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- Has anyone seen that before?
  • By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 19:02:50 -0400

Good evening to all,

we have had the first 3 storms of this season in a row within a few days, but none of them lasted for at least two days long! I have not seen something like that ever before. Has anyone of you have had that sort of experience ever before? 

How about Gert and Dave? I am totally flabbergasted!

The best one was CHANTAL Lingering plenty days over Northern Florida, then eventually went along the US South East Coast while strengthening herself into TS CHANTAL. However, her power was good enough to enter the US Carolinas, reducing herself to a depression and that was it.

I would really appreciate some serious explanation, as to how that could have happened.

Good night to all!

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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry! Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)

- Storm force gust!
  • By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:35:59 -0400

Hello everyone,

This morning we had TS force gusts at the BGI weather station! The coconut trees were just swaying in the wind. The Barbados Meteorological Service (BMS) has issued a wind watch due to strong winds and a marine watch due to high swells up to 3.0 metres.

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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry! Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)

- Season 2025 is on the go !
  • By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 16:15:56 -0400

Hi Gert, Dave and all the Special Correspondents!

Lets hope that the scientists with their long term forecasts have estimated a bit too high.

Yesterday the Saharan Dust haze was pretty thick:

The usual horizon is many miles behind that what you may think is the horizon in this photo taken yesterday morning. That what
seems to be the horizon ist just 2 kilo-meters away from my vantage point!

As Dave reported so correctly in his opening article the Atlantic is full of Saharan Dust. On ZOOM.EARTH it looks like that:

That's it for today.

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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry! Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)

- Early start of the hurricane season 2025 or not?
  • By Jurgen Starck <weather at turtle48.de>
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 11:52:39 -0400

Interesting article.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/07/weather/hurricane-season-early-start?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

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Best regards. Be prepared and stay safe and dry! Jurgen, from Barbados, South, near airport (BGI)

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