida it only gets that nasty color...

...when a bad storm is brewing.

Where do you focus?

On the colorful imagery from the volcano?

Or the gritty natural disaster the residents are facing?

And many had to evacuate.

Those cruise ships are busy now!

Link to Weatherboy's article below.

Kudos to their help in evacuations!

Yesterday there was an odd incident.

What looked like a meteor or asteroid fell to the Earth.

Looked like a scene out of Starman to me.

Asteroids happen. Meteorites fall.

But what was that shooting star like glow on the horizon?

Looked a lot like the scene in Starman.

Great movie ...by the way.

Maybe NetFlix?

Apparently it was expected but.........

....it came much closer than expected.

Well THAT happened!

What would you think if you saw that?

Aliens or Asteroids?

As I wrote in the previous blog about our Caribbean volcano ... sometimes those things you worry on happening actually do and the list is long for what could happen, yet blessedly does not happen very often. It was predicted that asteroid would come close to earth (close being a matter of perspective, close as in "you won't see a thing" vs "oh my gosh WHAT IS THAT???!!!") and it does make some wonder what would happen had it been worse! Well, the good news is the partying on South Beach is still going on (good or bad from your perspective) and no dinosaurs were killed off in this encounter of the close kind. Years back part of the Caribbean was carved out... rearranged by a large asteroid credited with getting rid of those huge previously mentioned dinosaurs. And that begs the reminder that if it happened once, it could in theory happen again.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/we-finally-know-how-much-dino-killing-asteroid-reshaped-earth-180958222/ Excellent article. If you want to know what it was like before the asteroid and you're in LA may I suggest you go to the La Brea Tarpits, not in the depth of summer mind you but otherwise a wonderful educational, peaceful attraction near where I once lived!

Open again... with precautions.

Seems the dinosaurs had more to fear than the plague!

Who knew an asteroid would knock out their world??

Do you ever worry or wonder on rare natural disasters?

I know many of you do while obsessing on hurricanes.

Many meteorologists are obsessed with the Northern Lights.

We watch the sky, we study the atmosphere.

It's on everyone's bucket list.

Some also obsess on a possibility of a CME.

Why you ask?

Read below.

Like Volcanoes they can be mesmerizing.

Yet they can also be disastrous!

Yet people Google them all the time...

...or watch them on YouTube.

Some volcanoes are bright and colorful.

Others gray and gloomy.

And yes it's still erupting in the Caribbean.

(on it's anniversary....

..astrologers must be having a field day!)

Anyway read on about CMEs and see....

...why so many obsess on them especially today.

Imagine........

Not even being able to go online to see if 
#FACEBOOKDOWN 

You want to complain and Twitter is down too!

It's all down.........

Hmnn.

Then again my husband ....

...will be able to read his paper by the glow!

Well on the balcony anyway... keep reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

The devil IS in the details. Can you imagine reading the paper by the glow from the Northern Lights? Can you imagine all you might be able to read is old newspapers, because IF such an event happened today it would be hard to go online and get your breaking news. We could be thrown back into the past if such an event occurred until everyone could get back online and how long would that take I wonder. Read the details... down to Havana Cuba ... click on that link and read the many details not shown below that came from such a natural event that rarely happens. First there were sun spots... then telegraphs didn't work and back then that was the main form of communication. Does your latest iPhone or Galaxy have an App to stay online in the case of a Coronal Mass Ejection aka CME?  I wonder...

The truth is whether it's an asteroid from outer space or a volcano rearranging your trip to the Great Northwest or the Caribbean or a rare Cat 5 Hurricane slams into Jacksonville Florida where they rarely see hurricanes and yet these events can happen. CMEs aren't just for the paranoid but then again if you have never checked them out you may never know what happened to your phone, internet and possibly what caused your power outage which obviously would be freaky not to be able to go online and find out why your lights were out. Yes, it could shut down not just cable but Roku and NetFlix... "oh my!" 

This also begs the question would you prefer aliens to an asteroid? Personally unless I knew if they were good aliens or bad aliens I might prefer Mother Nature problems to those of the other kind. 

From far away volcanoes are beautiful, but close up they are deadly at worst and difficult at best. 

