The low pressure center east of Dominica has become better organized and is close to becoming a tropical depression/storm.
This system is moving west north westwards at 15 to 20 kph and is expected to begin to affect the island by tomorrow; Monday with the likelihood of some moderate to heavy showers, thunderstorms and gusty winds across the island.
The Hurricane Hunter is scheduled to investigate the system this afternoon. There is a possibility that tropical cyclone watches or warning be issued later today.
Residents in low lying areas, areas prone to flooding and landslides, and fishermen particularly on the eastern coast of the island should continue to monitor the progress of this system and be on the alert.
Sea conditions are expected to remain moderate today. However, with the approach of the wave, a deterioration in sea conditions is expected by late tonight into tomorrow. Small craft operator, seabathers and residents near coastal areas are advised to exercise caution.
Dominica News Online will continue to monitor this system and bring updates when they become available.
A young boy and his dad went out fishing one fine morning. After a few quiet hours out in the boat, the boy became curious about the world around him. He looked up at his father and asked “How do fish breath under water?” The father thought about it for a moment, then answered “I really don’t know, son.” The boy sat quietly from another moment, then turned back to his dad and asked, “How does our boat float on the water?” Once again his dad answered, “Don’t know, son.” Pondering his thoughts again, a little while later, the boy asks “Why is the sky blue?” Again, his dad replied, “Don’t know, son.” The inquiring boy, worried he was annoying his father, asks this time “Dad, do you mind that I’m asking you all of these questions?” “Of course not son”, replied his dad, “How else are you ever going to learn anything?”
Don’t you think that many articles and whole sites are much alike this story?
To all dominican at home and abroad please pray that dominica be speared from this hurrican
i am so sryyyyyyyy for thos in da so sad
every time is a hurricane those hypocrites always there to say god coming
By now many citizens on the Island should have been finalizing their preparations for this yeas hurricane season.
All important copies of documents including all types of certificates, copies of health passports, bank books, pictures, contracts, bills, and paper money should have been placed in Ziploc plastic bags or any other similar plastic bags that can keep these documents water tight.
If by chance you have Pringles packaging – the long tubes or the tennis balls tubes these can be used to place jewelry that you should have in smaller ice pop plastic bags and labeled with a code that is known to you.
Experience has thought me that DHL and FedEx plastic bags – those used to ship documents are very good for preserving fish and other meat kinds.
If you have a cooler it will be a good idea to buy extra ice from the various ICE outlets around the Country and pack your cooler with ice but to get the full benefit of that ice you must add rock salt to the ice. Table salt you will have to add in layers of the ice cubes. If you can remember old fashion tub ice cream the way you grandparents made it and how it stayed cold over 12 hours in the tub. It was more the rock salt in the ice water that kept the ice-cream rock hard.
It cannot be overemphasized for one to have lots of water in stock. Every empty 2 liter coke bottle in the house should have been cleaned, sanitized with a few drops of bleach with some warm water and rinsed and filled with water that was boiled earlier an d left to cool. Would you have a plastic barrel – the blue ones that come from foreign? Then fill it with water for the purpose of flushing.
Are your wardrobes movable? No shutters for your glass windows? Simply relocate that tall wooden wardrobe to the eastern window of your bed room and place your bed where you can get the bed head and the left or right side of the bed along walls with no window opening there. That should give some level of safety and comfort. If you have small kids like I do make them sleep under the bed on a thin sponge. Give them a small torchlight if possible and they will not bother you.
If you have an open plan house where living room and kitchen blends then you can move items such that you can run, dash or crawl with relative ease and minimize injury to self.
If you have a baby under two years old you should have at least three bottles prepared in advance and kept in a warmer, and have a garbage plastic bag close to discard wet and soiled pampers.
Every responsible person in your household should have a key for the house. All cell phones should be fully charged. There is even a service provider offering double top-up value at this time.
Persons on the west coast – Mahaut, Colihaut, Newtown, Loubiere, Scotts head, etc should know their designated shelters. Candles and lamps should only be used if a responsible person is available on hand to monitor its performance. You can also place candles in large Pyrex with water or a baking pan can do as well with water. Thing is you do not want a fire on your hands; most persons will be attending to their own affairs and you may not find help readily forthcoming.
