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Lester downgraded to a depression 6:32 p.m. ET ET Wed.,Oct.13,2004 Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Lester has never made any advancement away from the Mexican coastline and thus has had to deal with land friction and the lack of its energy source, the ocean waters. This friction has led Lester to become completely disorganized and its low-level center has been difficult to locate at times. Because of this along with poor satellite representation, Lester has been downgraded to a tropical depression and all tropical storm advisories have been discontinued. Even with a weakened Lester, there may enough rain and thunderstorm activity along the coastline which may cause locally heavy rain and the possibility of mudslides. Although the final advisory for Lester has been written, the system still has a chance to gather organization and regenerate. We will continue to monitor the remnants. The remainder of the eastern Pacific tropical basin is quiet and there is no significant tropical activity in the Atlantic. All is generally quiet throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Tokage in the western Pacific has been upgraded to Typhoon Tokage and will continue to gather strength over the next week. In fact, within the next 48 to 72 hours, Tokage may attain Super Typhoon status. Unfortunately, it is not out of the question that Tokage makes a run at Japan some time next week. It has been a record-breaking year when it comes to the number of landfalling typhoons along Japan's coast. Nine typhoons thus far have made landfall over Japan.

Storm system set to take shape in the South 8:47 P.M. ET 10/13/2004 Kevin Roth, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel South Low pressure is expected to develop along the Gulf Coast near New Orleans during the day on Thursday, then race off to the northeast Thursday night. This storm should spread rain and showers across the western Gulf Coast states during the day Thursday. On Thursday afternoon and Thursday night as the system develops, the rain and showers are expected to develop into heavy thunderstorms, especially along the eastern Gulf Coast. Severe weather in the form of damaging wind and tornadoes will be possible across southern Alabama, southern Georgia and northern Florida Thursday night. Farther north a blustery band of showers should march into the southern Appalachians. Temperatures ahead of the storm should be on the mild side Thursday with highs ranging from the upper 60s to the lower 80s from north to south. It should be chillier behind the storm with highs in the upper 50s to middle 60s over the southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley. Friday should be blustery and cool across much of the South as the storm moves away from the region. Northeast An old weakening storm system should blanket much of the Northeast with clouds and light showers on Thursday. Temperatures should be close to where they should be for October with highs in the 50s in the mountains to near 70 at the coast. A rapidly moving storm system is expected to move through the region Friday bringing a quick round of wind-driven rain. Behind the storm it should turn windy and colder with lake-effect rain showers for the weekend. Midwest A clipper type system is forecast to move along the Canadian border with the northern Plains Thursday. There is enough cold air in some locations to cause a mix of rain and snow showers along the storms path. No accumulation of snow is expected. Winds may gust in excess of 40 mph over Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota during the day Thursday. Clouds, showers and chilly air should make for a miserable day across southern parts of the Midwest Thursday. Winds are expected to increase over the whole region Friday as a storm system blows through the eastern Great Lakes. Any shower activity due to the storm should be confined to the Great Lakes area Friday. West A ridge of high pressure is in charge of the western part of the country west of the Rocky Mountains. This high should continue to provide mostly sunny skies and pleasantly warm temperatures into Friday. Fire danger levels should remain high through Friday due to the sunny, dry and warm conditions. The ridge should break down over the weekend beginning a cooling trend from north to south. Showers should return to the Northwest over the weekend once the ridge breaks down.

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Everyone feel free to add links to your weather boards and/or weather websites here. I will be adding more all the time! Net-weather forum (Added 1217am Nov 17 2005.) http://www.net-weather.co.uk/forum/index.php?act=idx The Weather Service Message Boards (Added 628pm Oct 26 2005.) http://www.theweatherservice.com/forums/ The link was in Skitzophrenic Storm Chaser's sig over at EUSWX. Kevin's Martinsville Weather Bulletin Board http://www.martinsvilleweather.com/mwbb/ Ask The Weatherman Home Page http://www.asktheweatherman.com/ www.jsquaredweather.com http://www.jsquaredweather.com/forums/index.php Dr Dewpoint/ Joe D'Aleo http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/ Larry Cosgrove's WEATHER America http://hometown.aol.com/wxamerica/prof.index.html This is the front page of Storm2K.org. They've really improved it. http://www.storm2k.org/ Twisted-Weather http://www.twisted-weather.com/phpbb2/index.php Twisted-Weather (this is their IPB board) http://www.twisted-weather.com/twbb2/index.php?act=idx Weather-Watch.com (This is an SMF Board) http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php Extreme Tri State Weather http://www.extremetristateweather.com/bb/

