Time to watch the weather...

 Not that it's never time to watch the weather, but now that we're in the middle of peak hurricane season, it's more prevalent of a time. 

The news and weather stations are currently watching a few different activities out in both the Gulf and the Atlantic. There's a tropical storm brewing to the left (Gulf) and a hurricane brewing to the right (Atlantic, "Franklin"). Both are decidedly equal right now in what they can do. 

The Gulf storm will create a tropical depression for Southwest Florida - lots of heavy rain (upwards of 8 inches or more), heavy wind, and do some havoc on the area still trying to rebuild from Ian. Once it moves closer to the panhandle / "big bend" area, it'll be a category 1 hurricane for northern Florida before going east and up the coast as a tropical storm. 

The Atlantic storm is currently a category 1 and will be a 2 before fizzing out in the ocean. It's far enough away right now from the coast, that it will give the eastern seaboard some smallishly rough weather but will remain too far away to do something drastic. 

At least that's all the news as of this morning. The Gulf storm is being watched (it didn't have a name this morning besides the "Invest" stuff) and could be trouble by Tuesday and Wednesday for me. By midday Wednesday it'll travel up the state and more more of an issue. 

Time will tell over the next few days to see how things are going to turn out. I wanted to do a quick update for right now, with the limited information I have, in case I will all of a sudden post "we got a very bad storm!!!!!!!!" pictures next week. At least there's been notice. 

Now it's time to make the donuts... 

Cheers;

See Also

* Dunkin Donut's Coffee (the donut reference)

* Ryan Sprague's podcast and two books if you're going to "keep your feet on the ground and eyes to the sky"