Life's a Coast

What's left of yesterday's "TD2" is still out there but has officially deteriorated into a "remnant low pressure area", and we also now suddenly have a "tropical wave" right off shore rolling in tonight and tomorrow. Right behind the TD2 "remnant low" is "Tropical Invest 90" (a "Tropical Invest" is a weather system being analyzed for potential tropical cyclone development, weather techie for "tropical wave"), which incredibly (this must be a slow tropical season news day) several models are projecting it to make it all the way here with land fall directly in the middle of Broward county, and the local news states that "they predict it will grow into a hurricane by Wednesday". Yep, must be a sloooow news day...

Yesterdays "TD2" (tropical depression two) that temporarily fell apart into a "remnant low" has regenerated as tropical storm Ana with the projected path once again aiming it directly here, but now as a hurricane. And the "Tropical Invest 90" disturbance is right behind Ana and almost as strong, also with the same projected path aiming it precisely here -- which is ok, because that far out there the actual path is never the same as the projections (maybe time to check the hurricane party supplies tho)...

The tropical wave that moved over us Friday night and Saturday is now in the gulf as tropical depression four and confusingly also appears to be tagged as "Tropical Invest 91" (meaning it is a TD that is being analyzed for development) headed for the panhandle -- altho even more perplexing just ahead of "TI91" we suddenly have the new Tropical Storm Claudette and we are not sure if the tropical wave that hit us is one or both of these storms. And, we still have TS Ana and TS Bill lined up in the Atlantic hurricane bowling alley for south Florida, followed by yet another "disturbance" rolling off of Africa. Must be getting close to Labor Day weekend, "rush hour" for tropical storms down here. We are so confused by all this that it has been decided that we shall hit the tiki bar early this afternoon to clear our heads and see what the locals say about planning hurricane parties (and argue about who is going to stay sober enough to video the sunset). It's a tough life, but somebuddys gotta do this...

We told ya yesterday, that altho tropical storm/depression Ana and now hurricane Bill were both pointed directly at us in the tracking maps, that we were safe cause that early in the developing stages, the path always changes, and the same tracking maps already have what is left of "depressed" Ana Belle now going south of us into the gulf and Billy Bob turning north toward Iceland by way of Bermuda. No hurricane parties this week.

On the fact that we have so often been correct in our observations and predictions on many weather events, and "they" have so often been incorrect, we wanted to make one more observation. Which is: have you ever noticed that none of the paid "expert" prognosticators, with all their modern technical equipment, never look back at their predictions and admit how often they are so blatantly wrong? Shouldn't there be a compilation of the accuracy and inaccuracy of their predictions, culminating in a running score or grade? Shouldn't their compensation be based on that grade? How about William "Wild Bill" Grey (as in always "wildly" off the mark) way up there in the remote Rocky Mountains of Colorado always being so consistently wrong on his "wild" guesses on Atlantic storms and hurricanes that he has to announce "adjustments" as the season goes along to make his predictions less laughable (yeh, that's the same %#@$!&g wacko that denies global warming and even climate change -- he can make "adjustments" for that too when the Pacific and Atlantic meet at the foot of the Rockies......).

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