Here's the latest tracking "guess" ... it's still too early to predict with any accuracy:
Posted on 09/04/2017 6:06:13 AM PDT by John W
That curve to the north – and eventually out into the Atlantic – that everyone in South Florida was hoping to see Hurricane Irma take isn’t happening as quickly as earlier models had predicted. The National Hurricane Center’s 8 a.m. update Monday drives the storm’s path in a flatter, westbound path that puts it closer Cuba’s shores by early Saturday morning.
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Here's the latest tracking "guess" ... it's still too early to predict with any accuracy:
What do the dots in the lines mean?
thats the old run...even though the time stamp says otherwise,,,
move the white line 60 miles NE over Cuba and FL and you have the latest run that just came out
6 HR( I think) positions
12 hr not 6
last week, Kelly Ann Conway was on with Chris Cuomo on CNN...sure enough,he brought up climate change and he actually said this..”isn’t it worth discussing ways of trying to stop these storms from happening?”....i mean..how ignorant can you be to actually even partly believe that. Man.
You’re right about that. The Atlantic all the way up to Cape Hatteras is always bathwater in late summer and still pretty warm by everybody else’s standards other than the Gulf, right into October. North of Hatteras temps drop off precipitously with water temps in the high 60’s not too highly unusual even in summer off the northern OBX. Big difference after the Gulf Stream heads out to sea at Hatteras.
Assuming such a thing is actually even possible, stopping these storms from happening would lead to major drought in much of the southeast as well as a new ice age in the British Isles and western Europe. They’re total fools if they try it, imho.
Accuweather uses the same information/data as the National Weather Service. They may interrupt it slightly different, but it is almost always the same. The temperature may be a few degrees one way or the other. The rain may stop at 1 pm instead of noon, but is basically the same.
Well, considering the NWS predicted landfall 50 miles south, that isn’t too shabby either when the storm is hundreds of miles across.
Not true. The industry has had record profits in the last few years since claims have been minimal. They have plenty of money.
Bookmarking from southwest Florida. First hurricane since retiring and moving from NJ 2 years ago. Survived commuting to NYC through 911, a couple of blackouts, blizzards and superstorm Sandy. I’m ready.
in the 1950’s and 60’s, they actually tried “seeding” hurricanes...it was so ridiculous...these little tiny planes flying back and forth thru this gigantic thermal energy “machines”..yeesh..the energy needed to “lift” the Gulf of Mexico and literally throw on shore for 60 miles just boggles the mind. There was even talk of dropping a hydrogen bomb inside a hurricane..good grief.
battle tested!!!!...lol
A visit to that area is on our bucket list. Big fan of Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford novels, and the vivid description of the area.
If you paid attention to high ground and bought a house there built to hurricane code you should be OK so long as you’re not exposed to surge on direct oceanfront or bayfront, which means inland. The lengthy absence of public utilities in the hot, steamy aftermath would likely be the biggest challenge outside of a direct hit by a 4 or 5, then wind damage would be everywhere, transportation would remain blocked for a considerable time, even houses built to code would be damaged, but at least not destroyed.
there are several threads being started..we need one main thread..
anyway
pressure just measured 946 mb
another an eye wall replacement cycle appears underway....
I remember my mom driving me to the two room schoolhouse the day Donna hit. Most of us local kids were already in school when our teacher got a call from the principal telling her to send us all home. The track of Irma looks very much like the track of Donna.
Actually, there has been some discussion of using a new, improved cloud-seeding technique to at least lessen the force of these storms. So that’s not as wacky as it sounds.
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