Will a Major Hurricane Hit the Miami Broward WPB Area This Year? I Hope Not... But it Could They Are Overdue for the EYE of a Hurricane.

 

This is a map made by Brian McNoldy

https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy

He's excellent to follow.

If you live in South Florida....

...or anywhere during the Hurricane Season.

While things are quiet and not much is going on I'm trying to put links to sites to use and people to follow on social media who are excellent sources of reliable information. In his case, he is prone to unique, original ways of presenting valuable material that helps you understand better some of the finer points of a particular situation be it a current set up or historical information.   If you were playing a paint online game you'd be trying to figure out what color line to draw across the Miami to West Palm Beach metropolitan area and that's concerning as that area is overdue for such a hurricane.  Many in Miami and the Ft. Lauderdale area would argue that and point to all the trees down and their roof damage from Hurricane Irma in 2017 and that's because they fail to remember they did not get the EYE of Irma nor the brunt of it's power, they had all that damage from a brush with Irma that made landfall in the Florida Keys but due to it's immense size delivered a wicked punch to North Miami Beach, Walnut Creek and other places far to the North and East of where Irma made landfall. A similar smaller storm would not have impacted the Miami area if it moved quickly through Marathon in the Florida Keys so remember with hurricanes not only strength but size matters! 

Also what is worth remembering is that the general Miami area was in the Cone often for both Irma and Dorian and Matthew scared Miamians greatly even if the cone showed it could stay offshore. The NHC did a good job with those hurricanes and they did veer away from a visit to Miami. This is a very DANGEROUS set up as what happens after these sort of brushes with danger is that people begin to believe Miami is safe and all the hurricanes will veer way from the coast as Dorian and Matthew did but many such as the 1926 and 1928 Hurricanes did not, nor did Betsy, Katrina nor Andrew that made a due West beeline for Miami and never took the road that David did in 1979 when it took aim at Miami and then veered up the coast. Why is this important? I knew many people in Miami during Andrew that refused to believe that Andrew would not do what David did and it would go somewhere else. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_David similar but made landfall along the N Central coastline.

Miami is a city that always has new people who have moved into the area and never experienced a Hurricane. Old times tell them about Donna and Betsy and Andrew and they think they will be fine, they will not be if a Major Hurricane makes landfall at Hollywood Beach or Aventura just North of Miami but all part of the same metropolitan area demographically and otherwise. Also we have a huge transitory population of people who are they college students or employed in the HUGE hotels and restaurant business that makes up a giant slice of the Miami economy!

Sadly Andrew taught me that the worst case scenario can and does happen. For years I kept this poster in my living room as a reminder that the worst case scenario can play out and a major hurricane can and will make a landfall in your living room if you live in Florida long enough.  Note that also goes for Savannah, Jacksonville and Tampa! 

Orange ... high pressure. 

H for Huge High.

A nice wave over Africa... 

There's online chatter on something in 10 days or so...

.. maybe down in the Caribbean headed North.

Or by the Yucatan.... or out in the Atlantic.

Models keep showing long term possibilities.

But nothing expected to form for the next 5 days.

Use this time wisely for Hurricane Preparation.

This IS Hurricane Season.

June Hurricanes have happened making landfall...

... up from the Carib towards Florida.

Currently the huge High Pressure is in place, so use this time wisely. As I said in a previous blog, my friend Sharon was sure we would get a hurricane in the very dead summer of 1992 when the first named storm didn't show up until Mid August named Andrew. Sharon rinsed out bottles of Publix Soda and filled them up with tap water and stored them away and bought inexpensive bottled water when on sale. When Andrew changed course for Miami, as she thought it would do as she didn't trust that weak cold front in August, she had close to 80 bottles of water stored in her garage to use for drinking or washing. After Hurricane Andrew on Miami Beach far from the eye but getting strong impressive winds, we had no water for a long time and we had no electric even longer and we had no cable to watch TWC until late November. 

Be like Sharon, don't be that guy at Publix buying perishable deli and ice cream because you are sure this is just a big scare and the next big Major Hurricane aiming for Miami will turn away and crash into South Carolina as Matthew did......  Prepare now! Buy canned food, water, non-perishable food and stock up on your medications. Don't be that person left at Publix who went too late and is standing at the empty aisles staring at cans of oysters and sardines. 

