Good afternoon. I’m pleased to say that our move into our new home ran very smoothly yesterday. It’s sure been a hectic past few days and really past few months but we’re in and now beginning a new chapter.
Thought I would nip up to my wife’s parents house to use the WIFI and bring a quick post. It gives me a break from unpacking and catches up a little on what’s going on weather wise.
After drenching Dominica with major flooding, a more westward track of Erika than expected has meant a path of dissipation and flooding rains across mountainous Hispaniola and Cuba.
This is further rain in a moisture starved Caribbean.
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While this system may be torn apart by mountains and shear but IF there’s enough of any sort of system once it reaches the Florida Straits or better still, the Gulf of Mexico, regrouping is quite possible and by that I mean a storm or even a hurricane.
Erika’s threat is not over. The storm poses a major rain and flood threat to Cuba, Florida and the Southeast.
Credit: AccuWeather
Credit: AccuWeather
NHC track now takes the remains of Erika further west into the GOM.
The upper pattern will act as a toasty tropical magnet as the core of high pressure builds into the famed Great Lakes and eastern Canada region. Look out below and we should continue to watch Erika closely.
A July-like week coming up.
Credit: Tropical Tidbits
Credit: Tropical Tidbits
Credit: Tropical Tidbits
Credit: Tropical Tidbits
Credit: Tropical Tidbits
Everything should be largely back to Wednesday with videos once again as I expect to have broadband up and running at 12 midnight on Tuesday! Until then, stay tuned for written updates.
Instead of taking today off, I’m taking tomorrow off. Will have next update Monday AM.
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When I’m not to be found in Nashville, Tennessee – where I’ve spent quite a bit of time since May of 2013 – I am usually at home in Malibu, California. My family and I do a fair amount of traveling related to the music business.
It will be interesting to see how this complex climate situation affects Malibu for 2015/16 where the weather often gets interesting in “normal” times. We live near Zuma Beach where the Santa Monica Mountains rise up out of our backyard. “Malibu” is a Native American name for the area which means “mountains that run into the sea”.
As late as the 1890’s the California Grizzly bear roamed the mountains and beaches. Today we still have a small population of Mountain Lions hanging on to the terrain. About 6 years ago we were awakened in the early hours of the morning before dawn to the sound of (heavy) cat paws on the roof deck above our bedroom. We were able to peer out the windows to see a pair of young teenage Mt. Lions (siblings) had jumped the fence to run around the yard and play in the pool.
Wonderful your move went so well. Thanks for the continuing coverage. Erika’s been a bit of a firecracker in the head-scratching sense. She will at very least leave quite a bit of rain behind in FL and as you point out could consolidate and make more mischief around the U.S.
How about those 3 hurricanes in the Pacific? Pretty wild, eh?
I will be spending a great amount of time in Southern California over the next year, 2015/2016. Will sorely miss the four seasons of Nashville, especially the Winters. I joke about the six seasons near the beach (where I live when I’m there): Summer, fire, flood, onshore (fog), offshore (Santa Ana winds), traffic – and Summer.
Thanks, Kathleen. Where bouts in CA will you be? Look forward to hearing your reports from there. Especially this upcoming winter.