{"id":506,"date":"2008-08-27T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-08-27T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:50:54","slug":"hurricane-gustav-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Gustav &#8211; Update 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening,<\/p>\n<p>Its nice and sunny here in Grand Cayman.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Most people are more than ready for this.<\/p>\n<p>This storm is painfully slow &#8230; lets get this over with already!\u00a0 It has barely left Haiti after spending all day there. The &#8220;spaghetti chart&#8221; 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).\u00a0 Very reliable!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The National Hurricane Center in Miami (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\">http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov<\/a>) has it passing about 100 miles from us.\u00a0 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 &amp; StormCarib. Wunderground (h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/tropical\/?index_region=at\">ttp:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/tropical\/?index_region=at<\/a>) has great data and StormCarib (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormcarib.com\/\">http:\/\/www.stormcarib.com<\/a>) has local correspondents (including myself) who post comments about whats going on locally. Great sites to bookmark.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/at200807_aug271.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" title=\"at200807_aug271\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/at200807_aug271.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/at200807_aug271.gif 640w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/at200807_aug271-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In any case, the shutters are fully up and ready to face whatever the storm tosses at us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_5885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-512\" title=\"img_5885\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_5885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_5885.jpg 480w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_5885-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s that went all the way to Montreal via New-England?\u00a0 I only learned about this today ; Interesting don&#8217;t you think? I never knew that they could go so much to the north.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new_england_hurricane_track.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"new_england_hurricane_track\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new_england_hurricane_track.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new_england_hurricane_track.jpg 582w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/new_england_hurricane_track-299x236.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the reference and write-up about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England_Hurricane_of_1938<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, Its nice and sunny here in Grand Cayman.\u00a0 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 [&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-506","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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}