Posted on 09/23/2022 2:32:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
The late-blooming 2022 Atlantic Tropical Storm season is making up for lost time. A tropical system has developed in the Central Caribbean Sea. This storm system is forecast to threaten continental U.S. interests next week. While the tropical wave passed south of a key geographic area known as Hebert's Box #1, it will very likely pass through Hebert's Box #2. These boxes are useful as predictors of hurricanes that will strike South Florida. For more information about Hebert's Boxes, see Hebert Box. See graphic below which illustrated the Hebert's Boxes.
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The wind and rain field goes way beyond just the cone landing.....the wind-field is 450 miles just as an example. So the entire coast line is going to have some degree of flooding or wind or both.
People do focus on the cone falsely thinking they won’t get hit - but again this hurricane is so wide many will be affected.
Yeah, she tried to grab him...but he wandered off.😇👍
Yes, very bad!
Yes, very true!
I think this hurricane is playing havoc with other weather all along the Eastern US. I know here in Pa we've had the weirdest clouds and this past week rain with sleet enough it piled up along the edges on my deck.
Your Gray Man brought to mind our ‘Gleecus’ man as a kid. Ha! Adults use to scare kids that Gleecus was going to get them!
I was watching some of Savannah's people boarding up windows on some of those beautiful older homes down there. Ya just got to hope it won't hit too hard - but it's not going to be a picnic for any.
I love Folly Beach!
On one of our Tea Party jaunts we stayed at a hotel right on the beach.
Spent a lot if time sitting on the balcony facing the beach with a pier on the left.
Some great restaurants there too.
I hope the town survives
Oh man, bummer.
My G-daughter went to college inland a bit from Myrtle Beach.
She worked at a restaurant in Myrtle Beach.
Beautiful little beach city, right on the ocean.
Lol, yes he does!
Joe The Wanderer❗️😎🤡⛔️
Yes, I’m right by Myrtle Beach.
Hoping Ian doesn’t hit this area too hard.
Wow, some rough seas!
Thanks for the pics.
I think you’re right by me!
We kind of got to know a couple who lived in a charming old beach house on the extreme northern end of Litchfield Beach. As the teen I was then, I thought of them as an “older couple” but they must have just been in their late 40s/early 50s.
Anyway, as newlyweds, this couple had famously met up with the Gray Man on the beach right before Hurricane Hazel (well before I was born) and accordingly fled inland, returning to find their home okay amid the devastation. They seemed perfectly sane and normal, not kooks at all, even to my scientist parents. Kinda makes one wonder.
I’ve seen double rainbows a few times, and they are beautiful and very special. The only time I ever saw a circular rainbow was that one time from the Cessna. The pilot told me that it was very rare, and usually only seen from the air, and had to do with ice crystals or fine raindrops. You could see a silhouette of our tiny plane in the very center, like a shadow, and the pilot said it always appeared this way from above as the plane blocked light.
It was quite something to see and I will never forget it. I can’t imagine how breathtaking it must be to see one from the ground. That must be in the “Super Rare” category!
Low Country cooking is amazing!
Ian was very bad for FL. No question about that. We don't like to use the record books for best or worst storms. It is all relative and by location. Similarly, it is annoying when everyone describes Ft. Myers Beach, a barrier island, as Ft. Myers. I trust that the pre-fab mobile homes will be prohibited from rebuilding on fragile barrier islands.
If Elon Musk can provide Starlink for Iran and Ukraine, why not SW Florida?
Things that make you go hmm...
Looking for set screws to reattach gutter downspout. Two gutter sections blew to the end of the driveway, but no further. That was a win.
Today's chores include Paul Bunyan chainsaw behavior. WooHoo!
Can’t think of a reason why Elon won’t deploy Starlink for Florida, other than millions of users don’t have electricity to utilize the service.
I get the problem with lack of electricity, but at the same time, lots of experienced Floridians have means to at least keep phones charged. Or maybe there is something I don’t understand. I’m always willing to learn.
Seasoned citizens in Charleston/Folly Beach/Myrtle Beach are likely thinking about horrific Hurricane Hugo back in 1989.
Unlikely that Ian will be as severe as Hugo, while following a similar forecast track toward the Carolinas. However, Ian's wrath will be very widespread with an immense tropical storm windfield.
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