Bonus garden blogging: Wilma
Coming Downeast?
Lower-probability track lands Wilma in Maine on Wednesday
We haven't had a hurricane or tropical storm since Bob in August 1991. Before that, it was Gloria in 1985. Both of these came with 80+ mph winds and caused quite large messes.
One of these is not needed around here now. We are saturated as it is. Somehow, today's rainstorm is missing the immediate area, but some areas to the north and east have received two or three more inches of rain with nowhere to go except except over the banks.
I'm hoping that whatever rain Wilma would bring stays well out to sea, as most of the weather people have been saying is most likely. But the map above makes me a tad bit nervous.
Update: Sunday evening...HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
says the Weather Service.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
415 PM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE.
.DAY ONE...TONIGHT
A GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
AN INTENSE STORM SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE WILMA IS EXPECTED TO BRING WIND SWEPT HEAVY RAIN TO THE REGION DURING TUESDAY....
