The weather in the USA...
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Skinny Ethel
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Hope the Irish get to change its name to Moron.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
And why would they do that?
Skinny Ethel
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Undertones ? Gordon is a Moron. Classic ditty from a few decades gone by. That is why
Well i got that wrong it was jilted john. Ethel is a Moron. Ok
Well i got that wrong it was jilted john. Ethel is a Moron. Ok
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
I can't see Met Eireann choosing that name, tbh.
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
That's pretty close to the same path Ian took in 2022 and fucked Southwest Florida up the ass.
bcuster
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Tallahassee is 30 miles inland from projected landfall in the "big bend" area.
A lot of big, very old homes surrounded by giant granddaddy oak trees. If Cat 4 winds reach that far inland, it could be an all time level of disaster. A mess. They could be stuck in place for a couple of weeks, cleaning their way out of that mess, clearing the roads, removing massive amounts of tree debris,restoring power, etc.
On the Space Coast, could have Cat1 gusts (75MPH), but more likely 45MPH Tropical Storm winds.... and a lotta lotta rain!
A lot of big, very old homes surrounded by giant granddaddy oak trees. If Cat 4 winds reach that far inland, it could be an all time level of disaster. A mess. They could be stuck in place for a couple of weeks, cleaning their way out of that mess, clearing the roads, removing massive amounts of tree debris,restoring power, etc.
On the Space Coast, could have Cat1 gusts (75MPH), but more likely 45MPH Tropical Storm winds.... and a lotta lotta rain!
Skinny Ethel
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Bin day today. Take care.
bcuster
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Florida live cameras: Watch Hurricane Helene landfall videos
Helene is forecast to make landfall as a Category 4 storm
bcuster
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You should also post this in the "Is it too late?" thread... because, frankly, maybe it is.... Global warming has & will continue to wreak living hell on earth until we DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT .....
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I started teaching about climate change, or global warming as it was then called, in 1983 and well remember taking students through the, then predicted, basic atmospheric physics and consequences of warmer air and the likely impact on severity of cyclones.You should also post this in the "Is it too late?" thread... because, frankly, maybe it is.... Global warming has & will continue to wreak living hell on earth until we DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT .....
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Have to admit that combining the real-time media analysis and twitter output of satellite imagery of Helene's development last night was grimly compulsive. The ability to see how the number of mesoscale vortices within the eye-wall decline and pull the wall into a more coherent, tighter core was fascinating. I read today that some of the 'vortical hot towers' or unstable convective cells in Helene's eye wall punched up into the Stratosphere to a height of 63,000 feet. 
The real-time explosion of lightening strike analysis of the northern, leading eye wall section was also very interesting and used by the meteorologists to predict the strengthening to Cat. 4.
The real-time explosion of lightening strike analysis of the northern, leading eye wall section was also very interesting and used by the meteorologists to predict the strengthening to Cat. 4.
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
On my way in to work yesterday, I had on some random radio station. They were talking about the mess left in the area and the devastation in the north of the state. One of the things they said (and resonated for a while) was that someone was on the highway in Tampa and a freeway road sign fell. The car happened to have been at the wrong place at the wrong time because when the sign fell, it fell on the car. Killed a person in the car (radio said it was the driver, but there are some conflicting reports on Google saying it was a passenger but others say the driver). More reason that when they say "stay off the roads", maybe people should stay off the roads. There was even a point where news was reporting emergency services weren't going to go out in the flood water to save people. They can't risk themselves to be able to save another. It's too risky for even them, as the wind was bad too.
Fort Myers Beach got flooded out again, as did parts of Sanibel and Captiva. Most of the local bridges were closed even yesterday due to standing water. It was bad for the beach, but it wasn't category 4 bad that the northern part of the state got (I don't think there was loss of life here, just loss of buildings). Although it got to the point a swamp boat was tugging police around on their own little boat, to check on people who made calls... there was that much water in the middle of the road.
Fort Myers Beach got flooded out again, as did parts of Sanibel and Captiva. Most of the local bridges were closed even yesterday due to standing water. It was bad for the beach, but it wasn't category 4 bad that the northern part of the state got (I don't think there was loss of life here, just loss of buildings). Although it got to the point a swamp boat was tugging police around on their own little boat, to check on people who made calls... there was that much water in the middle of the road.