I'll take hurricanes you can track for days and models sometimes properly predict ten days out to something sudden that comes out of nowhere and you aren't sure what hit you! Again, everyone made fun of the models that showed the Houston area getting epic amounts of rain and then Harvey did even worse than the models predicted! Go figure the models won that one though Houston lost the ongoing battle with the bayous creeping up across the concrete landscape where people live good lives except for when a Harvey comes to visit!

Stay tuned....... 2021 just started kicking.... one can only wonder what else Mother Nature has up her sleeve this year! Maybe it's a good surprise!!! You know like everyone can see the Northern Lights without having to go to Norway and our power grid stays on so we can share videos and talk about it!

And thanks to Sandman for always reminding me about things I forget from "the year without summer" to what could happen if a CME hits!

Sweet Tropical Dreams,

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram

Ps I used so many Google images today to remind y'all how reliant we have become on being able to quickly Google anything from asteroids to volcanoes!! 

https://weatherboy.com/explosive-eruption-occurs-at-la-soufriere-volcano-in-caribbean/

Will TS AMANDA in the EPAC Crossover into the Gulf of Mexico & Become Cristobal? Possibly... NHC Watching, We ALL Are Watching. Are You Ready for 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season?

This is the area we are all watching.

Tropical Storm Amanda.

And possibilities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Invest 92L is in the Atlantic currently.

Chances low but there.

I don't want us to forget it.

While obsessing on Amanda.

These are areas being watched.

For an uptick in tropical trouble.

On May 31st, 20320.

Are you ready for the Hurricane Season?

Mother Nature is...

She's so ready she started early in May.

Next storm up in the Atlantic is Cristobal!

The image above shows Amanda in the EPAC.

Where Amanda goes trouble may follow.

Sometimes an oldie goldie satellite loop is what I need on a Sunday Morning when I stayed up til 4 AM and then woke up groggy at 9 AM. It's May 31st, 2020 and I decided why not track Amanda as it seems Amanda wants to do a crossover dance into the Gulf of Mexico and if it does it will identify at Cristobal. So 2020 right/ Right.

So what do you do when the coffee and the shower doesn't wake you up? I had one Reese's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup for breakfast. Mike says chocolate helps a headache. Hmnn I digress. But it definitely did make me feel better!

This is our system below in the EPAC you can see Amanda down there flowing North with the flow and that's what storms do, they don't buck the wind or the trends they look for an easy path to take when deciding where to go.

God I love listening to u talk it’s almost embarrassing... listening to U Looping & eating Reese’s Peanut Butter cup for breakfast. Hello #SundayMorning #HurricaneSeason #Amanda in EPAC crossing over to dance in the Gulf of Mexico ⁦@tropicalupdate⁩ pic.twitter.com/572gMqH4rC

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) May 31, 2020

So let's look at the 11 AM information and note the cone of possibilities and marginal errors.

I have 2 basic rules when watching models and the NHC. 

1. My first rule is I dislike discussing Crossover Storms that begin in the Eastern Pacific and end up in the Gulf of Mexico and yet they do happen, there are exceptions to every rule. They are long shots, yet as we all know sometimes when a long shot pays off it pays off in a big way and often in a memorable way.

2. I hate when the NHC puts up these loops with the circular cone tracks they usually never quite work out. I'll say it again, Matthew did not turn back to hit Miami and Palm Beach so while odd things can happen I'd bet against it. Amanada could dawdle, create horrendous flooding, mudslides and possible loss of life in Central America and Mexico and then sit there and spin or die there. Something else pops up in the Gulf of Mexico as the models are hungry for trouble and it would still be Cristobal. The tropical ball gets picked up and Cristobal runs with it. Or.....Amanda does the crossover dance and heads up towards the general Houston area but I'd watch carefully all the way to the Sabine River with this one. Check out the rain forecast for the next 5 days and extrapolate that Northward.

If Cristobal forms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Can't promise he is a fast mover.

Models from Mike's Weather Page below.

He is updating 5 PM on Facebook I believe.

So where do we go from here?

I'm watching loops, models and Amanda...

And I'll update this blog later today.

I've been working on a post on the Hurricane Season.

But this is an issue that needs addressing now.

This is in the 7 day forecast.

That may change or evolve.

Weather evolves.

But when you see it here.

It's something to take seriously.

As Christopher Cross sings if the wind is right ... looks like the #tropicaldepression in the EPAC is going to go sailing into the #GOM not modeling it’s in the 7 day #forecast Hmn could this be #Cristobal ? #HurricaneSeason #2020 pic.twitter.com/0wQo2MNXzL

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) May 31, 2020

Oh and never forget Africa.