Thanks for your patience while I was on vacation in Miami visiting my family and attending a wedding for Sharon's son. It was a long road trip after a few days in Charlotte for business before the trip to Miami, a stop on the way back in Savannah and I'm finally back in Raleigh. I learned years back from friends of mine who worked at the NHC that the best time to usually take a vacation is actually early June, before the season ramps up :) Learn from the best ... 

I should be updating every day from now on so follow me as we cruise into the height of the Hurricane Season when SAL begins to let go of his dusty hold on the Atlantic and the Huge High Pressure suddenly fades away and yellow circles pop up South of Cuba or off the coast of Florida in the Bahamas and as always near the Yucatan. 

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps. A dirty little secret is that Miami Beach was trashed by Hurricane Andrew, all the street signs, store awnings and often AC units on condos crashed to the ground below. Massive Ficus Trees were uprooted with most of the yard, pine trees on Pine Tree Drive fell onto homes. My neighbors roof on Flamingo Drive took flight and landed in tact in the back yard of a house on Pine Tree Drive near 41st Street. Bits and pieces of plastic from the Dry Cleaners, the Used Bookstore and Epicure then on Arthur Godfrey Road landed all across my parent's house on 37th and Royal Palm Avenue. My neighbor next door, a photographer who was working for Newsweek got back from covering Homestead and asked what happened on Miami Beach as it wasn't mentioned in the news. As Andrew approached Miami, just before it made that itsy bitsy dip to the South that saved most of downtown Miami... it's approaching wind and wild surf took aim on Miami Beach. I'm grateful that despite all that wild damage (we had no Traffic Lights on 41st Street for half a year, they all were gone with the wind) we were spared the horrific damage the eye did in Homestead. So while thinking on all the debris you had from Irma remember it made landfall near Big Pine Key NOT in Miami nor Hollywood Florida! Prepare now! Use this "quiet" time wisely!!

All the damage in the old blog below was from Miami Beach. They hired people fast to clean it up and laid low and tried to stay out of the news and to get back up and running for the 1992/93 Tourist Season. They were not as lucky in 1926... but that's another blog.

http://hurricaneharbor.blogspot.com/2012/08/hurricane-andrew-look-back-from-miami.html

Yes most buildings were "fine" but everything else went whoosh with the wind... and that beautiful Polynesian style roof some friend of mine had... small square houses do best in a hurricane in Florida... no power for weeks, no cable for months... debris sat until late October after the Andrew Hurricane.

Cristobal a Stormy Story Still Unfolding. Where's Dolly? Will Dolly Be a Deja Vu Storm in GOM? African Waves.... A Look at Hurricane History. Matthew, Florence, Sandy and the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane. Miami Beach History & Architecture

Cristobal inland and still traveling.

Has a passport to Canada...

..and no govt official can keep him out.

I'll do an End Game Post on Cristobal....

...when it's oveer. 

Because the story is far from over.

As for the Tropics today...

..what are we looking at?

Tropical Possibilities.

That's high latitude trouible for June.

June too soon but is it in 2020?

Below is the SW Carib.

Models show a Deja Vu storm forming...

...and moving up into the GOM AGAIN.

Is that Dolly? 

Say it ain't Deja Vu Dolly?

Time will tell.

In motion below.

#MondayMorning #thoughts on the tropics #cristobal & where’s #Dolly? Will Dolly be a #Dejavu #storm? Definitely maybe https://t.co/XLVVLmtkcS #writing #weather #hurricane #history #miami #miamibeach #architecture pic.twitter.com/NGazgGTG0z

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) June 8, 2020

Yes there is in area the Atlantic there is a yellow area.

NHC walking back it's chances so ...

....not gonna talk on it now.

But further out in the Atlantic is a Wave off Africa.

A wave departing Africa higher up...

..where they are supposed to be.

Where they need to be to develop.

5 degrees is too far South.

10 degrees and we have possibilities.

We will talk on that later.

Today I'm looking back a bit at history.

Why????

Because history repeats.

And we learn from history!

