Heavy rain expected from first potential storm
(CNS): The US National Hurricane Center has issued its first advisory for what is likely to be the first tropical storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. As the storm brews, it is expected to bring very heavy rain to the Cayman Islands from this evening and throughout the weekend. At around 4pm Thursday, potential Tropical Cyclone One was located about 75 miles NNW of Cozumel, Mexico, with winds of around 35mph, heading north at about 5mph.
If, or when, it forms late Friday, as currently expected, Tropical Storm Alex, as it will be named then, will pick up speed, move across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico Friday night, and move across southern and central portions of the Florida Peninsula on Saturday. Before then, however, Cayman can expect to see thunderstorms and as much as six inches of rain in some places.
Winds are not expected to exceed 35 knots over the next couple of days. Hazard Management said that Cayman is not expected to be directly impacted by the storm but a small craft warning is in effect, with forecast wave heights of 6 to 8 feet and periods of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, along with winds of 20 to 25 knots.
By Saturday, the Cayman Islands National Weather Service forecast shows that conditions are expected to begin to improve in the Cayman area.
For more details visit the CINWS website.
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Radar! We dont even have a decent weather web site
I wonder why…… ?? Doesn’t anyone care?
Even the graphic depiction of the sunrise and sunset has the sun rising in the west!
World Class
Radar!, it’s not even on our radar. The radar tower has been designated a health hazard by Hazard Management as it attracts so many lightning strikes, so our National Weather Service has been directed to spend more time looking out of their windows.
Most tropical weather related websites give access to adequate satellite view coverage & weather synopsis that local conditions can be extrapolated from. National Hurricane Center, Weathernerd’s, CIMMS ( being just a few ).
There is nothing equal to the radar when it works.
@703
Any yet Panton’s latest dimbulb idea (pun intended) is for the Cayman Islands Government to take control of the country’s future green energy resources through government’s majority ownership of the new new green energy facilities.
Can you imagine the zhitshow if the Cayman Islands government is running our electric utility sector? Generators break down? Panton: “We are experiencing a delay in getting the failed systems back on line. While this may pose some inconvenience, we ae a esilient people and can adjust. Just use candles and cook over a campfire for a year or two while we diddle around and make excuses rather than fixing the broken systems. Effective immediately, my government is waiving import duty on candles, matches, flashlights and batteries. Since electronic means of communication will be disrupted indefinitely until we can effect repairs, the duty exemption will also extend to writing implements, writing paper and envelopes. We are also reducing postage rates for inter-island mail. Since you will not be able to recharge your cell phones, the campfire will serve another useful purpose as you can use it to send smoke signals. I thank you for your patience. We will be giving you twice-yearly updates until we solve the issue”.
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Are you some kind of nut????
@2:09:
Nut? No, I am not a member of the Panton-PACTless Loony Factory.
You don’t really care for our Premier, do you?
Who, Moi? Au contraire! I think he looks simply smashing with his cute red plastic nose blinking and his scarf flapping in the wind as he drives his PACTless Clown Car in endless circles.
You do understand that the Premier did not say anything about the Government “running our electric utility sector”? He talked about investing. How that would work in conjunction with private investors remains to be clarified but do not mis-represent what was said.
@2:57:
Did you even bother to research the issue before spewing tripe?
The headlines from a CNS headline of 27 April 2022:
“CIG to control future renewable assets in new policy”
The lead paragraph says:
“The Cayman Islands Government is seeking to take control of the country’s future green energy resources through majority ownership of new solar or other renewable energy facilities.”
In the article Panton is quoted: “The policy decision to be involved at the ownership level is intended to help the Cayman Islands secure its own energy future by accelerating the adoption of renewable energy in accordance with the National Energy Policy.”
The National Energy Policy calls for 70% of the electricity here to be generated through renewables by 2037. I’d say that ownership of 70% of the electrical generating capacity is controlling it. Bear in mind that 70% is a minimum target. The green goal is 100% renewable energy. The plan hardly requires any clarifying; clearly, the government is effectively seeking total control of our electric utility sector.
Any prediction on when the CI Radar will be back in service?
Right before the next election
@ 7:50
The revised forecast outlook for the weather system named CI Radar as of 6/3/2022 1600Z:
After the system broke down, CI Radar has remained stationary with no forward motion observed. It is anticipated that it will likely not resume motion anytime soon as the systems that feed it are quite weak and disorganized. It is not known when it might again turn into an organized system and gain power. Being part of a large but weak and very loosely organized weather system, the chances for further development are currently considered to be very low.
Does anyone know who is responsible for the Cayman Islands radar? It seems the government has nothing to do with it.
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The EU gave it to CIAA who then passed buck to CIWS.
The EU gave it to the Cayman Islands. The organization initially responsible for the radar was the CIAA because we did not have a National Weather Service at that time, that service came into existence in 2010. Before 2010 the weather service was a small department operating under CIAA.
The Cayman Islands National Weather Service is now responsible for the radar. Also note above that someone stated that the radar was designated a health hazard by HMCI, this is a lie. The radar belongs to the Cayman Islands as the EU funded project was completed in 2013.
@1:57:
Yeah, that’s the problem. No one takes responsibility for it and government seems to want nothing to do with it.
Excellent. Thank you. I asked for it 🙂
No.
7:50, Once the legalize ganja on the Moon.
Let’s hope people can learn to switch their lights on, indicate, drive appropriately during the rain. Never ceases to amaze me how much shock and horror is portrayed in hurricane season as if it is something new, when it is 6 months of the year, or 50% of a given year for those that didn’t concentrate at schools aged 4, every year.
You are hoping that people can learn to drive appropriately during the rain?
Bloody hell, they can’t learn to drive appropriately when it is not raining.
It would be nice if our weather radar was usable. But hey, we are a third-world country pretending to be one of the big ones. We can’t even maintain our weather monitoring system.
But, 7:03, we have an airline and a Turtle farm! Booya!
They have something in common with the radar – damn expensive, operated by people who apparently couldn’t manage a PU in a brewery, and they don’t work very well.
Dunno what TF a PU is, but if you mean they are inept, I give you a thumbs up!