The early season wave train is real.

Check out those models tracks.

I'll update later.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

2020 Hurricane Season - 1 Month til June 1st. A Busy Hurricane Season Forecast with Possible Landfall Patterns. Looking Back at 1999, 2007 and 1886 & the Indianola Hurricane Matagorda Bay Texas.

Remember when?

2017....  a year few of us will forget.

Could we see a replay of such a busy season?

Yes, it's very possible.

In 1886 before satellite imagery......

... 3 storms all danced close by as they did in 2017.

We know that from the track information.

Note the month of August below.

And know September had multiple storms too.

3 Major Hurricanes in August 1886

 Storm #5 

8/15 Hispaniola

8/20 Indianola

Storm #6

8/19 Jamaica

8/21 Cuba

8/22 Nassau

Storm #7

8/20 TS forms near Bermuda

Becomes a Cat 3... 

Impacts George Bank

Vessels lost, ship damage.

Becomes a N Atlantic player.

The time frames overlap.

Landfalls overlap.

Imagine the satellite imagery today.....

Note 1886 is most famous for Storm #5

Indianola Hurricane - Matagorda Bay, Texas

Yes similar track to 1900 Hurricane... 

Similar but different.

Something to think on as its a month til Hurricane Season.

So Happy May 1st! New Month here as we zip through 2020 always wondering "what's next?" as it's been a slow, motion train wreck since the virus began spreading across the country and masks became all the rage to show off your favorite team, hobby or level of hypochondria. Okay, seriously I've tried to go slow with news of a forecast busy hurricane season that many experts have predicted could include multiple landfalls along the US coast as highly possible. I don't like pulling the mask off the old Lone Ranger nor do I like pouring oil onto a fire or screaming "FIRE!" in a crowded theater but the time has come to get serious about the Atlantic Hurricane Season that begins one month from now officially, but can begin earlier in reality should something in the Gulf of Mexico or off the East Coast spin up impressively enough for the NHC to give it a name and begin issuing advisories.

Let's look at 3 possibly analog hurricane seasons that began early and ended way too late for most of us. Remember every hurricane season is unique, however many have commonalities from positive conditions that deliver a busy season to the similar tracks taken due to obviously similar atmospheric and oceanic conditions. They are other years I'm concerned on but going with these three today as they all were busy seasons when the water was warm, the wind shear was low (allowing for vigorous waves to develop into Major Hurricanes) and had similar tracks as predicted as possible by many concerned on this hurricane season.

Let's work backwards and begin with the 2017 Hurricane Season as it began extremely early on April 19th with a very early season system and multiple warnings in the media by experts that an early hurricane season doesn't mean it will be a busy hurricane season. That is true as often a May storm forms and then we wait until late August for the next storm to form but it's not rule that isn't always broken but a much repeated statement when a system pops up before the local networks have even begun airing Hurricane Preparations stories.

2017 was an odd year in that weather was in the news often and everyone watched in real time as New Orleans itself had a tornado in February. In June Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall near that part of the Gulf of Mexico to be followed by Harvey that made landfall to the West of there but slid back into the GOM and made a second landfall. Finally Nate made landfall on that general part of the GOM coastline making people in Nola and much of Florida and Houston and elsewhere wish the 2017 Hurricane Season would be one for the history books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Atlantic_hurricane_season

Next we have 1999 another busy hurricane season with tracks similar to the predicted areas of concern for 2020. Again we see long trackers and hurricanes aimed at the US coast as well as some Caribbean and Cuban activity. The first storm formed on June 11th and ended on November 23rd leaving many of us happy to see it go. With 8 hurricanes and 5 major hurricanes it was one for the record books. Also warm water, light shear and all the typical positive factors that bring Hurricanes to our door along the Hurricane Coast. As a trivia point it's worth noting Louisiana and Texas had tornadoes on Easter Sunday in April of 1999. Obviously I'm watching for years with similar severe weather prior to the Hurricane Season that coincide with other factors forecast for the 2020 Hurricane Season.

https://www.weather.gov/shv/event_1999-04-03_tornadoes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Atlantic_hurricane_season

1886 

Now I want to go back into history ... far distant history to 1886 when the Atlantic saw a very busy hurricane season that when no less than 7 storms made landfall. The season began on June 13th and ended on October 26th, but it is worth noting the numbers are very similar to what is forecast for this coming year ... especially when you add in the 1886 Hurricane Season didn't have satellite imagery available so one can only imagine the additional storms that may have existed further from the coastlines nor not mentioned in ship reports; in those days if the ship went down with the storm there wasn't always a record of it being hit by a tropical system.

