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- Rains in Kingston
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- From: Susan Mains <susanroaming at yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:06:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello Everyone,
We've just had quite heavy rains here in Kingston, it's easing up now, but there's still a lot of low lying cloud cover. If you're out on the road, keep an eye out for flash flooding.
Walk good.
Susan.
******************************** Dr. Susan Mains Department of Geography and Geology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
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- weather update, Jamaica
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- From: Jeremy Hood-Daniel <edx111 at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:26:36 -0700 (PDT)
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| | | | Very quiet here in Westmoreland since yesterday morning, with light showers, no wind, total overcast, calm seas.
Tends to flood here in heavy rains, especially since a "developer" decided to fill and dump the natural storm drains taking flood waters from the interior of Westmoreland to the sea.
I live on the outskirts of Savlamar, so we pray for no heavy rain!
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- perfect morning
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- From: "sue morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:29:15 -0500
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Just an absolutely perfect Ocho Rios morning. Slight
breeze, sun shining, slight ripple on the water. What more could we ask for!
What we ask is that continues until December
1.
Sue M
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- Let the Season Begin
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- From: "sue morris" <sue.island at cwjamaica.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 09:56:19 -0500
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Morning all after a long absence from the
"rock"
Well, can you imagine here we are again, June 1 peeping in
our door. Can't believe that the time has gone so quickly, so I thought I better
get to spend some time at the computer.
Tis a glorious Jamaica Sunday morning, slight breeze, sun
with a likkle cloud cover from time to time, ripple on the water. Washing out on
the line, dogs waiting until we mention that "swim" word. What more could one
ask for.
One of our dogs think he was born to rescue people from
the water, so when we go out with the floaters, he immediately jumps in to the
water and swims like mad to catch us and then grabs the edge of the floater in
his mouth and heads back to shore. Pointless trying to stop him as he is a
powerful swimmer. Just go with the flow and do it all over again. I figure this
is the best exercise for him. The other one tries to jump on the floater when it
is being rescued, so we have the "dog in the water" circus going
on.
We have had our share of rains over the past few weeks,
but we are in May which is one of our rainy months. The rains were desperately
needed, however not with the volume we experienced from time to time. There was
of course flooding in some areas which happens every year and we still don't
learn not to build on the river banks or low lying areas, nor do we begin
cleaning the drains until the first major "whoooooops" happens. Oh well, the
pleasures of living on the rock.
Time to pay attention now and hopefully everyone has
already started gathering provisions together and sorting out their hurricane
box. Don't leave it until the last minute - it's not worth it.
Time for us to start blowing plenty of hot air to keep the
storms away from Ja.
Sue M
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- Rain has stopped in Kingston (for now...)
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- From: Susan Mains <susanroaming at yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:42:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Good Evening, Well, the rain has finally stopped for a bit in Kingston this evening, but it's been a wet and soggy day. From just before 1pm we had heavy rain that tapered off later in the afternoon, then started to drizzle a bit again in the early evening. There is a flash flood and landslide warning out just now. Just driving around town this afternoon you could already see problems--flash flooding, traffic lights not working--if possible, it's best to avoid going on the road at these times. Hope everyone is getting around gradually and safely on the rest of the island(s). Walk good. ******************************** Dr. Susan Mains Department of Geography and Geology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston 7, Jamaica,
West Indies.
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- Heavy Rains flood sections of the Island.
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- From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 21:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
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Jamaica has been experiencing heavy rain fall since Sunday. Montego Bay as of this evening, May 20, 2009 has seen 6 inches/152.4mm of rain, which is an average of 2inches/50mm of rain daily as a result many roads in the hilly areas of St.James, Hanover and Westmoreland are blocked or impassable. Eastern Jamaica based on evening news reports have also been hit hard. Students sitting the cxc’s in Portland and St. Thomas because of many blocked and inundated roadways were told to sit the exams at the high nearest to them , while in Spanish Town the water reportedly rose in some areas up to five feet high.
We are however grateful it could be worse; the same area of disturbed weather has flooded some sections of Western and Southern Haiti. It is reported by the BBC, two youth died while business was brought to a standstill in one southern city, Les Cayes, roads were turned into rivers.
The Haitian government says it will be opening up storm shelters for people who have been flooded out of their homes. The forecast is for the heavy rain to continue across Haiti and the Dominican Republic and localized flooding will continue, precautions should be taken in low lying areas .
Back in Jamaica, the local weather service has extended the FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALL PARISHES. We have been under flood watches and warnings since May 17. We can look for improvements in the weather on Saturday. For the latest news release visit http://www.metservice.gov.jm/news.asp
Cuban radar from http://www.met.inf.cu/Radar/NacComp200Km.gif
infra satellite from weather.msfc.nasa.gov
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- Flash Flood Warning, Torrential rain 3.88inches/99mm in three hours. possible tropical storm/ sub tropical storm development later this week.
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- From: Blayz Brooks <blayzbrooks at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 17:45:00 -0700 (PDT)
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| | | | | Earlier this morning (May 17, 2009), Montego Bay experienced some torrential rain. The rain started around 1 am and lasted until 4 am. At my home , 8km from the Sangster Airport, the rain total is 3.88inches/99mm, while the airport reported 2.71 inches It is with no surprise the Metrological Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning. A surface low is forecast to develop along the surface trough which has brought all this rain, It should move north of the Caribbean by Monday night possibly into an early season tropical storm/
sub tropical storm bring up to 8inches of rain to Florida.
Below blogs about the possible tropical storm/ sub tropical storm development later this week.
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- Raining in Kingston
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- From: Susan Mains <susanroaming at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 21:51:57 -0700 (PDT)
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Good Evening Everyone, Well, we're definitely getting more rain now, quite a change from a couple of weeks ago. It has been raining in Kingston for the past 4 or so hours. We've been having occasional thunder and lightning, but it seems to be moving away now. Hoping there's not too much flooding in low-lying areas. Keep safe. Susan. ******************************** Dr. Susan Mains Department of Geography and Geology The University of the West Indies, Mona Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies.
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