Returning to our Longboat Key condo for the Holidays, we arrived in concert with a potent storm system, moving in from the Gulf of Mexico. Rain and a steady east wind are preceding the center of circulation and we expect heavier rain, stronger winds and thunderstorms as the storm makes landfall. A tornado watch is also in effect.
While we are almost a month past the Atlantic Hurricane Season, tropical storms may yet develop; indeed, as our climate warms, the Season will surely expand to a year-long threat in Tropical and Subtropical latitudes.
Our walks and my birding excursions will have to wait for now though I have already observed an anhinga crossing Sarasota Bay. More on my sightings and musings over the next two weeks.