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Yep, I spent 4 days in Nags Head and I am severely addicted to the OBX (Outer Banks). See also: http://www.jebwalk.com/index.php?showtopic=241 I can't stop looking at OBX sites on the Internet, either. Soon I'll have every OBX Internet site represented here on this board lol. Outerbanksmaps http://www.outerbanksmaps.com/ Outer Banks Village http://www.outer-banks.com/village/ Outerbanks.org http://www.outerbanks.org/

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PACIFIC BASIN (EPAC) Tropical Storm LESTER 000 WTPZ45 KNHC 122023 TCDEP5 TROPICAL STORM LESTER DISCUSSION NUMBER 5 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 2 PM PDT TUE OCT 12 2004 THE CYCLONE HAS ACQUIRED ENOUGH BANDING OF DEEP CONVECTION TO YIELD A DATA T-NUMBER OF 2.5 ON THE DVORAK SCALE...EQUATING TO A CURRENT INTENSITY OF 35 KT. THE SYSTEM IS BEING NAMED ON THIS BASIS. CONTINUED GRADUAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...FOLLOWING THE SHIPS GUIDANCE...AND ASSUMING THAT THE CENTER WILL REMAIN JUST OFFSHORE. HOWEVER...IF THE CENTER MOVES INLAND...THE STORM WOULD QUICKLY WEAKEN. LATER IN THE FORECAST PERIOD...UPPER-LEVEL SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLIES COULD LEAD TO INCREASED SOUTHWESTERLY SHEAR...WHICH WOULD LIMIT INTENSIFICATION. BASED ON AN EARLIER TRMM PASS...THE CENTER LOCATION HAS BEEN ADJUSTED A LITTLE TO THE NORTH OF THE PREVIOUS TRACK. MOTION IS NOW ESTIMATED TO BE 310/6...AND ONLY A SLIGHTLY MORE NORTHWARD MOTION COULD BRING THE CENTER ONSHORE. THE MORE NORTHWARD COMPONENT OF MOTION IS DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN. PERHAPS THERE IS SOME INFLUENCE FROM A LOW PRESSURE AREA A FEW HUNDRED MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF LESTER. IN ANY EVENT...A MORE WESTWARD MOTION IS LIKELY TO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS SINCE NUMERICAL GUIDANCE INDICATES A MID-LEVEL RIDGE TO THE NORTH OF THE TROPICAL CYCLONE THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. FORECASTER PASCH FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INITIAL 12/2100Z 16.3N 99.4W 35 KT 12HR VT 13/0600Z 16.7N 100.1W 40 KT 24HR VT 13/1800Z 16.9N 101.0W 45 KT 36HR VT 14/0600Z 17.1N 101.9W 50 KT 48HR VT 14/1800Z 17.3N 102.7W 55 KT 72HR VT 15/1800Z 17.5N 104.5W 65 KT 96HR VT 16/1800Z 17.5N 106.5W 65 KT 120HR VT 17/1800Z 17.5N 108.5W 65 KT $$

Nicole gone 12:30 p.m. ET ET Tue.,Oct.12,2004 Buzz Bernard, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Subtropical Storm Nicole is gone, swallowed by a larger mid-latitude storm centered just south of Nova Scotia. The larger system is whipping gusty winds over New England and showers into eastern portions of the region. Both winds and showers are beginning to diminish, however, as the storm creeps eastward. Earlier, gusts as high as 40 mph were reported along the coast. Gale warnings remain up from Eastport, Maine, to Montauk, N. Y. In the eastern Pacific, Tropical Depression 15-E is forecast to grow stronger as it moves slowly toward the WNW, paralleling the Mexican west coast over the next couple of days. A tropical storm watch has been posted along the coast from Punta Maldanado to Zihuatenejo. Heavy downpours are likely in the watch area. In the eastern Atlantic, a large low pressure area centered about 600 miles southwest of the Azores Islands could become a subtropical storm as it moves toward the southwest over the next day or two. The storm would present no threat to the U. S.

