Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000
>>Bay Area people are so spoiled and self-absorbed. We have the most boring weather here.
Yeah but I like the weather here, but then I am down the penisula where we actually see the sun in the morning during the summer.
About all I like about the area actually.
Holy cow!
heraldtribune.com is the Sarasota newspaper's website. They're putting up brief stories that give some idea of what's happening just to their south.
latest projected path:
http://maps.wunderground.com/data/images/at200403.gif
#1212...so am I.
When did that thing come up?!?!?!?!?!?!>?!?
no, I am watching that streaming video feed (like many of us are, who are posting). i'll stop posting the live comments, since there is alot of duplication.
If you read my original post you would see that I didn't say worse, I said more dangerous. The original storm track did not have this storm re-emerging over water. Therefore, the areas north would only have to worry about heavy rain. Now, with the storm transiting the Florida Peninsula, it will have an opportunity to reorganize and regain some strength over water.
Hence, more dangerous.
Hurricane Andrew stayed strong as it swept over landfall because it was over the Everglades. Also, the feeder bands were still over the Gulf and the Atlantic. The feeder bands for this hurricane will remain over water also.
Now that is a wish for death..riding out a 145mph hurricane in the news van, here comes the winds from the other side!
He's in the eye now. "The sun is beating through ever so slightly."
its been brewing for a day or so......also td#4 may be a player in 8 or 9 days.
People who watch hurricanes for a living are rather humble about predicting where they'll go but fools rush in where experts fear to tread.
They steer according to the upper atmosphere, which is abnormally positioned for this time of year and can change within hours.
180 degree turns are not unheard of. Stopping, stalling, backtracking, zooming off in weird directions, bouncing off troughs, just weird stuff.
Checked the 2pm discussion issued for Charley - they have the wind speed at 12+ hours (2AM) at 100 knots - which means Orlando will probably experience borderline Cat2/Cat3 winds. Yikes.
that dude better move fast, because when the winds shift, the water is going to go from being pushed away - to being pushed right onto him.
See what we mean by not losing much power over land ...
The diameter of the hurricane isn't much smaller than the entire pennisula. So, even when one side is over land, much of the rest can still be sucking up heat from the ocean water on either side.
With these storms, you just never know.
I called my niece and nephew today as soon as this storm went up to a 4 and told them to get ready. They're in Wilmington.
Todd cant figure out which way the wind is going to come at him from the other side of the hurricane!
I heard about that earlier today -- did it become a tropical storm yet?
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