Note that all 3 of these seasons...

...look similar when glancing at the maps.

Each is different but many commonalities.

I cannot say enough about how horrendous the loss of life was from the 1886 Hurricane Season during a time when communities with busy, Boom Towns woke up totally unprepared for what the next day or two would deliver to their doorstep. In a time before Hurricane forecasting all they knew was the barometer was dropping and weather was moving in but rather than a typical afternoon thunderstorm a deadly hurricane packing winds of 150 mph washed away some communities such as Indianola Texas and many bodies were never found in small bayou towns along the coast so the death toll could be much higher. In those days when some single young man managed to survive such a catastrophe he got out of town fast whatever way he could and he didn't document his trip on Instagram... he simply left for greener pastures .... often ones where he decided a snow storm was better than whatever it was that just wiped his home off the map. 

In 2020 we complain about how bad a long term forecast is because it was predicated that it was possible that the African Wave would develop into a hurricane and impact Georgia and it made landfall in South Carolina; oh my goodness the critics on Twitter and in WhatsApp groups go crazy. A storm tries to form down near the Yucatan and everyone debates if it will live or die off and doubts it can possibly become a strong hurricane than slams into the Florida Panhandle as a Category 5 Hurricane. 

I'm not saying 2020 will look exactly as the above mentioned hurricane seasons did but I can tell you that according to the forecast conditions and track patterns expected it could end up looking very similar. What I can tell you is that unlike the citizens of Indianola in 1886 you will be given much warning way before it makes landfall, but before waiting for a Hurricane Warning to be posted you better be ready early this year. Unless something miraculous occurs, Covid-19 is expected to be a factor in our lives throughout this coming hurricane season especially early in the season. Supply chain factors have already become a problem for certain products such as the ever important paper products and protein from pork to chicken to beef being at some times hit hard. Note if you have a lake, river or any place to fish near you ... you may want to learn to take up fishing and if you are a vegetarian ... good luck with Tofu. If there's no tofu stock up on dried beans and pasta if you can find them... Oh, yeast is apparently worth more than toilet paper currently across the nation.

Recent quick trip to the Grocery Store.

We went during a rain storm yesterday.

 A food Lion in Raleigh.

Extremely clean.

Aisles marked carefully for 1 Way travel.

Employees had masks and gloves on...

...so did the customers.

Publix moved into North Carolina.

Many transplanted Floridians live here.

As much as I love Publix... not as clean.

At the registers they wore  masks... no gloves.

My husband ran in for some Kosher chicken..

... grabbed it, got out...got pictures for me.

They are limiting popular non-perishables.

Yeah that happened.

We are stocked... not going out for a while.

Well, for walks and exercise maybe.

But not shopping any time soon.

Amazon has been working well otherwise.

So I am begging you.......

....prepare EARLY for the Hurricane Season.

Every trip to the store by one extra thing.

Because I can't imagine how people will shop...

... if they have to wait hours to get into the storm.

With proper social distancing....

...and many items already gone.

It won't be pretty.

Prepare early........

... you can use non-perishables anytime.

That's why they are popular.

If you have a Panera type store near you.

Buy bread early, freeze it if you have space.

Yeast is gone and the bread aisles aren't full.

Okay, lot's of Dave's Killer Bread.

I buy it, use it sparingly.

Lasts, great bread but expensive.

The cheap white bread is gone, gone, gone...

One last note on 1886......

...a picture after the Fire of 1886 in Key West.

While they were spared hurricanes....

...they were in rebuilding mode from the fire.

A personal footnote to this discussion on 1886 is that it's the year my family moved to Key West. The timing was most likely dictated to by the 1886 fire that destroyed a good part of the town as people needed products and they were already there because of the Cigar Industry. A great, great grandfather was in the Tinware Business originally from England and as after the fire Key West insisted buildings have metal rooftops and that's how we ended up with tin roofs for the cat to walk on and how he established his tinware and crockery business while his sons traveled to Cuba often buying tobacco and involved in the cigar business.

