Posted on 09/09/2017 2:08:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The entire Florida Peninsula and points north are poised to experience Hurricane Irma after the storm hugged Cuba's northern coastline. Thousands of Floridians who evacuated the Atlantic cost to Gulf Coast areas found their safe shelter under direct threat from Hurricane Irma as the forecast shifted W Friday night and Saturday. Hurricane Irma's prolonged interaction with Cuba diminished its strength to Category 3.
Irma is forecast to increase in strength as it crosses the FL Straits. The Florida Keys experienced strong outer bands while Irma grazed the N Cuba coastline.
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Maybe, but I’m closer to the action a few states away and it’s beautiful here today.
That is a good point.
Does anyone know what has happened in the Keys?
Probably because airports have very few trees and lots of flat concrete. Allows the ground level wind to gust higher.
That’s a step in the right direction!
“TWC guy able to stand up in Naples. If he can do that, winds must be not too bad.”
Living in a gulf coast city there are probably bad storms that roll through that can get good 60 -80 mph gusts so they’re probably going to be okay with the wind, but the water is the real devil in any cane.
“Southern MS/AL must evacuate now. Not trying to be disruptive or hysterical, but I called it on the previous thread.
I said never in the history of recorded hurricanes did a hurricane take a sharp, near 90-degree hairpin turn in a direction. Hurricane Donna was the closest, and even that one swooped through western FL and then hooked Northeast.
This monster is going to pass over western FL and go into the Gulf. It is going to regroup in the Gulf and return to CAT 5 status due to the warm waters. It will directly affect Southern MS and AL, and possible NOLA. If it strikes MS, it will raise the Miss. River levels to unprecedented levels and cause significant flooding throughout the valley and up into Missouri and Illinois.”
The above does not seem to have happened.
“Shep’s fear is because he’s a homosexual and not a real man”
He is quite fragile, isn’t he? I fear he’ll get the vapors.
“I remember his amazing reporting from Iraq in 2003!”
Hubby and I were discussing that very thing today. Steve was scared (rightfully so) and didn’t try to hide it. He did great.
The above also reflects utter ignorance of historical hurricane tracks. There have been many, many sharp turns and crazy courses. Irma’s course was not anything out of the ordinary.
I agree, but I was just poking EEE. Most of his predictions on everything (not just weather) that I’ve seen in the last few weeks have all be pretty damn wrong.
We’ve had three days of strong winds here in ATL.
All is quiet now! Nary a leaf moving. Very chilly, though.
Think we just dodged the bullet, or at the least gun kick-back.
“My husband just put this on our phones; trying to figure out how to listen.”
I couldn’t figure it out (contacts vs. no contacts; allow phone vs. don’t allow phone, etc.), so just uninstalled it.
My niece bugged out from Palm Harbor area a couple days ago. I hope the storm weakens before reaching you.
But, that same map illustrates beautifully the stupidity of trying to start with ice core and tree ring data -- thousands of years old -- and trying to project a worthless theory model (AGW -- aka "Gorebull Wahruming") -- a century out into the future, for the whole world!
I contributed significantly to providing the high speed logic chip sets for several major super computers -- but, with data, theories, and models like those used by the "Climate Change" zealots, all you get from your supercomputer is worthless or dangerously wrong results -- faster...
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This scientist ain't a-joinin' that "church"... '-)
Our local Tampa news said the manatees were pushed back into the water.
It is. They own a ton of property there.
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