Ida is late...

After an extremely quiet hurricane season...we are FINALLY going to see some (albeit weak) action. Tropical Storm Ida, forecasted to be Hurricane Ida in several hours, is moving up to the Gulf Coast. Which is the opposite coast I am on...so there is no REAL worry. Not only that, but shes projected to be a weak hurricane...and drop quickly back to a tropical storm.

Tropical storms STILL give lots of wind and rain...they have windspeeds up to 73 miles per hour and dump LOTS of water...as well as spin off tornados...which scare me a hella' lot more than hurricanes.

Here is Idas 3-day cone...


Looking at the above picture, you'd think that all the hoopla over storms in Florida is silly. After all...the cone shows that the projected path of the hurricane never even GETS CLOSE to South Florida....

In the below picture, you can see the wind speed projections. (I always love these colorful pictures...). In it, you can see that Florida WILL INDEED see some wind effects from Ida, should her course stay true. But it STILL looks like my little pocket of paradise...waaayyyy over on the most Southeast corner, still remains unaffected. So you're still thinking..."Whats the big deal?"

I like THIS picture best...it is a satellite image of the actual storm. I've said it before, and I'll say it again...hurricanes are not dots in a cone. The are MASSIVE weather systems, and even small ones can be hundreds of miles big and affect areas WAY out of their direct path...

You can see that even though Ida has barely cleared the Venezuelan coast, she is already affecting weather here in MY corner of South Florida. For two days, we've had a fabulous breeze. I've enjoyed it immensely.

Well see how that breeze works out over the next few days, shall we?