First, you have to promise you will scan down and read about David Black's trip to the Kennedy Space Center to see the Space Shuttle Atlantic take off yesterday. It is one of the best blog posts ever.
Plus Brian Peters has a great travelog of East Alabama.
But tonight, Hurricane Florence is approaching the islands of Bermuda.
Top winds are 90mph, or Category One status. Some strengthening is still possible overnight, but it should be modest if at all.
The eye is about 90 miles southwest of Bermuda. It has begun to make the expected turn to the north northeast, moving at 14 mph.
On this forecast track, the center will pass about 60 miles west of the islands at its closest approach, which should occur in about five hours.
At that time, if the forecast track is accurate, hurricane force winds will only be 10-20 miles offshore. Bermuda should receive strong tropical storm force winds. A storm surge of 6-8 feet is expected along with battering waves.
Here are the latest conditions at the Bermuda International Airport... /
Recorded at 10:55 pm CDT
Showers
Temp.: 26°C/80°F
Humidity: 89%
Wind: SE 30G47 kt (35G55 mph)
So tropical force gusts are being experienced.
Here is the radar from the Bermuda Weather Service.
To check the latest radar through the night and morning, follow this link. Here is an animation. The Bermuda Weather Service website is http://www.weather.bm/
Of course, our tropical pagecontains a wealth of information.
Tonight, the NHC started issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Seven. The system is several hundred miles behind Florence and should follow in her footsteps, recurving through a weakness in the Bermuda High. This depression is forecast to become Tropical Storm Gordon tomorrow, but should have a hard time maturing into the third hurricane of the season. Gordon could threaten Bermuda by late Friday night.