2019 Running Atlantic Hurricane Season Thread

I wonder if it will fuck up the Netherlands.

Those boys better get their fingers ready.

 

Saw a conversation with the head of Ireland's weather service today. Said Lorenzo would be a strong but not untypical storm for the country.

 

Was he drunk?

 

Maybe. Maybe he knows his own country and its weather patterns better than you.

 

Duh.

 

But see, he's Irish, soooo ...

 

This is the good kind of tropical storm. Lots of areas in its path have been bone dry for a couple of months, to the point that burn bans and drought talk were starting to pop up.

 

Good news, bad news. The rain will help the fire danger and low lake levels, but comes too late for Georgia peanut farmers and wrecks whatever leaf season we might have had in the mountains.

 

Generally, if it's too dry leaf season is for shit anyhow. They get dry and fall off with little of the normal fall color on display.

 

You generally need a moist fall for the red maples and yellow poplars to be at their peaks.
I don't know if it matters for the brown of the oaks.
If you've ever lived in tobacco country, you know what a difference moisture makes.