HURRICANE SEASON 04
Written: 16 SEPTEMBER 2004

Despite the danger of making my website look like The Weather Channel, I feel the need to update a bit on the hurricanes that have passed through here the last month. We had Charley hitting us about a month ago, causing alot of destruction north of us.

The night to Sunday 5 September, Hurricane Frances made its landfall in West Palm Beach on the East coast of Florida. This hurricane was alot bigger in dimension compared to Charley, but didn't reach the same windstrenght. It was at the most a category 4, but was degraded to a cat 2 storm before it hit the coast. We were quite lucky we didn't get worse weather than we did, it even let us keep the power.

Most people has spent the past week preparing for Hurricane Ivan, which would turn out to be quite the massive storm. Before the weekend the forcast projected its path to go straight through Naples, and at the same time we learned that the pressure inside the eye was the 6th lowest pressure ever recorded in the States, 26.88. It wobbled between a category 4 and 5 for a long time, but it's path moved far more west than expected. It made its landfall yesterday on the border between Florida and Alabama.

Other than that life moves on like normal here in Naples. Going to work every day at 8, work til 18, home to eat dinner, surf a bit on the internet, then go to sleep. Other than that nothing much is happening.

I'm getting close to 750 hours now, and I'm also closing in on 500 hours of instruction in my logbook. For the time being I feel things are moving a bit slow, but I still get enough hours to get by. It looks like I'm getting two new students next week, which would speed things up. At the moment I'm working on getting Matthew on his first solo. English guy who is a mechanic on the 777.

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Here's a link to a java program where you can see the track of all the storms this season.

Hurricane Tracker (WRAL.com)