Much colder northern Plains, Upper Midwest Wednesday 1:51 P.M. ET 10/12/2004 Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel Midwest Strong northerly winds shifting from the Plains to the western Midwest during the day Wednesday will usher in a blast of very chilly Canadian air. From highs today in the 60s and low 70s over the northern Plains and Upper Midwest, readings will nosedive into 40s and 50s tomorrow. Scattered showers extending from the Upper Midwest to the central Plains will accompany the onrushing cold air. Farther east, showers from a weak low over the Ohio Valley will dampen the lower Midwest and Kentucky. Highs here will be in the more respectable 60s, at least for one more day. South Widely scattered showers and isolated thundershowers will dot Oklahoma and Texas tomorrow as a cold front plunges south through the southern Plains. The greatest concentration of showers is expected over the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. Farther east, a few showers are likely here and there in Tennessee, northern Alabama, northern Georgia and the Carolinas as weak low pressure lifts into the upper Ohio Valley. By far the wettest weather will be in North Carolina and northeast South Carolina. Don't rule out the possibility of a handful of severe storms in the Carolinas, either. Overall, high temperatures are forecast to range from the 60s to the 80s, north to south. Northeast Much of the Northeast will experience pleasant fall weather tomorrow, although a weak storm system centered in the upper Ohio Valley will spread showers northeastward through West Virginia and Virginia. A few showers could reach western Pennsylvania and the DelMarVa Peninsula by late in the day. Sunshine is expected to dominate New York state, New Jersey and most of New England (eastern and northern Maine excepted). High temperatures are forecast to range from the 50s in northern Maine to the 70s in eastern Virginia. West Except for scattered or widely scattered showers over southeast Wyoming, eastern Colorado and eastern New Mexico Wednesday will be another dry day in the West. A strong ridge of high pressure pushing into the Pacific Northwest and northern California will ensure lots of sunshine and above average temperatures in those areas, with warm, dry offshore winds prevailing in Oregon and northern California. Overall, highs will range from the 40s in the higher Colorado Rockies to the 90s in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts and valleys of California. Readings in the 80s are expected to reach as far north as southwest Oregon.

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I REALLY MISS NAGS HEAD ALREADY................. All I can say is, I had a really great time on the OBX and I wish I could spend a whole month on a nice warm Georgia beach, the OBX was a bit chilly........... highs in the 60s with DPs in the upper 40s. Yep I caught the OBX beach bug again and I wish to God I could go spend a month kicking back on some nice warm 83 degrees with a 67 degree dewpoint beach with all my singles group friends!! Ahh.................the salt air.............the sea gulls..........the waves..........the sunsets.................wonderful times spent on the beach with good friends..............a nice rousing game of football on the beach.................just the realization of actually BEING at the beach................the night before we left, I was SO DARN EXCITED ABOUT GOING TO THE OBX, I could not sleep!!! Just a nice, long, leisurely jebwalk on the beach, warm wind blowing........all my very best friends there with me............ I really would rather that fall and winter would just wait a couple more weeks, just for me................. Maaan it's SOOOO chilly here in N VA at 46 dismal degrees with a freezing-cold dewpoint of 41 degrees.............it's just not fair! It's really no fair at all!!! I want to go back to the OBX so bad..........or any nice warm beach...............just to kick back with my friends and enjoy some beach football and take in some delightfully warm rays.........and the wonderful foaming ocean waves are but a few short steps away.................... :)

