Posted on 08/09/2004 2:24:30 PM PDT by tmp02
Great...my Girlfriend lives in around Fort Walton beach, which is about 30 minutes east of Pensacola.
They usually blow in from the west northwest.
Finally some waves for the Gulf of Mexico! Woop! It's been flat for two months. Start waxing up your boards friends.
May you be similarly blessed this year.
My garden has been a swamp......we've actually gone 4 days in a row without rain - so maybe I can get some decent work done on/in it tomorrow.
That's been the biggest problem with the rain around here - it comes in fits and starts and the ground gets so saturated it has no where to go - heavy rain one day, none the next, then more rain, etc - it's been horrible this summer (winter and spring were also extremely waterlogged)
We were in the Smokys during that one. We talked about going over that way and to see it come in, but ran out of time.
No boating either...eeeesh, cry me a river...
I don't do flowers, but understand what you are talking about with your roses.
I have an absolutely beautifully timbered in and mulched bed for my herbs directly under one of my kitchen windows - and there is not a single plant in it. Of course the plan was that bed would be finished in June.........no such luck.
Of course we had also planned to have the barn totally dried in and everything out of storage both here and in Delaware and stored in the barn........I just paid both of those bills for yet another month.
And this is all because of rain that has absolutely nothing to do with hurricane season. While it is hurricane season, September/October tends to be the time frame for problems in this area. I'm really dreading it this year.
If the projections prove accurate it should hit just West of Panama City.
(OOPS - just realized I posted before finishing)
No boating is more horrible than anything else.
...Bonnie moves slowly northwestward over southern Gulf of Mexico...
At 10 PM CDT...0300z...the center of Tropical Storm Bonnie was located near latitude 23.4 north...longitude 89.2 west or about 390 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Bonnie is moving toward the northwest near 6 mph and a gradual turn toward the north is expected during the next day or so.
Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph... 85 km/hr...with higher gusts. Slow strengthening is forecast during the next day or two.
Bonnie is rather small and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to only 30 miles...45 km from the center.
The latest minimum central pressure reported by an Air Force Reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft is 1006 mb...29.71 inches.
Interests in the northcentral and northeastern Gulf of Mexico should monitor the progress of Bonnie over the next few days.
Repeating the 10 PM CDT position...23.4 N... 89.2 W. Movement toward...northwest near 6 mph. Maximum sustained winds... 50 mph. Minimum central pressure...1006 mb.
The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 4 am CDT.
Forecaster Lawrence
Push it away where?
Those, to me, have a tendency to be both very scaring and very heartening words.
Having grown up in NYC I never paid any attention to these types of stories - but having now lived on DelMarVa for more than 20 years, I long ago learned that even if the forecasters say the gulf coast - there is reason to pay attention.
I take nothing for granted during hurricane season and always pray these things will just go back out to sea and self-implode, or stay in the middle of the gulf and do the same.
So I take it golf is out for anywhere in Georgia on Thursday. Well, Mother Nature, I have a problem with that.
What site are you using for your maps and alerts?
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My house too................just what I need, more rain (NOT)
SHIPS predicting hurricane in 36 hours.
Just lovely....................Prayers to all in the path.
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