Here Comes the Rain and Maybe a Sting Jet

Posted on by Julia

October 9, 2026

I don’t normally post real time. I post the next day or a few days later. This is a post today about the weather forecast for tonight.

Hurricane Isaias appears to be coming in at Pensacola, FL, as well as hitting Mobil Bay in Alabama, the coast of Mississippi, and the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The edge appears to be coming up the border of Alabama and Mississippi.

We are expecting rain, lots of rain and some high winds starting tonight.

The weather service is also worried about Sting Jets as the hurricane downgrades.

What is a Sting Jet? AL.com provides a description of what a Sting Jet is.

“The weather service described it as being “a highly localized, narrow stream of strong to violent wind that descends rapidly from the mid-troposphere to the surface on the backside of the storm, often producing very strong, unexpected ground-level gusts.”

According to NOAA, the “sting” in its name is due to the fact that it can resemble the shape of a scorpion’s tail.”

It is unlikely we’ll get Sting Jets here since the hurricane will be a tropical storm by the time it says hello to us. It is a different story for Middle Alabama.

I hope ya’ll in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio stay safe.

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    2. I don’t know anyone in that area anymore. My great-aunt lived in Pensacola for years. I loved the beaches. I hope the people in range of the storm surge evacuated and the winds don’t lay waste to the area.

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I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.