Comments | goes_sat: Tropical Storm Alex

goes_sat

Tropical Storm Alex

Aug 01, 2004 20:25

TD1 has developed into Tropical Storm Alex, our first named storm of the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Alex is 80 miles SSE of Charleston, SC. It has max sustained winds of around 40 mph with gusts around 65. Barometric pressure is at 1010 mb.

( Images behind the cut- with color I did myself showing estimated track and where the storm is )

Comments 6

silent_ic_river August 1 2004, 13:24:57 UTC

Gosh, thanks for all these images. My husband and niece are flying themselves out to Marsh Harbor, Bahamas today and it's a comfort (sort of) to see what they're flying around.
What's your opinion of the wave that's developing between Africa and the Lesser Antilles?

goes_sat August 3 2004, 08:07:57 UTC

Hrm, I'll have to look at it once this system passes and let you know.

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goes_sat August 3 2004, 08:08:29 UTC

Thank you, though the radar imagery was from ground dopplers.

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acelightning August 1 2004, 14:09:12 UTC

I hope this rather late start to the tropical-storm season doesn't mean we're still going to be dodging hurricanes in November...

goes_sat August 3 2004, 08:10:13 UTC

Unfortunately, I'm thinking it will. Don't quote me on it (as my predictions have been horribly off thusfar!) but I have a feeling I'll be super busy this year. I hope not (especially since I know that would cause problems for, say, newcomers to the S. Florida area who are terrified of hurricanes and tornadoes) but it seems to be that it will be that way.

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acelightning August 3 2004, 15:54:36 UTC

There's an old jingle from the Caribbean, about hurricanes:
June, too soon;
July, stand by;
August, come she must;
September, you will remember;
October, all over

Looks as if the rhyme is going to have to be rewritten...

And, while Hurricane Alex seems to be headed out into the open ocean, I see there's now a Tropical Depression Two building up in the southeastern Caribbean. You may very well be right about this being a busy year for tropical storms. Doesn't bother me too much, though... I've lived through quite a few hurricanes, even a couple of the "historic" ones, right here in the Northeast, as well as our "nor'easters", which seem to be structurally very similar to hurricanes, except with snow added. We meat people are pretty tough, when we have to be...