Or, since she is a lady, is it a wimpstress or a wimpress?
Does not matter. No big deal. She simply is not much of a player on the world weather stage and never has been. The National Hurricane Center downgraded her this morning to a subtropical depression, not a subtropical storm.
All of these titles could become confusing.
Andrea was located about 100 miles ESE of Jacksonville or about 80 miles NE of Daytona. She was drifting ever so slowly toward the south and she should stay off shore at least today and tonight. Highest sustained winds were down to 35 mph. She may possibly produce 1/2 to 1 inch of rain along the immediate coastal sections.
THE SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is posted for Central and NE Pennsylvania and a big part of New York State. This even reaches into the Far North part of Upper New York State, including Saranac Lake where amazingly it was 20 degrees just a few mornings ago.
For a change, most of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri are not even listed in a slight risk area for today and tonight.
Early this afternoon, some strong storms producing locally heavy rain was occurring over NE and East Oklahoma, extreme West Tennessee and a few over extreme NW Mississippi.
There is also some major river flooding in the Midwest and places like Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma.
Vic Bell, our weather watcher for Black Creek in NE Etowah County, lived in Oklahoma for a long period of time. He reminds us that the Oklahoma governor has declared an emergency for all 77 counties in that state due to the heavy rains. Flooding is a serious problem in all parts of the state with some cities underwater. Oklahoma City has already received 18.35 inches of rain so far this year–over twice as much as Birmingham. They have a surplus for the year of 8.22 inches.
Please share with us. We have lost our franchise for rain.
