Good evening,

Its nice and sunny here in Grand Cayman.  Very humid though so the a/c is on so that everyone (myself and the pets) is comfortable. Not surprising to feel so much humidity with all the tropical systems floating around the Caribbean. The island is quite calm ; most people seem to have done their shopping yesterday and put their shutters up in the last 24h.  Most people are more than ready for this.

This storm is painfully slow … lets get this over with already!  It has barely left Haiti after spending all day there. The “spaghetti chart” is all over the place (see below) so no one really knows where this Gustav storm will really go! One of the forecasts have it directly on Grand Cayman (purple) , one has it on the sister islands (red), one on Jamaica (white) and some on Cuba (the others).  Very reliable!  🙂

The National Hurricane Center in Miami (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov) has it passing about 100 miles from us.  From my experience, their forecasts are quite good. Since I have gotten quite a few emails and messages today from readers (thanks!) I though I would also mention Weather Underground & StormCarib. Wunderground (http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/?index_region=at) has great data and StormCarib (http://www.stormcarib.com) has local correspondents (including myself) who post comments about whats going on locally. Great sites to bookmark.

In any case, the shutters are fully up and ready to face whatever the storm tosses at us.

For my Canadian readers (and those in North-east USA) and to close out this post; did you know that there was a hurricane in the 1930’s that went all the way to Montreal via New-England?  I only learned about this today ; Interesting don’t you think? I never knew that they could go so much to the north.

Here is the reference and write-up about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938