Ben,
it's more yours than ours, yeap.(i hope it just does not grow more and runs to hell even before the Bahamas)
Jaime, ha ha,
if the few ones we had this year bothered you i can sorrily promise you that you have a very boring time period ahead of ya, stock up the Brugal in the colmado.
we have the cloud formation after Hanna, located SE of the Lady, that's more our way to watch(Hanna looks to be very nice for us in the DR) because the typical WNW course would be our way, big or not doesn't matter much, i hate cloudy skies and roug Seas with seasick customers.
but the shots of the african continent(over land formations movement east to west, hitting water aound the Cap Verde Islands positions and always bringing birth to something) promise 2-3 weeks of watching satellite images permanently.
i hope that image url works to show it.
those movements leaving the landmass of the African continent are basically the reason why the air when they hit the hot 26C+(actually even 28C+) atlantic waters starts a movement, the hot SSTemps are their "RedBull" for their wings, surrounding conditions of that wide area are the factor to decide it grows huge - nothing. til now the condiotions over there been perfect for storms to get born(they still are) but luckily the surrounding conditions on their way westwards towards the eastern caribben been hindering them from getting a real 'grown up'.
conditions chaange of course day by day in several sectors on that long way, but the place of birth is actually still perfectly in the 'Ladies' favor.
Hanna is no threat.
nothing bad in front of our homedoor at this moment.
but of we have to check the weather east of us permanently.
Hillbilly Buddy,
when i went to bed it even had not been Tropical Depression Eight,
it was Invest 95L, since many days, and the last days it disappeared from the maps several times, like non existing, but it still been visible on the satellite shots.
lets hope that that Gustav does not cross the middle of the Gulf of Mexico(top water temp conditions to grow up to 3-4 in the center of the Gulf) before that downshifting coldfront over the south of the US slowly starts to slow him down, the New Orleans Area can not take an other one again.
Mike
actual Formations and Storms
but luckily Hanna is not winking at the DR.
