Posted on 10/06/2016 4:10:09 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Matthew is big, bad and just downright scary, with iminent and sustained impacts to U.S. mainland. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a state of emergency for all of Florida and disaster operations are activated. More than 1.5 million Floridians reside in current evacuation zones. Governor Scott has spoken with utilities across the state to ensure utilities are pre-positioned and there are no unmet needs. Multiple coastal hospitals have been evacuated. Meanwhile, feckless President Barack Hussein Obama is personally monitoring the progress of the storm.
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The media do hype storms with wild worst-case scenarios, for their own financial gain. At present, this storm looks bad according to the models. The media hype is off the charts. Does this serve a good purpose, or a bad one?
It’s good if the storm actually turns out as bad as they’re saying, since it encourages more to take the matter seriously and evacuate. But, if it’s not as bad as they’re saying, people get jaded and dismissive, and won’t take future warnings and evacuation orders seriously.
It’s a mixed bag and we won’t know until we know.
I am watching the Weather Channel. I do not see hype, I see a presentation of what the NHC is forecasting. You are just so jaded that you believe otherwise. And given that you were wrong about so much factual info, such as the latest GFS plots and the potential danger to the Carolinas, you just simply are not credible.
We were buttoned up tight and had the fin stabilizers operating. The fin stabilizers are designed to force the ship back upright. In high seas you have to de-tune them lest they overdrive and become locked in the wrong direction.
Having the fin stabilizers meant we could safely operate the helo in higher sea states than we could without them.
"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Jax Beaches are to evacuate,not us here.
ANY OTHER jAX FREEPERS OUT THERE?
I’m in Mandarin.
rodguy, I’m very glad to know you’re safely anchored and out of the worst part of the storm path. I saw your post on the other thread.
What on earth are you talking about? I haven’t been “wrong” about anything, I know better than to try to forecast what a hurricane is going to do, they’re notoriously capricious. They can intensify unexpectedly, veer in an unexpected direction causing more damage and loss of property and life. They can also fizzle out. That’s nature. Speaking of nature, it’s the nature of the news media to play up anything that increases viewership. You know this.
Time will tell, the storm is going to do what it’s going to do. It looks bad at present, and evacuation appears to be the wisest course for people on the east coast of Florida, possibly even the GA and southern SC coast.
Bullcrap. You claimed the GFS was trending eastward. It wasn't. You claimed little forecast impact for the Carolinas. That is not the case.
I'm done troll-feeding you, you may have the last pointless point.
All good here in north broward. It looks like we got a lucky break and it veered east and away from us. 30-40 mph winds and some rain bands, but not much more. Hope all of you Florida freepers north of us fare equally as well. This is a big, nasty category 4 storm. Nothing to sneeze at.
We are over 12 feet above sea level so we are going to ride it out.
"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I think you are confusing “opinion” with “advice”.
My brother is in JAX, near St. John river but on high ground. Not too far from downtown. They are staying, the last I heard. He is well equipped and knows the drill. I think they will be fine.
If Andrew made landfall just 20 miles north of where it did, the damage would probably had been 10-fold.
You're confusing me with someone else, dirtboy.
Yea it will. But my point is it will be localized. It won’t be widespread like we have seen with other storms....especially north of Georgia (SC/NC). But a lot of that will depend on the track. If it loops back out quickly then there will be very little impacts. If it stalls more to the north, there certainly will be a lot of fresh water flooding, mostly N of SC. Lots of scenarios right now. I’ll be honest: I’ve been doing this professionally for 29 years (mostly focused on tropical meteorology) and I’ve been into watching hurricanes for almost 40...and this is a very unusual storm. He idea that a 4 could track up most of the FL east coast is crazy. However, if this was happening on the west coast, it would be massively worse since they are far more vulnerable to storm surge due to the continental shelf. Glad I’m watching it from a distance.
My bad, you jumped into the conversation and I didn’t realize it.
I hope Trump does donate goods and comes down to help distribute them. It would be very heartening to the people struck by the hurricane, and a great message to the rest of America. As opposed to Herself, who might make a visit a couple of weeks after the hurricane and pick her way carefully through an area cleared of debris so she won't fall over anything. She'll make a speech telling people with no electricity or water that she'll solve their problems if they elect her.
I’m waiting for the first “God sent the hurricane against Trump” loony lefty.
It does look like on radar that an eyewall replacement cycle might be happening. Good news is that would mean somewhat weaker winds. Bad news means a bigger eye that could push further inland from the coast.
Don’t go to twitter. It’s full of them.
Also ones that want the historic maralago destroyed, just because trump owns it. and the others that want him in it and drowning.
etc.
nasty people.
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