wxman57 wrote:Here's a surface plot with satellite. Definitely not tropical in appearance. As for it "not affecting any land areas", I think that the people across the NE Caribbean should know that its effects extend quite far from the low-level center. Though the NE Caribbean would not get any strong sustained wind from such a development, that trailing trof may continue to produce heavy rain across PR and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands for another day or two.
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Hi Wxman57!! Thanks for another of your great surface maps/sat combo!!
You are correct, the people across NE Carib DO know that effects extend far out, because we can see them out the window. Flash-flooding in the islands, and the marine conditions are hazardous. (Mariners don't care if winds are sustained or in gusts, a blowdown takes but a minute.) The rain most of the day was windless, even while heavy, but that has changed in the last hour. Here at 1100ft, despite protection from SSE to SW, having wind gusts over 40kt, and some brief periods of sustained wind in squalls near 35kt and my windows were rattling. Down the hill my neighbor says AT LEAST 3" of rain since this morning, and I know that St. Martin, St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, etc. have had much more rain than we have!! Everyone in EC is saturated, that's for sure.
