Posted on 09/07/2017 8:09:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Irma had a devastating impact on islands in the Caribbean.
Hurricane and Storm surge watches were issued Thursday morning for South Florida. The Florida Keys began evacuating visitors and residents, followed by flood zones in Miami and Miami Beach. Sarasota FL declared a local state of emergency Thursday morning.
Polk County FL Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday that law enforcement authorities would check the identities of people who turn up at shelters--and take to jail anyone found to have an active arrest warrant. “If you go to a shelter for Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail... “If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter.” Judd also posted that sex offenders and sex predators would not be admitted to the shelters. "We cannot and we will not have innocent children in a shelter with sexual offenders & predators. Period." Judd's statements unleashed a liberal firestorm via Twitter.
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just a little further south!!!,...break the circulation...grrr
I really think this nose dive into Cuba will be a game changer.
me too.....
the media is so excited....they got their climate change bull ready to go...can hear it now...
It went to Cat 5 in its current position. Cuba is nearly pancake flat in that region. It will not have a significant impact, and the NHC discussion said just that.
Over Macho Grande?
I agree.
I would love to see it continue this dive and exit the bottom of Cuba.
Why not? Wouldn't it be grand if just like the election, all the forecasters were wrong?
thats why they give a forecast every 3 hours...ON ALL WEATHER!!....they are just guessing.
Thank you.
These Weather Channel goons are just foaming at the mouth. Would love to watch the starch melt out of their overhype right about now.
Joe Bastardi on Hannity saying likely making landfall near Naples/SW coast.
Sunday afternoon worse in Miami.
Comparing with 1935 hurricane
W Palm, Tampa, Orlando 100 mph winds Sunday afternoon.
Even ATL could get hurricane gust winds out of this.
Oh, puh-leeze. They had this basic track down 3 days ago. A
Awful lot of American naval assets are already in the neighborhood.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/08/politics/navy-aircraft-carrier-hurricane-irma/index.html
That’s the conventional thinking. Gotta think outside of the box!
Die deep in Cuba Irma, you ugly beast!
Irma looks like she had a sex change. The impact reaches so far!
The trough is still too far off to have an effect. It also looks to me like the ridge may at present be pushing a bit harder than expected. Ie., maybe 50-100 miles additional “push”? But, both the “cone” and many models allowed for such. (Any one model “track” should be interpreted as, just to make up some numbers, “10% chance the center will be at “xy” location on the track at time “t”, 90% chance it will be somewhere else, but less than 10% chance at any other particular location than “xy” at “t”.)
(My apologies to any “real” meteorologists reading that crude explanation with fabricated numbers! Maybe one can explain it better...)
The question is, what shape will Irma be in when she (likely) makes the turn?
that Cantore dude was having an orgasm today...makes me sick.
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