Those on Bonaire will want to keep an eye on online weather sites for the next few days at least.

A weather event in the tropical Atlantic has been named '94L' and online weather sites are predicting it growing to hurricane strength and passing near Bonaire.

Look at StormCarib ( http://stormcarib.com/ ) and Wunderground ( http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200894_model.html ), for 2 sites. Check out our own Ann Phelan's 'blog' here. :–)

StormCarib wonders if the 'safe haven' status of the southern Caribbean is changing. Hope no!!

This appears to bear watching.

Thanks, Glen...let's hope the projected paths are way off base on this one. cb

I really did find Ann's words but at StormCarib not on Wunderground as it would seem from my words above.
http://stormcarib.com/reports/current/bonaire.shtml

Well, if nothing else, it's going to get darn hot and sticky on Bonaire if the winds stop blowing. Whew...that's a tough one to handle if you're not in the water or in a/c environment. Let's hope that's the worst of it for Bonaire. cb

I dont understand where you found the danger for Bonaire .... the Wunderground model does not show it even close to Bonaire ... the light green and the turquoise stripe show it hitting the southern Venezuela land, the light green somewhere by the Orinico Delta the turquoise one more north where the mountains start.

In 1992 (?) Bonaire had a hurrican warning because of a very low track of a hurrican. This one hit the mountains before Caracas and died there .... Bonaire had not even rain that night

When I first looked at the storm the 3 tracks at WU showed it moving due west from it's naming point, with one track slightly south of Bonaire, one over Bonaire and one slightly north. At the same time, as I said, the StormCarib dialog talked about a change to the south from past storm tracks. The combination showed the danger to Bonaire.

Now all the tracks are showing a more northly track - good!

I passed this on as a 'heads up' message, as something to be watched. It was at the time. Even the current tracks could bring waves to Bonaire so some care is still in order.

Isn't it better to watch a storm die in the Venezuelan mountains than have an unwatched one devastate Bonaire, Bridgette??? Even a distant one??? Ask André or Sarah.

When you live here, during hurrican season for a lot of people it is rather normal to open first thing in the morning a weather site.
I found for years this site the most reliable
http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/index.asp
and when you click on "more" showing also the Tropical Waves and Tropical Lows/Depressions
http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/basin-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&basin=atlantic

An unwatched hurrican or even just a tropical wave or a tropical storm I would think is something strange. As soon as something coming the direction of Bonaire (known certainly when they are around Trinidad ) is talk all over the island, on the radio, on TV. If there is a risk, the government makes announcements.
Not unwatched, but not known enough are problems with wind reversals or swells from storms elsewhere - as it was with that strange Hurrican Lenny, who did everything in the contrary to what one was used to - starting in the Golf of Mexico, going over Yucatan, than turning north and than turning east .... as it was the first known Hurrican taking that track, nobody was prepared for the big waves hitting Bonaire and the other island - waves coming from a strange direction ... the storm Lenny never came close to Bonaire.