Posted on 09/09/2017 2:08:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula and points north are poised to experience Hurricane Irma after the storm hugged Cuba's northern coastline. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Hurricane Irma's prolonged interaction with Cuba diminished its strength to Category 3.
Irma is forecast to increase in strength as it crosses the FL Straits. The Florida Keys experienced strong outer bands while Irma grazed the N Cuba coastline.
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wow Cantore must be going crazy he’s not there. Not my cup of tea. I’ve been in boats in 10,12 foot seas,that was enough for me.
That is true, but the current eyewall is almost all E to W winds. That pushes waves away from land. If Irma were approaching from the open gulf it would kick up a lot higher waves into the w coast of FL. This is not a worst case storm for them, probably less bad than Charley.
Someone always tries to sell 20 or 30 dollar all you drink deals during storms. Usually KWFD catches them before they plywood the customers in the building. Irish Kevins is on Duvall. They should be ok. I think there’s a second story on that building. Hopefully there’s a staircase on the interior in case storm surge reaches thrm.
Reed and Cantore would be amazing. I plan to keep watching Fox just to see how much longer he can report from there. The video should be incredible.
West outer edge of west eyewall to pass 2 NM west of KBYX radar. on key West.
East outer edge of east eyewall to cross Big Pine Key.
These on-location reporters have a death wish.
Correction, peak wind, east eye wall, to cross Big Pine Key.
That’s not live. There’s a bar at the bottom, it shows the last hour or so before the feed went dead.
The Miami ABC affiliate I’m listening to pulled all their reporters out of the Keys some time ago.
about as tough as it gets...
Six mile move east,better still for Key West? Although how can you use the word “better” in a cat 4 storm?
Sorry, I thought that one was live. I missed the bar on the bottom.
NOT live. Shows the last 2 hrs and 30 mins only.
50 dBz boundary now crossing south shore. TWC has a live feed from Big Pine Key, now, Key West radar still up.
Yeah, I know.
>>The upside to this is the jobs that will be around for the clean up and fix up.
I’m sorry, there’s no upside to a destructive event. Time for a Broken Windows economics lesson.
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
Frédéric Bastiat
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
The Broken-Window Fallacy
https://mises.org/library/broken-window-fallacy
Peak doppler velocities at inner edge of eyewall, 12 miles radius from center. Closest point of that band is 6.3 miles south of Highway 1 at Summerland key, as of 0700 EDT.
Crank up the sound.... furious wind
Naval air station and radar, near west end of Key West still gets eyewall.
New waterspout warning, aimed at West Palm Beach, inbound at 45 Knots.
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