PACIFIC BASIN (EPAC) Tropical Depression FIFTEEN-E 000 WTPZ45 KNHC 120212 TCDEP5 TROPICAL DEPRESSION FIFTEEN-E DISCUSSION NUMBER 2 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 8 PM PDT MON OCT 11 2004 A 11/2345Z TRMM OVERPASS CLEARLY SHOWED THAT TD-15E HAS MOVED NORTHWESTWARD FROM ITS PREVIOUS LOCATION. IT ALSO INDICATED A SMALL BUT TIGHTLY CURVED CONVECTIVE BAND THAT WRAPPED ABOUT HALF WAY AROUND THE LOW-LEVEL CENTER. THIS WOULD SUPPORT THE T2.5...OR 35 KT...INTENSITY ESTIMATE FROM THE TAFB. HOWEVER...I AM HOLDING THE INTENSITY AT DEPRESSION STRENGTH GIVEN THAT THE CONVECTION ... ALBEIT QUITE COLD AT -80C AND COLDER...HAS ONLY PERSISTED FOR FOR THE PAST 4 HOURS OR SO. THE INITIAL MOTION ESTIMATE IS 295/04. A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE WEST IS EXPECTED AFTER 12 HOURS AS A MID-LEVEL RIDGE IS FORECAST TO BUILD SLOWLY WESTWARD TO THE NORTH OF THE CYCLONE. THE SPECIFIC GLOBAL MODEL GUIDANCE IS OF LITTLE HELP SINCE THE MODELS AT 12Z AND 18Z EITHER INITIALIZED THE CENTER TO FAR EAST LIKE NOGAPS...OR BARELY INITIALIZED IT AT ALL LIKE THE UKMET AND CANDIAN MODELS. THE GFS DID INITIALIZE THE VORTEX PROPERLY...BUT IT QUICKLY WEAKENS IT AND ALLOWS IT TO GET ABSORBED INTO THE THERMAL TROUGH THAT TYPICALLY LIES ALONG THE MEXICAN COAST. THE TRACK FORECAST LEANS HEAVILY TOWARD THE MEDIUM BAM AND THE GFS 10-MEMBER ENSEMBLE MEAN MODELS...AND THE DEVELOPING MID-LEVEL SYNOPTIC PATTERN. THE DEPRESSION HAS A VERY SMALL BUT TIGHT LOW-LEVEL WIND FIELD AS NOTED IN EARLIER VISIBLE IMAGERY AND THE RECENT TRMM MICROWAVE OVERPASS. AS SUCH...IT IS SUSC EPTIBLE TO RAPID FLUCTUATIONS IN STRENGTH. THE CURRENT BURST OF DEEP CONVECTION MAY HAVE VERTICALLY STRETCHED THE VORTEX ENOUGH TO PRODUCE TROPICAL STORM WINDS NEAR AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE CENTER. HOWEVER...THE LACK OF PERSISTENT CONVECTION PRECLUDES NAMING THE SYSTEM AT THIS TIME. THE SHIPS MODEL KEEPS THE CYCLONE OVER 29C-30C SSTS AND UNDER LESS THAN 10 KT OF SHEAR FOR THE NEXT 72 HOURS...SO STEADY STRENGTHENING SEEMS IN ORDER. IF DRY MID-LEVEL AIR EAST OF THE CYCLONE DOES NOT GET DRAWN INTO THE SYSTEM...THEN MORE INTENSIFICATION COULD OCCUR AFTER 36HR. FORECASTER STEWART FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INITIAL 12/0300Z 14.9N 97.2W 30 KT 12HR VT 12/1200Z 15.0N 98.0W 35 KT 24HR VT 13/0000Z 15.1N 99.2W 45 KT 36HR VT 13/1200Z 15.2N 100.7W 55 KT 48HR VT 14/0000Z 15.1N 102.4W 65 KT 72HR VT 15/0000Z 15.0N 105.0W 70 KT 96HR VT 16/0000Z 15.5N 107.5W 75 KT 120HR VT 17/0000Z 16.5N 110.0W 70 KT $$

Subtropical Storm NICOLE 000 WTNT45 KNHC 112029 TCDAT5 SUBTROPICAL STORM NICOLE DISCUSSION NUMBER 7 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 PM EDT MON OCT 11 2004 THE SYSTEM IS BECOMING EXTRATROPICAL AS IT COMBINES WITH A LARGE MID-LATITUDE CYCLONE. SOME INCREASE IN STRENGTH FROM BAROCLINIC ENERGY SOURCES MAY OCCUR AS THE SYSTEM APPROACHES THE CANADIAN MARITIMES. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN SOME MORE ACCELERATION TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST...THE GUIDANCE INDICATES SOME SLOWING OF FORWARD SPEED WITHIN 12-24 HOURS...ALONG WITH A TURN TO THE LEFT. LATER IN THE PERIOD...THE FORWARD SPEED SHOULD INCREASE AGAIN AS THE CYCLONE ENCOUNTERS A FASTER WESTERLY STEERING CURRENT. THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY ON NICOLE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SYSTEM CAN BE FOUND IN HIGH SEAS FORECASTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...UNDER AWIPS HEADER NFDHSFAT1 AND WMO HEADER FZNT01 KWBC. FORECASTER PASCH FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS INITIAL 11/2100Z 40.0N 61.0W 45 KT...BECOMING EXTRATROPICAL 12HR VT 12/0600Z 42.0N 61.0W 50 KT...EXTRATROPICAL 24HR VT 12/1800Z 43.5N 61.5W 50 KT...EXTRATROPICAL 36HR VT 13/0600Z 45.0N 61.0W 50 KT...EXTRATROPICAL 48HR VT 13/1800Z 48.0N 59.0W 45 KT...EXTRATROPICAL 72HR VT 14/1800Z...ABSORBED BY EXTRATROPICAL SYSTEM $$

