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Sarasota News Leader November 29, 2013 Page 66 probably along the Mississippi coast. It will 6 Oct., 11 a.m.: This year the escalator always be another rainmaker. seems to be heading down. Karen three days Here we are, out of the wind prediction areas ago was predicted to be at near hurricane with no severe rainfall predicted for Sarasota. force as it came ashore somewhere between But the Florida Panhandle looks to be in for New Orleans and Mobile, AL, carrying a ton of rain. a drenching. This morning the NHC reports Karen has dissipated, with maximum winds of 30 mph and a central pressure of 29.80 inches The pressure at this moment at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is 29.89 inches, and our winds are so light we have cancelled a morning sail in hopes the breeze will pick up this afternoon. 5 Oct., 7 p.m.: TS Karen is barely that now. It never achieved hurricane strength; instead, it has become a 40 mph storm and is expected to weaken further. The "cone" shows a hard turn to the east, with the storm holding just south of the Panhandle as it peters out. No big rain event is forecast anymore. In other words, Karen did not even make it to So far, this has been a one-hurricane year, and shore before it was torn apart despite warm a year when tropical systems form and then waters and other encouraging factors. die. Some graduate student will put together a thesis from the lack of "hurricane days" in 2013 compared to prior years. 13 Oct., 9 p.m.: The busted pipeline: Over the past several days, an area of suspicious The path of Typhoon Haiyan in the Western Pacific in Nov. 2013