If You're Bored With the Weather, Just Wait a Minute

Yesterday, for a few hours, we had three hurricanes in the Atlantic - Maria, Nate, and Ophelia. As of now, we have three tropical storms in the Atlantic - Maria, Nate, and Ophelia. It's enough to make life especially interesting to those who forecast the weather and those who thought it would be fun to track hurricanes on their blog (moi'?).

Anywho, I also think it's interesting to see where these storms are going - or not going (in Ophelia's case). Maria appears to be headed for Iceland, then Norway (I just think it's fascinating for a tropical storm to hit Iceland - gotta love that Gulf Stream, eh?). Nate was headed for the British Isles but has veered a little northward. In any case, plan on packing extra barf bags if you plan to sail the North Atlantic in the next few days. Meanwhile, Ophelia seems to be just languishing off the Florida coast. Around and around she goes; where she stops, nobody knows. She became a hurricane yesterday, now she's a tropical storm again (maximum sustained winds of 65 mph) and probably will become a hurricane again.

Current models suggest Ophelia will make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday close the South Carolina - Georgia border. But Ophelia is hard to track because she's moving so slow, so anything could happen. Oh well, what can you do?