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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 1:18 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Has anyone else noticed Tropical Storm Lili, now northeast of Trinidad. It is predicted to track across the Caribbean well north of Bonaire as a storm-becoming-a-hurricane. Likely some wind, rain and waves for Bonaire. (http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200213.html) Perhaps the first test of the new Dive Bonaire dock??!!??

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 9:52 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Looks like this one's going the proper direction - east to west. Might also counteract some of the weird water movements Lenny introduced into the Caribbean...

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Liz Ginocchio on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 10:50 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

OH NO!!!!!!!! From looking at the map, I hope we make it down Wednesday...we are scheduled to leave at 7am from Newark...If the storm interferes and we get stuck in Jamaica Jake, contact Ditta, she's got the keys to our house and start the party without us...just be sure to leave some KKs around...oh yeah and some of the chicken wings (LOL)! See you all on the 26th (I HOPE!)

Liz and Ed

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 11:57 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Liz,

You look good for Wednesday. Check also http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home and click on the storm name in the upper left hand corner, then on the map or satellite photo for a larger version.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Susan Porter on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 6:06 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml,http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml}

National Hurricane Center

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:10 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Liz - which Ditta? (I know several here, but have numbers for none)

Fingers crossed that you'll make it without any problems!

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:23 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Liz,

I was looking at Lili's position relative to Jamaica when I made the 'look good' comment above! She keeps tracking due west instead of following the weather service's advice to swing north. Weather on Bonaire could be fun tomorrow. Maybe you will be one of the few who get to land east to west at Flamingo Airport!!! And to dive calm water on the east side.

On the NRL tropical weather site (URL above) the dashed blue line is the US Navy 'keep outside of' boundary for surface ships: waves and wind bad for ships predicted inside that boundary. The current line placement just includes Bonaire.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:42 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Lili's coordinates can be found at http://www.gopbi.com/auto/channels/weather/storm/2002/atlantic/lili/lili-coords.html

It appears that as of two hours ago she was 60 miles north, and about 180 miles east of Bonaire, still a tropical storm, and tracking west by north west. Her outermost winds are at about 120 miles out from center, so we may get a bit of extra rain or wind at the fringe later tonight as she passes north of us. Once she passes about N14.5 or so, then the outermost fringe will be past us. (60 miles per degree latitude, I believe, and my house, which is pretty central N/S on Bonaire is at N12 10.759 W68 17.556 (so about N12.18 W68.30 in decimal, I think).

She's sure made the water on the leeward side of Bonaire pretty calm :-)

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 1:20 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

One part of these weather discussions is the number of previously unknown weather sites that are referenced! :–)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde Lee on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 1:55 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

ok, if the waves on the the other side of the island are calm, we want to see pictures please:-)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henk Schrijver on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 3:04 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Also see:
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm10/caribbeansatellite_large.html

Now it is just hot and no wind as I understood.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Elizabeth and Mike Littner on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 7:11 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

I want pictures too! PLEASE?!?!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 5:13 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

I was saying it was very flat here on the west side (where it should be calm anyone).

Have thunderstorms now. Oops. Just saw some lightning too. About 1.5 seconds apart (light vs. sound). Grendel's not happy about the sound...

Another very focused Antilles & Bonaire weather site I just found is at http://www.meteo.an

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ann Phelan on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 5:17 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

My windsurf buddy emailed me the waves a Cai are HUGEEEEEEEEEEE

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde Lee on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 5:36 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

jake, i did go back and read the "leeward" and was thinking that meant the calm side but had a "blonde moment" and figured that you must have been talking about the "windward" side...oops...guess i better go pull that oceonography book back out! Hope all is ok, cams seem to be stuck.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sarah on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 5:40 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Tut tut Cynde.. you're not studying enough!!!! Slap.... your picture

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Cynde Lee on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 6:00 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

thanks sarah, i needed thatcam.jpg

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sarah on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 6:06 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

My pleasure! your picture

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Glen Reem on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 6:21 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

So much for flat at Cai and the far side. Still worth a pic or two.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 5:15 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Of course, mere moments after I wrote my message above, lightning strike somewhere between here and Telbo and ZAP goes our leased line Internet connection (it's still kind of out - seeing about 40-70% data loss - I'm on a dial-up to post this message).

We ended up with 1.7" of rain in about an hour. Power went out for about 4 hours.

Very little wind too.

I'm hoping the great tech contact I have at Telbo will be able to clean-up our connection so that WebCam updates can start happening again without fail...

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Meryl Virga on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 11:31 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Jake,,,great weather site...added it to my collection! Sorry about the cams....Lili, Lenny....Bonaire seems to be getting alot of the L hurricanes!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By gregg brewer on Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 11:17 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

We were able to dive Cai on Wednesday 25th, the waters were surprisingly flat...vis was not great

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Cabus on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 11:09 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Greg,

did you see the resident shool of tarpons in the dip near the old tire?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By sherry baker on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 11:17 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

jake, you did wonderful to get the cams up and going as fast as you did. probably because you wouldnt want all of us folks who miss bonaire so much to have heart seizures or withdrawal agony. ! :) we need our fixes!!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter - NetTech on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 11:55 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

The cams were running the whole time, but I did goose the archive transfers a bit to get the archives up to date :-)

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By gregg brewer on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 12:58 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Peter,

Yes, I saw the tarpons...others in our small group did not see them....we were fairly close to the surface looking down on them...since we were using 63 cuft tanks, we didn't want to burn more air than necessary...visibility was such that we could not see the bottom...is this normal vis for this dive?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Cabus on Tuesday, October 1, 2002 - 2:47 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Greg,

Both times we did Cai, vis was very low in the channel. It gradually improves when you reach the reef. Last time we were really surrounded by tarpons. There must have been dozens of them. Quite a sight (and a bit scary too). I've got it one film and I must say it looks really impressive. Tarpons suddenly appearing out of the murky green water swimming towards you and passing by really close. This dive is so not Bonaire. Low vis diving skills are certainly required (and good underater directions). For good directions I can advise to talk to Menno from Wannadive. He is one of the "experts" on this dive.

 


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