These images from Tropical Storm Cristobal isnpired today's Hurricane History part of the blog.

Currently Cristobal is moving up through the center of the Country, still in the South but on his way Northbound carrying with it the potential for severe weather and localized flooding. Honestly, that has been it's legacy as it's distant weather pounded Central Florida with thunderstorms and tornadoes and localized flooding in the delta regions of Louisiana along the barrier islands of Mississippi. People seem surprised because it was "only a Tropical Storm" and a pretty minimal one intensity wise but a wet, tropical storm can carry with it a whole lot of water.

Steve means lousy as in intensity.

But in watery misery for those cleaning up...

...it was a messy, crappy storm.

Not intense, but size wise huge and wet.

That's sand not sea foam.

I saw this picture from post Tropical Storm Cristobal coverage and it amazed me that people were amazed that this could or would happen. If you live in a beach town and the tropical wind brings in a tropical storm or hurricane it's common to have your streets near the beach covered in sand; adding especially if the storm has come a long ways to your door to deliver you that sand. It's often not how intense a hurricane is, but on the contrary, how far it has traveled to get to your destination.

Sand covered the boardwalk in Long Beach, NY after Sandy a once Major Hurricane going extratropical tore up the boardwalk and flooded homes, businesses and left a mess after traveling a long distance from the Deep Caribbean.

You have to think of a hurricane as a living breathing thing, that has traveled huge distances carrying with it a dome of water and moving endlessly until it can't travel anymore on the ocean and then it rams itself up onto your door like a wrecking ball. A storm such as Matthew or Florence will do more water damage than a storm that blows up immediately and makes landfall suddenly. Again, I said "water damage" vs strong winds or severe weather. Matthew made landfall as a Caegory 1 Hurricane in South Carolina as it's explosive water footprint stomped far inland into North Carolina a mere ghosts of it's intensity when it churned off the coast of South America as a Major Hurricane. The water pushed inland, far inland filling up every river basin in North Carolina covering farms, homes and towns as it flung itself onto land unable to make that turn away as the Hurricane Center had often predicted earlier that it would before going out to sea. Matthew's wet legacy just kept on coming, like a big, huge train unable to stop on a dime the way a fast sports car would be able to and that is common in such hurricanes. Nothing new under the Tropical Sun as they say.

Hurricane Florence, two years later, drenched the same region of the Carolinas with flooding rains and tremendous water damage as a mere shadow of itself, no longer a Cat 3 or 4 or 5 hurricane but one filled with rain, water and endless misery.

Matthew's track below.

Quite the traveler.

A wave that developed just before the Islands.

Sat on just off coast of South America...

...and had no problems with land interaction.

Below is Florence.

The Hurricane that refused to die.

A fish storm that kept swimming.

All the way across the ocean.

After being an intense Major Hurricane.

It reached it's destination as a shadow of itself.

And yet parts of the Carolinas are still cleaning up from it.

Old picture of Collins Avenue covered in sand.

Beware those long traveling storms.

Almost a hundred years earlier.. 

The 1926 Great Miami Hurricane shown below.

Obviously this started from a wave off of Africa.

Ship reports showed there was a West Indies Cyclone moving WNW.

That's what they called it then...

 And it slammed into Miami as a strong Category 4 hurricane.

And aside from the intense winds, it was a very wet hurricacne.

The streets flooded, sand covered Miami Beach.

From the Ocean to the Bay it was covered with sand.

Locals had to dig out their Model T Fords.

http://docmgmt.miamibeachfl.gov/WebLink/DocViewM.aspx?id

=76141&page=1&dbid=0&cr=1

Wait for it to load, it's worth it ... because nothing like a real obituary of a hero of Miami beach.

A mere snippet of the story...

Rose Weiss, the "Mother of Miami Beach" attained that fame after practically single handledly forcing the dazed and confused survivors of the hurricane on Miami Beach to get out there and start cleaning the sand off the streets and cleaning up the mess the hurricane made. Rose walked up to Lincoln Road and into the offices of Carl Fisher where people had gathered, numb, in shock at the horrendous damage to their beautiful paradise and bullied everyone into getting out there and cleaning it up insisting Miami Beach would be better than it had been before. And, Rosie who grew up as child on Miami Beach was prophetic on that one as I don't even think that Carl Fisher could imagine how amazing Miami Beach would be in 2020.

