Hurricane!

A cool Hurricane Ernesto.

Well, it was a pretty interesting week. Honestly, I don’t know where to start since last week’s e-mail was so short. I don’t know if I ever mentioned that Hurricane Ernesto came through here. There were lots of winds and lots and lots of rain. It really didn’t destroy anything, but it was a cool experience. Well, a lot happened this week. Started out on Tuesday:

No music tracks as remnants of Hurricane Ernesto swept through Lake Ontario.

lowlights were the wind - the remnants of hurricane ernesto threw the headwinds against me on the other side of lake ontario. as well, my mp3 player just stopped working somewhere near burlington, so i went without music for half the trip - for shame! for shame! i can barely handle being on a subway or streetcar without my music - let alone a solo bike trip around the golden horseshoe.

Ernesto's remnants drenched New York at an inopportune time.

Ernesto really isn’t making NYC any more inviting to all the fresh fish who are coming in for college. We’re getting so much rain from this storm! When will it all calm down? It definitely looks like Tuesday is going to be a dreary first day of school for New Yorkers.

After doing damage through the Carribean, Hurricane Ernesto pouring rain on the east coast while Hurrican John is about to savage Baja California.

Water temperatures along the Pacific coast of Mexico are 1-2 degrees C above normal all the way to the California coast, giving 2006 the possibility of allowing a tropical storm to reach California. It is very rare for an Eastern Pacific storm to move far enough north to affect the Arizona or California. Since 1900, only four tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm force winds to the Southwestern United States: an unnamed tropical storm that made landfall near Long Beach, CA, in 1939 (52 mph winds south of L.A.); the remnants of Hurricane Joanne in 1972; the remnants of Hurricane Kathleen in 1976 (76 mph wind gust at Yuma, AZ); and the remnants of Hurricane Nora in 1997. In addition, a hurricane just missed making landfall in October 1858 and brought hurricane force winds to San Diego and tropical storm force winds all the way to Los Angeles.

Hurricane Ernesto and Hurricane Shields.

With Ernesto bearing down on Florida after rolling through Cuba, I’d like to discuss the Hurricane Shield that exists around the Tampa Bay area.