Five more systems in the Pacific

[malaise]

One will hit Hawaii on Wednesday as a tropical storm. Hope 92E gives California some rain

[djean111]

1. Damn!

I live in Florida (Tampa Bay area), and am starting to think that the days of Atlantic hurricanes landing here sure have become few and far between.

[csziggy]

3. There's an interesting circulation up near the Florida Panhandle

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=TLH&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

But it's not listed as any kind of system. Earlier today it almost looked as though it had an eye developing just off the coast around Cedar Key!

[malaise]

4. NOAA gave it a 10% chance for development

Lots of rain in Western Florida.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2

[csziggy]

8. We don't need that up here around Tallahassee

But parts of Central Florida are still down on their ground water. Where Mom lives in Polk County, the lakes and streams are still low. At least she's gotten enough rain to keep her grass alive, unlike some recent years when it was brown this time of year. She lost a lot of the more interesting plants in her garden during the drought and the ground water well that she had for watering the garden went completely dry and burned out the pump.

Up here, we had a couple of really wet years and every time we get much of a chance of rain they put out flash flood warnings. Some of the rural roads here have water right up to the edges so it doesn't take much to get water over the roads. One place has semi permanent poles marking the road edges - with swamp on both sides all it would take is getting off the edge of the asphalt and a vehicle would bog down. And the way the road sides are torn up, it's happened more than once recently.

[malaise]

9. Take care

and keep an eye on the mosquitoes.

[csziggy]

11. I no longer spend much time outside

Especially with this heat and humidity. My breathing got so bad I went to get it checked out. Looks like all my years of breathing crap and ignoring lung infections is getting me close to COPD. Extreme heat, cold, high or low humidity makes it hard to breath so I'm staying inside most of the time. For exercise we go to one of the big stores and hike around as fast as possible. Sometimes we make two or three turns around, then might do some shopping. Sometimes we just use their air conditioned space, LOL!

It's hard to believe I grew up with no AC, bad heat in the winter, lots of bugs, played in the spray from the mosquito trucks and never thought a thing about it. Then I spent thirty years running a horse farm and dealing with dust and more bugs. I bet all of that contributed to my breathing problems now.

Getting old is NOT for sissies but it seems to be turning me into one.

[malaise]

13. Getting old is NOT for sissies

Yep - that sentence has real meaning - now you take care of yourself as best you can

[djean111]

5. Yeah, I just looked at that. We have been having a lot of rain and thunder here

in the Tampa Bay area, but not much in the way of winds.
I like that map Thanks!

[malaise]

10. LOL WU just added

the system you mentioned on the map I posted.

[csziggy]

12. Wow! I had tghat map up and just refreshed - we have a system!

Thanks!

One of the projected tracks is right over us. Goody.

[malaise]

7. Florida hasn't had a hurricane in 10 years

Keep those fingers crossed

[djean111]

14. But the insurance companies keep jacking up those premiums.

The Tampa Bay area seems to be protected by Pinellas County somehow - legend has it that the Pinellas Indians buried either treasure or a virgin on the beach, to ward off hurricanes.
When I first moved here, we would rush to cover all the sliding glass doors with plywood and stock up on stuff. After a while it was just Got ice? Okay then.

[malaise]

23. Well you sure will get some water today

[djean111]

24. This has been happening for a week. Hopefully it is all not just run-off, and will soak into

the ground. One thing that does happen is that large trees, if they are canted even a little bit, may topple because so much rain softens the ground and the roots cannot hold.

It is 8 am, lovely sound of rain and rolling thunder all around. One of my fantasies, if I could get it done, is to have a room with wall(s) and perhaps partial ceiling of black iron framed windows, so I could just see and hear the rain all around me. But, I guess, the sun would make it into a giant solar cooker.

[elias49]

2. Cool map!

I'd love to know how that would look if they had been able to do this 50 years ago. Would there be as much red?

[malaise]

6. Our Oceans, Seas and Gulfs were not that hot

Anyway I want some rain really bad and would welcome a tropical storm

[spanone]

15. k&r...

[DFW]

16. Just stay the hell away from Vancouver and points north

At least from August 22 thru Sep. 6

After that, as John Lennon once sang, "rain, rain rain, rain, I don't mind........."

[malaise]

20. Why those dates??

[DFW]

25. That's when I'll be there!

Except for changing planes, I don't know Vancouver or Alaska. I'd hate for our trip to be rained out.

We never take six weeks of vacation in the summer, but the daughter of good friends of ours is getting married in Western Massachusetts in September, and we didn't want to wreck our body clocks completely by going back to Europe for ten days and then back to America again for the wedding, and then back to Europe four days later. But nor did we want to vegetate around the houses of friends or relatives for that long either. My wife had always wanted to see Alaska, so that's what we're doing. It means a 20,000 mile summer, but it can't be helped.

[allan01]

17. ive been doing my rain dance , but central office keeps giving me a busy signal

sseriously folks i hope this one comes too. crosses fingers.

[malaise]

21. You're in California??? n/t

[allan01]

26. si

[Art_from_Ark]

18. I don't see where they get TD 14 near Japan

Being as close to Japan as it is supposed to be, it would surely be on the Japanese radar. But there is no mention at all of any TD 14 in the Japanese weather reports, although they do show #13 (Soudelor)

?t=1438562810

[davidpdx]

19. Fourteen shows up on TSR, but it is a tiny one

http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/

[Art_from_Ark]

22. That tropical depression didn't even get a mention on tonight's NHK weather report

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/weather/

So I assume they don't think it'll amount to much more than a little rain storm.