Hurricane Isaias

NOAA/NHC ^ | 29 July 2020 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Tropical Storm Isaias developed in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. All interests along the Florida Peninsula should be prepared for deteriorating weather conditions by Saturday.

For linguistics aficionados, the National Hurricane Center uses the four-syllable pronunciation ees-ah-EE-ahs. The name Isaias is Spanish for Isaiah. To hear a meteorologist pronounce Isaias: NWS Melbourne.

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[NautiNurse]

Great news that your son fared well. Installing generators in Puerto Rico = job security.

[cll]

Thank you. We only lost power for a couple of hours where I live in San Juan. But I’ll keep that in mind.

Hope you are doing well.

[gleeaikin]

Does anyone know when the high tides are for the DelMarVa Peninsula shores, or the Chesapeake Bay tides for the Eastern Shore all day Tuesday. I have to go there to clean up after a contractor who is not finishing my roof work.

This past week when I was talking with my son in Puerto Rico, he brought the Three Gorges Dam to my attention. We spent and interesting hour going through the internet. Some info. They have removed either 90,000 or 900,000 people from behind the dam to clear a flood plane for topping the dam. There apparently was some movement, and I saw two overhead pictures where one view of the dam face was very regular, but the other one indicated some waviness and things missing on the top of the dam. Photos of the release of water were very impressive. They are insisting the dam is still good, but if it goes there are millions of people down river. One is the city of Wuhan (covid central) with 10million people. There is a lot of concern for the existing flooding, and heaven help a dam breach which will badly hurt or destroy the agricultural land/crops down river or in the lowlands and by other rivers. China is already a food importer. Predictions of much hunger for poor people worldwide. [Fortunately I have not dipped much into the one month non-perishable food supply I bought back in March.] I would imagine that this would make a resurgence of Covid a likelihood in China.

[rodguy911]

I would tend to agree with that.I have been researching this dam stuff for over 6 weeks now and this is the first time I have read anything like this at all.So you are probably right.I’m terrible at catching trolls,too naive.

[rodguy911]

The more I think back on all I have read I think you guys are right.I'm pretty familiar with the const. of the dam and when you read that its already leaking from beneath and was never anchored during its initial construction and I know from being in the Keys 50 years const. down here that is not anchored with concrete pilings that had holes dug into the cap rock seldom make it in a big storm how can a dam be any different.
Add in hundreds of failed welds,substandard concrete cracking all over the dam and being built on a fault line and yo have a recipe for disaster. The reservoir behind the dam is filling up nearing 90% now and in two weeks it will be full so we shall see what happens at that point.

[rodguy911]

Exactly and these things just don’t buckle unless there is an underlying problem. And that’s all the three Gorges dam has is one underlying problem after another.

[rodguy911]

its here below:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3858449/posts?q=1&;page=151

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Isaias looks sloppy this morning. As we noted in the Navy forecast map, Isaias has slowed forward speed to 12 MPH. Fortunately, models moved the storm E again, with a close pass offshore. Hoping this solution holds. Weather looks great again this morning.

[rodguy911]

A shift oto the East is huge,slowing down is scary. Here is the current navy projections. The Navy does show it at 75 knots or about 85 mph,cranking pretty good.Let's hope it keeps jogging to the east. Evidently if it were not for all the sheer going on this could be a much bigger storm. Fowey buoy off miami already shows guss to 30 knots. img src="Conditions at FWYF1 as of (7:00 am EDT) 1100 GMT on 08/01/2020: Unit of Measure: English Time Zone: Station Local Time Click on the graph icon in the table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that observation. 5-day plot - Wind Direction Wind Direction (WDIR): E ( 90 deg true ) 5-day plot - Wind Speed Wind Speed (WSPD): 22 kts 5-day plot - Wind Gust Wind Gust (GST): 30 kts 5-day plot - Atmospheric Pressure Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.92 in 5-day plot - Pressure Tendency Pressure Tendency (PTDY): +0.00 in ( Steady ) 5-day plot - Air Temperature Air Temperature (ATMP): 83.7 °F 5-day plot - Water Temperature Water Temperature (WTMP): 84.2 °F 5-day plot - Wind Speed at 10 Meters Wind Speed at 10 meters (WSPD10M): 19 kts 5-day plot - Wind Speed at 10 Meters Wind Speed at 20 meters (WSPD20M): 19 kts 5-day plot - Wind Speed, Wind Gust and Atmospheric Pressure Combined plot of Wind Speed, Gust, and Air Pressure nothing reportable from NOAA south of fowey until you get to marathon almost a hundred miles away,"unacceptable" especially during storms.

[metmom]

High tides for the Atlantic tend to follow the moon.

Since the moon is full tonight, I believe, that would be around noon and midnight.

Here is a link to NOAA Tide Predictions.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.html

You can check by state.

[metmom]

Water is basically incompressible. That what makes storm surge so bad and dangerous.

Nothing can handle water slamming into it.

[NautiNurse]

Ragged eye of Isaias near Eastern Andros Island...
Expected to approach the SE FL coast later today and Sunday...

Summary Of 800 AM EDT...Information
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About 20 MI...E of Andros Island
About 50 MI...S of Nassau Bahamas
Max Sustained Winds...85 MPH...
Movement:...NW at 12 MPH
Pressure...987 MB...

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (75 km) from the
center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to
175 miles

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[ROCKLOBSTER]

the National Hurricane Center uses the four-syllable pronunciation ees-ah-EE-ahs. The name Isaias is Spanish for Isaiah. To hear a meteorologist pronounce Isaias:

Why can't the weather commies use common names we can pronounce? This is the USA after all.

(we speak Mercun)

[NautiNurse]

I am near Raleigh, NC. (central NC basically)

TWC forecasts 3-5" rain, up to 5-8" in your area ~Monday.

[NautiNurse]

See above post 105--the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) names Atlantic hurricanes. They are a division of the United Nations. Now you know the rest of the story.

[rollo tomasi]

I’s wobbling time; fun for those who predict landfall and nerve-racking for those who are near the path of these storms.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I hadn’t heard anything in a while, I was beginning to think the Gorgeous Damn had fixed itself.

[dakine]

Thread Title: Hurricane Isaias...

China Dam not in Path...

[AppyPappy]

That’s why I am afraid for Ocracoke. We were there in May and they are just now recovering from Dorian.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Ok - thanks very much!