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- Sargassum Seaweed, hands off!
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:10:29 -0400
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Good day everyone,
I have read a number of reports from other special hurricane
correspondents about the Sargassum Seaweed (Sargassum). My thanks
to Jane Higgins (St.Thomas) and "Hogan" (Grenada).
Since this yearly re-occurring "pest" seems to be the new
seasonal normal since about 2015, I also wanted to make a
contribution to the subject.
I have seen it for the first time in Barbados in 2015, see link
below "Best Caribbean Beach".
On February 12th, this year, I took two more photos of the said
"Beat Caribbean Beach":

Left: The seaweed on the beach. Right: There is more coming.
Not so much the "Best Caribbean Beach" any more.
Particularly not for the "High Season"!
However, how unbelievably it may sound, I saw a few guests
walking through it and took a plunge into the Atlantic.
The Problem with that type of seaweed are,
1) when it dries up it starts to rot and develops a very
unpleasant odour! Nothing that you want have in your nose while
sunbathing near it.
2) In some years it came in such masses onto our shores, so that
it brought the fishing industry pretty much down fore some weeks.
Some farmers came up with the idea to make fertilizer for plants
out of it. Even worse, some chefs made dishes with it!
BOTH BAD IDEAS!
Soon after that, our government brought these types of use to a
stop, after a lab has found that this seaweed contains quit a bit
of heavy metals, which are bad for human health!
Related links:
Location of photos:
google-maps
Best Caribbean Beach:
https://www.nationnews.com/2015/02/04/crane-voted-best-caribbean-beach/
Sargassum Bay (Fishery Problems):
https://www.nationnews.com/2015/05/11/sargassum-bay/
Wikipedia about Sargassum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum
Well, that's it for today. Be safe everyone.
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- Flash-Flood Warning
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:07:09 -0400
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Good morning everyone,
As of 7:00 am Barbados is under Flash-Flood Warning. So far it
will expire at 6:00 pm today, if not updated.
Barbados weather radar

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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- Heavy Rain !
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:56:43 -0400
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Good morning to all,
since about an hour Barbados is getting
pounded with heavy rain! A Flash-Flood Warning has been issued
by the Barbados Meteorological Service. The fields below us are
partially covered with water because the ground was already
saturated.
Here it comes, about an hour ago, looking
South-West.

20221010_083940_Rain_coming_DSC_3911.jpg
Looking South.

20221010_083950_Rain_coming_DSC_3912.jpg
Looking East.

20221010_083950_Rain_coming_DSC_3912.jpg
Here it is.
20221010_085357_There_it_is_DSC_3931.jpg
OK, I done writing, the rain done raining. That was a lot of
rain!
Have a good day, everyone.
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- To St. Lucia
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:36:18 -0400
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Hi, Nada Sonia in St. Lucia,
I would say, this "loop swirly feature" are the remnants of
former Tropical Depression #12, which is drifting North-West and
now getting ripped apart by wind-sheer or something like that.
Have a nice day.
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- Nicaragua - TAKE COVER!
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 18:11:12 -0400
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Good evening everyone,
I wished the people in Nicaragua would be able read this, even
though I have my doubts they could.
The poor people over there are actually getting another brunt of
nature, as if they wouldn't have had enough during the past few
years. I really feel sorry for them and how they could possibly
prepare for more to come in the future when climate change is
making everything much worse for the entire globe.

Current status: TS JULIA affecting Nicaragua already with its
wind and rain field.
I actually don't know what else to say.
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- INVEST 91L - For Ian and all of T&T
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 09:10:51 -0400
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Hello Trinidad,
NOTE: The following
information does NOT claim to be exact, there it is entirely
without any warranty whatsoever. Don't rely on this
information if you may have to make serious decisions for your
survival!
Barbados weather radar at 08:10 AST.

20221006_081000_INVEST_91L_BWS_Radar.jpg
How much longer may it last?
In order to answer that question I played a little bit around
with zoom.earth, see partial screenshot below.
Below the words "TRINIDAD & TOBAGO" in the partial screenshot
below you see a label saying "147 km". This label partially covers
a slanted white line that peeps out to the left (in the middle of
Trinidad) and to the right (at the south-eastern edge of INVEST
91L). Those 147 km represent the length of that slanted line.
Below that you can see another label saying "30 km/h". That is the
wind speed. And the wind is coming from ESE.
Let's assume the wind speed is near the speed of the system's
forward speed. For easier calculation let's round up 147 -> 150
km.
Hence, we get 150 km / 30 km/h = 5h. It may take 5 hours,
starting at 8:30, for the system to have left Trinidad. That would
be 13:30 (1:30pm) today.
As I said above, this might not be
exact! Don't rely on it in critical situations! It is more
like an educated guess!
Take these 5 hours as the MINIMUM period of time until it
might over.
Partial screenshot of Trinidad and Tobago

20221006_083000_INVEST_91L_TT_Details.jpg
Good luck to everyone!
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- Thank you Ian from T&T !
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 08:11:34 -0400
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Dear Ian,
I thank you very much Ian for your kind words! I appreciate it
very much. It's good to know that one's work may have helped
someone else in some way, no matter how little or how much.
Take care, Ian and all your fellow countrymen and women and who
else may be over there.
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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry!
Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)
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- INVEST 91L - let the pictures talk
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- By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 12:48:38 -0400
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Good afternoon to all,
Below the images are the filenames, the begin with to numbers,
indicating date and time in AST (UTC-4).
NHC Tropical Weather Outlook

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