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.

Let's hope they're right and we don't see a repeat of Lenny from several years ago. If you want to check it out, I saw it at Weather Underground Tropical Storms

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.

Don't need any hurricane, I agree.

Not meters, maybe up to 10 feet for the waves.

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.

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.

Re wave height: At the time of Lenny, the people at SDD&P said 'about 30 feet' there along the wall at SD where the wave height doubles as it is reflected at the vertical wall. So 10 meters is too high but they were more than 10 feet along the wall. That is one reason there was so much destruction from Habitat to SD and not as much where the shore slopes to the water. Enough but not as much. :–)

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.

Re wave height: At the time of Lenny, the people at SDD&P said 'about 30 feet' there along the wall at SD where the wave height doubles as it is reflected at the vertical wall. So 10 meters is too high but they were more than 10 feet along the wall. That is one reason there was so much destruction from Habitat to SD and not as much where the shore slopes to the water. Enough but not as much. :–)

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.

Well, the storm is now north of us and heading away. Basically it seems a little overcast here with nothing much else going on.

For those who were not around BT at that time and want to know what the coast looked like during Lenny:

http://www.bonaireenews.com/19991208-Waves.html

http://www.oldbonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/626/10067.html?#POST28144