Hurricanes and Trout Fishing

[Zach Matthews]

Hey guys –

Wishing for a hurricane is a bad thing; it may even be downright sinful.

[Greg Harris]

Out here in the West we are in the same boat (a boat with no water beneath it).  The local weather guy was saying last night that our best and about only chance of any precipitation over the next 10 – 14 days would come from Tropical Storm / Hurricane Erin or Dean.  It looks like Erin did make it far enough west to affect the weather up here.  If Dean continues along the currently projected track it may push some rain all the way up here to Idaho.

As you said it seem inconceivable to “hope” for hurricanes, but we sure could use the precipitation.

I thought the two attached links were pretty interesting.  The first shows how the average temperature for the month of July stacked up to historical July temperatures over the past 113 years.  For Idaho it was the hottest ever.  The second shows precipitation, the lower the number the drier as compared to the past 113 years.  The whole southeast and much of the west had an extremely dry July.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/081507statewidetrank.gif
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/081507statewideprank.gif

[Bob Riggins]

You can have all the hurricanes you want, if you can figure out a way for them to jump over Florida.

[Cameron Mortenson]

A couple of years ago two or three hurricanes whirled over parts of NC/SC bringing a bunch of rain over the course of a couple of weeks.

[mike b.]

Morty, I’ll bet you hope a hurricane does not hit you right now when you are on a coastal island!

[patrick mccormick]

we got an old typhoon going on right now, making for some nowexistant dolly fishing

[anonymous]

I live in Central Virginia, Orange County, we have been put on water restrictions. We need rain! Some of the best small mouth water is a trickle now!

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