Superstorm Sandy - 10/31/12 Update

The most devastating storm in decades to hit the country's most densely populated region upended man and nature as it rolled back the clock on 21st-century lives, cutting off modern communication and leaving millions without power Tuesday as thousands who fled their water-menaced homes wondered when — if — life would return to normal. "Everybody knew it was coming. Unfortunately, it was everything they said it was."

Source: Yahoo News

Hurricane Sandy - Sunday 10/28 update

A possible repeat of Hurricane Irene last year (see archived posts from August 2011 in the left side panel), Hurricane Sandy is churning its way up the East Coast heading for landfall early next week and a rendezvous with a wintry storm system from the west. The mid-Atlantic is the most-densely populated region in the United States, about 64 million people -- more than 1 in 5 Americans -- potentially lie in the storm's path.

Click here for general storm path and conditions update from CBS news.

Hurricane Sandy : The Serious Side

Hurricane Sandy : A Bit Of Offtrack Humor

Tropical Storm Isaac

Florida's Panhandle looks to be in Isaac's main sights, but the Saturday start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa was also rescheduled.

T/S Debby - Jacksonville and Northern Florida in the Proverbial Barrel for the 2nd time in a month

I keep forgetting that we're at the beginning of Hurricane Season, having already gone thru storm preparation and recovery with T/S Beryl about 4 weeks ago. So here comes T/S Debby, with similar patterns as Beryl, except that Debby is Gulf-based. Where Debby makes landfall is the unanswered question as I post this projection, with a wide area centered around Florida's Panhandle as a candidate for lots of wind and rain evolving over the next five days. (I didn't want to wish our Texan neighbors any harm, but originally I was kind of excited at the possibility of movie remakes of "Debby Does Dallas".) As with Beryl, T/S Debby is excepted to diminish in strength as it approaches and makes landfall, not quite reaching 75mph hurricane strength.

T/S Beryl - Starting the H-Season Early and Giving Jacksonville FL a Wake Up Call

Jacksonville's had a blessed and basically quiet hurricane history, much like the comfort level the Virgin Islands had up until Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Hugo complicated island life forever and gave people a reason to take storm preparation seriously in the future. Hurricane Season starts June/July, depending on who you ask, and ends in Oct/November --- that's approximately 5-6 months of every year, not to mention the occasional storm that appears late or early, as T/S Beryl is doing here. Fortunately Beryl looks to be maxing out as a Tropical Storm when it makes landfall, but sub-hurricane 70 mph winds are just that, so I hope everyone watches this one closely and doesn't throw caution to the wind.