New typhoon coming behind it - will be another week before that gets anywhere near us.

Meanwhile, there's a serious looking rain band stretching up the west coast - not sure if that's typhoon related or a mei yu front but they've had 40+mm in the last hour up there.

Hot, muggy, and calm right now.

It's not meant to actually veer off the collision course with taiwan until tomorrow morning. It will be panic stations if it doesn't coz that would leave us about seven minutes to prepare.

If you were on Orchid Island though then it might be time to put on the brown corduroys. They are going to get seriously hammered whatever way it goes from here.

Seems hurricanes are pretty rare in Tampa. A big one in 1858, another in 1914 - that turned over a steamship as well as a 15ft storm surge and flooding most of Tampa - i think you are probably due for the next one.

But 61 feet (was it?) should be plenty!

I had a look at the wiki and couldn't see anything. What are you seeing? I updated it recently, so that might be creating something odd for you, but I couldn't find anything. Let me know.

Seems to be another one behind it so see what happens with that. Also noticed that youv'e got something going on over there.

Historically, have there been any big hurricanes that have hit Tampa? It's a little bit tricky to get in there but should be quite possible.

PS. There seems to be a problem with the formatting on the weather wiki - can you take a look at it when you get the time?

We're currently north of Tampa, staying with relatives while waiting to close on a house that we have under contract. If all goes well, we'll be in this house within 2 weeks or so. I'm not going to jinx the deal with pictures and such. Suffice to say it's about 10 miles SE of the one-gas-station town of Floral City, Florida. Beautiful spot. I'm currently trying to figure out how we're going to get Internet. No cable or DSL available. Satellite dish Internet apparently sucks. I'm looking in to a technology called WISP. It uses radio towers and frequencies.

A couple weather sites:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
http://www.hwn.org/

And of course snakes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snakes_of_Florida

My feeling is that the one here is gonna re-curve and travel up the east coast, which will be good for the surfers but will end up having a net negative effect on rainfall for the south. However, several models still crashing it into Taiwan so we will wait and watch.

While the nation suffers the severest water shortage in 68 years, at least six tropical storms have formed in the northwest Pacific Ocean since January, a record high in more than four decades, a former Central Weather Bureau forecaster said."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/05/05/2003617541

It will be interesting if frequency is the same here in the Atlantic.

How's it going over in your neck of the woods?