Hurricane Preparedness! It's never too early to plan ahead...

You'll read time and time again. In any given year, a Hurricane can strike ANYWHERE. Therefore it is best to be prepared ahead.

In Ontario, your Hurricane preparedness kit should include:


- Food
- Water
- battery powered alarm clock
- paper and pencil
- Smartphone (for listserv updates)
- seabird field guide
- binoculars
- camera
- scope with sturdy tripod


Be sure to plan your routes in advance and check with your trusted news sources for the best possible information when planning your next move!



With that said, a bit of weather fun!

The Atlantic is already churning away with Tropical Storm Dorian waay out in the eastern Atlantic. We are ahead of schedule on the letter "D" - but similar to recent years, we're starting off with a bunch of tropical storms (no hurricanes yet)

That storm track up the east coast was Andrea - which occurred in early June and dumped numerous Mississippi Kites and other goodies far up the coast. 

Dorian is a "cape verde" type storm, - starting in the far eastern atlantic from a tropical wave that exited Africa a few days ago. These are my favourite type of storms to watch (Camille, Hugo, Fran and Isabel were "Cape Verde storms") .. Although it's rather early still and Dorian will likely struggle a bit.

Recent view of Dorian

Dorian is beating the odds, fighting off cool water and dry air to his west and has maintained a pretty solid (and fairly small) rotation. As of right now, I have heard of no reason why we should get excited here in Ontario. But it's a nice little storm to enjoy if you like tropical weather in general. 

My favourite sources for info:

Tropical Tidbits - http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/

Dr. Jeff Masters - http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

Hurricane Sat Imagery - http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/

Good maps - http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/

And the people in charge - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/  - The National Hurricane Centre

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Current model tracks