Tropical Depression MATTHEW 000 WTNT34 KWNH 110901 TCPAT4 PUBLIC ADVISORY NUMBER 11 FOR REMNANTS OF MATTHEW NWS...HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER...CAMP SPRINGS MD 4 AM CDT MON OCT 11 2004 ...THREAT FOR FLOODING RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION MATTHEW NOW GREATLY DIMINISHED... AT 4 AM CDT...09Z...THE OCCLUDED LOW THAT ONCE WAS TROPICAL DEPRESSION MATTHEW WAS LOCATED NEAR 33.8 NORTH LATITUDE AND 92.3 WEST LONGITUDE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO ARKANSAS. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR THE COAST ARE 25 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS. HIGHEST WINDS WILL REMAIN NEAR THE COAST AND OFFSHORE...DIMINISHING DURING THE DAY. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1005 MB OR 29.68 INCHES. OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS...MATTHEW HAS BEEN MOVING IN A NORTH-NORTHWESTERLY DIRECTION AT APPROXIMATELY 17 MPH. THE EXTRATROPICAL LOW IS FORECAST TO SLOWLY DRIFT NORTH THROUGH ARKANSAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE LOW SHOULD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN WITH THE THREAT FOR FLOODING RAINS NOW GREATLY DIMINISHED. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1-2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS OVER NORTHERN ARKANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. DURING THE PAST 6 HOURS...RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HAVE GENERALLY BEEN UNDER AN INCH...WITH THE SOLE EXCEPTION OF PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS WHERE 1.22 INCHES FELL. REPEATING THE 5 AM CDT...09Z...POSITION OF REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION MATTHEW...33.8 NORTH LATITUDE AND 92.3 WEST LONGITUDE. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1005 MB OR 29.68 INCHES. THIS WILL BE THE LAST ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER FOR THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION MATTHEW. REFER TO STATEMENTS ISSUED BY LOCAL WEATHER OFFICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS STORM. CISCO $$

