CURRENT LOCATION: Tied to a mooring ball near Cayo Pirata, in Ensenada Honda, Culebra, Puerto Rico

18 18.400' N, 065 17.842' W

Part of my morning routine is to check the weather, especially now that hurricane season is here. In addition to NOAA's website, one of the sites I often visit just to get a feeling for the situation from a 'man-on-the-street' perspective is storm CARIB (http://stormcarib.com/).

Since my morning routine involves a general weather check anyway, I thought I might contribute to the storm CARIB site by becoming one of their 'special hurricane correspondents.' As the title implies, the utility of this position becomes most valuable in severe weather circumstances (however, contrary to the title, nothing special is required to become a correspondent). The purpose of the on-island correspondents is to provide a perspective which is not available from the general media. It is a look-out-your-window type of weather report and, as such, has a much more personal feel.

If you CLICK HERE to go to storm CARIB, you will see the list of Caribbean islands where correspondents have recently submitted reports (along the right-hand side of the website). From the example set by other 'special hurricane correspondents,' it seems that postings are not restricted to severe weather circumstances. In fact, it seems that some don't even limit their postings to weather related content. I plan to post fairly regularly, and restrict my content to general weather updates (as viewed over my morning cup of coffee, across the waters of Ensenada Honda). If you would like to see my first posting, check out the Culebra (PR) link on the right-hand side of the storm CARIB website.

Of course, this doesn't prevent weather content from making its way into our blog. Weather is such a central part of our lives I just cannot help but relate that in my blog postings. However, for those of you looking for a regular window into the morning weather here on Prudence, you have a new website to bookmark.