Rose Weiss believed in Miami Beach, she knew it when it looked like this below from 1925 and it's still going strong. Buildings getting bigger, higher and really I love it but too many people for a mere mangrove Island in the Bay.

That's up near the Deauville.

A narrow part of the beach.

A place where the ocean meets the bay often...

...in a real hurricane!

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-11-04-0111020746-story.html

Anyone who has ever driven to Miami Beach...

...across the Julia Tuttle Causeway knows this building.

I worked in that building.

I practically lived in that building at times.

It's called the Giller Building.

My kid's pediatrician was in that building.

I once had an After Prom Party there.. really.

My son briefly had an office there but that's a movie.

Giller and Giller Architects had offices in their building.

A family that survived the 1926 Hurricane...

.... how I don't really know. 

Sounds impossible but true.

And then he helped design a city.

Miami Beach was a paradise once again.

The water covered Miami Beach.

The raging ocean covered Miami Beach.

People survived, Norman Giller survived!

Went on to become an Architect....

.... that designed the future Miami Beach.

Understand, the people who survived the hurricane survived it by climbing up above the first floor of apartment buildings and watching as the water met the bay and covered all of South Beach. To this day it amazes me anyone survived that especially when you consider there were waves and storm surge as the waters were not just high but calm, they were a raging ocean. I interviewed a friend of my Grandfather who as a young boy remembers climbing up to the 3rd floor of an apartment building on 3rd Street at the tip of South Beach and watching waves battering the building. He remembered his father leaving the building to walk over to the services for Yom Kippur and having to come back because "there was so much rain the streets were flooding" but it wasn't flooding from the rain but the incoming storm surge of a strong Category 4 hurricane that covered the whole of Miami Beach and yet somehow, miraculously I'd add, some people survived while others died. Many died during the eye when they tried to make their way back to the mainland and the back side of the hurricane swept them off the causeway to a watery grave. Sounds melodramatic but very true. The 1926 Miami Hurricane is called that because it was indeed the real Miami Hurricane as Andrew made landfall further to the South sparing Downtown Miami from a disaster one cannot even imagine.

But Hurricane Betsy covered Miami Beach with sand also as did Andrew and many other storms over time. Miami Beach is basically a barrier island that was just a spit of land covered by mangroves that Miami people rowed over to in their boats for a picnic on Sunday before rowing back before dark while admiring dolphins and manatees in the water that was once crystal clear all the way to the bottom. Oh what a time it was... 

Look at it now!

High up above Lincoln Road.

Where my father had offices.

Where my son the architect loves to hang out.

Me, standing on top of the world of Miami Beach.

You can take the girl out of Miami Beach...

...but you can't take Miami Beach out of the girl.

You know why?

I got the sand in my toes ;)

Have a wonderful day.

When I go long on the Miami Hurricane...

...know tropical waves are rolling off of Africa.

And I see hurricanes on the horizon.

So prepare, do what you need to do.

And we will follow them step by step.

Advisory by advisory.

Sweet Tropical Dreams,

BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Know that Twitter is mostly weather.

Instagram is weather and anything I love.

Don't say I didn't warn you,

Ode to Miami History. Roasted Nuts & White Chocolate, Caramels & Cashews. Cocaine Cowboys. Films Music & What We Learn From History as we Deal with Covid 19.

Roasted nuts and white chocolate.

Caramels and cashews...

Music from the carousel 

off in the distance out of view.

In a half empty mall...

in my memories bright but small.

Deep in the recesses of my mind..

sharing them with my brother

one memory at a time.

Once upon a time ...
and what a time it was...
There was a Mall next to a Hotel.
The rooms over looked Biscayne Bay.
In the mall parents shopped and kids played.
Teenagers hung out in record shops buying music.
Cocaine Cowboys made deals out in the parking lots.
Miami Vice came to down riding neon lit streets outside.
Miami was a boom town once again and then......
Time moved on, bigger hotels and fancier malls.
Aventura Florida was built in the early 1990s
They drained a swamp..
They paved paradise and built a bigger mall.
People drove up Collins Avenue to shop and dine.
Luxury Hotels were built in nearby Sunny Isles
And Omni Mall became a ghost town.
A has been waiting to be torn down.

