Posted on 09/28/2022 6:30:00 AM PDT by rktman
AccuWeather forecasters are honing in on where -- and when -- Ian looks likely to make landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast, bringing with it dangerous storm surge, powerful winds and heavy rain.
Hurricane Ian, nearly a Category 5 storm packing 155-mph sustained winds, was bearing down on the Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday morning, threatening disaster from life-threatening flooding and wind damage and drawing comparisons to some of the most notorious hurricanes to ever blast the state. AccuWeather forecasters continued to hone in on precisely where landfall will occur and have upped the storm’s rating on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes to a 5 -- the scale’s highest designation.
"There is the potential for Ian to hit as the strongest hurricane on record for the southwestern to west-central part of the Florida Gulf coast," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said.
As of 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Hurricane Ian had maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, just 2 mph shy of Category 5 intensity. Ian was moving north-northeastward at 10 mph, and was about 60 miles southwest of Manasota Key, Florida. Hurricane-force winds extended outward 40 miles and winds of tropical storm force reached 175 miles from the center, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
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My BIL and family are in Easley S.C. so they’ll be catching some of it as well. Watch for the creek to rise.
A neighbor’s ficus tree was blown down, which took out most of my western neighbor’s fence and their gazebo.
My maple tree has lost most of its top limbs.
I’m on a mountain so don’t have to worry about flooding. But the little creek in front of my house will have white caps on it for sure!
Won’t it be fun for the EV folks to try to charge their cars during a storm that causes massive power outages?
https://www.wunderground.com/article/storms/hurricane/news/2022-09-27-hurricane-ian-different-than-charley
It's bigger. It's slower.
We remember the Charlie, Jeanne, Francis scenario real well. 😨🙌
I'm in North Port. Very windy here.
Keep your life vest on. Hope you do okay.
Whether they want to or not.
Water spouts in the Atlantic off Patrick SFB earlier. Plenty of rain.
Sir! It looks hairy sir!
Hoping your underground utilities are watertight.
Back in 2004 we had a 94 year old aunt who refused to evacuate when Hurricane Charlie hit.
She sat it out in her house one block from the Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) bridge over the Myakka River.
She made it through just fine and lived to be 105 years old.
This hurricane seems to be taking a similar track as Charlie.
Just a little rain and some breeze here just east of Tampa.
I better the ft Myers area is getting slammed
Good luck to you all
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