May 14, 20188 yr We have our first tropical depression and the season is still a month off. National Hurricane Center Special Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 340 PM EDT Sun May 13 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: 1. A large area of cloudiness, showers, and thunderstorms extending from western Cuba across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Straits, and much of the Florida Peninsula is associated with a broad surface low and trough interacting with an upper-level low. This system could acquire some subtropical or tropical characteristics while it moves slowly northward across the eastern Gulf of Mexico during the next few days. Regardless of subtropical or tropical cyclone formation, this system will enhance rainfall across portions of Florida and the northeastern Gulf Coast during the next few days. For more information on this system, please see products issued by your local weather office. The next Special Tropical Weather Outlook on this system will be issued by 11 AM EDT Monday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent. Forecaster Brennan We need the rain here, bad. Guess I need to start replenishing my plywood. When my friend contracted cancer, last fall, and became wheelchair bound, we took all of my shutter plywood and made a ramp to allow him to get in and out of his home.
May 14, 20188 yr Girlfriend is going to Jamaica in September. She was like "Could there be a hurricane then?" I was like "Um, yes. It's likely, actually." :lol2:
May 15, 20188 yr Girlfriend is going to Jamaica in September. She was like "Could there be a hurricane then?" I was like "Um, yes. It's likely, actually." :lol2: Lol. We're going to Gulf Shores in October. Fully planning on there being a hurricane... it's my luck
May 15, 20188 yr Author It hasn't been too bad, so far. Yesterday we got 3 inches of nice soaking rain and it was a steady down pour, all day. We really needed that. Today it is sunny and windy. I was hoping for more rain.
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