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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Thanks. I lived through a lot of typhoons as a kid.
I just looked at the IR loop and it looked the same to me. About 1.5 big wobbles and difficult to tell the final direction.
I can imagine!
In an earlier incident for me, as a 10 yr. old our family’s brick house was totaled by a tornado. We were in the basement & unhurt, but, that certainly convinced me for life!
Small World. We took the AL-CAN in 1965 to the states.
“...exemplifies why long term predictions on climate change (involving many more unknowns and variables) are very difficult to get right. “
Don’t conflate short-term and long-term predictions. I can’t say whether or not you will be dead tomorrow, but I am confident you will be dead 100 years from now.
Unisys still has engineering offices in Malvern Pennsylvania, Eagan Minnesota, Irvine California, Australia, India, and China, with HQ in Blue Bell Pennsylvania. Both the old Sperry and Burroughs lines live on as ClearPath systems, but now execute on Intel processors instead of proprietary processors.
“Blizzards. Pfft.... It’s just snow. You can’t fall off a blizzard.”
But you can die in a blizzard, which we almost did once in Pennsylvania. (And other people actually did.)
Still not sure the final direction ?
The prayer is on my homepage, near the bottom.
Keys is losing cell phones-wireless according to Reed storm chaser.To be expected.
Thanks, Tatt. I sure had a heckuva story to tell when school re-started.
Damn, you be old school. Of course UNISYS is still around.
People on the Keys should have left. If they did not then they choose to watch this storm up close and personal.
Crazy. Almost looks like the eye just did two loop de loops. Short circles around travel axis.
“Well, I’ve grown up in the lake effect snow belt areas of NY,”
Me, too. On Lake Erie a few miles south of Buffalo. I have a healthy respect for snow — and a deep hatred of being in a car in snow. Although I love, love, love being indoors when it’s snowy or snowing. Beautiful!
What do you mean by loop?
Wow, what a story! Glad you made it back OK.
This brings to mind Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, struggling to get back in her house, the door bangs open and flies off in the wind...
(Hey, does that experience have anything to do with your FR handle? :-) )
Thank you!
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