[SE Mom]

ABC guy tweeted it was water from balcony. But he waited quite awhile before CLARIFYING it, letting people speculate surge was that high.

These guys...

[jeffers]

All She Wrote...



Probably the last radar scan out of TJUA for a good while. This was from 0550 EDT, now almost 40 minutes old, after regular feeds every 4 minutes since midnight.

Next closest WSR-88D dish is KBYX in Key West. Luxurious data now just a memory. I will still get Hurricane Hunter captures, but without visual feeder band info to correlate it with, it will be a lot tougher to assemble a big picture view.

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Maria Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL152017
635 AM AST Wed Sep 20 2017

...MARIA MAKES LANDFALL NEAR YABUCOA PUERTO RICO...

Geostationary satellite images and surface observations indicate
that the center of Hurricane Maria made landfall near Yabucoa,
Puerto Rico, around 615 AM AST.

A sustained wind 60 mph (96 km/h) with a wind gust to 113 mph (182
km/h) was recently reported at Yabucoa Harbor, Puerto Rico.

A National Ocean Service tide gauge at Yabucoa Harbor, Puerto Rico,
recently reported a water level of 4.3 ft above Mean Higher High
Water (MHHW).

SUMMARY OF 635 AM AST...1035 UTC...INFORMATION
---------------------------------------------------
LOCATION...18.0N 65.8W
ABOUT 20 MI...35 KM WSW OF VIEQUES
ABOUT 35 MI...55 KM SE OF SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...155 MPH...250 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 305 DEGREES AT 10 MPH...17 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...917 MB...27.08 INCHES

$$

Forecaster Berg

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