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  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:26:00 -0400
Today in Barbados it was beautiful - blue skies - hot sunshine - just like it used to be a few weeks ago.  It seems since Xmas it has been grey, raining , and cold with high winds - during the day and night - with a few bursts of sun here and there.  Lets hope the sun is here to stay ....

- chilly night
  • From: "M. Gaba. S. Chanderbahnn" <chanderbahnn at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:04:22 -0400
Nice weather her in B'dos
The air outside is nice and crispy; just the way I like it.  Can't wait to see what january brings
 
 
 
To All My Caribbean Brothers & Sisters
 
Peace, Prosperity, happiness & Gods Blessings
for 2006


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- Caribbean Christmas
  • From: Getthestories at aol.com
  • Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:48:26 EST

- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:51:06 -0400
122 mm of rain fell overnight at the airport here in Barbados - and I am sure much more than that fell in other parishes - it normally does. Localized flooding in some areas but other than that we came through ok.  Today all schools, community colleges and government babysitting centres closed as we are not clear of this system yet.  Right now it is drizzly, grey, cold and damp.  Horrible!!  - British weather. Feel sorry for the tourists and the local pedestrians out there - some motorists have no consideration for them when they careen through the puddles accumulated on the roadways.

- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:57:49 -0400
Footnote to my last report - I guess the respite is over - for the last two hours we are having constant downpours of heavy rain - hardly no wind - flood warnings extended until 6am tomorrow morning. One very wet night ahead. 

- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:31:38 -0400
For the moment we have a brief respite of the falling rain - all afternoon we have had gusty winds and heavy downpours - and it looks from the satellite, now the wind has changed to SSE that we could be in for a very rain night too.

- BARBADOS correspondent MangoPamala
  • From: Getthestories at aol.com
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:57:06 EST
All weather signs point to an ominous tropical depression heading smack into Barbados from the east southeast.  Massive low cloud cover to the south and east as far as the eye can see.  Preceded by intermittent rains, light winds are beginning to gust.   

Remember: When rain comes first without wind then = a long period of bad weather with high wind and heavy rain. But when wind comes first and is followed immediately by rain then fine weather will follow at short notice.


- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:18:26 -0400
This last two weeks or more Barbados has had so much rain - and we have had localized flooding in certain areas this week already with over satuated grounds. This morning so far we have high winds with spasmodic heavy downpours - but I suspect looking at the satellite the worst is still to come. A day to stay inside with a good book.  

- Update
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:47:50 +0000


Winds are really picking up here.  Some bouts of moderate to heavy showers.

Not much being said about this system

see what tomorrow brings



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- Waterspout Just off Bridgetown
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:48:17 +0000




I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton



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- WHOAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:08:06 +0000

Its 8:02 p.m. and we've been seeing some phenomenal lightning displays spanding from approx. ENE through to the SW.  From here in the Dover Gardens area it look spectacular; more light sheet and cloud to cloud Fork types and multiple flashes per second.  And the weirdest part of it all is that there is no sound of thunder despite the intensity of the flashes.

The wind too is blowing brisk at times and variable.  The temperature has also come down a bit.

Never have I seen such a display before with such light intensity and frequency.

REALLY WEIRD!




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- PHHEEWWW!!
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:43:01 +0000


How Grateful I am that Phillipe is going North.......

He's sucking in all the air...todat was a scorcher and I expect tomorrow will bring another hottt hott day....

....and then we have Rita heading for the Bahamas and possibly Florida as if the USA hasn't had its share of cyclones this year.  I wish the best for them all.

.........AND as if that wasn't enough there is now 97L INVEST at 36 W and the model plots although "Highly Speculative" subsequently subject to large errors tracks what could become Stan, somewhere through the Lesser Antilles archipelago......GEEEEESH!!!! Its really heating up out there...no pun intended of course.

We should all keep a watchful eye, can't remember the last time I saw Atlantic cyclones reaching as far down the alphabet as "S".

Tuesday, September 22nd will mark 50 years since Janet          

 [12.0 N 59.20 W 09/22/12Z as a 105 MPH  HURRICANE-3],
came ashore on that faithful morning battering this island, especially on the south coast; and the subsequent loss of many lives and damage. 

