Tropical Storm Fay - truly a unique TS

[Guest Jan V]

keeps going further and further West of us

[Chris Plumb]

Hiya Newt - bin watching this one since it formed (and before!) - Jeff Masters nicked named it The Joker - how right he was - but I bet even he could never have imagined it forming an eye wall over S Florida!!! It certanly want to see ALL of Florida - whats the betting it recrosses and exits out onto the GOM!

 

 

C.

[Steve Walker]

A kite surfer applying for a Darwin award:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...ical-storm.html

[snotty]

My daughter flew out to Orlando on monday for her honeymoon, they were hoping to get away from the lousy summer weather we have been experiencing...

[Guest Jan V]

My daughter flew out to Orlando on monday for her honeymoon, they were hoping to get away from the lousy summer weather we have been experiencing...

Well, no calls from son that lives in Orlando that they are afloat or blown over so hopefully just rain. But that does make for a cruddy honeymoon if you planned on taking in the sites.

[Newt]

Fay - still at tropical storm strength is close to making landfall on Florida again for an east to west pass. It looks like she is far enough south to emerge in the Gulf so may have a chance to make it to hurricane strength before moving back on land to meander along the Gulf coast before eventually turning north in Mississippi and heading to Arkansas.

 

Still not really strong but still really wet and some areas of Florida have had over 25 inches of rain in the past few days.

 

As a point of interest, the water in Lake Okeechobee was over 91ºF / 33ºC when the storm passed over and helped fuel it. Not sure what it is now but I imagine Fay managed to cool it quite a bit in the hours she sat there spinning around and sucking up mositure.

[Chris Plumb]

Fay - still at tropical storm strength is close to making landfall on Florida again for an east to west pass. It looks like she is far enough south to emerge in the Gulf so may have a chance to make it to hurricane strength before moving back on land to meander along the Gulf coast before eventually turning north in Mississippi and heading to Arkansas.

 

Still not really strong but still really wet and some areas of Florida have had over 25 inches of rain in the past few days.

 

As a point of interest, the water in Lake Okeechobee was over 91ºF / 33ºC when the storm passed over and helped fuel it. Not sure what it is now but I imagine Fay managed to cool it quite a bit in the hours she sat there spinning around and sucking up mositure.

 

Crossed Florida AGAIN and now coming out into GOM - having dropped colossal amounts of rain. What's the likely-hood of this named being 'retired'? And has that ever happened to a storm which was never classified as a Hurricane?

 

 

C.