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- Update to my previous post
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:34:02 -0400
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The "show" is not over yet. Just minutes ago the BWS has extended
the Flash-Flood Warning until tomorrow morning 6:00 am.
If you fellow islanders, no matter where, want to know what to
expect, then click the link below. I recommend to do that on a
computer or a tablet, not on a smartphone.
https://zoom.earth/#view=15.629,-61.983,7z/date=2022-08-13,17:10,-4/map=live/overlays=wind
Once the page has loaded, click the play button near the bottom
of the page and wait until the animation has been fully loaded.
This might give you some sort of insight of what you might can
expect.
Good night for now to everyone.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- TW causing Tons of water - Flash-Flood warning
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:26:15 -0400
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Good afternoon all,
today Barbados got literally tons of water by repeated showers
from a Tropical Wave.
The rainfall intensity was from moderate to heavy as seen in
the picture.
Duration of each shower varied from short, like less than 10
minutes to medium like minutes in the two digits. Accumulated
amounts of rain became serious so that the BWS felt it was
necessary to publish a Flesh-Flood warning across Barbados,
effective as of 14:22 until 18:00 today.

Shortened version of the original warning.
I am hoping the Leeward Islands also have profited from that TW,
water wise. Let me know, please.
That's it for now.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Disturbance 1, aka INVEST 97L
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:32:54 -0400
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Good evening all,
as of tonight, it looks like that my last post turns out to have
been a false alarm. Even the NHC has reduced it's predictions for
disturbance 1, aka INVEST 97L, down to a 10% chance of development
within a 5-day range. I am thinking that this is good news.
However, it still should be watched. It wouldn't be the first
mistake of the NHC.
Take care.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Rain, Rain, Rain
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 18:53:14 -0400
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Good evening to all,
today was a day as the title says.
"Rain, Rain, Rain,"
(and to make it a rhyme)
"I aint complain!"
Strong but short shower.
About just a few seconds after the first drops were falling more
than half of the table was soaked, saying it got stronger fast.
Visibility towards the distance was very limited as usual.
As of time I am writing we had half a dozen of these showers
today, starting around midday until now. Duration was varying
between 5-15 minutes. But all strong.
Our garden must be happy as Larry!
But that is not all I wanted to tell.
As of today the NHC has a "big one" on it's radar. Not that I am
waiting for it, but this Tropical Wave seems to be important
enough for the NHC to mention it. When I caught it first, it was
only on the five-day-forecast image, not at the front image.

30% in five days.
Hence, I looked elsewhere:

The marking shows the approximate size. Looks kinda a "Biggie" to
me. But that does not necessarily need to mean much. ;-)
That's it for tonight. Keep watching this one.
Good night everyone.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Swirling dust
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:47:17 -0400
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Good morning all,
this post is meant to be an explanation for
Jane Higgins question from St. Thomas.
Click here:
https://zoom.earth/#view=13.1,-39.4,5z/date=2022-07-28,07:00,-4/map=live/overlays=wind
Once that page is loaded click the play
button near the bottom of the page. Wait a seconds until the
animation has completely loaded. Then you will see a slowly
rotating patch of clouds in the centre of the image. I am
guessing the dust is just riding piggy-back on the clouds.
By the way, this webpage is a tremendous
tool for tracking storms, much more detailed than the usual NOAA
pages. It also delivers more detailed forecast data.
Best regards.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Disturbance 1
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 12:39:24 -0400
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Good day to all,
The most part of Disturbance 1 is passing North of Barbados.
However, that doesn't mean the we are going away empty handed.

Barbados weather Radar at 12:00 pm local time.
The Barbados Weather Service (BWS) is predicting only little rain
of 15 mm accumulated amount for the day.

BWS accumulated amount of rain (pink marking).
However, we got a good lashing from the outskirts of Disturbance
1, before it was really here. The attached video is from this
morning at about 8 am. It lasted only some minutes. Since then we
haven't had anything stronger than that. But it was good enough
for the garden.
That's it for now. Take care everyone.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
Attachment:
20220701_080412_Disturbance_1_Barbados.mp4
Description: video/mp4
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- Just for the record, Hurricane Hunter now in St. Croix
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:35:01 -0400
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Good afternoon to all,
I caught it a lil late, but the Hurricane
Hunter "Miss Piggy" (nickname of the aircraft) that we had here,
was out for another mission, but obviously it either had its
transponder turned off or it was flying too low. Not even
flightradar24.com could detect it. It was flying for an unknown
period of time very low at an altitude of 950 ft. above sea
level! Then it went up to cruising level and eventually landed
in St. Croix, USVI. May be Isabel up there could take her "End
of day photo" at the airport?

