Rip Current, Northwest
- When
- November 2, 8:00 PM AST to 9:00 PM AST
- Where
- Northwest forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- Newspaper
A 51-year-old female drowned in a rip current in Penon Brusi Beach.
A subsiding northerly swell maintained a high rip current risk for the exposed beaches of northern Puerto Rico.
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 episode as NWS SJU wrote it up.
A subsiding northerly swell maintained a high rip current risk for the exposed beaches of northern Puerto Rico.
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 Nov 2, 3:49 PM AST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service San Juan PR
349 PM AST Tue Nov 2 2021
.SYNOPSIS...
Broad surface high pressure ridge across the western
Atlantic will continue to spread eastward into the central Atlantic
through Thursday. This will promote a prevailing northeast wind flow
tonight shifting to a more easterly by Wednesday and Thursday.
Remnant moisture fragments from old frontal shear lines will be
transported across the region by the prevailing trade winds through
the end of the week. A fairly moist and unstable weather pattern is
forecast Wednesday through Thursday as an upper levels, a TUTT low
extending northwards across the region from the eastern Caribbean,
will continue to shift westward into the east central Caribbean the
next few days, while maintaining a moderate to strong southerly wind
flow and marginally unstable conditions with cooler air aloft.
SHORT TERM...Today through Thursday...
Water vapor imagery showed the upper level trough moving over
Puerto Rico this afternoon and tonight. This feature is enhancing
the instability across the forecast area especially across the
local forecast area. A surge of moisture approaching from the
northeast will increase the shower activity tonight and overnight
over the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as the east and north coast
of Puerto Rico. Unsettled conditions will continue on Thursday
under the influence of the upper level trough.
LONG TERM...Friday through Wednesday...
Model guidances continues to suggest a strong deepening
upper level trough sinking southwestward into the central
Atlantic. This trough will reflect on almost all the levels and
will generate a surface trough far away over the central Atlantic,
generating a moderate east-southeast wind flow over the region.
This wind flow will result in advective moisture pattern and will
keep the available moisture moving in the area of the long term
period. This evolving pattern will turn favorable conditions for
shower development over the interior and western sections of
Puerto Rico each afternoon, as well the passing showers from time
to time in the morning and evening hours over the local waters and
windward sections. However, starting on Friday onwards, stable
conditions will prevail in the mid to upper levels as a westward
high pressure establish over the area.
In general, a seasonal pattern is expected for Friday through
Monday, with the typical afternoon shower activity due to the
local effects and diurnal heating. Then, on late Monday onwards,
the precipitable water values will remain near normal, and as a
result, less coverage in the shower activity is expected. Daytime
temperatures are expected to remain warmer between mid 80s to low
90s, due to the east-southeast wind flow over the forecast area.
AVIATION...VFR conds will likely continue thru the forecast
period. However, brief MVFR conds can not ruled out Wednesday and
Thursday as clouds and showers increase significantly across the
local terminals. Easterly winds of 10-20 kts will prevail below
FL150.
MARINE...Northerly swell will gradually subside tonight into
Wednesday giving way to typical marine conditions the rest of the
week. As a result, the high risk of rip current continues through
tonight, then a moderate risk is forecast the second part of the
week.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SJU 76 87 76 87 / 70 70 70 50
STT 76 87 76 87 / 70 60 60 50
&&
.SJU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
PR...High Rip Current Risk until 6 PM AST this evening for Culebra-
Northeast-Southeast.
High Rip Current Risk through late tonight for North Central-
Northwest-San Juan and Vicinity.
VI...None.
AM...None.