We have really been "I DARE SAY" lucky since.



 

 
 


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- I MOST CERTAINTLY AGREE WITH JOHN FULLER!!!!!!!!!!!
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:28:20 +0000


I am just seeing alot blank maps!  Even with RAMSDIS!!!!!!!!  What going on?



 



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- COULD SOMEONE ANSWER THIS QUESTION PLS?
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:16:40 +0000


I've noticed just now at 3:12 AST when I check stormcarib.com that a major section of the satellite image at 1540 UTC has been blocked out.  This is not the first time that I have seen this "trend" Uhmmm can someone explain why this has been done.  Is it a satellite error or a convenient accident?

Another interesting observation is that the part of the satellite imagery "blacked out" just so happens to be where the 17 NONNAME is located...........................



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- Update
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:47:02 +0000

Atlantic SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT


000
WONT41 KNHC 171216
DSAAT
SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
820 AM EDT SAT SEP 17 2005

...SEVENTEENTH TROPICAL DEPRESSION OF THE SEASON FORMING EAST OF THE
WINDWARD ISLANDS...

SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS MORNING INDICATES THAT THE VIGOROUS TROPICAL
WAVE ABOUT 370 MILES EAST OF BARBADOS HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED
AND THAT A TROPICAL DEPRESSION IS FORMING.  THE FIRST ADVISORY ON
THE SYSTEM...POSSIBLY INCLUDING WATCHES OR WARNINGS FOR PORTIONS OF
THE LESSER ANTILLES...WILL BE ISSUED AT 11 AM AST...1500Z.

AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT WILL INVESTIGATE THIS
SYSTEM THIS AFTERNOON.





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- Hurricanes Janet and Gilbert
  • From: Karl Watson <watson_karl at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
Hello Gert,
I read your postings but have never ventured anything myself, but the CEDERA postings on Janet and Gilbert reminded me that I survived them both. I was a young child in Barbados, in the 'days of yore' when clanging church bells and sirens woke us up at one o'clock in the morning to signal the arrival of Janet. We fled our house in the raging hurricane, thinking that it was on the point of blowing down, only to have the roof of the garage opposite, where we sought shelter, cave in --to this day, the sound that metal makes when it is being ripped apart stays with me.  Many years later I lived through Gilbert in Jamaica.  The eye was so big it took almost an hour to pass over Kingston.  I foolishly ventured up on my roof to save it and was caught unawares by the eye wall which came down the Blue Mountains like a million banshees in one. A spatter of rain and a glance over my shoulder revealed what looked like a solid black wall advancing so rapidly, it was on me before I could react.  The ladder went in the 200 mile per hour blast, with me lying flat holding on to the roof for dear life. I jumped to the ground and made it inside where I spent the rest of the day watching roofs, satellite dishes etc. sailing by overhead.  Hence the Lovindeer song, "Yuh see wha gilbert gi me."  I lived without water and electricity for months.  From the air, Jamaica looked like a giant lawn mower had run right down the spine of the Bliue Mountains and the then Prime Minister Edward Seaga said that it looked like an atom bomb had been dropped on Kingston. Yet, if it is any consolation to the people of New Orleans, a year later, the debris and rubbish littering Kingston was gone, all the downed telephone poles were replaced as well as roofs and the trees had sprouted new limbs and greenery.  The shocking damage to New Orleans and other Gulf cities will be repaired and the rhythms of life will ! pick back up.
Karl Watson,
Bridgetown,
Barbados.

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- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:24:44 -0400
It would seem to Bajans that for the last few weeks the heat is tremendous. Day and night - there is no relief from the humidity and sun heat.  One walks around with a perfect sweat dripping off your person  - the only happy people enjoying all this is the tourists, down on the beach.  Almost every day with the heat index our temps are 38 or 39 degrees - sometimes higher.  The trade winds are a distant memory. Still I would take this any day over what has happened to the people of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Asking around - people can not remember a Summer this hot.  

- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:32:32 -0400
This weekend in Barbados is a long weekend until Wednesday - Today is Kadooment and tomorrow we are celebrating Emancipation Day. Although it really falls on the 1st of Aug. Yesterday with a tropical wave going over us, it rained and rained buckets, but although the met office said today was to be cloudy with showers and possible thunderstorms too, we actually had fantastic sunshine and the temperature was hot hot for the "jump up" down Spring Garden Highway after leaving the National Stadium this morning.  I am so glad because so much work goes into this one parade all the year - make up, costumes etc. and it would be a shame to have it all spoiled with the rain that came down on on us yesterday.

- Pre-loaded Emergency numbers in your cell phone?
  • From: applemac at sunbeach.net
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:37:40 -0400

Emergency PARAMEDIC-personnel now trained
to look for
an ICE-number in your cell phone.
                                    

 The e-mail below was sent by the Georgia Department of Labor,
containing a valuable tool in emergency situations.

 A campaign encouraging people to enter an emergency contact number in
 their mobile phone's memory under the heading
"I.C.E." (for "In Case of Emergency"),
 has rapidly spread throughout the world
as a particular consequence of the terrorist attacks in London.

Originally established as a nationwide campaign in the UK,
ICE
allows paramedics or police to be able to contact
a designated(by you!) relative or next-of-kin
in an emergency situation.

 The idea is the brainchild of East Anglian Ambulance Service paramedic
Bob Brotchie and was launched in May this year.
Bob, 41, who has been a paramedic for 13 years, said:
"I was reflecting on some of the calls I've attended at the roadside,
where
I had to look through the mobile phone contacts
struggling for information on a shocked or injured person!

Almost everyone carries a mobile phone now,
and with ICE we'd know immediately who to contact and what number to ring.
The person may even know of their medical history."


By adopting the ICE advice, your mobile will help the rescue services
quickly contact a friend or relative -- which could be vital in a life or death situation.
It only takes a few seconds to do, and it could easily help save your life.
Why not put ICE in your phone now? Simply select a new contact in your phone book, enter the word 'ICE' and the number of the person you wish to be contacted.
For more than one contact name, use ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
It's so simple that everyone can do it.



Please do, and please pass this on...it may save a life.

- After Emily
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:36:44 -0400
I live on the South Coast and today it was a lovely breezy hot day.  I spent most of the afternoon cutting lower broken branches, and raking endless leaves and fallen fruits.  Watching the satellite this evening I can say that Barbados was very lucky yesterday, and I wish everyone in Emily's path as she grows stronger the very best for their safety.

- Update
  • From: "Peter Lewis" <peter at haltongraphics.com>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:02:53 -0400

Well we are still in one piece! I can only speak for the parish for St. Philip, but we just had some gusty winds, maybe to a max. of 50 MPH, but only in short bursts. Between 6AM yesterday and 6AM this morning we only had 0.48ins of rain. In fact from around noon yesterday until sundown it was really a nice day, not much blue sky, but nice and breezy with no rain. The sea, as they say here, was “doing the dog” just lashing on to the sea cliffs and making quite a spectacular show……I was not taking my camera into that so no pictures….. But it was very spectacular.

As for the rest of the island, I am not to shore, but I don’t think much damage was done, just a few trees down and the odd utility pole. I have heard of NO injuries.

I have not seen a newspaper as yet this morning, but if there is anything different, I will update you later.

So long for now.

 


- Emily A Hurricane
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:50:19 +0000

Exploded into a hurricane.  I agree with last poster from Vieques; From about 0115Z to 0345Z if one puts it in motion one would assume a more WNW to NNW movement.  Over the past few hours Barbados on Radar has become covered by bright white; TS warning discontinued for us.

Winds are currently gusting on the outside, and sea sounds very angry. not much rain.  Maybe most of the clouds are High level cirrus?




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- Emily
  • From: "Sue M" <bajansuga at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:55:27 -0400
It is 3:51 p.m. and I am also from the south of the island - Silver Hill. It has been consistently windy, and gusty at times, the intensification of which has increased over the last 30 minutes or so. However, these are not extreme gusts - I could Not open my windows when Ivan passed last year and my windows have been open all day (aside from during the rain which has not fallen since late morning in this area). I have actually seen a few people have been walking through the neighbourhood. Going to take some photos to see if it will capture what I am seeing.

