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Posted on 10/01/2016 7:00:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Matthew is big, bad and just downright scary, and we await the long anticipated sharp turn northward. Jamaica is completing final storm preparations. All interests in the Eastern U.S. and Bahamas should be carefully watching the track of Mighty Matthew.
Ripped straight from the NHC Discussion page:
Matthew remains south of a low-to mid-level ridge over
the western Atlantic. The dynamical models forecast this ridge to
weaken over the next 72 hours as a mid- to upper-level trough develops
over the Gulf of Mexico. This evolution should cause Matthew to turn
northwestward after 24 hours and northward by 48-72 hours. The guidance
generally agrees with this scenario. However, there is a spread between
the GFS forecast of landfall in Jamaica and eastern Cuba and the ECMWF
forecast landfall in southwestern Haiti. The guidance becomes more
divergent after 72 hours.
Cone of Death Historic Archive Loop
Mash image to find lots of satellite imagery links
Public Advisories
NHC Discussions
Buoy 42058 Central Caribbean (in storm path)
Florida & Eastern Gulf Buoy Locations
SE Atlantic Coast Buoy Locations
SE U.S. Radar Sector
Gitmo Radar (primitive)
Jamaica Radar Loop (primitive)
If the info above doesn't satisfy your need for speed and graphics, strap yourself in for a ride to Mike's Weather Page
Awesome live coverage and the news doesn’t sound good for the Space Coast. :( My son was stationed at Patrick AFB and I visited that area several times when he lived there. Nice area.
Thanks for that info. Another reason I love FR. Stay safe everyone
Zellwood
Yellow gold !!
I have family in Jupiter, on the Loxahatchee River. They said they have battened down the hatches, and plan to ride it out. I'm worried about them...
I am a physician and have been deemed essential — which means I am being locked down in the hospital tomorrow at 2:00 PM. Our hospital is just north of the Daytona region — I am in the region this evening spending the night knowing that it would be impossible for me to make my commute in the morning southbound (I think the state may reverse I-95 all directions soon). Anyway — it is eerily calm tonight — the proverbial calm before the storm. There must be 50 debris removal trucks in the parking lot tonight waiting for what is about to happen. Gas lines like I have never seen before...and a lot of warnings about what might be. I can certainly say most of the time there is a feeling of blowing the warnings off — but not this time. People are deadly serious. It will be an interesting 48 hours — will try to keep updates coming from the eye of the storm. Please pray for us —
I am a Catholic 3,000 miles away — Saint Medard is a new one to me — we will ask his intercession for y’all.
I did Camille as a boy and a few minors later
Long Beach at old pass rd
Camille cured my hurricane riding out
Prayers for all in harm’s way.
A brief excerpt:
At 8:30 a.m., the only other people stuck on Ocean Isle Beach — three couples from High Point who are here for a house-warming beach party — knock on the Registers’ door. What do we do? they ask. Everyone looks around. Sherman Register, the big, calm hardware store owner, finally makes a decision: They’ll pile into his work truck, all 11 of them — four men; four women; one child; and Bunky and Sonja, the young newlyweds who are caught somewhere in between — and they’ll drive west toward Halfway Hills, the highest point on the island.
They reach the end of the road, about two miles from the house. They drive as far into the sandy hill as they can. From the hill, they look down toward the east. The ocean is melting away the beach. Cars float away. Homes break into pieces. Homes float away. The water creeps toward them, harassing them in a slow climb, until it finally licks the back tires. Then it bites the front tires. Register tells the women and children to move into the bed of the truck. The men will hold it down from the sides.
The truck faces the same direction as the island — the front pointed toward the southwest, the rear to the northeast. Sherman Register is standing on the passenger’s side, facing the ocean. Bunky Bellamy is on the driver’s side, facing Register.
The water rises, rises.
The truck rocks, rocks.
The water reaches the men’s belts.
And then, at about 10:30 a.m. on October 15, 1954, Bellamy looks across as Register, his father-in-law, the hardware store manager, the man who would do anything for anyone, and Bellamy watches this big man grab his wife and son and tuck them close to him as his eyes double in size. Nobody screams a warning. Bellamy doesn’t turn around. He can sense it behind him, building, building. But he doesn’t want to see it. He doesn’t want to see what his father-in-law sees.
Read the story in full:
https://www.ourstate.com/hazel/
Will greatly appreciate that, Doctor. You're an anesthesiologist, I assume from your FReepname.
I have some friends that run a 105ft yacht and the are moored in Rybovich marina, West Palm Beach. They are going to get a direct hit! Yikes!
By Saturday afternoon the storm will be causing rain at the worse and breezes in the teens. Hardly anything to worry about.
What will be a problem will be the large number of people from the coast in the interior of the state that will care less about a football game. It will be a mess on the roads.
Should be a good, hard fought game in the SEC
you probably took the shots at us with a grain of salt.
That’s not me.
And i you’ve not seen negative NY comments, I’m sorry, but you’re not on the board much.
No disrespect intended.
The NY values thing has given me fits for months.
You have no idea what you are talking about. A hurricane is large. Volusia County (Daytona Beach) will start to feel the effects today (Thursday afternoon) and it is supposed to last 24 hours. 3 days before? An ignorant and stupid statement. Ignorant in that barrier islands often feel the effects of the rising ocean and swell in advance of the storm and they have to evacuate early before an only way out is closed off. Often, there is only one bridge for many thousands of people leaving and everyone can’t leave at once. Sometimes a post not made is a better post.
Good luck and special,prayers for you and all who are in the path of this hurricane. Stay safe and God Speed.
Just woke up to a couple of tweets from Dr. Ryan Maue....he is now concerned about two things:
1. Landfall further south in Florida.
2. Cat 5 potential. Suggests that only an eyewall replacement cycle might forestall ongoing explosive development.
Being “deemed essential” is at once a curse, and a badge of honor, one you wear with courage.
Prayers up from the Rockies. Godspeed doctor.
I have survived several hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, you all certainly have my prayers.
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