In Memory of Wayne .....

Drumcondra 6.55am --------- 1 August 2020



ROCKMAN

Drumcondra 6.54am --------- 2 August 2020



ROCKMAN

You know, Rockman, I went to Google maps satellite view and I can see that pier jutting out into the water. Right near Esplanade street looks like. Is that the one? Beautiful view that gets better everytime you post it. That the view out your balcony or is it a public camera you know of? Its kool...

jb

Yep that'll be it on The Esplanade .....
Too many $$$ for me to live on the waterfront...

Go by there every morning .... snap a shot at same spot



ROCKMAN

Hurricane stayed off coast -

Hurricane has been getting sheared a lot. Now that it's moved north it may hold together better.

Here in Kingston, SW London today, it's been very pleasant and plenty of sunshine.
Been walking along the riverside up to Surbiton and then catching bus back to Epsom.
Gonna be a lot warmer towards end of the week, but the Pubs are open and nice to have a drink and a meal down by the riverside.
Cheers Everyone.

Drumcondra 6.58am --------- 5 August 2020


Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all of the time
................. Stormy Weather - Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler



ROCKMAN

Hurricane season forecast now up to 24 expected storms that includes 12 hurricanes (so far there's been 2), so into the Greek alphabet by late October possibly (the already record 9 named storms are included in the total).

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Drumcondra 6.54am --------- 6 August 2020



ROCKMAN

Big glow coming from Melbourne ......

Drumcondra 6.52am --- 7 August 2020



ROCKMAN

Everything is turning to blue ........

Drumcondra 6.59am ----- 8 August 2020



ROCKMAN

Drumcondra 6.52am --- 11 August 2020



ROCKMAN

I would tell you an umbrella joke but it may go over your head

In a month the MJO will have fully moved into the Atlantic Basin.

That's when the hurricanes will really start to crank. There won't be much if any before that.

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GasLightStreet
In a month the MJO will have fully moved into the Atlantic Basin.

That's when the hurricanes will really start to crank. There won't be much if any before that.

I purchased Hurricane Shutters back in January. no Climbing Ladders anymore ...but if we get hit with a Cat 4 or 5 ....doesn't really matter

It's 33C (91F) here in South West Oxfordshire, UK and I'm working from home.

Too bloody hot!!! I'm from Scotland so I'm certainly not built for this

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GasLightStreet
In a month the MJO will have fully moved into the Atlantic Basin.

That's when the hurricanes will really start to crank. There won't be much if any before that.

I purchased Hurricane Shutters back in January. no Climbing Ladders anymore ...but if we get hit with a Cat 4 or 5 ....doesn't really matter

Yeah, hell, a high end category 3 is enough to not matter anymore.

The biggest problem where I live isn't the wind so much, it's the water. Decent storm in the right position and my most of my house will be under water. And it's not clean salt water, it's nasty nasty brackish water.

So if I lose everything then the hell with it. I won't bother replacing anything. I'll just start all over, maybe somewhere else, with nothing and keep it simple.

There's good reason the NHC and people involved are very concerned about the rest of hurricane season.

This is the busiest season in history so far.

People seem to think that because there haven't been any strong/big storms that it's not a big deal.

That's not what it's about.

There's a thing they use called the Accumulated Cyclone Energy and it's projected to be 100 days this year. I don't recall if that's a record but seeing that there's 3 months left and there's been 8 storms... they're generally spot on with their forecasts. So far a majority of the Atlantic Basin US coast has had a storm or has dealt with parts of a storm.

Andrew wasn't until mid-August in 1992. That happened after a quasi-el nino, which reduces hurricane development. This time in 1969 Camille was on its way to being a horrific storm. Those were not busy seasons... but they each had category 5 storms that made landfall in the US. Both happened before the peak of hurricane season, which is September 10th. All the of the strongest category 5 storms to hit the US occurred before September 10th.

La nina, which is what's happening now, promotes development.

Right now there is a lot of wind shear (strong westerlies) in the tropical Atlantic which is keeping tropical waves from developing. There's an average of 60 tropical waves during hurricane season. Warm water is moot when the winds are not favorable for storms to develop, otherwise there'd be tropical cyclones all the time somewhere.

All it takes is for one thing to change and it does that 1-7-25-89-156-340-698 kind of explosion.

September into October could be terrifying.

A new storm is brewing in the Atlantic........

We have 6 day's on a row temperatures from 30 to 34 C bit to much for me....

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Bloody hot? Ha, that's just the beginning...

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A new storm is brewing in the Atlantic........

Some models show TD 11 will TS Josephine by tomorrow morning and most likely to be a fish storm. Some models have it looping around. Some have it riding low beneath the Bahamas.

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We have 6 day's on a row temperatures from 30 to 34 C bit to much for me....

And today the 7th day never happen before since we measure temp and heatwaves since 1907

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Pacific Ocean, Southern California.......and the weather is sweet...



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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Drumcondra 6.55am ---- 13 August 2020



ROCKMAN

By this time next week hurricane season should start cranking up.

video: [photos.app.goo.gl]

Shrivenham, South West Oxfordshire, UK yesterday at 5. The extreme heatwave's over (thank ****) but I'm not keen on it being replaced by this! This freak wild storm tore a few tiles from my next door neighbour's roof, including a 3 foot section of ridge tiles.

HEAVY RAIN .....



ROCKMAN

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By this time next week hurricane season should start cranking up.

In four weeks ACC and SEC Football cranks up under constraints. Big12 and PAC12 suspended the season-