[NautiNurse]

Will Fay survive the rugged terrain of Hispanola? Is the Gulf of Mexico prepared for another tropical storm? Stay tuned...

[Ditter]

Watching! 8+)

[NautiNurse]

The system that has confounded weather watchers has finally
earned the name Fay.

Floridians--stay alert...

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[SAJ]

Thanks for the update, NN!

[Hazwaste]

Mustn't panic!

[abb]

The NHC has become wishcasters instead of forecasters. So desperate are they to have a named storm, they went ahead and issued a name before it meets their own definition of a TD - namely a low-level circulation. Has Bastardi gone to work for the NHC?

[PJ-Comix]

Will Fay survive the rugged terrain of Hispanola?

Correct. Pico Duarte on Santo Domingo is about 10,000 feet high. Also the storm tracks take it over Cuba which has mountains in Oriente province. This storm might hit Florida but I don't see how it can build up much power over those mountains.

[Red Badger]

I had a girlfriend in HS named Fay. They don’t name girls with names like that anymore..................

[jsh3180]

Oh well, the storm track comes right over my area in the Lower Fl. Keys. The models have it coming right up from Cuba, so not much time over open water to strengthen.

We can sure use the damn rain. This is the driest “rainy season” I have seen in 32 years of living in the Keys.

[PeteB570]

I’m running down to the beach this weekend to clean up and get ready for the September storms.

[Old Professer]

I’ve been watching this all day; it dumped 2.00 inches on PR overnight and is moving rather steadily but looks like it’s got a lot of ground to cover and little chance of getting back over open warm waters to fully develop.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Hi Nauti!
Keeping a watchful eye on this storm from Jacksonville. and keeping the prayers up for all of us who live in hurricane country.

[LadyPilgrim]

Thank you for the ping, dear one!
Maybe some of these storms will at least drop some rain here in my area! I hope, I hope! ;-))

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[mosquewatch]

Here in Biloxi,

We ain't scared of no freekin' tropical storm. Not a heck of alot to be wiped out anyway. ;)

Hurricane camille was a lady, katrina was a bi**h.

Fay is nothing.

[clintonh8r]

If it follows the projected track the mountains in Cuba should break it up pretty well, or at least keep it from developing much until it breaks out into the Gulf.

[Aquamarine]

Maybe the feeder bands will make it to north Georgia, we’re in a severe drought.

[G.Mason]

Nice layout.

Thanks

[NonValueAdded]

Beware Charlie II (Charlie’s wife Fay?)

[Caipirabob]

WE'RE DOOMED!

Now that that's off my chest, this trajectory, right up the West coast, is pretty unnerving. I mean, Wilma came at us from the West as well. Of course Wilma fed off the GOM before it arrived, but it was estimated at Cat 1, too, and look what we got.

I am truly hopeful the storm breaks up severely over Cuba's mountains.

Please be safe everyone. Thanks for the thread, Nautinurse, I'll be looking for followups. I'm still deciding whether to go fill my generator fuel supply or wait another day. I hate storing noxious substances.

[DeaconRed]

Once it hits the warm gulf LOOK OUT.
I have been dealing with hurricanes since hurricane Hugo. Yes I am a old wrinkley white haired guy.
Sometimes they are dead on with predictions and sometimes they are dead wrong. It is hard to predict what a spinnig top will do.