Hurricane Harbor

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!

Friday, July 26, 2019

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

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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.



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.





I'll be back soon. 
Not much more to say.
Enjoy your day.

Besos Bobbistorm
@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram

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!





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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Friday Third Look at Snow Storms and Weather and a Cold, Cold Start to March.



Went out last night for drinks with friends.
Whiskey Kitchen in Downtown Raleigh.
The Capital of North Carolina.
Filled with big beautiful public squares.
And in the spring they burst forth with color.
Beneath the Oaks in the City of Oaks.
At dusk it was almost warm.
But the forecast as 22 on Wednesday.
Which season is it already?
Woke up this morning and it's March... 
...go figure.

March 5th is Fat Tuesday.
March 26th is Purim.
Busy month.
Make the calendar your own :)


Happy March!
Yes that means 3 months til the Hurricane Season.
For some it's considered Spring today.
Meteorological Spring begins March 1st :)
Why you ask?



So you can decide if you go with today...
...or wait til the Spring Equinox.

We're still waiting on the real winter storm to stand up.
This is an older tweet but I love it.
Because it's kind of how I feel as well.




 Check back later this afternoon.
I'll talk on this weekend's storm.
And what will be will be with the next.

I'm still holding with Roxboro gets snow.
Doubtful on Raleigh.
A sliver of a chance it doesn't rain this Saturday here.
Sunday shows thunder.
Do I count ten days because it's winter?
Or go with March 1st being Spring?

Check back later.
Til then.... much here to think on.
And still relevant.


https://twitter.com/crankywxguy

Posting this image from yesterday's blog.
It shows a messy mix of systems trying to come together.
Models have been doing the two step.
An old Virginia Reel .... 
Did you ever have to learn this in school?
I did.
If only Mother Nature would come together like this.
But they they kind of then they move back.


Mother Nature doesn't want to dance this year.
She's doing her own thing.
Bi Polar personality maybe?
Or 2 Faces of Mother Nature.
Northern Jet Stream.
Southern Jet Stream.
Will these two ever hook up again for a winter storm?
Not likely but possible.

DaBuh shows these possibilities here above.
Who do you believe?
Whether it's the hurricane season or winter....
... The EURO and the GFS can't agree on the weather.
It's like that dance above.
We take a few steps to come together and then...
... things fall apart and we slide away.
Move on down the line.

EURO says NO.
GFS promises YES.

When you love the weather there are always consequences and moodiness sets in if the snow storm gets yanked away by the Yankees and Southerners dream of one last chance to see snow flurries flying about. Boring weather is boring for weather people. We all have those memories we love to remember and wish we could get a set up like that again. A few thunderbolts that came down fast nearby frightening us out of the pool and running for cover. A day when tornadoes were predicted and hit nearby and the sky turned more colors than Jacob's coat of many colors but they were all turbulent and in motion as they raced across the sky to a touchdown nearby just beyond the horizon. Standing on the protected porch with my brother watching things flying down the street.... roof shingles, branches, small trees in what was not a strong breeze but a real hurricane. Santa Ana winds in California snapping electric wires, starting fires and killing the flowers in the garden as if a dragon just exhaled with his dangerous breath as LA was melting under it's relentless presence. Weather memories dance in our heads the way scenes from Twister make us laugh and we love songs that talk about the weather. Loving weather has consequences.


Loving weather has consequences.
For many of us it's the first thing we remember loving.
Staring out the windows at a hurricane blowing.
Palm trees bent over swaying in the wind.
Hanging out on the porch in a thunderstorm.
Playing in our first snow fall.
Seeing our first snow falling.
Seeing the trunk of a Twister forming in dark clouds...
... wondering where it will touch down.

We are stuck at the end of winter....
...with wicked cold about to descend.
And yet only promises of rain....
Even though we dream of snow falling.
Weather people don't play it safe.
I'll tell you that.

See when you film a video for a song named Perfect..
...you put snow into the video.
It makes everything more perfect.


In some places weather is happening.
The Tar River in NC is flirting with flood levels.
NC has had way too much rain this year.
Hurricanes and Winter Storms that brought cold, cold rain.
And rivers that flow downstream and well..
..Spring brings River Flooding doesn't it?



California also having problems with flooding.
Beautiful Sonoma County is washing away.


And in places like Canada......
......they have ice and snow.
Pulaski NY has snow and ice.


Up in those parts they are so over winter.
One of my daughters lives in upstate NY.


Some of her hoops have ice on them.
She has a lot of hoops. 
Can't keep them all in the house.
Snow everywhere.
And I know she's dreaming of summer.
Blue skies and bright clothes.
Fountains and rainbows.
And hooping in the sunshine.


https://www.instagram.com/dinadeehoops/

In Florida and California where she grew up...
.... life was a different story.

In Miami winter is pretty much over.
Mango Season has taken over.


Mangos are so tasty.
The heavy scent of their blossoms baking in the sun is not.
The scent is musky and heavy and gives me headaches.
But oh the mangos are so delicious.

I had mangoes in a salad in Myrtle Beach.
A Key West salad.
Mangoes and Hearts of Palm.

Anyway.... maybe I'll get some snow flakes.
Not holding my breath.
They take the snowflakes out of the forecast.
They put in a wintry mix.
They take it out.
It's a dance weather people do...
...until a day or two before it comes through.
And then we will see what we will see.
I hope to see some snow.
If only wishes came true...

Besos BobbiStorm
@bobbistorm on Instagram and Twitter.

Ps... Weather memories are forever.
Somewhere an old woman stares out the window of a Rest Home at snow falling.
And on the front porch an old man sits in a rocker watching the sky and wondering....
... if it will snow or rain and we are as we were when we were little kids. Looking out 
the window and watching the weather. I've danced in rainstorms. I've stood on beaches 
getting slammed by tropical winds in nameless hurricanes that all blur together.
I don't want to watch a movie about the snow I want to walk in it and feel it 
and see it falling before we race ahead into the hurricane season which is coming soon.
Stay tuned.












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