Hurricane Watch

[bilbobaggins]

Are any intrepid 'forumeers' heading towards the Caribbean for a charter - or beach - holiday soon?

If so, they may like to consider the warnings being posted in the NOAA National Hurricane Centre press release today - 2 August 05.

<http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.html>

For those who consider such stuff too far away to be relevant, it is worth recalling that one of these TRS events, downsizing and winging its way across the N Atlantic to Cornwall and Devon a couple of years ago, that did for Boscastle. And it could certainly happen again.

Anyone want to rent a holiday cottage on Dartmoor?

 

[TigaWave]

Hers the first one then..its up to tropical storm from a depression and heading this way.

now see if this works...
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/daten/sturm/2005/08/04/atl.gif?1123136028

 

[Moonshining]

I'm off to the BVI in late October. It should be the fag-end of the hurricane season by then, but I've been keeping an eye on this part of the same US government site, which has information on all the developing storms.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

 

[janeK]

another good site to watch:-

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNatio...mp;prodnav=none

 

[dutts]

This link has proved quite good before

www.hurricanecity.com

 

[Blueboatman]

IMHO The ones to watch are those -like right now ?- that organise clearly and strongly almost as soon as they come off the African coast-........................... The bigger they are, the slower and more reluctant to veer to the North early on, and the broader the swathe of damage . Early September used to breed the Monster catagory 4s and5s ,but last year saw the first recorded South Atlantic system ,so ,,watch this space !

 

[Sailfree]

On a more local note what will be the likely weather Solent - CI - France for the last 2 weeks of August. Will we catch the tail end of this? Sorry but I have never considered local forcasts with whats in Burmuda right now so don't know the time factor involved or the likely consequence.

 

[bilbobaggins]

Those of us staying this side of the pond might want to keep track of 'HARVEY'...

Pse. se my post of 5 Aug, and 'scuse the capital letters.

"....Good forumites planning a holiday cruise on the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland later this month might care to keep a careful 'weather eye' on what is now heading their way, and expected to pick up intensity....."

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