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- Emily
  • From: "Muzikwand" <muzikwand at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:03:40 -0400
Title: Message

It's now 5:45pm and after a few hours of sunshine peeping through, the greater Bridgetown area is becoming overcast once more.  Winds are not as strong as appoximately 45 mins ago, but are indeed more constant. it seems to me that the outer fringes of the deep convection are now affecting this area.  As I look outside all remains quiet except for a few gutsy young men who decided to go and play football. Emily remains unpredictable and who knows what can happen from one moment to the next.


- Emily in the afternoon
  • From: Lisa G-W <lgwbajan at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:14:30 -0700 (PDT)
In the south of the island, seems that we continue to feel some of the effects of the outer bands although it's been sunny for a couple of hours.  Not long ago, the clouds rolled in fairly quickly and we experienced a small sprinkle coupled with a strong gust.  Just as fast, the clouds rolled away and the sun peeped out again.  We wait to see what the next few hours will bring, although I suspect that we will experience some of the prevailing conditions.



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- Barbados meets EMILY!
  • From: Getthestories at aol.com
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:09:44 EDT
Barbados CORRESPONDENT: mangopam
 
The Barbados sun is still piercing through massive alto cumulous clouds, winds are picking up and a high pitched howling has just begun.  A guesstimate regarding wind speed: 18 knots progressing to higher gusts.  Tropical storm Em is announcing herself, barreling in a Southeasterly direction.  Seas are building and white horses are evident in the distance.

- Realistic meteorological reporting needed!
  • From: applemac at sunbeach.net
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:44:31 -0400
Thanks for the response.
I wasn't precisely critiquing any and/or every entry.
I was referring to the West Indian habit of routinely exaggerating.
Local newspapers routinely use "extremely" when they mean "very",
as do most Barbadians and other islanders.
I did see somewhat-emotional entries of no particular observational and/or meteorological value.

I thought this forum was about scientifically-oriented reportage of actual conditions, not stuff in people's minds and girlish emotions,
making a storm out of the vortex in one's teacup, kinda thing..
(an old tradition in sleepy Barbados where SweetFA happens more often than not!)

I saw references to 'rain rain rain'.  - WHERE?  
Here in Barbados 1.5 inches of rain is enough for the B'dos.
 Met. Office to post ominous Flood Warnings and close down the country!  most of the time completely unjustified.

I rather got the impression some people were posting just to say they'd posted, like something was happening (emotional gratification of seeing one's post,etc.).
The Reality? -until noon Wed. absolutely NOthing was happening here.

Webmaster may need to go thru and eliminate posts of no particular value
(personal comments,etc)


The last major system to hit Barbados was IVAN, last year, on Tues Sept. 7th.  it doesn't have to be a dead-on, exact-center-of-the-eye hit, a la Nat'l. Hurricane Center parameters to be noteworthy.
Before Ivan,  ALLAN/ALLEN hit the West Coast of Barbados v.nicely,
although South Coast people will tell you that Allan was a non-event
(the same happened during JANET, in Sept. 1955, when the S.Coast got hit quite badly,
and people over in Bathsheba(East Coast) hardly knew a hurricane was happening over on the S.coast!).

Right now, 3:30 p.m., there's enough atmospheric stuff going on worthy of some reporting,yes,
but all those people posting earlier on, ABOUT NOTHING essentially,
are now all "posted out".  -  THIS, NOW is when we need their input, 
not to say "how incredibly-extremely still it was last night, so still that their campfire smoke was going dead-straight-up 150ft., a la Gale Force ZERO", like it was made out. 

 C'mon. so it was still last night. This happens in July-Oct. !!
whether there are systems about or not. Big Deal. 
This is not Biblical stuff, okay? that's all I'm saying.

Forget the emotion, and "eerie feelings" (in your head?),
'Tremendous Downpours' and it 'being so hot not even the bats were about'..
 dear oh DEAR!

Please report actual happenings of worth,
not the fact that nothing happened.

- Gusty winds
  • From: applemac at sunbeach.net
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:04:19 -0400
It's considerably more gusty, here in Barbados (South Coast, 1 km. inland) than it was just two hrs. ago.
Strong winds, with gusts to 45/50 mph,
with occasionally stronger gusts of maybe 60/65 mph.

