'Ello Ernesto...

It seems Tropical Depression Ernesto is coming to town. Once Ernesto moves off Florida and over the Atlantic again it should strenghten to a minimal tropical storm again, but the way everyone is behaving around here you'd think it was a category 5 monster: Classes are cancelled tomorrow morning at MUSC, there's a voluntary evacuation of Charleston county, and shelters are opening up at 3pm today.


The map above is from the NOAA National Hurricane Center website. Hurricane central at weather.com is also pretty good for following storms but I prefer NOAA. And just for good measure, here is our local NOAA site.

Anyway it looks like tomorrow will be pretty wet and stormy - just like last thursday, really. Naturally, I'll keep the P club up to date on any exciting storm-related developments.

- Mr. Ed