Hurricane Rafael

[Rocky]

Hurricane Rafael is stirring the pot out in the southern Atlantic and moving away from North America so none of us should be bothered by the storm.
It's possible our sister province of Newfoundland to the east might get brushed with some rain, but that will be about it.
Funny, just the other night I mentioned to my wife that this has been a quiet hurricane season.
I guess I shouldn't have spoken

 

[CarlS]

I am just delighted he is not headed this way! Looks like he will pass just east of Bermuda.

 

[hemibee]

Hurricane Paul is headed this way, getting rains this afternoon from the outer bands, well sort of the outer bands. It's odd, we are getting rains from a Pacific hurricane when the ones in the Gulf that were A LOT closer never even offered up a sprinkle for us.

 

[CarlS]

That is indeed odd.

 

[hemibee]

Yeah, instead of going west, Paul went north and now northeast.

 

[hendo01]

look like our storm season is about to kick of hope we dont get any big blows

 

[DaveM]

Well the weather is just so unpredictable these days you just don't know what it going to do. I heard on the news that we have had the wettest winter on record so far.

 

[Rocky]

Rafael passed about 800 km's (500 miles) offshore so not even the edges of the system brushed us.
The cold air and water took all the steam out of the storm as it moved northeast and it soon lost its punch.

 

[CarlS]

He is history now.