So those are my thoughts. There are models showing a "low" forming off the East Coast and other long range models are trying to close off a low pressure system in the North Gulf of Mexico and down in the Caribbean there has been an on and off spin going on that isn't that uncommon in busy years to see. The Epac is forecast to come alive again soon with what should be a named storm.

Have you started making a list yet? 

Please do so... a list for food, supplies and to figure out where you would go and shelter if you need to evacuate in the Year of Covid-19.

Good luck. 

Prayers to everyone to stay safe, well and sane this weekend.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps... check this video out, it's short and informative... packing of beef in tin cans began here apparently so next time you buy Spam for a hurricane... remember Indianola!

Severe Weather Day... It Left NC for VA and Maryland and NYC.. High Wind Warnings. What Did We Learn? Where and How are We Going to Deal with Hurricane Season and the Need for Hurricane Shelters During the Year of Covid-19?

Beautiful system from up above. Down below leave a trail of wrecked homes and lives. #StaySafe find a #safe spot in ur home & wait til it passes by. #severeweather pic.twitter.com/SNlxCGGknu

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) April 13, 2020

19 people have died from the spate of Tornadoes that raced through the South over the last 24 hours and the number of dead is most likely going to climb as the system races on towards the Mid Atlantic carrying with it the threat of wind damage, power outages and possible tornadoes.

Southern Storms be moving North and colliding with another piece of energy and this is just an endless stream of disasters from pandemics to Mother Nature doing her ugliest to add pain onto an already painful mess.

Pines dancing in the wind. Stronger cell on the way. Just heard thunder and noise coming #ncwx #SevereStorms #Raleigh pic.twitter.com/rNpLVgLobC

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) April 13, 2020

In Raleigh, despite numerous warnings with higher expectations, we mostly had an hour or two of high wind though some are without power and others did lose trees that crashed into their homes or luckily missed them by a few feet. Weather here is random like that. One neighborhood sees nothing and another is filled with the sound of buzz saws after the storm has gone as people remove trees that block streets or worse. We have tall pines that do come crashing down in Raleigh in my area, but closer to downtown the City of Oaks ... well has Oaks, huge Oaks with huge limbs that easily slice their way through people's homes. It doesn't take a hurricane to bring down a huge limb onto someone's home.

This small tree landed next to a friend's house.

Hillsborough. NC.

They felt very blessed as their area was hit hard.

Harder than Raleigh.

There's a bit of elevation there near the Eno River.

Durham and Hillsborough tend to get stronger weather.

Raleigh usually gets "lucky" and it misses us.

But you can never say never.

Hurricane Hazel found her way this far inland.

So did Hurricane Fran.

And we have had F3 Tornadoes in the dark of the night.

So happy we have power and the pines didn't topple.

There's a home in Raleigh where a woman is trapped ...

...in her house as tree blocked the entrance.

https://www.wral.com/women-trapped-in-raleigh-home-when-tree-falls-on-roof/19053997/

Things that don't seem normal are normal in 2020.

Reporters in the field wearing masks.

Smart. Good Idea.

I tried it while out and about earlier.

I don't like masks. I have asthma.

I am at high risk so wore the mask.

My husband prays at home.

The Temple is closed.

Pines danced and swayed all morning.

A line of squalls raced through the area.

2020 continues on...

It's still Passover for me.

Gov Cuomo is back on giving a Press Conference.

Life goes on.

In New York where my kids live...

... they have high wind warnings.

I spend a lot of time on Instagram.

When my daughter goes live.

The kids are learning to ride a bike..

Laughed for a good while.

It was good to laugh :)

He made a wrong turn...

...right into the bushes :(

He's fine.

His older cousin is riding without training wheels.

And that's true. 

That's life.

When we fall, we get back up!

Life goes on...

"We can control the spread"

Cuomo is right on that.

That's also true.

So it's up to you... 

...and what you do or don't do!

What we do matters.

Our actions can have positive results.

Vs positive test results.

Stay home.

Social distance offline.

Talk online.

We need to do what we got to do...

My biggest concern is hurricane season.

Obviously my mind goes there.

It's 49 days away.

And it can and may start early this year.

How are we going to evacuate Nola or Miami?

Or Mobile or Myrtle Beach?

Where do people go who are sheltering at home?

What do they do when they lose their homes?