All expensive electronics should have been turned off long before the thunder begins to rumble. Thus DVDs, flat screens, PS2 machines, other game machines, washers, dryers, dishwashers, cookers, should have all been turned off, unplugged and any transformers unplugged and allow to cool down and taken off the floor.
In your yard if you have loose tools like garden tools – these should be secured and not allowed to be airborne and damage the neighbors windscreen or windows. Pets should be in side as well and be patient with them too especially if the dog or cat has young ones.
In times like these there are a number of things one has some degree of control over and the other things are totally out of our control – like wind speed, levels of rainfall; our aim is to attempt to secure life and minimize the expenses of starting all over again.
every year is the same thing over and over again people should know this things with out some telling them that
hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s funny how we call upon God when we are going thru our difficult times and in this case, a possible storm; but when we are having our good times, he isn’t even thought off or mentioned. Sad but true. Just making an observation!
I AM SHOCKED THAT SOMEONE SHOULD GIVE U A THUMBS DOWN FOR THIS. I GUESS ITS ONE OF THOSE HYPOCRITS
when that passing tonight or tomorrow?
these are signs that lord is coming soon
…and why have the centuries of previous tropical storms not been signs? Why was a real disaster, like Hurricane David, not a sign? Please stop intimidating gullible people with this kind of apocalyptic rhetoric.
False prophets like you is signs that he coming too wi
its only wen der is a hurricane or tragedy dominicans know a GOD..we should call on his name everyday
Papa Jah may your name be blessed forever.do your job.those who waiting for august monday,do u know your history.when u doing your thing u don’t ask Jah;but when he doing his own,u asking him to stop.?.!He know’s what he’s doing!kite Jah twavaii.merci DNO
You too stupid. is papa jah who sends a tropical cyclone now? GOD does NOT send disasters wether they be natural or cause by man. Instead he ALLOW them for whatever reason. Allu dem rastas just stay in de bush eating rice with coconut water and smoking reefa and talking a bunch of shit!!
On a calmer, more serous note: Please pay attention to weather reports, take cover and precaution when needed.
Permit me to ask, who creates the weather? Who is in control of them?
WHO ARE U TO JUDGE THE WAYS OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR?U DICTATES WHAT HE DOES AND DOES NOT DO?IT HIS EARTH SO HE CAN ALLOW DEM TO HAPPEN BUT JUST LIKE HE PARTED THE RED SEA,HE CAUSED THE EARTH TO OPEN AND SWOLLOW THE WICKED,HE RAIN BRIMESTONE AND FIRE FROM THE HEAVENS,HOW COMES HE CANT FORM AND SEND A STORM TO WHATEVER PLACE HE DESIRES??DONT YOU KNOW THERE IS NOT A THING TO GREAT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO HIM WHO HAS POWER AND CONTROL OVER ALL AND EVERYTHING INCLUDING A STORM?SO WATCH UR SPEECH BCUZ HE CAN NOT JUST ALLOW YOU TO LOSE DAT VOICE OF YOURS,HE CAN TAKE IT AWAY…
i like dat comment to tha bone!!!couldnt have said it better.its truth but u getting nuff dislikes,but let the truth tear dem asunder…JAH WILL MUST BE DONE….but still i pray for the ppl of the land,Most High Creator will protect his ppl alllllways.
What happen to you all it’s just a tropical cyclone or depression or whatever… Dominica can survive a hurricane allu people fraid man
Very true. I think it’s likely due to all those people who love crying out that the world is ending whenever something they don’t like happens, from the serious event at Layou to less dire things, like politics they disagree with. With all of those people yelling out that the end is upon us and quoting bible verses in all capital letters as if they’re screaming, it’s understandable that other people have begun to feel nervous about every little thing. As to whether or not this will be a “little thing,” we cannot say for certain, but it does not seem like it will be very damaging–certainly no worse than what Dominica has been through.
