Tropical Storm Andrea has passed us by but a trailing spiral arm of wind and rain is bearing straight down on us.
Our Tornado Watch, which was supposed to expire at 11:00 a.m., was temporarily upgraded to a Tornado Warning after a waterspout was spotted on the surface of the Gulf due west of us. It moved north by northwest and was expected to make landfall a couple of counties away (where, if it survives the changeover to dry land, it will officially be a tornado) so the warning was reduced to a watch again but now extended throughout the day. Another tornado has just been reported on the ground in Belle Isle off to the east.
(Our tornadoes/waterspouts tend to be smallish thanks to the temperature shear effects of the land/water boundary.)
Our Flood Warning is in place at least into this evening. No one is giving an exact expiration time. The canals are quite full and many low areas (swales and ditches alongside roads and in highway medians) are already under water which is no surprise considering the intensity of the downpours despite their sporadic nature.
We're also under a Lake Effect Wind Warning through tonight but I find that hard to take seriously since most of the winds are southwesterly off the Gulf trailing Andrea and Lake Okeechobee is over a hundred miles away to our east.
Once again the worst of it seems to surround us while we get off relatively lightly.
My brother just went out to buy more cat food. Bartleby, who spent last night perched on her lawn chair in the pouring rain, has at least been convinced to come into the garage to eat.
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