For me Omni was a place to escape to after work before the kids came home after I moved back to Miami from LA and I loved that it was quiet and I could wander through the adjacent Jordan Marsh department store that I grew up in as we went there at least twice a week after my Grandma went to the doctor across the street and the store was our treat for being quiet in the waiting room. The Ice Cream Parlor, the Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls suspended from the ceiling on swings during the holidays or the ever popular Biscayne Dining room looking out of beautiful Biscayne Bay. For my younger brother it was a happening alive place that he escaped to just across the Venetian Causeway that he watched go from popular to closing up one store at a time a decade latter.

A little bit of poetry here to start off the morning, mixing it up a bit as I'm looking back at a little bit of Miami history after a long talk with my brother this  morning as we shared memories of the Mall closest to Miami Beach in the 1980s. Lincoln Road wasn't popular then as a shopping, dining venue it was where our father worked in his office and we played pinhall in Mike's Cigar Shop that father said was probably a front for a bookie joint; not sure but something was going in that busy room behind the curtain behind the Ballyhoo Pin Ball Machines ;)

My brother wrote a book, buy it on Amazon online it's good and germ free ;) he lives in Greece in a city locked down he could use the money and you could use the poetry and prose to get you through another day in Quarantine ... whatever day this might be as we all have lost count. He used the "roasted nuts and white chocolate" line this morning in Messenger and it inspired me to write this morning's blog. The rest of the poem above is mine ;) but inspired by our talk.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980911312

History repeats and whether you are studying the history of dead, defunct malls before Big Box Houses like Macys and Sears currently dying even before people started dying from Covid-19  that came along putting the final nail into a world that we grew up in and thought would last forever. Spoiler alert: Nothing lasts forever. We are born to die. Enjoy the moments, the hours of fun in the sun and love ever lasting ... enjoy your moments while you got em cause time never stands still.

Then Miami became popular again as another BOOM TIME hit the city as we painted every building on Miami Beach in shades of Art Deco colors (the City Council seriously had to approve the shade of paint you chose for your house) and the party moved back to Miami Beach and Lincoln Road now a popular place to play, dine or just hang out under the palm trees where the parrots squawked and Miami moved again to another rhythm.

Bayside was built bit by bit and my ex-husband and I would take long, slow rides across Venetian Causeway always ending up at the old Bayside where Sonny Crockett's boat was docked and Hard Rock Cafe was the only show in town before they kept adding on bit by bit. Tracing that ride we watched on TV so often driving back and forth at night across the Venetian Causeway, windows down, music up as we stared out at the neon lights of Miami. The first time I saw the scene below I lived in LA and our night time drives were down Santa Monica Boulevard to La Cienega to Sunset Drive past the Chateau and back again... but now I was home in my Miami.

Fast Forward to 2020.

There's always a little bit of history repeating.

New song, new movie.

Miami popular again as always.

Amazing.

That movie nailed every one of my favorite place...

...where I'd go to wander and get lost and hide.

How did they do that......

.......but I digress.

What we learn from history is this.

Viruses are not just a computer hack....

....they change everything.

Some people die, some people live.

The Spanish Flu hit and things shut down.

Then in the Roaring 20s we roared back.

Dancing the Charleston and having fun again.

A good blog on genealogy teaches us this.

https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-family-in-cholora-pandemic-of-1848.html

If you do genealogy, and I do, you will notice that many ancestors lost family members from the measles and cholera as if it was the most normal thing in the world and it was back then. But, hey a little bit of history repeating and then "we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past" and we look back, remember and we smile. We learn from the past, we get inspired from the past and then we move on creating a new future, a brave new world.

Time Magazine (remember that one?)

Wrote off Miami as Paradise Lost.

The news media said Miami was dead.

And then it roared back again.

Wrapped up in neon pink.

Ecologically odd.

Aesthetically beautiful.

One of my favorite people.

Paul George the Miami Historian.

And an incredible friend always says..

Miami always has a 2nd Act!

