By Michael Gaunt (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #622) on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 2:27 pm: |
Not to alarm anyone, but I just noticed on one of the weather web sites that there is a tropical depression sitting out near Trinidad and projected to be heading towards Bonaire. Right now they have it tracking pretty far south and passing pretty close to the ABC islands. They also project it as a Tropical Storm as it passes and not picking up Hurricane strength until closer to Jamaica.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1827) on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 5:48 pm: |
Lenny started up near Jamaica and traveled east, opposite normal tracks. And it stayed north-- no wind or rain at Bonaire, just 10 meter waves at the water's edge. No one on the island knew anything was happening except those right where the waves came ashore.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1914) on Monday, August 9, 2004 - 8:08 pm: |
Not meters, maybe up to 10 feet for the waves.
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By Michael Gaunt (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #623) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 9:58 am: |
I guess I never realized Lenny backtracked like that. No wonder it was so strong. I see Charley (as it is now named) is heading a little more Northwest. Linda, you'll have to let us know if there is much for increased waves or anything. Probably too far away to even worry about - and that's not a bad thing.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1830) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:19 am: |
If you look at the storm path history page on WU Tropical, I think it will show most storms do curve to the north as they cross the Caribbean. Fortunately for Bonaire.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1831) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:25 am: |
If you look at the storm path history page on WU Tropical, I think it will show most storms do curve to the north as they cross the Caribbean. Fortunately for Bonaire.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1832) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 10:41 am: |
Double post because my browser won't upload the image I had (from BT) and the posting page doesn't tell me that it uploaded with the black and yellow thingy anyway. If there was a way to back out then I suspect there would be fewer black and yellows. It was just a pic of Lenny's waves at SD. Ah.well.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1917) on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:53 am: |
Well, the storm is now north of us and heading away. Basically it seems a little overcast here with nothing much else going on.
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By Cleatus Jones (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #833) on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:48 am: |
For those who were not around BT at that time and want to know what the coast looked like during Lenny:
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