1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Juan, PR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 9, 3:21 PM AST, 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR 321 PM AST FRI SEP 9 2005 .DISCUSSION...VERY HAZY CONDITIONS PREVAILED OVER PUERTO RICO AND THE USVI...DECREASING THE VISIBILITY TO BELOW 8 MILES. AFTER A VERY TRANQUIL MORNING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS DEVELOPED OVER THE SAN JUAN METRO AREA. THESE STORMS PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL AND EVEN SMALL HAIL OVER THE AREA OF RIO PIEDRAS. MOST OF THESE SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST NORTHWEST OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS AND AWAY FROM LAND. TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MAINLY OVER THE OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS. A FEW SHOWERS COULD DEVELOP OVER THE CARIBBEAN WATERS AND DUE TO THE WIND DIRECTION SOME OF THESE SHOWERS COULD AFFECT THE EASTERN COASTAL SECTION OF PUERTO RICO. THE MID TO UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO MOVE WEST NORTHWEST BRINGING A MUCH DRIER ENVIRONMENT OVER THE LOCAL AREA ON SATURDAY. THEREFORE A MORE CLIMATOLOGICAL WEATHER PATTERN WILL PREVAIL ACROSS OUR LOCAL FORECAST AREA. && .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM...AND AN ASSOCIATED LOW LEVEL REFLECTION IN THE FORM OF A TROUGH...EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF PUERTO RICO NORTH NORTHEAST ACROSS THE ADJACENT OFF SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS THIS AFTERNOON... AND WILL MOVE WEST NORTHWEST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE LOCAL AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING...THEN EXIT THE LOCAL REGION TO THE NORTHWEST LATER TONIGHT. A BROAD TROPICAL WAVE ALONG 52 WEST THIS AFTERNOON...WILL CROSS THE LOCAL AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. SMALL TO MODERATE NORTH NORTHWEST SWELLS GENERATED FROM HURRICANE NATE WILL AFFECT THE REGIONAL WATERS THROUGHOUT THE UPCOMING WEEKEND...AND WILL MIX WITH MODERATE NORTH NORTHEAST SWELLS FROM TROPICAL STORM MARIA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SJU 92 78 89 78 / 50 20 20 30 STT 89 79 89 79 / 50 40 40 40 && .SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PR...NONE. VI...NONE. && 10
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains were reported across sections of the San Juan Metro area. Pea size hail was reported in Villa Nevarez and at Plaza Las Americas.
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