&&
SHORT TERM...CVB
LONG TERM....EM
PUBLIC DESK...CAMPerspectivas sobre las Condiciones Peligrosas del Tiempo. Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia en San Juan PR 425 AM AST martes 2 de noviembre de 2021 AMZ710>745-PRZ001>013-030830- San Juan y Vecindad-Noreste-Sureste-Este Interior-Norte Central- Interior Central-Ponce y Vecindad-Noroeste-Oeste Interior- Mayaguez y Vecindad-Suroeste-Culebra-Vieques- Las aguas costeras cercanas y lejanas a la costa del Atlantico y Caribe- 425 AM AST martes 2 de noviembre de 2021 Esta Perspectiva sobre las Condiciones Peligrosas del Tiempo es para Puerto Rico y las aguas costeras adyacentes del Atlantico. .Dia Uno...Hoy y esta noche .Tronadas...Existe la probabilidad de tronadas con lluvia de moderada a fuerte y fuertes vientos breves en rafagas esta tarde a traves de sectores del interior central y suroeste de Puerto Rico. .Inundaciones...Lluvia fuertes pudieran resultar en acumulacion de agua en carreteras y en areas bajas y de pobre drenaje. .Oleaje...Se espera oleaje picado de hasta 6 pies a traves de las aguas del Atlantico y los pasajes locales. .Corrientes Marinas...Existe un riesgo alto de corrientes marinas a traves de las playas del norte de Puerto Rico y algunas playas de Culebra. Existe riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas para el resto de las playas del norte y este y algunas playas de Culebra y Vieques. .Dias dos hasta el siete...miercoles a lunes Aumento en la humedad en los vientos alisios y condiciones inestables en los niveles altos favoreceran una mayor probabilidad de desarrollo de aguaceros tempranos en la manana y en la tarde el martes hasta el miercoles. Esto contribuira al potencial de inundaciones urbanas y de riachuelos en areas aisladas. El oleaje picado continuara hasta 6 pies, especialmente en las aguas mar afuera del Atlantico hasta el miercoles. Un riesgo alto de corrientes marinas continuara para las playas del norte de Puerto Rico y Culebra, y un riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas para el resto de las playas del norte y este y algunas playas de Vieques. .Comunicado sobre informacion reportada por observadores... No se espera activacion amplia de observadores. Favor de reportar cualquier informacion sobre vientos, oleaje y corrientes marinas al Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia en San Juan mientras siguen las indicaciones de las autoridades locales y estatales. AMZ715-725-VIZ001-002-020845- San Tomas, San John e Islas Adyacentes-Santa Cruz- Aguas cercanas del Atlantico y aguas costeras adyacentes del Caribe- 425 AM AST martes 2 de noviembre de 2021 Esta perspectiva sobre las condiciones peligrosas del tiempo es para Islas Virgenes Estadounidenses y las aguas costeras adyacentes. .Dia Uno...Hoy y esta noche .Tronadas...Existe un ligera probabilidad de tronadas aisladas en y alrededor de algunas islas durante horas de la tarde y tempranas horas de la noche. .Inundaciones...Lluvia de moderada a localmente fuerte podria generar inundaciones menores a traves de carreteras y areas de pobre drenaje mas tarde esta tarde y durante horas temprano en la noche. .Oleaje...Se espera oleaje picado de hasta 6 pies a traves de la aguas del Atlantico y pasages locales. .Corrientes Marinas...Existe un riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas para algunas de las playas del norte y este de las islas. .Dias dos hasta el siete...miercoles a lunes Aumento en la humedad en los vientos alisios y condiciones inestables en los niveles altos favoreceran una mayor probabilidad de desarrollo de aguaceros tempranos en la manana y en la tarde el miercoles hasta el jueves. Esto contribuira al potencial de inundaciones urbanas y de riachuelos en areas aisladas. El oleaje picado continuara hasta 6 pies, especialmente en las aguas mar afuera del Atlantico y pasajes locales. Un riesgo moderado de corrientes marinas continuara para las playas del norte y este durante los proximos dias. .Comunicado sobre informacion reportada por observadores... No se espera activacion amplia de observadores. Favor de reportar cualquier informacion sobre vientos, oleaje y corrientes marinas al Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia en San Juan mientras siguen las indicaciones de las autoridades locales y estatales.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 51-year-old female drowned in a rip current in Penon Brusi Beach.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Northwest | 2021-11-02 | 51 | Female | In Water | Direct |
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