Maybe whoa: We're in the cone of probability for a possible big storm over the weekend

By adamg on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 12:23pm

Cone of probability for Tropical Depression 9

The S means possible winds of 39-73 mph.

UPDATE, 2:30 p.m. The storm now has a name: Hermine.

The National Hurricane Center reports there's a chance a storm in the Gulf of Mexico now known prosaically as Tropical Depression 9 could churn up the coast and smack us with heavy rains, high tides and strong winds by Monday.

The storm, which has been slowly meandering across the Atlantic for more than a week before finally ending up in the Gulf, might finally be getting better organized over the warm Gulf waters. A hurricane watch is already up for parts of Florida's northern Gulf coast.

Over at Weather Underground, meteorologist Jeff Daniels writes it doesn't look like the storm, which might eventually get named Hermine, will become a full-blown hurricane, but that it could still bring some much needed rain to New England - along with some much unneeded high winds - and that two forecasting models show it as a tropical storm sitting just south of New England late Sunday into Monday. He adds:

The uncertainties are high at this point, though - the diameter of NHC’s cone of uncertainty for their 5-day track forecast is about 550 miles.

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Rain dance time

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 12:26pm

Anybody know any good ones?

Here's one

By dpalomares
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 12:40pm

[youtube]8FftI0oRg2M[/youtube]

Flashdance

By Bugs Bunny
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 12:53pm

I'll be singing "What a Feeling" if this storm misses us and my BBQ isn't rained out.

moldier and oldier

By Ishmael Jones
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 1:06pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=223ge81zXMk

Hey that

By LizW
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:37pm

Cultural appropriation now!

Lol

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:14pm

I was thinking more along the lines of bringing out the disco ball and turning on the bubble machine .. so, unless a straight woman playing "Its Raining Men" qualifies as cultural appropriation ...

(don't worry Cybah - we won't be turning this into a bachelorette party!)

Now, put your hands togetha and SING THE GOSPEL OF RAIN!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rUxiqQHKs0[/youtube]

And, for slow dance time:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-WMbP1RcC4[/youtube]

nice pick!

By louielouie
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 7:31pm

I upvoted Scratchie below on Roxy's take, but I always loved NY's versions of that song the best. So moving. Yeah, I'm that age where he's his own genre. Thanks for this :)

And I'm upvoting it for the

By Scratchie
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 1:13pm

And I'm upvoting it for the best Violent Femmes album ever ("Hallowed Ground").

While we're at it, here's the

By Dave
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 12:03am

While we're at it, here's the version from the Midnight Special a couple of years before the album version.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxiu1o63CA[/youtube]

You call that a Neil Young

By Scratchie
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 1:18pm

You call that a Neil Young rendition of "Like a Hurricane"??

THIS is a Neil Young rendition of "Like a Hurricane"!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyoEb7YH5qA[/youtube]

By Elmer
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 8:04pm

[sub]Singing in the Rain                                         Spring Rain[/sub][youtube=250x200]z4aT1oly7lA[/youtube]
[youtube=250x200]wSyCN5U_YfQ[/youtube]
[sub]I Can't Stand the Rain                                    A Hurricane's Coming Tonight[/sub][youtube=250x200]QO3hlmEyaiA[/youtube]
[youtube=250x200]NBKNCvRWefs[/youtube]
[sub]Date With the Rain                                          It's Raining Men[/sub][youtube=250x200]tMigCvlqOvU[/youtube]
[youtube=250x200]_W6oHIF4soc[/youtube]

(No subject)

By Scratchie
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 3:03pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXoSiL8eiIQ[/youtube]

Shocked to not see...

By Captain Obvious
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 9:58pm

The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin

Rain, The Beatles

Crying in the Rain, Everly Brothers

Blame it on the Rain, Milli Vanilli.

Especially that last one.

...and "It's Raining Again"

By anon
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 1:48am

...and "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp.

Roxy Music reigns!

By Neil
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 3:34am

Damn, nice Scratchie!
I had never heard this cover. It's brilliant.

Great Eurythmics song and video too.

I live to serve.

By Scratchie
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 1:19pm

I live to serve.

Who doesn't love

By ElizaLeila
Thu, 09/01/2016 - 9:13am

Who doesn't love Kristen and Dax?

[youtube]vgL3puDfuRg[/youtube]

Woodstock Strategy

By Irma la Douce
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:49pm

Everyone go outside and chant "No Rain! No Rain!" wearing tie dye, if possible. Deluge should ensue.

A little Alarm might be appropriate

By ladycommentariat
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:54pm

[youtube]8D6pPgwafq0[/youtube]

These..

By cybah
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 4:43pm

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58 [/youtube]

And this one..

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IKMXfI5hzE [/youtube]

And this one..

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFnYcIqj6I [/youtube]

And this one..

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-r4ZUpels [/youtube]

And finally

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDwI0DTqD_A [/youtube]

If the subject is approaching hurricanes

By roadman
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 5:24pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg-zwba7l5w[/youtube]

There will be quiet...

By ZachAndTired
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:10pm

...after the storm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgd5GkblIHM[/youtube]

my wife and I will go camping....

By teric
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 1:03pm

...and guarantee a driving rain storm!
I swear we should rent ourselves out to drought stricken areas.

I've seen this one...

By King.of.Brighton
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 1:25pm

There's a whole episode of the X Files about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_King

I could try leaving some

By Dave
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:35pm

I could try leaving some steel tools outside, or a book on the patio table. That usually makes it rain.

Don't suppose you were ever an English lorry driver?

By ladycommentariat
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:57pm

/pours one out for Douglas Adams

So, will this storm be Rain Type 258

By roadman
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 5:25pm

or Rain Type 145?

Weekend!?!?

By MikeIsNeat
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 1:13pm

That cone doesn't get to us till Monday!

um

By Steeve
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:21pm

Labor Day Weekend ends Monday night.

New hashtag

By Ari O
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:09pm

#ImWithHermine

Funny, this was yesterday's news;

By Anony-Mouse
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 2:27pm

Paucity of rain to continue

Tropical Things With Names

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:20pm

The trump card of weather systems. They develop over the span of days, randomly wander and water and blow, and mosh other weather systems out of the way.

I'm just a fella, a fella

By anon
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 3:03pm

I'm just a fella, a fella with an umbrella,
Looking for a girl who saved her love for a rainy day.
I'm just a fella, a fella with an umbrella,
Glad to see the skies of blue have turned into skies of gray.
Raindrops have brought us together,
And that's what I long to see.
Maybe the break in the weather will prove to be a break for me.
So I'll be the fella, that fella with an umbrella,
If you'll be the girl who saved her love for a rainy day.
Oh, the raindrops have brought us together,
And that's what I long to see.
Maybe the break in the weather will prove to be a big break for me.
So I'll be the fella, the kid with the small umbrella,
If you'll be the girl who saved her love for a rainy day.
If you will be the girl, the girl who saved her love for a rainy day.

Irving Berlin

Must be my old roommate's fault

By Gary C
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 3:36pm

He's flying in today from California to spend a week on the Cape. Bad timing.

TD9

By anon
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 5:26pm

Not that it matters much since it now has a name, but this was Tropical Depression 9, not 8.

Ugh, you are right

By adamg
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 6:16pm

Thanks, fixed.

Even deeper into the cone

By adamg
Wed, 08/31/2016 - 5:53pm

The National Hurricane Center's 4 p.m. report has the storm being more likely to hug the coast - it puts the possible center of the storm at 1 p.m. on Monday just to our south, rather than on a path that might miss us (yes, we're still several days out, anything can happen, etc., etc.):