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Alert / Warning Meteorological - SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
...This is an ACTUAL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ALERT...
Issued By: VITEMA Affected Jurisdictions: St. John, St. Thomas, Water Island Counties
Headline: Heavy Rainfall to Continue Through Noon Today, Minor Flooding Reported Across Areas of St. Thomas
The National Weather Service in San Juan has issued a flood advisory for minor flooding in poor drainage areas for St. John and St. Thomas.
At 9:37 am the Doppler Radar indicated persistent moderate to heavy rain across the northern US Virgin Islands, particularly St. Thomas. These showers are expected to cause minor flooding over one inch of rain has already fallen in some areas and additional rain is expected.
Heavy rainfall is expected to continue through noon today.
Areas reported as experiencing flooding include Long Bay, Bovoni vicinity of Purple Shop, Banco Popular in vicinity of Addelita Cancyn School and the Mafolie Hotel area in Charlotte Amalie.
VITEMA advises motorists to exercise extreme caution on the roadways.
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Posted : October 3, 2015 3:33 pm
You're slacking off, Alana33, when at half past the noon hour when the torrential rain has stopped after several hours, you copy and paste an ACTUAL SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ALERT noting that the rain would continue "through noon".
I wonder when VITEMA issues an alert that's not "ACTUAL" and - if one should read an alert which doesn't note it as "ACTUAL" - should one just ignore it as a test?
:D:D
Posted : October 3, 2015 4:03 pm
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That's when they sent it OT, at 11:30.
Rather after the fact, I agree, but I posted it anyway to show locations that were having flooding issues so people could avoid.
I was wondering myself why they hadn't issued one much earlier.
Anything else?
Posted : October 3, 2015 5:03 pm
That carrier bird who brought you the ACTUAL ALERT (pigeon, tern - maybe booby?) must have missed the energy breakfast or had a faulty GPS as the advisory was posted on the Source forecast early this morning. 😀
Posted : October 3, 2015 6:03 pm
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Whatever.
Posted : October 3, 2015 6:37 pm
Scientists have recently used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to study postings between Alana33 and OldTart. Scientists accelerated and collided their postings head-on at the speed of light and then analyzed the results, but no energy or particles were detected, leading to the conclusion that such postings were pointless.
Posted : October 3, 2015 7:10 pm
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As was yours.
Posted : October 3, 2015 7:37 pm
Scientists have recently used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to study postings between Alana33 and OldTart. Scientists accelerated and collided their postings head-on at the speed of light and then analyzed the results, but no energy or particles were detected, leading to the conclusion that such postings were pointless.
I read the same article but wonder if you missed the conclusion which noted another area which failed equally miserably. Analysis demonstrated again absolutely no energy or particles when the subject was "humor" (actually in the article spelled "humour" since the prime author was one Reginald Arthur Montpelier Python, MBE, PhD, etc, etc,).
Posted : October 3, 2015 8:23 pm
So the rain and thunder were amazing and very much appreciated
Posted : October 3, 2015 8:47 pm
Did STX not put on deodorant??
we've only gotten enough rain to delay my solar install, not enough to fill the cistern (water guy is delivering 8,000 gallons as I type).
Posted : October 3, 2015 8:51 pm
STX wasn't mentioned at all in the advisories and the forecast for STX mentioned nothing but "cloudy". The weather map showing the path and size of the wave clearly showed only a very small potion of STX within it. Sorry you didn't get more but every little helps and you'll likely catch the next one!
Posted : October 3, 2015 8:59 pm
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According to a friend's rain gauge we got 5.43 inches in our location.
We'd have been happy to share. My sister and another friend in STJ said they got a little rain this morning but not anything like what STT received.
Posted : October 3, 2015 9:05 pm
I need a minimum of 1,700 gallons a day (or more, much more usually)
Cross your fingers STX,, we might get some good rain tomorrow!!
Posted : October 4, 2015 4:06 am
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Sounds like you need a well.
Posted : October 4, 2015 9:29 am
