Weather Odd in Caribbean

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by landonshaw

. Does anyone have a website that does that?

Try this one: http://ralphstropicalweather.homeste...eatherOut.html and click on Storm Tracks
watch the typos on some of the storm names. Its get confusing.

Anyway, Invest 93 has gone from 40% to 30% chance

[landonshaw]

That is it. Although it is only on TS that the forecasts are presented. Thank you, dave

[avb3]

x2 on various recommendations for Stormpulse.

For more detail and technical information, this retired USCG meteorologist gives his daily insight, not always agreeing with NOAA

I find reading his site, because it is so technical, to be "above my head" at times, but do find I am picking up some ability to look to the east, including on the continent of Africa, and spot potential trouble coming.

Stormpulse is a lot easier to follow.

[Catopia]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

For all who still use Windows OS : I am still giving away this free software for downloading weather from the Internet (like a super fast weather-fax-emulator). It's database is filled with the exact same images as the Wx fax from New Orleans so ready for the Caribbean.

I wrote this software myself just for fun. It here : http://www.sv-jedi.org/sv_jedi/WxDow...stribution.zip

just unzip it and run it just by double clicking it. It creates a subfolder with date&time as name every time you run the download so you get a decent archive without mixing it all up.

ciao!
Nick.

Cool app, thanks.

[osirissail]

Originally Posted by MarkJ

. . . Mostly a bit north of us. Martinque etc. But I don't have a polt of the GFS Model, where you get it from?

Current GFS model run - Maps : Weather Underground - (see post #2) has the system staying low as a Tropical wave and crossing lower Windwards between Grenada and the Grenadines. Maybe increasing to a TD then and interestingly moving across the A.B.C. Islands as a TD or TS then intensifying and going for Belize.
- - If you look at the Sahara Dust Layer it is quite south and also a piece is covering the lower Windwards which normally would keep the system from developing further until it gets west of there.
- - But we are still too far out to get any reasonable amount of certainty in the forecast. Still I would move to Hog Island or Clarkes Court Bay to be ready to move south if things change. Besides "burger nite" with Smokie on the Steel Pans at CCBM on Wednesdays is fun. Last place I would want to be is Prickly Bay (even though I still have a mooring there, or did when I left).

[xeon_tsd]

Originally Posted by zeehag

stormpulse has patterns for projected paths of storms--looks like one could be a consideration for caribean and gulf--the others seem to be going up the atlantic coast---we have one forming, mebbe, but with luck will go out to sea....

+1 for stormpulse.. the company i work for does evacuation management for Texas and SC... I use stormpulse more than any other site.

[osirissail]

Check out this satellite series today - Looks like the Windwards are bore-sighted - and - what is that mysterious red coloured system coming up low and very fast from behind . . . Maybe it is one of those extra-dimensional "branes" that the physicists say started the "big bang" . . . headed right for Grenada.
Tropical Atlantic - Infrared Channel 2 Loop (Flash) - Satellite Services Division/Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by osirissail

(even though I still have a mooring there, or did when I left).

If you like drop me an email with the location and I can have a look etc


Mark

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by osirissail

Check out this satellite series today - Looks like the Windwards are bore-sighted - and - what is that mysterious red coloured system coming up low and very fast from behind . . .

Thats all in front of the wave.

Fun day tomorrow.

[osirissail]

Originally Posted by osirissail

. . . Still I would move to Hog Island or Clarkes Court Bay to be ready to move south if things change. Besides "burger nite" with Smokie on the Steel Pans at CCBM on Wednesdays is fun. . . .

I just received another reason to be in Clarkes Court Bay or Hog Island while waiting out the season. For all of you who wish to get a glimpse of what the cruising life is like in the Islands, check out these YouTubes - the Dinghy Concerts / raft ups in Clarkes Court Bay and especially the ones at Hog Island. For those stuck at home on shore - eat your heart out . . .

4th Dinghy Concert - YouTube

3rd Dinghy Concert - YouTube

http://youtu.be/zMUjDW00Rd4

http://youtu.be/cRNzi_aIUk8

[MarkJ]

Invest 93 has popped up again and zeroing in on St Lucia.

[MarkJ]

Invest 97L looks like giving St Martin a hurry up this Sunday....

[zeehag]

good luck with that---isnt as well developed as the one you are sending across mexico (invest 93)--will weaken nicely before crossing completely, hopefully....