Strangely, a blue sky (hole!) overhead, brighter conditions,
with sunlight (clear shadows being cast).

Dry! no rain.

- To Applemac..............
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:28:49 +0000

I saw the word "extremely" used once in a post, and it is my opinion that it was INDEED "extremely" still last night on the outside.

I have not seen any examples of exaggeration thus far.  The last Major system to hit Barbados was, as I recall, Janet in 1955.  Most of us have never really experience anything that intense since.  Having said that, most of us will awe at some of the weather phenomenon are a part of these cyclones.

Lets not concentrate too much on grammatic _expression_, realism etc. and see the bigger picture which is stormcarib.com as a medium to convey to others what we see, hear, and feel during the passage of such a system. 

..................and too hope that use the alleged "superlatives for when the sand REALLY hits the fan"  wont happen anytime soon.



 



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- Emily
  • From: "Muzikwand" <muzikwand at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:09:38 -0400
Title: Message
Hello All!
 
Things here in southern St. Michael are pretty quiet.  Near Bridgetown it is still overcast and there are gusts of wind from time to time, but there is no rain.  The last downpour we had was a few hours ago.  Right now the island is in a state of shut down.  The airport won't be open until 7am tomorrow. Emily seems to be quite erratic in its movement and development.  It's my hope that no one gets affected.  God knows the Caribbean has had more than enough to deal with weather wise.

- Emily UPDATE
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:03:08 +0000

This cyclonic system is one strange one.  Emily is defying all forecasts.  Reports from the RECO aircraft indicated that 3 centres where found......and winds in all four quadrants where the same strength and extended farther than initially inferred from satellite imagery.  This came as quite a surprise to meteorologists unboard this Hurricane Hunter aircraft.

Subsequently, the tropical storm warning is still in effect for Barbados.  We are currently in a state of "shutdown"

On the southside of the island [Dover Gardens] As of 12:55 pm the wind has been picking up.  Not sustained; but in regular gusts and some brisk ones at that

wow!!!! there's another gust at 1:02 p.m.  Coming from the E - ESE.  The sky is grey. Not much rain at the moment.

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- Emily gusts picking up
  • From: applemac at sunbeach.net
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:54:48 -0400
The time in Barbados is now 12:50 p.m. Wednesday.
After a morning of grey overcast skies with little real rain and quiet wind conditions, wind speeds generally have picked up, becoming a bit gusty,
- nothing more than 15-25 mph. ?
with gusts a bit higher, 30-35 mph? now and then.

Tree Action is a good indicator,
and yes, they're moving a bit more than usual,
when small gusts occur periodically.

Cloud cover continues to be of the medium to high type
(low level clouds generally bear rain, but not much of that).
Thus far, Emily ain't saying much, not that we're complaining.

Having read other posts today,
I'd like to encourage others posting not to exaggerate.
Don't use 'extremely' when a simple 'very' is more realistic.
Leave the superlatives for when the sand REALLY hits the fan which,
during this washed-out disorganised Tropical Storm,
is not likely to happen!

It's NOT a case of Ivan All Over Again:
 - so far it's Just Another 'Blow'


- Looks like we were spared again!
  • From: "Peter Lewis" <peter at haltongraphics.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:14:37 -0400

Rain, rain and more rain, that’s about all we are getting. We had a short shower in St. Philip this morning (Longbay) 0.22ins but other parts of the island are getting some heavier ones. The island will shut down at 11.30 AM, a move that was planned last night when things looked a lot worse. These things are so unpredictable, but this time all for the best. Our thoughts are with the the good people of Grenada and Tobago who will no doubt feel the brunt of Emily.

Till next time.


- Emily
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:34:03 -0400
As of 6.15 am this morning the skies are heavy and grey, with light rain falling.  Rumbles of thunder can be heard in the distance.  It has been predicted at 5am that the brunt of the storm will go even further south of Barbados which is great for us, yet again we are spared.  Heavy rain and storm force winds should be over us early afternoon.  We still have to watch carefully as the path could still change.

