The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
When one lives in Florida, the weather is often a topic of conversation. Either you tell friends further north how nice it is in Florida, or, you’re worried about an in-bound hurricane. Those posts all go here.
As you may have noted, I have not posted on the blog in a while. This is because I was cleaning up from Frances and preparing for Ivan, and dealing with some (probably) unrelated problems around the house over the previous week.
Read moreThe hurricanes seem to keep coming, friends needed a place to stay, and my vacation has now been officially ruined in its entirety thanks to Ivan.
Read moreThus far, we have survived. We have lots of sticks down, and only a couple of decent sized limbs in
Read moreThe winds are definitely kicking up and become more sustained. So far, the rain has not been that bad. We’ve had showers throughout the morning. There are have been some heavy showers, but those have not lasted more than a few minutes.
Read moreI woke up this morning to some strong wind and rain, but that was just a feeder-band moving through, and things are somewhat quiet again now.
Read moreA few more squall lines have come through during the evening, and we’ve had some rain. The wind has not been all that bad yet, except for a few brief minutes this afternoon. There are more squall lines moving towards Tampa on radar, so we will get some wind and rain during the evening.
Read moreHere’s an update for those of you wondering what things are like here in Tampa right now. So far all is fairly quiet. We had one squall line come through about 2:oopm. The wind kicked up a bit, and there was a very brief shower of rain.
Read moreAs expected, NOAA has now moved the storm track back to the north. I’m guessing we’ll start seeing the effects of the storm Saturday evening, and should be cleared out of here by Sunday afternoon.
Read moreThere were a lot of changes with Frances during the night. Sustained winds dropped to 120mph (making it a category 2 hurricane), and the eye became less organized.
Read moreIt appears the Hi pressure system isn’t weakening, so the 11am storm track posted by the Hurricane Tracking Center has the center line shifted west some. This brings the storm closer to Tampa.
Read moreHere’s what’s going on at 8:00am Thursday in Tampa relative to Hurricane Frances
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