I watched these storms nucleate all summer out there, Franklin, then Katrina, and finally I observed TD # 16 (Ophelia)
point nucleate directly above my location, from a featureless flat calm trough, on Sunday, September
4th, and observed the cyclogenesis event almost immediately thereafter, directly into a tropical depression surrounding me completely, in only a
few hours, and then I was subsequently battered
by 30 knot winds.