So be like Miami!!

Stay inside, stay home, stay healthy.

Stay alive and then..

Have a Beautiful Second Act!

Again and again.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps. If the nonstop news gets too much for you. Turn it off.

Put on some music. Let go, relax, breathe and enjoy.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article225472800.html

December... Thanksgiving Over As Is the Hurricane Season of 2019. Traveling Back to the Carolinas Today...

Wondering if Mike makes a Winter Weather Tee Shirt?

Hmnnn.. may ask him.

My favorite place to go to know what's going on in the weather!

www.spaghettimodels.com

Snow and Winter Weather in the NE.

No hurricanes in the tropics.

Look at that beautiful world.

Note the big storm leaving the East Coast.

More moisture in the SW moving in...

Next storm system starting up.

I've missed most my weather friends this week.

But tried hard to live in the moment...

..with a super large family enjoying the moment.

Getting quality time when I could with who I could.

Blogging from the road today.

It's December.

I bought LED Chanukah stars in Target for my window.

Going to see if they work back in Raleigh ;)

The Hurricane Season is in the Rear View Mirror.

Well on our side of the world.

It's been a while I know. I spent the last week in sunny, South Florida hanging out with my kids, family, friends and taking in all my favorite places. Today we are continuing this trek back up the coast to more of my favorite places. A new favorite place showed up on the play list last night when we met my son, daughter-in-law and the adorable Olivia and Milo in St. Augustine dining by the harbor all lit up in twinkling lights at night. Beautiful. Writing this from Jacksonville, but by the time you read it we will have gotten back on the road Northbound.

I guess I missed all the hype about the Winter Storm of early December (E name on TWC?) and pretty sure it will be really remembered as the Thanksgiving Travel Storm Mess of 2019. If you were flying somewhere along the Northern rim of the country you may have been stuck in the airport somewhere, but driving in the Southeast the highways were blue, beautiful and sunny.

Thanksgiving Weekend snow may not happen often.

But really not that rare.

The truth is a Winter Storm that impacts the Northeast and Chicago messing up travel is not that rare a thing as if it was in Tampa Florida or even Atlanta... that would be huge news. I heard Cranky is missing on Twitter, hope he finds his way back to our neck of the woods. I've been offline most of this trip just enjoying life and living in the minute. The weather in Miami was beautiful, sometimes cool at night but not blazing hot during the day and the humidity was way down. My son is moving from his apartment that makes you feel like you are in Savannah with the fountain down below up town towards Aventura and the rest of the family.

So I had a long, espresso and said goodbye to my favorite breakfast spot this year when in Florida. New favorites are nice and will pop up this coming year I'm sure. We had a tropical Thanksgiving by my In Law's pool in the backyard where the frying turkey set off the yard's fire alarm system ... the bird was fine and the sprinklers quickly shut down. The house and adjacent Bird Farm (parrots) were fine, the ground just got a bit wet which was fine and the frying turkey barely noticed the fuss.

So what else happened this weekend?

Josh got to chase a cyclone!

Much to be thankful for there.

 DaBuh closed the 2019 Hurricane Season out.

Check that off the To Do List.

I'll blog on it once back in Raleigh.

The truth is it was all about Dorian.

Jim Williams wrote up an excellent report.

Note he was on the money totally this year.

All his top places he forecast would get hit...

...got hit so I'd listen to him carefully every year.

Link to article.

http://hurricanecity.com/blogs/2019/11/hurricane-season-predictions-summary/

Note in Florida when people ask experts.....

...they make sure Jim is there.

Visit his website and donate often.

It takes money to make the world go around.

And to keep websites going.

His city picks for being impacted are highlighted in yellow.

The yellow for the places that got hit.

Never seen anyone nail every city on their list.

He does deep analysis.

I've heard people say...

"well I don't like his system for picking cities...

My thought is "Really??" "It seems to work!"

He doesn't throw darts and get lucky.

Jim is analytical and a perfectionist.

This year he was as perfect as it gets!

My daughter in Miami helped a friend....

..adopt an adorable dog from the Bahamas.

One of the ones airlifted to Miami.

Everyone wants to adopt them until...

..they hear about their health problems.

