Catching up on all the doom

Doomwatch got overwhelmed this weekend, between Isaias, Simon, Rachel, the major earthquake in Panama, not to mention the rocket attacks by Ansar Allah on the Saudis, the ongoing Ukraine situation and the Diesel Deal (or not, probably not), and several other things undermining Civilization that you should probably know about but don’t. Here’s a brief catch-up …

Isaias overall probably caused several deaths and around $5 Billion in economic impacts. Fortunately it not only collapsed right before landfall, it entrained a lot of dry air and inland rain was well below the forecast. Locally, Isaias didn’t dump much rain (1.5″ in Midtown Savannah), most staying offshore:

however, it did spawn an EF1 tornado in Screven County that damaged several homes:

There’s a yellow blob in the far eastern Atlantic is causing rain over the Cape Verde Islands but after than should be of interest to fish and fish related activities.

Aside from the invest area off of Central America seen in the above view, Tropical Storm Rachel caused tensof million in economic impacts, including damaging coastal homes in southern California. Hurricane Simon is still a Category Three storm and is battering the coast of Mexico. It should weaken before turning inland:

Farther south, there have been a series of powerful earthquakes along the coast of Panama that have caused injuries and several billion in impacts but no reported deaths I have seen. The aftershocks have continued, complicating recovery efforts and compounding damage. Main shock is on the left, the most powerful aftershock on the right …

The West Pacific remains active with several weaker systems, including the long lived Nolo that you may recall brushed Hawai’i a few weeks ago.

I think that’s enough doom for now …