There's a Tropical Depression close to Florida

[malaise]

may be more trouble for the mid-Atlantic states later in the week

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT03/refresh/AL032019_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/203330_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png


SUMMARY OF 500 PM EDT...2100 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...25.6N 78.6W
ABOUT 120 MI...195 KM SE OF WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...30 MPH...45 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 305 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1013 MB...29.92 INCHES


WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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Interests in the Northwest Bahamas and the east coast of Florida
should monitor the progress of this system.

DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
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At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the center of Tropical Depression Three
was located near latitude 25.6 North, longitude 78.6 West. The
depression is moving toward the northwest near 13 mph (20 km/h).
A turn toward the north-northwest is expected overnight followed by
a turn toward the north and north-northeast on Tuesday and Tuesday
night. On the forecast track, the center of the depression should
remain just offshore of the east coast of Florida over the next day
or so.

[Lochloosa]

1. You always have such good news.

[malaise]

2. The good news is this is not the big one for 2019

[smirkymonkey]

9. When do you think that will be, malaise? And what areas will be hardest hit?

And do you think we will have another big one that make it up to the northeast again this year? I have decided that if we do, I am evacuating this time around.

[Cyrano]

3. Yep. It may be nothing, we may get wet, or it may really suck.

Living in on the Atlantic coast of Florida is a crap shoot. There's not much between us and Africa except a big ocean and some small Bahama islands.

The last big one to hit the east coast of Florida directly was Hurricane Andrew back in 1992 and it was something directly out of a horror/disaster movie.

Keeping an eye on this latest, ... whatever you want to call it. You never know.

Supplies stocked, plenty of batteries for the radio, and staying aware.

[malaise]

4. We Caribbean people would dispute that

big time - most of the storms from Africa affect us before reaching you

[Cyrano]

8. Yes, malaise. I know that.

The Caribbean has gone through hell over and over again.

Then again, given the ongoing climate change, who knows where the next bulls eye will be?

Perhaps, some day, science will help us all divert these natural disasters.

[malaise]

10. Here's the thing

If we don't get these waves, depressions, storms and hurricanes then we face teh kind of severe drought we're facing right now.

What we don't need is the strengthening in rapid time and very slow moving giant hurricanes that are linked to climate change

[malaise]

7. This won't be the big one

Trust me on that

[malaise]

11. TD#3 went poof but they're watching a new one

but there's a new one in the GOM



Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Tue Jul 23 2019

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Depression Three, located offshore of the coast of east-central
Florida.

1. A non-tropical low pressure area could form over the northern Gulf
of Mexico by late Wednesday or Thursday. Thereafter, conditions
could become marginally conducive for some subtropical or tropical
development as it moves slowly northeastward through the end of the
week.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.

Public Advisories on Tropical Depression Three are issued under WMO
header WTNT33 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT3.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Depression Three are issued under
WMO header WTNT23 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT3.

[dawg day]

5. One side effect of climate-change denial in Florida--

Is that a lot of elderly people like my stepmom "can't complain." Literally. She's always been a huge complainer-- complains about the letter carrier parking his truck on their street, complains about how pennies aren't worth anything anymore, complains about people laughing--

But no matter what weather disaster happens to her home state of Florida, she doesn't complain about that. Her town beach was covered in that "red tide" last year and no one could use it for weeks. She said, "Oh, that's no big deal!"
She had to be evacuated out of her town two years ago with the hurricane, and came back to a damaged roof and all this water and landscaping damage, and cheerfully said, "We were going to get a new roof anyway! And I never liked that lemon tree that came down."

I can see her sort of gearing up to complain, and then suddenly she remembers, 'Climate change is a hoax, Trump says!" And then she shuts herself up and insists that the weather is just great, no problems!

[malaise]

6. I don't know whether to laugh or cry

You can't win with deniers

[GusBob]

12. Lol. Sounds like my Mom

except for she would complain about the weather too. blame it Obama if she could

She lived with us for a year, and this is a true story: she complained about our daughter's Beta fish, Iris, which lives by itself in an aquarium in our kitchen. She bitterly complained that she didn't like Iris because "that fish is mean"