Kyras

I bought these chrysanthemums today to replace the ones that died last winter.



The forecast for Loveland, Colorado.

jukngene

What did you folks on the Gulf do to piss off the weather gods???

Marco:


Laura:



A double whammy headed for N'awlans, it appears. Hang tough, Mike, since you appear to be on the windward side of the cyclone.

boltonblue

yikes. i was thinking that might happen.
the two storms wouldn't like to run side by side without interacting.
and I was thinking that they might train over each others path.
thankfully they aren't big storms yet.

Kyras

^After a high of 98* the sun shinned through the smoke and clouds for a few minutes.

MsPerky

Ugh...those fires out west are just awful. We have been in the 80s here for awhile, but going back to the 90s for a few days.

Nil-S2k

Flying back home to Baton Rouge later today from Tampa. Going to be an interesting week. Looks like Marco might be just a warm up with the real show starting later in the week with Laura. There isn’t a lot of faith in the tracking forecast due to the conditions and the fact that the two storms will interact on some level. I’m not worried about a 1...even a 2 is manageable but 3+ is mandatory “GTFO” for me. Crazy setup for the gulf.

boltonblue

I recall about 30 years ago we hd two hurricanes in the Atlantic sort of aligned north south of the coast.
the outer bands basically were like a conveyor belt of tropical moisture to the north.
we didn't get the hurricanes but we got 15 inches of rain over the weekend.

Lainey

We had a nice thunderstorm and a good soaking rain for a while late yesterday afternoon. The rain is very much needed. There was even a rainbow. I didn't go chasing after the pot of gold. Why bother, as Barbara Walters would say, "This is 2020!" Lucky to see a rainbow in 2020, pots of gold just won't be at the end of said rainbow.

MsPerky

Lots of rainbows here lately. One the other day came up right across the street at the Iwo Jima Memorial. Usually they come up out of the Pentagon or that area. And lately, they have all been pretty much doubles. We get a lot because rain storms move in from west to east so the sun is shining from the west when the storm has moved east.

tof

We went down to the Long Beach harbor this morning for a bit to watch the early birds getting their boats out of the harbor, as Biloxi, Gulfport, and Long Beach harbors are all under mandatory evacuation. The big boats we saw leaving the harbor look to be headed east and eventually into Biloxi Bay.

Looks like Marco will visit tomorrow as a tropical storm. As Nil said, those aren't really much of a worry for us, and Marco is on a track to make land fall in Louisiana and quickly weaken. Laura, on the other hand, may gain strength once it clears Cuba and could hit the coast, most likely again in Louisiana or Texas, as a cat 2 hurricane. That's board up the windows strength.

Thanks to a nice big high pressure system off the Atlantic coast, both storms should track west of us. We will probably get some storm surge as we will be in the northeast quadrant of both storms but nothing we can't easily deal with.

Of course a couple days before Katrina hit, we were saying the same thing.