WEATHER LOOKING ROUGH FOR CAVE COUNTRY THIS WEEKEND

[John L.]

Looking at the news, the hurricane looks like its curving to the northeast, and N. Florida might get some high winds and rain which might put a damper on diving this weekend.

[HomoErectus]

there is one thing for sure, with such weather no tubers or swimers around and you cannot beat that.

[jammer]

Well, it is not looking good even without the Hurricane Dennis. It has rained at least 7" of rain here in the last two days and it is pouring outside now as I post so it is not looking good. It takes a couple days for Ga. water to hit Fl. but Ga. has been hammered with rain all week so lets pray the huricane weakens, and hits farther west than N. Fl.

[MikeH]

Unfortunately, some of us will get hammered by Dennis on Sunday or early Monday. There's about a 75% chance that Dennis will make landfall at Pensacola as a Cat III, and about a 25% chance(these are my own guesstimates) that a trough will develop in the Gulf and cause Dennis to hook around it into a more easterly direction, taking a path fairly close to the same as Charlie did. In either case, it won't be pretty. Hang on to your hats folks, this is shaping up to be another nasty hurricane season.

No, I'm not a TV weatherman......I would have to forget 95% of my weather training to be qualified for that.

Mike

[Signal 20]

there is one thing for sure, with such weather no tubers or swimers around and you cannot beat that.

isnt that the only reason to dive ginnie? to have something to look at while at deco?

[normblitch]

Well, it is not looking good even without the Hurricane Dennis. It has rained at least 7" of rain here in the last two days and it is pouring outside now as I post so it is not looking good. It takes a couple days for Ga. water to hit Fl. but Ga. has been hammered with rain all week so lets pray the huricane weakens, and hits farther west than N. Fl.

Dude, it seems to be already showing on the SF...below from NOAA:

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FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1043 AM EDT THU JUL 07 2005

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A RIVER FLOOD WARNING FOR
THE SANTA FE AT FORT WHITE...THREE RIVERS ESTATES...

...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST...

FOR THE SANTA FE RIVER AT FORT WHITE, THE LATEST STAGE WAS 23.8 FEET
AT 10 AM THURSDAY. MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST, WITH A MAXIMUM STAGE
OF 24.2 FEET AT 8 AM MONDAY, WHICH IS 0.2 FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE.
THE STAGE WILL RISE ABOVE THE FLOOD STAGE OF 24.0 FEET AT 2 AM
SATURDAY. AT 24.0 FEET, MINOR DAMAGE TO DWELLINGS IS POSSIBLE DUE TO
BOAT WASH.

FOR THE SANTA FE RIVER AT THREE RIVERS ESTATES, THE LATEST STAGE WAS
18.8 FEET AT 8 AM THURSDAY. MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST, WITH A
MAXIMUM STAGE OF 19.7 FEET AT 8 PM MONDAY, WHICH IS 0.7 FEET ABOVE
FLOOD STAGE. THE STAGE WILL RISE ABOVE THE FLOOD STAGE OF 19.0 FEET
AT 2 AM FRIDAY. AT 19.8 FEET, WATERS BEGINS TO AFFECT HOMES IN THE
HOLLINGSWORTH BLUFF AREA AT STATE ROUTE 47.

DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLES THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. TURN AROUND...DON'T
DROWN.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.


$$


FLD OBSERVED 7AM FORECAST
LOCATION STG STG DAY TIME FRI SAT SUN MON TUE

SANTA FE
FORT WHITE 24.0 23.8 THU 10 AM 23.9 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.2
THREE RIVE 19.0 18.8 THU 08 AM 19.0 19.2 19.4 19.6 19.7


$$

nhb

[Dwain]

[John L.]

Norm, does all this mean we won't be able to dive Ginnie Sunday?

[Rich]

Norm, does all this mean we won't be able to dive Ginnie Sunday?

Dove Devil's yesterday.....river's coming up fast, the tarp's in place and the flow is dropping. Sean and I (Happy B-day dude!!) easily swam to the back of the Split with a single stage. Will update tonight...

Safe diving,

Rich

[John L.]

Norm, does all this mean we won't be able to dive Ginnie Sunday?

Dove Devil's yesterday.....river's coming up fast, the tarp's in place and the flow is dropping. Sean and I (Happy B-day dude!!) easily swam to the back of the Split with a single stage. Will update tonight...

Safe diving,

Rich

Thanks Rich. Let me know if it's worth coming up tomorrow or not. Otherwise, I am off Wed. next week if you and Rob want to go diving. Also, I had sent you guys a shipment of pendants two weeks ago, and Wayne said they never showed, so we will send another to you as soon as we get more made. We insured them, so it wont be a problem. Talk to you later,
John