All I know is my flight is Friday night and it’s not hitting till Sunday :)
Record warm water in the area, diminishing shear, improving outflow, pushing dry air away, nothing I can see to halt this storm from becoming a major hurricane.
Yesterday it looked like it would stay away from the coast.
Looks closer now
Soon the global warming cult will be calling for more sacrifices on the altar of climate change. Surely this hurricane is Mother Gaia’s wrath that we did not drive enough electric cars, had air conditioning and didn’t use enough solar and wind power.
Get someone to read the data to you. Its track is SW at 6 mph. It’s headed for Cuba or into the Gulf. In order to come up the coast it would have to nearly REVERSE from its current track.
It still won’t be a major hurricane when it hits. Maybe a cat 1 at most.
And the global warming alarmists will be cheering Joaquin on hoping it hits landfall somewhere near NYC causing as much damage as possible. We have to push the agenda doncha know
http://flhurricane.com/
7:45AM EDT Update 30 September 2015
Based on a recon report of 971 mb, Joaquin has been upgraded to a category 1 hurricane. The forecast track is very uncertain, and relies on how far west and south the system goes. It is forecast to near the central Bahamas then turn late Friday. Beyond that, anyone along the east coast should be paying attention.
http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/showflat.php?Number=95971&gonew=1#UNREAD
Re: TS Joaquin Lounge [Re: MikeC]
#96001 - Wed Sep 30 2015 07:24 AM
0z Euro maintains the earlier idea of going into the Central Bahamas briefly then bouncing northeast out to sea. Euro ensembles also shift east, but most still have a us impact. The possibly phantom low being created off the carolina coast seems to be why the operational Euro kicks the system off to the northeast.
6z GFS closes Central Bahamas approach Friday early morning hours. Landfall Cape Hatteras Sunday morning closer to noon as a major hurricane. so a slight shift south from the earlier run.
In short, models still aren’t much help in this setup. It all really depends on how far west/south Joaquin gets. The entire east coast needs to watch, and the mid-Atlantic in particular.
bkmk
Leaving Fri evening for a week on the Outer Banks. Haven’t had a vacation in 5 years. Me and Joaquin better not have a problem
Oh great. Another uninvited illegal invader coming to our shores......
Models are starting to come into agreement that Christie will get a chance for another Bromance moment with Idi Obama.
How long before the media starts hyping ‘Superstorm Joaquin: the Sequel’? Glad I do not have cable...
Will Fox News Channel send Shepherd Smith and Gerry Rivers to the beaches in rain slickers for the entire weekend?
Thanks for the thread
Here's the reason why: this area of the Atlantic is part of the infamous Bermuda Triangle, an area of ocean where because of sharp turn of oceanic currents from going west to going north to become the Gulf Stream, you can get major storms starting up and disappearing in a matter of hours. It's this unpredictable weather that explains most of the mysterious loss of airplanes and ships in this area.
Because Joaquin now moves in this area, even the National Hurricane Center in Miami can't predict easily where it will go next....
Looks like we sold our high-rise condo in Alexandria, VA just in time. FNC just had a reporterette on King St talking about flooding, sand bags and such.