Then I finally found the reserved Sea Spray Ct walkway. This walkway had been intact when we visited last year, and it was just as I remembered it to be except there was more sand piled up under it, most likely from sand having been placed there and from lateral drifting of sand over the past year. Last year I dubbed this walkway the 110 runway because it has a sign near it in Sea Spray court that says 110 right at the entrance to the runway. So I happily and amazedly walked down the Sea Spray 110 runway and I saw Sea Spray Court again!!! It was pretty much the same except the bushes had a year's worth of growth on them and there had been some additions and the grass in front of the main house we stayed in last year, 116 Sea Spray, had been converted into a miniature golf green. But the house was the same, there was the dolphin in front of the house just like last year, where we had all posed for our group picture on Sunday October 13 2003. I walked on the right side of the house past a bush that was much taller than last year, to the front of the neighboring house, 115 Sandpepper (or Sandfiddler) court and walked across the front of the house then walked over a bush that bent down about a foot when I stepped on it and eased my way around the corner of the next house, 114 Sandpepper, walked across the front of that house then took their access walkway back to the beach. Just like last year when we stayed at 116 Sea Spray, 114 Sandpepper was unoccupied and dark. Yeah there is a 2003 story behind the 114 Sandpepper access walkway too. Last year, 2003, when I first got to Nags Head, it was on Friday October 11 at 2pm when we arrived. I went into the house, 116 Sea Spray and went to the 3rd floor and looked out at the ocean and the clouds and chilly rain, 70 degrees with a 63 degree dewpoint. I could see the end of the wooden beach access walkway had been smashed by Hurricane Isabel three weeks before. Folks on the Outer Banks would prefer that we do not walk on the sand dunes. The only way to the beach at the OBX is by using the wooden beach access walkways. Well, they were smashed up by Isabel. So, I looked around. I walked up Sea Spray Court and turned left onto a small walkway next to a hedge and walked south. This small walkway led to E. Baymeadow Drive. I followed E. Baymeadow Dr. to another road near a sign that says Nags Head Village. That road leads to the Dune hotel. I called it Dunes Landing back in 2003. So I took the public access at the Dunes hotel back to the beach. The Dunes hotel public access to the beach was the only beach access in October 2003 because after Hurricane Isabel, that was the only beach access for a good while. Shortly after I discovered the Dunes Landing access to the beach, I walked the beach back to the wrecked 116 Sea Spray beach access and examined it from below. It was way too dangerous to even try getting up onto the wrecked beach access from the beach, a section of the wooden beach access was dangling about 8 feet above the beach. Plus, people are not allowed to walk on the dunes. I did try to improvise a kind of walkway up the 8 foot dune cliff with an old 10 foot piece of driftwood, but I gave that up after a while. I did not want to try digging into what was left of the dune. This was when I discovered what I came to call the Sandpepper-Benji access. Once I realized that I could not get back on our wrecked beach access, I then realized I would have to walk all the way back around, through the Dunes Landing public beach access (which is a kind of concrete driveway covered with sand) and back around to 116 Sea Spray Ct and I was tired (I had not gotten enough sleep the night before, I had been much too much excited about going to Nags Head to even think about sleeping), wet and it was still raining and windy and I realized that I just had to find a shortcut back. This was about the time that I saw a big mound of sand that led ten feet up to a deck. So I went up there, more out of desperation than anything else. The deck had a walkway that led to an unoccupied house!!!! I followed the walkway back to 114 Sandpepper Ct. It turned out that it was only 2 doors south of 116 Sea Spray Ct where I was staying! Yeah I had found the Sandpepper accessway!! I showed it to Carlos later that night! I did not discover the 110 runway (the wooden beach access reserved only for Sea Spray guests) until late that Friday. I had seen that walkway but I had assumed it was wrecked by Hurricane Isabel also. But late that Friday evening I walked on it out of curiosity and then I found it went all the way to the beach and that it was undamaged. I noted the sign near it that read "110" and thus I dubbed this walkway the 110 runway. After that, beach access was a piece of cake, we simply strolled down the 110 runway to our beach and kicked back.

Arrived at 6pm Thursday Oct 7. First I threw footballs with a few of my friends. On Thursday there were not many of us there, only about 5 people. It took me 5 hours to get there. My first impressions of Nags Head when I first arrived was the sweet smell of the salt air and the downright chilly weather. In 2002 when we went down there it was 80 degrees with 70 degree DPs and cloudy with rain and 20mph winds. In 2003 when we went down there it was 73 degrees with 64 degree DPs with clouds and rain and 25 to 40mph winds. That was roughly 3 weeks after Isabel hit them, and many of the wooden beach access walkways and stairways were totally wrecked. It took me three hours to find a way onto the beach in 2003. The dunes had been eroded by Isabel's waves. Some of the dunes had been eroded back 60 feet! The beach was very flat and very wide at low tide back in early October 2003. This year it was sunny at Nags Head but very chilly. I had been looking forward to my cherished 77/64 Temperature/Dewpoint spread, my preferred OBX weather, but nature had other plans. It was chilly. When we arrived on Thursday afternoon it was about 69 degrees with 53 degree dewpoints with a 13 mph wind on top of it. It was MUCH chillier than I had anticipated. I had brought my light jacket but NOT my sweatpants. Still, I had a good time. My right foot was really hurting me badly and I had a very difficult time enjoying my jebwalk. In fact jebwalking was nearly impossible. At 8pm I walked a half mile north to 116 Sea Spray Ct, in Nags Head Village (Milepost 15.5) where we had stayed in 2003, on October 10 through 14. It was dark by that time, and I had a hard time trying to figure out just where 116 Sea Spray Ct was. Later, on Sunday afternoon I would see the signs, but this was after dark on Thursday and I could barely see anything at all. The sand near the rebuilt walkways was deep and loose and had furrows a foot deep and this was very, very painful to my right foot, which was hurting a lot. The wooden access walkways that Hurricane Isabel had damaged in 2003 had all been rebuilt. I finally managed to locate the rebuilt walkway to 116 Sea Spray Court. The last time I had been here was on October 14 2003 when the end of the walkway had been broken and hanging precariously, dangling over the beach 8 to 10 feet below. It had been chilly and raining and windy at the time. Well, the walkway had been rebuilt with a new stairway. There was sand banked up against the old Isabel-created cliff, I was unsure as to whether the sand had been placed there or if it had drifted there over the past year. Probably it was both. Anyhow I walked up the rebuilt walkway and I could clearly see where the new wood started and the old wood ended. The house was unoccupied and dark. I walked up to the gate and saw the hot tub and small pool and the nice house where we had such a great time last year. I was really glad that I finally had a chance to see it again after a whole year. Then I walked back to the beach and managed to locate the walkway that led to Sea Spray Court. This was a wooden access walkway that was reserved for Sea Spray guests. Back in 2003 when we stayed at 106, 111, and 116 Sea Spray Court, this was the only existing walkway to the beach. All of the other wooden access walkways were severely damaged by Hurricane Isabel. There were wooden decks dangling at crazy angles over beaches 10 to 14 feet below. I personally walked by and observed this in October 2003, three weeks after Isabel thrashed the heck outa Nags Head. I mentioned the loose sand near the access walkways that I was forced to negotiate in the darkness as I tried to locate the reserved Sea Spray access walkway. This loose sand had deep furrows in it from three-wheeled recreational vehicles that had been driven over the beach, the kind the Nags Head Lifeguards use. Those deep furrows of sand gave my right foot absolute hell. I could not see the sand very well in the dark, and I tripped over these furrows of sand, over and over and over again and that aggravated my right foot a lot.

