Big into the exploration of Atlantic Hurricanes since Katrina came uninvited into his world, James (Jim) Gurley (JamesG161) has followed every Tropical Storm birthed in Atlantic, Gulf and Caribbean waters since. Being a boater, he knows that we often need more time to prepare than we get from the TV weather folk. Jim relies on the science of storm development to share early warning info with friends and fellow boaters.
Early in 2018, Jim and John Shepard, (JSSailem) started to chat about the weather data available. John asked Jim to help forecast Pacific NW storms, and this morphed into discussions on weather forecasting.For John, sailing in the PNW is sometimes hit and miss. One day is ugly, then a string of beautiful days but no wind, followed by a series of blue-sky days and 12 knot breezes. Being ready for those great sailing days means you need to look to the Pacific Ocean and what is brewing. John has been into Pacific NW Weather since the 1970’s when his first PNW November storm hit bringing more than 40 days and 40 nights of continual rain.
Together we want to share information, new APPs, safety, and thoughts about letting the weather help you. Identify some of the resources for sailors and help prepare you for your next sailboat outing.It is far better to go out on the water knowing what to expect in weather terms, than to be out on the water and see dark ominous clouds suddenly appear, unprepared.
I get it and enjoy the punctuation the expression offers. I well remember Dr. McCoy on Star Trek. "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor!"
I just reviewed the most recent Hurricane Hunters dropsonde buoys and the narrowed down the point of "hurt locker"
H town will be fine, depending on exactly where she is in Houston the only significant concern will be loss of power from downed trees IF the wind shows up.. That will be mainly east of I45. Thus far it is clear and not much of a breeze. The Golden Triangle is an all together different story. Praying for all in the path.
Thanks for pointing to this and the other buoys that had been in the storm’s path. Is there any centralized list of all of these various data sources? I’ve seen multiple different pages, each with their own maps, but no one unified source where you could just look at one region on a map and know everything available there. If no one source exists, maybe you and jssailem could post a list of links to all the various sources.
The main source for all weather is here.
The thought process of putting a multi million occupant city in a location 50’ below sea level so close to the coast would be amazing. I guess when established no one was thinking about that though. Have family there so hope all are ok.
Several years ago, forget which storm, the power crews were headed from Ky to Texas to help, when the “remnants” blew by them. Took them several days to get back. First time I’d ever heard of Ky being without power for a week due to a hurricane.
It was Kentucky power crews who restored our power....
