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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That didn’t happen in this case; it appears that sometimes the winds just pull the water out, and shortly it seeps back in. It seems to happen in coves and bays; I don’t have much background in these things and don’t understand the dynamics of it.
Go to bed. You have all night.
Here. This link may help.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/154304.shtml?inundation#contents
It’s a forecast map of potential storm surge flooding.
You can move it around and zoom in and out.
That’s the one. This thing may cross over at Naples.
Shoot, the most I’ve ever been directly exposed to was roughly 80-something mph & heavy rain for several seconds. That was enough for me!
I don’t envy you!
That is oddly beautiful.
You can listen to it live as it intensifies. Pretty cool to let it run in the back round while freeping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFntKt8ABI
Water vapor views show stuff that radar and sat photos do not. Water vapor is the driver of weather in our world. The source of energy.
Oh My.
And the other thing I thought looking at the map is, what the hell? Unisys is still around?
Seeing how difficult it is to model a hurricane and make short-term predictions using real-time data from satellites, Doppler radar, real-time air and water temperature and barometric pressure measurement, ocean buoys, and flights by highly instrumented airplanes, exemplifies why long term predictions on climate change (involving many more unknowns and variables) are very difficult to get right.
Is that Jose behind? on same path?
No rush, BTW. Get some sleep if possible... :-)
We had magnificent clouds here today; it struck me that atmosphere is so full of its own kind of Life.
I want it to circle back on Cuba and then hit Venezuela.
Excellent! Thanks
Jose is supposed to channel Jeanne’s loop-de-loop and after that it’s anyone’s guess where it goes, too far out for an accurate model run.
You would be amazed.
Yeah, there is nothing quite like a full-bore Oklahoma thunderstorm (sans tornadoes) to inspire awe. I really don’t care to experience a landfalling major hurricane, I’m sure they outstrip a T-storm, but I don’t care for what comes after.
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