10 June 2005

First on deck - Arlene

It figures... this hurricane season, per Dr. Gray, is supposed to be more intense and start earlier.

Well, Mother Nature decided to play along and just trumped by starting it WAY earlier. Oh well, again, it figures. The first named storm last year was Alex who went to Cat 1 and he rose from the depths on 31 July.

For those that are interested... NOAA just put together a very nice little program called 'Storm Tracker' that can be found on their main Web page [www.NOAA.gov] in the upper left of the page. It opens a small browser window that updates itself and has everything you would rather not see in regards to a named storm. Keeping it open while you surf will save you time bouncing back and refreshing everything or changing page views... Rather nice of them, really. ;)

This girl doesn't seem to be much of a worry to West Central Florida at the moment... but we can't be sure that what used to be normal will continue... that being - the real storms come at the end of summer.

It would be nice if normalcy reigned.

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