From being in a Cat 5 Hurricane...

..and starving on the streets before being rescued.

I'll talk on that later this week.

Once home in Raleigh.

So I said goodbye to Miami.

Or as I think of it MYami.

And heading home for the Carolinas.

But Miami always MY home ;)

Hidden beautiful place #Miami #shores #miamishores #sunshine on the bay. pic.twitter.com/XbeHP0bPtT

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) November 28, 2019

Some places just make great coffee.

Miami, Tampa, Savannah, Seattle.

And other places in between like Nola.

 I know this is all about the coffee.

I may get a new Nespresso machine.

A small one for the bedroom.

I won't lie I'll really miss the perfectly made Cuban Coffee and Lattes ... you only get in Miami.

#becausemiami #Miami pic.twitter.com/70nN89mqb8

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) December 1, 2019

Besos BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Seems we are good when we have winter in all the right places, sunshine in Miami and storms with awesome cores Hurricane Man to chase ... For me I'm chasing really good coffee and an awesome pecan bun for lunch today!!

Tropics and Thunderstorms Over Miami In July.... Chasing Storms with my Best Friend

There's a decaying frontal boundary draped across the SE.

Convection flares up in the Gulf of Mexico.

Across Florida always but agitated more so by the nearness of the old front.

Off the SE coast there's convection.

A beautiful wave traveling Westbound low towards the Islands.

This is really seen best at night on this satellite image.

During the day there's much to look at.

At night only the strong stuff remains.

Anchored in place.

Check out the BOC.... 

Close in to Florida.

And oh those African Waves.....
...not expected to develop.
Much conversation online on that.

Well, that sure does look interesting. A product of the strong CCKW perhaps? @MJVentrice @webberweather pic.twitter.com/57jrp8nqUN

— Mark Sudduth (@hurricanetrack) July 26, 2019

This is July in the tropics.

Late July as that wave is very much alive.

But nothing is expected to form for the next five days.

We can check back later and see how that verified.

I had an awesome day yesterday.

Spending time with close friends and family.

Oh and chasing severe thunderstorms.

My best friend and I often chased storms.

Miami has crazy monsoon storms.

That take up the whole sky .... 

...roll across the sky to where it was once sky blue.

This image is facing East out doors the ocean.

Behind those palm trees is Haulover Beach.

Note how dark the squall line was moving East.

Bal Harbor.

Little white apartments dwarfed under the picturesque palms.

A few blocks further down and a few minutes later.

Darkness rolls in.

I lived on Miami Beach for many years, in ways I grew up there and started my adult life there before moving for a decade or so to California and then coming back to Miami Beach again. My best friend Sharon and I chased many storms, spent hours at the ocean before various hurricanes taking pictures and recording the weather details while capturing photographs that would stay alive in our mind forever. Small storms that no one remembers as well as watching Andrew hours before dark, before we hunkered down for it's assault. It's always awesome. Often a huge thunderstorm complex actually has more weather than a long forgotten tropical storm that's name remains on the list to get it's chance at infamy down the road.

Collins Avenue near Bal Harbor has wonderful places and hidden hideaways to catch the storm's arrival and that's what we did after an incredible lunch at a nearby Israeli restaurant. We managed to get to Haulover on the Bay side in time to watch it roll in, feel the wind, watch the palms dance and then the rain began. Oh, there were a lot of deadly lightning strikes with this storm... craziest lighting I've seen since I've been here. Beautiful Then we went back to the high bridge to get a better view as it rolled East and South over the ocean and Miami Beach. https://www.subresgrill.com/

It was so dark the street lights all came on.

You really can't beat chasing storms with your best friend.

Note Phil Ferro's post on the amount of lightning.

Noisy afternoon across Broward and Miami-Dade with over 11 hundred lightning strikes over a 30 minute span. pic.twitter.com/7q7dYtlq8q

— Phil Ferro (@PhilFerro7) July 25, 2019

I'll be back soon. 

Not much more to say.

Enjoy your day.

Besos Bobbistorm

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Check back later today.

Maybe I'll do a surprise Ps ;)

Have a birthday breakfast to be at soon.

Oh and again sorry for any typos.

I'm late for a very important date!