- Update
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:56:33 +0000

Seems like Emily might be repositioning herself




 



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- Emily Update
  • From: Lisa Greaves-Walker <lgwbajan at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:13:49 -0700 (PDT)
Tonight seems extremely still...Can't even hear the crickets. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come.  Although this system may only have minimal wind speeds, we ought not to take it lightly as our Deputy Prime Minister stated in her Press Conference tonight.  We will be on national shutdown as of 11:30AM tomorrow morning.  And, we really ought to be monitoring the system currrently west of the Cape Verde Islands.  If this current trend continues, I say we are in for the long haul between now and November.   Will try to post another update as condtions warrant as long as the connection lasts.  Fingers crossed my friends!!!!


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- Update
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:46:27 +0000

Satellite Image at 2245Z shows a CDO forming




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- Update
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:45:12 +0000

Just had a sudden moderate downpour; lasted about 15 minutes.  Satellites obs. reveal the outer cirrus fringes of Emily moving across us.  Perhaps with the embedded odd low level rain clouds.  On the outside here on the southside of the island around the Dover Gardens area; there are interludes of some light wind with the eerie eerie zephyr.  Very humid sticky feel too.

I'll post more as conditions deteriorate and power permits.






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- Emily
  • From: "Cathy Palmieri" <flyingfish3 at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:44:19 +0000


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- Update
  • From: "cwpa1691" <cwpa1691 at caribsurf.com>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:15:15 -0400
Awfully close.  Latest model runs leans toward the left of the projected track.  ?????????????
 

- Uh Oh!
  • From: "cwpa1691" <cwpa1691 at caribsurf.com>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:36:09 -0400
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Like the previous correspondent wrote, the air has an eerie feel to it.  Very Still. Just had an slight sprinkle. but otherwise its just still and warm/humid.  The official forecast track takes it north of Barbados.  However these models can/ do have large errors.  Looking at the latest satellite imagery [below] .....my goodness!! seem awful close to us.  Hope it does make that WNW turn. If Anyone is interested in viewing its movement in real time try this site http://www.cira.colostate.edu/RAMM/Rmsdsol/tropical.html and under GOES - EAST click on the Vis/ IR Floater over the Lesser Antilles.
 
Have a good night

- TD#5
  • From: Lisa G-W <lgwbajan at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
You could feel the difference in the atmosphere this evening here in Barbados.  There was almost no wind blowing and even the birds were quiet.  I pray that the forecast models are correct and this system will by-pass us. However, our weather forecast calls for us to begin feeling some effects late on Wednesday into Thursday. We'll be watching this one and the others that seem to be following right behind very closely


LGW
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- Tropical Depression No 5
  • From: "cwpa1691" <cwpa1691 at caribsurf.com>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:59:18 -0400

- Tropical Depression No.5 0115Z
  • From: "Kaf J" <nmethyldaspartate at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:56:04 +0000

Keep a watchful eye on this one




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- Sticky
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth at sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:27:56 -0400
Early hours here in Barbados thunder storms, lightening and heavy showers. The rest of the day sunny and very very humid - no breeze at all.  Very uncomfortable....

- Barbados
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <sydmouth AT sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:06:35 -0400
Today for the first time in about 8 days we have had no rain.  The tremendous downpours we have been getting has made every where very soggy and there has been flooding in certain areas. The ground can't take much more.... Supposedly we are going to get heavy rain with possible thunderstorms tonight. Hope not - all my seedlings that was growing nicely and the new soil in my garden washed away on the weekend. My neighbours should have a great showing of flowers this year courtesy of me...

- Hot!
  • From: "Jennifer Pequeneza" <Sydmouth AT sunbeach.net>
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:02:58 -0400
At 11am this morning at Grantley Adams Airport the temperature was reading 40.9C (105.6F).  The light breeze is coming out of the east southeast.  The first breeze we have had in days... great to be a tourist enjoying the sand and surf.


- HOT! HOT! HOT!...................
  • From: Kaf J <nmethyldaspartate AT hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 17:01:16 +0000
.........................AND HUMID!!! I don't think I've ever felt heat
like this before.  So hot one evening last week that even the bats were
nowhere to be seen.


I do not know what I may APPEAR to the world; but to myself I seem to
have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton

GaBa


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