After a couple days of drenching rain, it is always nice to kick back and enjoy the clear blue skies.  But this is also a perfect time to check all your emergency gear!

Get those generators humming, batteries charging, and drag out those unused HTs to make sure they still work (or more likely that their owner remembers how to use them).

Now that it is fall, we might think things are calming down weather-wise, but that isn’t the case in New England.  Our peak hurricane season runs from mid-August thru mid-October.  And it isn’t unusual to get storms all the way to the end of hurricane season at the end of November.  Anyone remember Hurricane Sandy (October 29th)?

An interesting situation is brewing in the Caribbean, which might have impacts on the East Coast next week, as seen below.  Hurricane Humberto (lower right) is expected to track a bit further to the NW then swing to the NE, and out to the ocean.

The area in the lower center is Area of Interest 94L, which has high odds of developing into a tropical storm and hurricane (Imelda) in the next few days.  There is a low pressure system developing over the southeastern states, coupling with the influence of Hurricane Humberto, that makes the path of what may become Imelda somewhat uncertain.  Yet another weather system, a large Canadian high may well protect New England and cause the storms to pass off shore.

Nevertheless, given all the forecast uncertainty, keep a weather eye out and be prepared.