Posted on 08/28/2016 3:03:58 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The spread of this thing is incredible, center up in GA now and we are still getting beaten with bands streaming in off of the Gulf way down here in Pinellas County.
Raining and blowing in Central Florida!
Slept right through it...here in Jacksonville Florida.
Now quiet too. Rain later.
No major problems.
It’s been a good reminder to be prepared.
NHC reported windspeeds: 80 m.p.h.
Fastest actually recorded windspeeds
61 m.p.h. (53 knots) over water ... Station SGOF1
52 m.p.h. over land ... Keaton Beach, Fla.
Evidence suggests that the NHC over-reported Hermine's windspeed by about 20 m.p.h. and that Hermine was not likely a hurricane. There were no recorded winds within 20 m.p.h. of hurricane strength at any land station. Hermine was a pseudo-hurricane, really a middle-of-the-road tropical storm.
8.28” rain at this writing. Multiple water treatment plants are overloaded in the greater Tampa Bay area with raw sewage spilling out of manhole covers.
Weather station KFLTALLA161 in Tallahassee reported sustained winds 66 mph, with gust to 110 mph when the barometric pressure bombed. At that point, the station ceased reporting.
Classifying Hermine as a hurricane probably triggers a more severe level of FEMA involvement and generosity. Cities and states would welcome that, I expect.
Here a few miles east of your location we got 3/10" Wed and 1/2" yesterday... I anticipate maybe 1/2" today... we needed the rain. My neighborhood is in some sort of a pocket where storms split north & south - or east & west, or both - and I find myself watering at least once or twice a month in the storm season, weekly in the dry season. ...some small limbs down yesterday... thank goodness no loss of power.
Wow.
Ha! We have the same phenomenon here. We've named it "The Vortex." However, Hermine overpowered The Vortex this time, and we accumulated 8.36" in the rain gauge.
Mountains, rivers, lakes and even large interstate highways can affect the path of a thunderstorm. I’m downwind from a large lake used for cooling an electric power plant. Local oldtimers swear it rains and snows more now, than before it was constructed in the early 70’s.
Hmmmm... Well, Mount Dora is about 30 miles north of here... Central Florida LOL!
Over the years, we have noted summer t-storms tend to form over I-75.
I grew up in a place where we’d hardly ever get storms from the north, they’d follow the river east and away from us. If we actually got one from the north, it was a bad one.
This one took I-95 North. We’re OK here in coastal SC. Power flicked last night but stayed on. Been picking up tree branches all day.
Thanks for checking in with your local SC report. Glad to hear that Hermine lost some of her punch before heading up north of FL.
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