While recovery efforts from Hurricane Floyd continued on the East Coast, we began flying a new disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, Sept. 19th. The storm came ashore on September 21st, and crossed southern Florida, dropping as much as 10 inches of rain on some communities. The crew discussed the best strategy to pick our way through the thunderstorms which stood in our path.
Torrential downpours come with the territory.
Yet its always nice to pop out of the dark rain areas and be greeted by bright sunshine and the occasional rainbow. Here we are near the center of the storm, and it was mostly sunny. The depression was still undergoing shear from winds which pushed at the cyclone and kept it from developing more quickly. Later that evening, hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center upgraded this TD as Tropical Storm Harvey.