{"id":1864,"date":"2011-11-30T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2011-11-30T19:43:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:43:28","slug":"hurricane-season-over-bring-on-the-norwester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane season over, bring on the Nor&#8217;wester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane season is over in just a few hours!\u00a0 YAY.\u00a0\u00a0 For the 3rd summer in a row, we have had zero hurricanes or even a close call.\u00a0 For those that even remember, the last one that came close to Grand Cayman was Paloma which went on to strike Cayman Brac in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall and during winter &#8230; there are (usually) no hurricanes but we do get the occasional Nor&#8217;wester.\u00a0 Essentially a storm system that comes from the North West (but you had probably figured that out already)<\/p>\n<p>Today and yesterday we got the taste of our first one of the season.\u00a0 The place that is most affected by these systems are George Town and Seven Mile Beach<\/p>\n<p>Those that snorkel at Eden Rock with recognize this place. No snorkeling going on today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8NQAvD0Jfc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some additionnal shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1867\" title=\"IMG_0932\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0932.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0932.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0932-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1868\" title=\"IMG_0933\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0933.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0933.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0933-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually took this picture of the tarpons swimming around just over 24h before the above pictures. I was standing just to the right of the stairs that are used to go into the ocean. (see 1st picture above) Amazing what difference a day can make.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0913-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1871\" title=\"IMG_0913-1\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0913-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0913-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0913-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile &#8230; on the southern part of the island:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1869\" title=\"IMG_0934\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0934.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0934-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ocean was amazingly calm.\u00a0 Virtually no wave action at all.\u00a0 Here you can see that all the Seven-Mile beach and George Town dive operators have taken their boats out of harms way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane season is over in just a few hours!\u00a0 YAY.\u00a0\u00a0 For the 3rd summer in a row, we have had zero hurricanes or even a close call.\u00a0 For those that even remember, the last one that came close to Grand Cayman was Paloma which went on to strike Cayman Brac in 2008. In the fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}