It looks like Emily hit, or is about to hit, Grenada.

[Dave-Gibson]

I wonder if Stacey and Neil took Zora south to Venezuela? They were in Grenada as of June 17th, the date of their last log update on their website
http://www.sailzora.com/The%20Trip.htm

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/tropical/strm5_track_720x486.jpg[/url]

Grenada hadn't had a hurricane in many, many years when Ivan pummeled the island last September, and now they're being hit with Emily. Must be global warming.

Emily looks like it hit with hurricane force winds from St. Lucia almost down to Trinidad.

[Steve Honour]

What a low storm!

Scary to watch the trend. Nothing its about to reverse it that I can see. Indian ocean is up four degrees. the weather in Africa is directly affected. The storms that spin off the coast of Africa are stronger and more prevalent. Hence, more and stronger hurricanes for us. Carbon emissions raise the sea temperature. We make out own bed so now we have to sleep in it.

[Saorsa]

Emily looks like it hit with hurricane force winds from St. Lucia almost down to Trinidad.

Nope, NOAA has a new product out on wind swath. The orange is tropical storm and the red is hurricane force. That doesn't make it any easier on those that did get hit.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT05/refresh/AL0505S_sm2+gif/153620P_sm.gif

[Saorsa]

[quote="Steve Honour"]What a low storm!

quote]

Yep, the Bermuda High is somewhat south and west of it's normal position. That is a major impact on steering tropical storms.

Where did you get those figures?

http://jisao.washington.edu/data/global_sstanomts/ssteofglobalanom.gif

This graph has a total vertical scale of 1.2 degrees (+/- 0.6)

http://jisao.washington.edu/data/global_sstanomts/ has the complete article.

[staceyneil]

Hi everybody! We had been at Hog Is, Grenada for almost 4 weeks but are now in Trinidad. Very fortuitously, we'd scheduled a haul-out (to paint the bottom) for Wednesday morning. So we were on the hard when Emily passed north of us. Chaguaramus did not see much wind (35 kts) but torrential rain caused lots of flooding and power outages and large seas were breaking onto the docks, damaging some at the Power Boats yard and Peakes, I think. I flew out of there Thursday so I don't have all the details. neil and Liv are still there. I'm pretty worried about some people we know in Grenada, and a boat that was reported missing Thurs morning who's left Grenada the afternoon previous. (Why? Why?)

Hope everyone is having a great summer and getting lots of sailing in!

Stacey
s/v ZORA