I spent about 4 days at Nags Head on the Outer Banks with my singles group. I arrived there at 6pm on Thursday, October 7 and left there at 1115am this morning. I pretty much missed out on Tropical Storm Matthew and also on Nicole. I think I heard that Matthew hit New Orleans and that Nicole was near The Bahamas.

Nicole gone; new Pacific depression 7:09 p.m. ET ET Mon., Oct.11, 2004 John Desjardins, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel What was once Subtropical Storm Nicole has been absorbed by a trough swinging through the northeastern U.S. These two systems will form a strengthening low pressure system south of Nova Scotia. As a result, strong winds can be expected across eastern New England overnight and during the day on Tuesday. Gusts may exceed 40 mph across Maine and Cape Cod and winds may approach 30 mph in New Hampshire, eastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Rain showers will also back in to eastern New England, with Maine the most likely area to see persistent rainfall on Tuesday. While the remainder of the Atlantic tropical basin is quiet, a new tropical depression has formed in the eastern Pacific. Tropical Depression 15-E developed this afternoon 250 miles southeast of Acapulco, Mexico. This depression could bring some choppy seas and heavy rain to Mexico's southwestern coast. The depression is expected to strengthen over the next several days and could become a hurricane by midweek. The good news is the forecast track takes the system west, away from land.

More showers for parts of South tomorrow 2:16 P.M. ET 10/11/2004 Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel South A weak low pressure system bearing the legacy moisture of Matthew will drift eastward from the lower Mississippi Valley tomorrow. The system will spread showers over Florida, the Southeast and Tennessee, with a bit of dampness lingering over northern Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma; no excessive amounts of rain are likely, however. The eastern Carolinas should remain dry, as should the area from Texas to southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. High temperatures are forecast to range from the 60s to the 80s, north to south. Northeast Most of the Northeast will remain dry tomorrow, with a good deal of sunshine prevailing from New York state southward through northern Virginia. In contrast, far eastern New England will be slapped with some rain and gusty winds as a large mid-latitude storm, centered near Nova Scotia, expands its domain. High temperatures are expected to range from the 50s in northern and eastern New England to the 70s in Virginia. Midwest A weak low pressure area drifting eastward through the Deep South tomorrow will spread showers northward into Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, parts of Iowa, Missouri and adjacent areas of Kansas. The heaviest amounts of rain, perhaps locally an inch or so, are likely in the lower Ohio Valley. Elsewhere in the region—the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest—sunny skies are on tap. Greater amounts of cloudiness are likely over Plains, but the weather should remain dry. High temperatures in the 60s and 70s will be widespread. West High pressure nosing into the West tomorrow will ensure the entire region of dry weather and near to above average temperatures. In fact, in northern California, hot, dry conditions and gusty winds will lead to high wildfire danger. Overall, except for the mountains, maximum temperatures in the 60s and 70s will be widespread, with the 80s and 90s common in interior California and southwest Arizona.

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