I’m planning to leave for California from Boca around September 10th. I was hoping that I could avoid a hurricane, as we’re heading into the heart of the season, but Ericka has formed (sorry, not a permalink):
The cloud mass just east of the Windward Islands developed into Tropical Storm Erika late Tuesday afternoon. The storm was able to develop thanks to the overall flow plus warm sea surface temperatures between 83 and 86 degrees in that part of the Atlantic. Erika is moving slowly and will not threaten the Southeast coast of the United States before Labor Day. Before then, the storm will have some impact on the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic before moving east of the Bahamas.
Will it continue through the Bahamas to “west of the Bahamas” (i.e., the Florida Peninsula)? Or head north, as everything else has so far? The models are all over the map, with some of them taking it through the Greater Antilles. Extrapolating the five-day track (again, unfortunately not a permalink), it looks like south Florida would be on the southern edge of the cone.
Will he manage to get away without shuttering? Will he manage to get away at all?
Stay tuned.
Better than a soap opera, Rand. 😉
Seriously, though, stay safe. Hopefully, you’ll engineer your escape with no damage, waving goodbye to Erika, and Florida, as you go.
Out of the storm kettle, into the brush fire …
Rand, you should come to New Jersey instead. Mother Nature doesn’t try to kill us here at regular intervals.
I pray that the storm stays away from us.