Coming Storms

No, not the elections of 2022 and 2024 . . . I mean actual, literal storms this year.

It looks like Hurricane Sam is going to miss not only the U.S. East Coast but Atlantic Canada.  Various computer projections of late have shown the storm curving eastward over the open ocean, with at least one projection showing it cross the Atlantic all the way to Scotland.  

But it looks like more storms are coming up in October.  The National Hurricane Center sees a high chance of not one, but two tropical depressions forming at the end of the week from a wave of the west coast of Africa.  It should be noted that not one tropical depression that has formed this year has failed to become named storm.  If either of these new depression were to fail to become a named storm, it would be a first for this season.

But even if those tropical storms don't reach land, other computer projections, mainly from the GFS, have shown a storm forming off Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast and taking a northward beeline for Cuba and then Florida.  Another GFS projection shows a storm forming off the southern coast of Hispaniola and making a beeline for the Northeast. For anyone who thought October would be a calmer month meteorologically . . . you got another thing comin', bucko.