Apparently Hurricane Ophelia is en-route to Nova Scotia!
I say apparently because there is really no mention of it on the Environment Canada - Halifax Weather website and you'd think there would be, wouldn't you? I mean it's being mentioned on the news, on the radio, it's even being discussed on the Kindred Creations online scrapbooking community boards. But no mention of it in the 5 day weather forecast? According to todays 5 day weather forecast, Saturday, which is when Ophelia may reach us, is supposed to be:
Cloudy. Periods of rain beginning in the morning. Risk of
a thundershower late in the evening. Amount 15 to 25 mm. Wind becoming
east 20 km/h in the morning then increasing to 30 gusting to 50 late in
the day. High 20.
Will we have a hurricane or not? After much digging around Environment Canada I did manage to find a satellite picture of Hurricane Ophelia along with projections for the most predicted path of travel, which can be found here. Now don't forget that this link is being updated at regular intervals so by the time you read this and then click on the link the situation could have totally changed, which will leave me looking not a little stupid and totally make a mockery of all I have written in this post!
As of writing this, Hurricane Ophelia is not even correctly named, officially she is now Sub-Tropical Storm Ophelia but it is possible that she could briefly regain hurricane strength today as she is still over warm water. Is it just me and the way I think, but is anyone else imagining Ophelia lounging on a cloud, resting, having a nap so that she can feel stronger when she wakes up? No? Didn't think so...
Anyway. A sub-tropical storm doesn't sound too bad, does it? The winds may only reach gusts of up to 90km/h, see that's much better, isn't it???
So in summary, Hurricane Ophelia who is no longer Hurricane Ophelia but Sub-Tropical Storm Ophelia will move in a north-east direction along the coast of Nova Scotia and somewhere along the way could once again become Hurricane Ophelia but will change once again to Sub-Tropical Storm Ophelia, hopefully, before reaching coastal Nova Scotia. Phew!
I don't mind as long as it doesn't interfere with the all day crop I'm planning on attending on Saturday!
And finally I am going to show you this current satellite image because I like it. As usual just click on the thumbnail for an enlarged view. Oh, and Ophelia is the big orange blob, lol!
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