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Ken Kaye's Storm Center (3 unread)

• Think Oasis of the Seas telegraphs messages in ALL CAPS?

  

  By next hurricane season, public advisories posted on the National Hurricane Center’s web site might be written in normal lettering.

  AS OPPOSED TO LIKE THIS.

  That’s because the World Meteorological Organization, based in Zurich, Switzerland, might relax the all-caps requirement.

  “So perhaps there is hope,” James Franklin, branch [...]

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• It might be a cool Thanksgiving

  

  The next round of cool, dry air might arrive in time for turkey day.

  However, it shouldn’t be “terribly cold,” said meteorologist Robert Molleda of the National Weather Service in Miami.

  Lows on that Thursday evening might dip into the 50s and highs on Friday might reach the [...]

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• Best advice: Savor pleasant weather while it's here

  

  The weather has been so pleasant this week that a coworker asked me:

  Is there any place else in the world where a person could enjoy these conditions year round?

  I posed the question to meteorologist Robert Molleda of the National Weather Service in Miami.

  “Year round? Probably not,” [...]

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• Experts: Hurricane season essentially over

  

  
  

  For all intents and purposes, the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season is over, even though it officially ends in two weeks.

  So say experts such as Jeff Masters at Weather Underground. He notes that strong wind shear makes tropical storm formation unlikely from here on out.

  If so, [...]

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• Expect a pleasant week - weatherwise

  

  This is one of the nicest times of year in South Florida.

  That is, if you enjoy warm afternoons and mild evenings.

  We should see high temperatures in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s throughout the week.

  Although this morning is on the cloudy side, [...]

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• Can we break into the hurricane supplies yet?

  

  Now that Ida is gone, the hurricane season is clearly winding down.

  The disturbance in the Atlantic has a low chance of developing and nothing else is on the horizon.

  The muggy heat of summer would seem to be a thing of the past, and now [...]

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• Rain and cooler weather on the way

  

  It should be wet and then cool over the next few days.

  Tropical Storm Ida’s tendrils are expected to bring showers and possible thunderstorms to South Florida, starting tonight and into Wednesday.

  Officially, the rain chance is 40 percent tonight and 60 percent on Wednesday. Isolated [...]

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• Tropical Storm Ida forecast to hook toward North Florida

  

  Tropical Storm Ida remains on course to hit the North Gulf Coast overnight and then make a hard right turn on Tuesday.

  From there, it is predicted to hook south and aim for North or Central Florida. If it makes it that far, it could bring some [...]

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• Ida weakens to tropical storm; poses major rain threat to Gulf Coast

  

  Ida is no longer a hurricane.

  Now a tropical storm, the system continues to weaken as it treks north across the Gulf of Mexico.

  The forecast calls for it to make landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama state line on Tuesday morning with sustained winds of about 60 mph.

  From [...]

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• Hurricane Ida expected to hit North Gulf Coast early Tuesday

  

  By 4 a.m. today, Hurricane Ida had already passed west of South Florida, as it moved north in the Gulf of Mexico.

  It missed us by about 500 miles.

  Still, Ida is indirectly producing windy conditions, rough surf and dangerous rip currents, the National Weather Service in Miami [...]

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