Bay of Campeche

Rainfall over much of the central and eastern Gulf Coast in coming days due to tropical storm development.

Sometime this week, there is a 90% chance overall of tropical development, and that will be very close to the Mexican Gulf Coast, likely over the Bay of Campeche, and that is not too far from the US Gulf Coast, and we're looking at that system expected to lift northeastward with time.

USDA chief meteorologist Brad Rippey says regardless of development, rain will be spread across the southeastern US.

The bulk of the heavy rain should fall along and near the Gulf Coast from southeastern Louisiana eastward through Florida.

Uh, just became a sort of object to meditate around how ideas about how we understand and, um, describe our world come to be fixed through social processes.

Um, with the case of logwood, right? The, the desire for blue dye in Britain in the 15 and 1600s, um, created this desire for cutting down this tree in Central America and the Bay of Campeche in Mexico, um, where men were cutting down a tree that looked red on the inside, um, but later it c- they extract from it, um, what becomes a blue dye.

So blue here is just sort of this object around which to understand, um, how value gets made, how it gets abstracted, and how all of these relationships of creating things that circulate as valuable, whether it's knowledge, whether it's materials or dye, um, have to be made, have to be brought into being in very particular social worlds.

Yeah, the how things get made, I think is something I want to talk about further, perhaps moving away for a moment from blue.

Uh, just became a sort of object to meditate around how ideas about how we understand and, um, describe our world come to be fixed through social processes.

Um, with the case of logwood, right? The, the desire for blue dye in Britain in the 15 and 1600s, um, created this desire for cutting down this tree in Central America and the Bay of Campeche in Mexico, um, where men were cutting down a tree that looked red on the inside, um, but later it c- they extract from it, um, what becomes a blue dye.

So blue here is just sort of this object around which to understand, um, how value gets made, how it gets abstracted, and how all of these relationships of creating things that circulate as valuable, whether it's knowledge, whether it's materials or dye, um, have to be made, have to be brought into being in very particular social worlds.

Yeah, the how things get made, I think, is something I want to talk about further, perhaps moving away for a moment from blue.

Uh, just became a sort of object to meditate around how ideas about how we understand and, um, describe our world come to be fixed through social processes.

Um, with the case of logwood, right? The, the desire for blue dye in Britain in the 15 and 1600s, um, created this desire for cutting down this tree in Central America and the Bay of Campeche in Mexico, um, where men were cutting down a tree that looked red on the inside, um, but later it g- they extract from it, um, what becomes a blue dye.

So Blue here is just sort of this object around which to understand, um, how value gets made, how it gets abstracted, and how all of these relationships of creating things that circulate as valuable, whether it's knowledge, whether it's materials or dye, um, have to be made, have to be brought into being in very particular social worlds.

Yeah.

Of course, the attention right now is a tropical storm, and that tropical storm, ISA-ES, is located over the Gulf of Campeche, which is the southwestern Gulf, and it is moving very slowly in an east-northeast direction at around 8 miles per hour.

It is now officially a tropical storm with 40 mile-per-hour winds, but it's going to become a hurricane.

and this will be the first hurricane of the season.

You only need, uh, water temperatures around 80 degrees.

Currently 87 degrees, uh, down in the Bay of Campeche.

But then you're gonna be seeing temperatures solidly there in the mid-80s as this storm runs itself towards the north.

It is still forecast to strengthen, ultimately getting up to a hurricane, category two hurricane.

Yeah, and we're of course monitoring, uh, the latest from the National Hurricane Center.

Uh, their latest advisory, uh, that was out and published, uh, earlier this morning showing that the storm is packing 40 mile per hour winds, still sitting, uh, over this volatile area of deep warm water that's, uh, now in the 80 degree mark, expected to b- be about 87 degrees in the Bay of Campeche.

And forecasters say it's prime, uh, area for rapid intensification.

Yep.

Uh, but aren't both of those stadiums domes?

Yes, and they'll be in New Orleans where Invest 92L is hovering over the Bay of Campeche right now, at least that's still what we're calling it, off the coast of Mexico, and will work its way into New Orleans, and it will be at least a tropical depression.

So it may affect, like, people getting there.

Getting there, right, right.