She is laying in bed.

Outside, a train leaves the station across the street, as a cyclist scurries home in a designated bike lane.

This time of the day is for silent reflection. She quietly rests. In her restful mind, she finds some thoughts.

Despite the early hour, it is still warm in her corner of Europe.

Her quiet, restful thoughts rise and evaporate with the summer heat.

They are carried up, straight up, over the Alps and across the French Riviera. They cross, briefly, the Mediterranean, the Spanish Sierras and the Mediterranean once more; North Atlantic now, settling off the shores of Morocco.

There her thoughts float, gradually gathering moisture from the atmosphere around them. Becoming saturated. Then condensing above the warm doldrums beyond the African coast.

And by the time those thoughts reach him, they are full blown storms.

They have picked up speed and passionate fury, rushing across the equator, flirting with the South Americas.

They have organized themselves, without an effort but with plenty of grace.

Her simple thought reaches him as a cyclone of storm activity.

For he is trying to fall asleep on a hot, damp boat in the Caribbean, and there is torrential downpour all around him. Lightning flashes and thunder crashes. The wind screams through his rigging.

On his side of the ocean, it is hurricane season.

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ABNT20 KNHC 202331
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT TUE JUL 20 2010

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

A VIGOROUS TROPICAL WAVE...LOCATED NEAR THE EASTERN DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC...IS PRODUCING A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS WESTWARD TO HISPANIOLA.
SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT A CLOSED CIRCULATION HAS NOT YET
FORMED.  HOWEVER...ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE
FAVORABLE FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION AS THE SYSTEM MOVES
WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT ABOUT 10 MPH DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO.
THERE IS A HIGH CHANCE... 60 PERCENT...OF THIS SYSTEM BECOMING A
TROPICAL DEPRESSION OR A TROPICAL STORM DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS
WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE VIRGIN ISLANDS...PUERTO RICO...THE DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC... HAITI...EASTERN CUBA...THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS...
AND THE BAHAMAS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.  THE HEAVY RAINS
COULD CAUSE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUD SLIDES IN
MOUNTAINOUS AREAS.

ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.