The line is excruciatingly long.  It is Florida, it is hot and humid.  The humidity is stiffling.  We are all uncomfortable, yet noone seems to be cranky.  We are all there for the same purpose.  To ride.  I've done this before.  It is nowhere near a new experience for me.  Having grown up here I [...]

Today I got a strong reminder about what matters most in life. Whe you are married or in a very close relationship you become the other persons confidant and are expected to always keep secrets and conversations confidential. I forgot this important rule and really hurt someone badly. To me, at the time, I thought [...]

Well Ernesto never fully developed like I was sure it would. There was a shear that was not forecasted or even predicted that keep pushing the convection north of storm and prevented any major development. He held together though and is still holding together today moving NNW across the state.
Check out the graphics HERE…
  

Ernesto is still struggling to reform it's center. That latest satellite images show a very large area of convection and it appears the storm is getting organized, but the Hurricane Hunters have been unable to pin point or confirm this. As I predicted the track is starting to shift westward again and before the end [...]

I have no images or no video to show and almost no story since there is nothing being printed, but I saw today on Fox & Freinds that the two former hostages are now back in the U.S..
  

The Hurricane Hunters have found the center of Ernesto as it is emerging off the northern coast of Cuba. His motion appears to be 315 @ 12 knots. If this speed and direction continue landfall is expected along the middle to upper Florida Keys and the southern peninsula of Florida within the next 18 - [...]

The center of Ernesto is still over the Cuban Mainland and this is sapping the storms energy for now. Once Ernesto re-emerges into the Florida Straits it is game on. The models are now shiting back to the west again and it wouldn't suprise me if the track were to show lansfall back on the [...]

In elementary school, I was usually first in line.  If not for my last name (Batista back then) then for my height.  I was always the shortest one in the class. Always. Can't remember a time when there was a kid shorter than I was.  Back then, my height didn't matter much though, as being kids and all, we [...]

I read an article in the BBC that was really cool about a possible new cancer treatment. Check it out HERE
  

I have created a Hurricane page to put all the updates for any storms that are out there. Here is the Link. I will create a different page for each storm that threatens the U.S.. Also if one is coming Tampa, Florida way I will send updated blogs and photos hourly untill we are unable.  
Here is the [...]