It happened this week.

It was a small localized area.

A good Tweet that's been shared everywhere.

People in a shelter hiding from the storm.

Risking germs and trying to distance themselves.

What will we do for the Hurricane Season???

If this Covid-19 remains...

Or peaks again during the summer?

Hope all the Mayors...

...and all the Governors..

And the President ...

...are working on that one.

A better view from the Starkville #tornado shelter during a warning. Still managing #SocialDistancing but it’s busy! #mswx pic.twitter.com/OmCmrXyKXd

— Craig Ceecee (@CC_StormWatch) April 12, 2020

Had the Mayor of Nola cancelled Mardi Gras..

 not a popular decision but could have been done.

New Orleans would have way less Covid-19.

Her city, her call I believe.

The buck stopped on her desk.

But everyone wants to pass the buck on...

What will Nola and Miami do?

What will NYC or Wilmington do?

Hate to go there but it's getting close.

We must consider that with the Hurricane Season coming!

Note the reporters now sit far apart ...

...at press conferences.

Something to think on.

We need an answer.

We need a plan.

And we need it NOW.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Enjoy the Weekend. NHC Watching 2 Areas with Low Yellow Chances. It's Just a Matter of Time Before Something Forms... Til Then... Enjoy the Weekend. Check Back Monday ;)

The NHC Main Page is sort of a Maze ...

...an interactive game we play.

From June 1st to November 30th.

Area in the Yucatan down low on probabilities.

Never believed in the westbound system myself.

As I've said I'm watching for Mid October myself.

Generally if something is going to happen...

....that's the watch time frame.

As always late in the season we have Mid Atlantic Systems.

But when you click on the main screen for Day 2.

You get this satellite imagery below.

That tells the real story.

And addendum to that is my video below.

Lots to look at as it's not cloudless.

But nothing impending about to come together.

Have a wonderful weekend enjoying the cooler air in the South as we wait to see what happens in the tropics, weather wise in general as we wonder On #Halloween and wait for the State Fair in #NC ⁦⁦@NCStateFair⁩ hurricane season not over but on hiatus this weekend pic.twitter.com/g1xAPyzxWu

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) October 4, 2019

Dabuh God Bless Him is always watching.

And he knows, he's wise.

Meteorologists are great with hard to earn degrees.

But unless they know the water and the clouds...

...and the can smell the weather.

It's all academics.

One of my friends at the NHC for years....

...takes awesome photographs of clouds and storms.

He studies them on the computer and out his window.

Bill Gray flew into huge thunderstorms....

...studying them, doing research.

Others like Wes below love to share images.

And what I'll say about that comment is this.....

....no the sun wasn't "kind" to us in Raleigh yesterday.

But it's a last kiss... 

a fair ye well as we move towards Fall.

I went out to watch the sunset last night too.

It was warm, beautiful.

And the sky was Fall Colors.

Like the little yellow leaves dropping in the Carolinas.

So to does the NHC drop yellow circles on the map.

And some have potential to go orange....

...maybe even red like a sugar maple.

Hurricane Season is really a Fall Sport....

...as that's when things ramp up and slide down.

I'll be honest.

Models do show things out in the Atlantic.

Maybe a wave off of Africa.

That SW Caribbean bugaboo.

But nothing to worry or think on this weekend.

A large area of convection remains anchored in place.

A drop of color by the Yuctan reminds us to watch.

Further East we have a wave train.

A low riding wave train.

One of those wave can get into the SW Carib....

...and the light the spark.

You know that song....

Come on baby light my fire?

And a little ghost in the Caribbean goes BOO!

So debating what song to sing.

October is about waiting....

Waiting for fall to really begin.

Waiting for your football team to win.

Waiting for the World Series.

Waiting for Halloween.

Waiting for snow season.

And the list of waiting goes on.

Stop and take a minute to wonder....

..and watch the world go by and enjoy it's beauty.

My daughter landed in Asheville NC this morning.

She took a pic from the plane and said...

"I love it here and I haven't left the airport!"

Funny I know that feeling.

So take a mental picture.

Breathe.

Exhale.

Enjoy.

Have a beautiful weekend.

Let's think on next week ... next week.

It's that time of year we wait and watch...

...and things begin to change.

Yes it was 100 degrees in Raleigh yesterday...

...but it's going to turn cooler.

It's just a matter of time.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram