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Posted in General Comments, tagged 2023 Atlantic Storms, Canada, Disclaimer, Europe, Florida, France, General Comments, Huricane Katrina, Hurricane Franklin, Hurricane Idalia, Hurricanes, Images, Ireland, Mexico, New Orleans, U.K., Weather on August 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I know I’m a worrywart and don’t know beans about weather forecasting, but why do I feel like we have another Katrina in the making…

August 2023 Atlantic Storms Image
August 2023 Atlantic Storms Image (forecast)

What we see in the images are two tropical hurricanes and one Atlantic storm. The one currently over Mexico is named: “Idalia“. The one east of Florida is named: “Franklin“. The third system is to Franklin’s East and is currently unnamed. It is currently headed North by (slightly) North-West.

At the moment, the assumption seems to be the hurricanes will “just” miss each other in time and continue as independent storms… (Hopefully, this is what will happen.)

My conjecture is this “may” not happen, and, in fact, there is a good chance one of two other things may…
1) Idalia pulls Franklin towards the West and they combine into a massive hurricane sliding up the Atlantic seaboard. Or,
2) Idalia doesn’t join with Franklin, but instead is itself pinned against the Atlantic coast all the way to Canada. This might occur if the third (unnamed) storm continues North-West and slows and pins Franklin in front of Idalia.

If either of these scenarios occurs, there will be terrible flooding all along the coast. If neither of these happen, it seems most likely all three storms (the unnamed, Franklin and Idalia) will take their turns hammering northern Europe – specifically, Ireland, the U.K., France and the Netherlands.

Hopefully, none of these things occur and these are wild imaginings of an unqualified doomsayer. But I have this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach which feels an awful lot like watching TV the week before Katrina hit New Orleans.

Disclaimer: both images were snipped off of images I found on the web. Both are partial cuts from larger images. I make no claim of ownership to the original images.

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