System off SE Coast... Surfs Up FL ... Windy... Hurricane Season 2 Months Away. Are You Ready? Amber Sunsets and Some Thoughts on Moving Towards April.

Going to talk on the system off the SE Coast.

And talking a bit on hurricane season.

Along with a few other things for various reasons.

Before I talk on this further note....

That huge storm off the NW coast.

That is not a hurricane...

It's cyclonic....

Winter weather is far from over.

Even though we are dipping our toes into Spring.

Today off the SE coast is a small system.

Up close you can see it below.

See the tight gradients along the NE FL coast?

This is a system that is coming together.

TWC is on the scene.

Surf's up.

Windy.

Stormyish.

Locals are barely talking on it.

But for weather people it's weather.

Guessing they are shooting videos for Daytona Beach...

..future episodes about NASCAR or ??

If they had been in Cocoa Beach they'd have seen hail!

Huge hail.

Florida city sees so much hail it looks like piles of snow https://t.co/gIfzPI8O3V via @10NewsWTSP

— BobbiStorm (@BobbiStorm) March 27, 2019

When I was a kid in Miami I never saw snow.
But one day the ground was covered with hail.
I mean as in huge hail stones....
No green school yard it was all white like snow.
Happens...
Mike knows it happens.

Mike's Facebook Page has the video.

https://www.facebook.com/mikesweatherpage/posts/

In a month of so another similar system could get a name.

Subtropical Storms are always possible there in May.

It's April in 5 days. 

De Facto April today.

This loop shows the story.

Freezing cold clouds to the North.

Warmer water to the South.

Tail end of fronts...

Swirls that get stuck..

Swirls that swim up along the coast.

Caught in a busy flow so out to sea.

But things begin to change day by day now.

Beach by beach the waters warm up.

My brother posted this picture he took from a S FL beach.

https://www.instagram.com/ronnieschwartz/

He obviously went to the beach early.

Wind not as strong in Miami-Hollywood area.

But that sense of weather out there somewhere.... 

Ironically Jo Malone sent me this advertisement seconds later.

So I'm naming that picture of his Amber Sunrise :)

I have a love hate relationship with Jo Malone.

Most of the scents I hate or they hate me.

Way too strong, expensive 

And sometimes just so wrong.

But sometimes they get it so right.

I have allergies so......

... have to try them on carefully.

Beautiful packaging.

If I had the money I'd buy it for the packaging.

Silly huh?

That's kind of how I feel about TWC being in Daytona.

It's not that strong a storm but hey if you have the money.

You fly off and stand on the beach looking serious :)

And do live updates.

Choose wisely which beach to travel this time of year.

If you want wind... OBX is always good.

If you want warm water... South Beach is always good.

For today Daytona is definitely breezy.

Multiple alerts for high surf and rip currents.

As for my local beach which basically is Wrightsville in NC

(when not in Miami...)

They have a link on their site to water temperatures.

Rising water temperatures coming.

That link takes you to this page below.

This is why OBX usually gets hurricanes in August and September.

Doesn't really get bath tub like until then.

But each year is unique in it's own way.

Link to Wrightsville Beach NC NWS

https://www.weather.gov/ilm/WaterTemp-WrightsvilleBeach

That's me staring at the water in March of 2017.

It was a rare warm March day.

Headed to the beach.

But didn't go in because not a tourist.

Miami girl in NC ya know...

Back in Miami Beach...........

... the water temperature is 77 degrees!

http://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/South-Beach_Miami/seatemp

That's more like it.

Another image from their site is shown below.

Anomalies ...

Gulf Stream warming up.

Beaches near the coast cold still.

Pockets of warm water in the GOM

And just off the Southeast coast.

Prime regions for early development.

Areas to watch in May are same areas in June.

June comes too soon for people who hate hurricanes.

And never too soon for trackers and chasers.

It's kind of like Jo Malone perfume.

Some hate it as it's very strong and often lingers....

.... others love it because it's strong and lingers.

What do you love?

Today I'm in love with the word Amber.

I fell in love with this song below because....

... I loved the lyrics "caramel colored sunset sky"

Awesomeness.

Maybe "amber sunset" needs a country song ;)

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps... kudos to Dabuh he's been on the money.

Before The Weather Channel began talking about it.

Tropics Tuesday. 94L Westbound. Atlantic Filled with Convection. Fronts Moving. Atmosphere is Dancing. Winter is Coming But It's Not Over Yer. Music ...

94L above.

Every story has two sides.

Below you can see the other side.

High pressure for now to the North.

A saturated environment to the West.

And it's going to add moisture to that environment.

We can pretty much write this off...

I am concerned on this area down the road.

Something could develop.

Something most likely will over time.

So lot's of color moving into EPAC.

Another flash of color further East.

Upper Level Low to it's North.

Tickling it basically.

It giggles. It flares up.

More flash than substance.

But watching it.

Sometimes things don't develop right then and there.

But they interact down the road at the right spot.

Fronts on the move......

Tropics still have potential 

http://weather.unisys.com/sites/default/files/mnt/
webdata/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.gif 

Is this the most perfect view ever of the tropics and parts of the world? It is to me. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The ridge to the North pushes down, compresses and stimulates the wave but nothing going to happen now. The energy from 94L will go West then get entrained in that pumped up flow over the SW and into Texas and bring rain to the East Coast. Some drops of DNA barely traceable in an Ancestry Test will rain on someone in the Northeast. Weather and the atmosphere is a visual ballet to me. Like you dancing in the dark going on instinct. Speaking dancing in the dark, this is one of my favorite songs. Music today is golden, we have a great era of music going on currently.

Is the season over?

No... November is coming.

And October may squeeze out another name.

And something along the coast will blow up.

But we aren't sure just what yet.

Surfs up that's for sure.
Texas still getting flooding rains.
Yet the storms have no name.
Though the result remains the same.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=ecmwf&region=atl&pkg=mslpaNorm

I know everyone wants to see the EURO so there it is....

Stay tuned.

Clues... 

Pieces of a puzzle spread across the wet lawn.

Clues to what happened in the storm last night.

And if one may form next week again.

Stay tuned.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter

Follow me.. updating in real time all day.

Ps...PLEASE read yesterday's blog...

...if you are interested in weather history.

Hurricane Hazel and Hurricane Matthew.

Are we done with storms along the East Coast this year?

http://hurricaneharbor.blogspot.com/2018/10/invest-94l-in-caribbean-circle-in-carib.htm

Song stuck in my mind for the last day or two. Isn't that annoying when that happens? I figured maybe if I listen it I'll become immune to it... Has a great chorus, that's what does it you know? The chorus hooks you in...  someone taught me that as they used to analyze music the way some of us study meteorology. Then again I just like to dance to a good tune.



See it worked........ listened to Ed Sheeran for a while and nothing else remains in my brain.