Route of the flight.

Profile of the flight. NOTE: The first 5 minutes of the blue line
flying at an altitude of just 950 feet.
I know that this not important, but unusual.
Here in Barbados we are fine so far, just a
little above normal winds and here and there a shower, some of
them hefty but short lived. However, the CPA (Closest Point of
Approach) is still to come, around 21:30 tonight. We also have a
good portion of water out there coming towards us.

Barbados Weather Service Radar image (Barbados in the centre
of circles).
So much for today. May you all have a good night.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Latest CAP warning, Hurricane Hunter found storm force winds
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:55:38 -0400
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Good afternoon to all,
Here is the latest CAP warning from this morning. For further
explanation please read my last post from yesterday.

The Hurricane Hunter is on the job

According to the NHC the Hurricane Hunter has found storm force
winds while investigating INVEST 94L. Excerpt: "... A NOAA
Hurricane Hunter aircraft is currently investigating the system
and has found winds to tropical storm force....".
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- For a purpose, I repeat what I have posted long ago
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:26:26 -0400
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Last post for today, promise,
I am posting this for a reason (again). It seems, that the Barbados
Weather Service (BWS) is currently posting more detailed
information about what we know about INVEST 94L, compared to
what the NHC is reporting. I also want to advise everyone to
install and/or register for the CAP or CAP.CAP app (for
smartphones only). CAP stands for the COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOL,
which is an international standard protocol for emergency
news/earnings/alerts messaging. I know that the advices and
warnings which I am getting are mainly centred on Barbados, but
just like in this case (INVEST 94L), the information may be
sometimes also useful to my fellow islanders because of the size
of those systems. What is important to know about this, is that
those messages are provided by local authorities in general. Which
means, that you need to subscribe for a country from where you
want to receive those warnings or alarms, in case the country
where you are living may not have the means to provide such
information.
Since the CAP app is working via internet and SMS you probably
can receive these information from anywhere, as long you are
connected to the internet or your phone network. It works on
smartphones, and computers via various ways. Such as an app that
you can download on your mobile phone. On your computer you can
get the same information via email.
Think about it. Then again, if you may find out it is not
covering sufficient information for your needs/location, you can
always delete it and cancel your account.
I gone now. Not coming back tonight, for sure. Good night to
everyone! 😉
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- The "harbinger wave"
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:59:24 -0400
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Good evening again,
I had just posted the hurricane hunter and shortly after, a
decent rain from a "harbinger Tropical Wave" which is NOT
connected to INVEST 94L just released part of it's heavenly gold
a.k.a. rain! That was a good downpour and on satellite photos
(like stormcarib's front page or below) it looks like that the
Leeward Islands may get some of this as well. Crossing my fingers
for everyone out there who had less rainfall rather than Barbados
has had in recent months. And with the threat of droughts going on
as predicted by scientists, I guess, all of us have to increase
our own (private) water storages and catchment areas wherever
possible. Sounds easy, I know, but it is not that easy, know that
too. We need to get more creative... But how?
The "harbinger wave" on satellite photo.
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Hurricane Hunter
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 16:45:31 -0400
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Good evening to all,
at 16:08 o'clock a NOAA "Lockheed WP-3D Orion" Hurricane Hunter
landed in Barbados. I guess we all know what it's purpose/mission
might be, don't we.
NOAA "Lockheed WP-3D Orion" Hurricane Hunter, nickname "Miss
Piggy".
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Best regards and stay safe and COVID-19 free! Keep your distance!
Jurgen
Barbados South, near airport (BGI)
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- Tropical Wave
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:47:19 -0400
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Good morning to all,
yesterday a Tropical Wave was passing through the Lesser Antilles
island chain. It has brought a fair amount of rain during on and
off showers. Most of the action started before midday and it ended
around sunset. The Barbados Weather Service (BWS) predicted an
accumulated rain fall of 20mm and winds peaking at 55 km/h and
higher gusts near showers. My personal experience can confirm
that.
Sad news for the Leeward Islands: There is not much rain in for
you, according to the two BWS radar pictures (this is meant to be
a reply to Isabel from St. Croix and all other interested
parties).

Looking South: Where the clouds are dark and low at the
horizon a strong thunderstorm was scaring the fish. It also
affected air traffic, see screenshots further down below.
The rain is here, I had to move inside.
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