All this crying about “the end of times” is not only unnecessary; it cheapens the fact that Dominica has been through worse and will likely continue to go through worse. We should be learning about how natural disasters like this form and develop, how we can prepare our homes, and things of that sort; yelling out that the world is over is not only absurd, but profoundly unhelpful. (And I ask again: what does “the world is ending” even mean? What makes you think a likely small storm in a small island affects the universe in some earth-shattering way?)
correction God capital G
And in everything, we will continue to give praise to God’s Holy name.
Dear Lord Keep watching over us as you have done in the past and will continue to do in the future.In Jesus name.Amen
Polytheism, when you pray to the Lord of the Universe in Jesus name you are praying to two people. Idoltery!
MUSLIM_ALWAY, YOU ARE SO WRONG ON THAT GO STUDY THE TRINITY, YOUR MOHAMMED IS THE FAKE SO WHEN YOU PRAY TO HIM YOU ARE INDEED PRAYING TO A MAN WHO IS IN HIS GRAVE AWAITING JUDGEMENT WHEN WE PRAY TO OUR FATHER GOD IT IS SAFE TO SAY IN JESUS NAME, HE AND HIS FATHER THEY ARE ONE . OK MY BROTHER PEACE TO YOU IDOLTERY.
why is it that when we are in desperate times everyone seems to remember there is a god and start asking for his protection. We should always remember him, not saying you should not ask for protection during these times, but we can do much better and always remember him. With that said, i really do hope we do not get any storm/hurricanes during the season…..
I do hope all the action/beach parties etc… gets rained out, we always broke and attend all those actions, makes me wonder…..
There is NO WAY this storm is going to miss Dominica. Too many storm tracks take it right over us.
Well I have news for you, only one storm tracker knows where this storm is heading so lets leave this up to him.
God is good he will help us through.
Have faith..all will be alrigh, I pray that it will just be rain and nothing more….stay dry everyone.
I see your point, but rain and nothing else can also mean landslides in places where it is dangerous to be.
Together as a nation we can band as one, in faith and prayer to avert any potential ecological or structural damages that the storm can have on the island. In times like these our unity is definitely on the line.
SO when you pray and the storm hits another place does it mean your prayers were answered. Or is it that the other people werent praying hard enough You people never cease to amaze with this religion bullshit.
Weather and other scientific phenomenon doesnt change because some old white man with a beard is rolling dice to see what to do next.
And you have the gall to call yourself wisdom.
Yes, this is something that too many people blissfully ignore. They pray for the storm to move, believe they have moved it with their prayers, and then when it slams into Puerto Rico or Haiti or Cuba or wherever else it goes, no one seems to care about that island’s problems. The most evil of such people go so far as to condemn the island that was hit, justifying it by claiming the island is corrupt or some such thing. This is the same hurtful rhetoric that was used when Haiti was struck by its awful earthquake, with cruel people happily claiming that Haiti deserved it and all the people who were dead had been evil. The worst of these people claim that scientists who can show how the earthquake formed are satanic entities themselves.
It’s easy to forget that the world is not just an island when one lives on an island–I mean this in all seriousness–but, come on, people. We cannot act as though we are the center of the Earth (literally or otherwise) and that nowhere else matters. Storms come and go, as do earthquakes. It’s not a pretty state of affairs–but such is life.
thanks for that weather update was a bit concerned
Lord please we don’t need this now. Keep watch over dominica.
Almighty GOD of creation please spare us and every other country despite our ungodly behaviour,through CHRIST the MESSIAH i ask and pray,AMEN.
I pray that god looks over Dominica and guide and protect us thru it all…
Thanks for that item, DNO. Very useful info, with maps and all. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Precaution is better than cure.
will there be any sea swells on monday?
this one will pass over us n leave us safe just as the others have in God’s name…..
I saw somewhere else where it has 6 different forecast models taking it over Dominica. That’s 6 out of 12 too.
Oh well I guess…at least it won’t be a hurricane. We’ll only be getting it right as it starts to crank up into something much worse. That (ironically) is the good news.
wow hmm seems like bad news for august monday. trust in god that this doesnt get any worst
Lord please help us thru these times of natural disasters and hurricanes.