Hurricane Hilary was downgraded to a tropical storm before making landfall in Southern California yesterday, but it still dropped a shitload of rain all over the southwest. To make things more interesting, God, that sadistic bastard, also hit Cali with a Magnitude 5.5 earthquake even while Hilary was making life miserable. Nice going, guy.
The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of the past few years, like most of mainland Spain, because of changing weather patterns impacted by climate change. Wildfires on the island of Tenerife have forced the evacuation of 26,000 people. Wildfires are also still burning on Greece and in Italy, too.
Meanwhile, though, things are getting busy in the Atlantic basin, although no real or imminent dangers are currently present.
Nine is expected to become at least a tropical storm, but is expected to make landfall in Texas so who cares?
Tropical Storm Franklin is forecast to become a full-blown hurricane by this weekend, but after crossing Hispaniola is expected to turn east toward the central Atlantic. Franklins are sneaky bastards, though, so we need to keep an eye on this one.
Tropical Storm Gert isn't expected to develop into anything much and in fact could dissipate at any time.
Similarly, Tropical Storm Emily is now but a remnant, and the National Hurricane Center has announced it won't issue any more advisories on it, because fuck Emily, that's why.
Showers and thunderstorms over the portion of the eastern Atlantic denoted by the orange X above are associated with a tropical wave. Environmental conditions appear generally conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week while it moves west-northwestward across the eastern Atlantic and towards my house in Atlanta, Georgia.
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