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Kringla Heimsins
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« on: September 03, 2017, 05:42:20 PM »

Hurricane watches for Irma are now posted for the northern Leeward Islands.  It's still too early to tell whether the U.S. will be affected, but the forecasting models have been progressively moving further west.  This does increase the likelihood of a U.S. landfall, although it's still quite possible that the storm could recurve to the northeast and miss the U.S. entirely.

Some good resources:

National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Weather Underground "Category 6" blog - https://www.wunderground.com/cat6.  Their last Irma post was https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-track-towards-lesser-antilles, but this was from yesterday morning.  A new post should be up later tonight.

Note: take the comments on Cat6 with a grain of salt.  They tend to overreact to every twitch in a model or report, much like daily tracking poll fluctuations around here. Smiley

The various projections for Irma's path resonate badly with this article about Tampa's unpreparedness: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environment/tampa-bay-climate-change/

This is a disaster of epic proportion waiting to happen. Has the US ever been hit by two major hurricanes in the span of a single month before?
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Kringla Heimsins
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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2017, 06:59:50 PM »

Hurricane watches for Irma are now posted for the northern Leeward Islands.  It's still too early to tell whether the U.S. will be affected, but the forecasting models have been progressively moving further west.  This does increase the likelihood of a U.S. landfall, although it's still quite possible that the storm could recurve to the northeast and miss the U.S. entirely.

Some good resources:

National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Weather Underground "Category 6" blog - https://www.wunderground.com/cat6.  Their last Irma post was https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-track-towards-lesser-antilles, but this was from yesterday morning.  A new post should be up later tonight.

Note: take the comments on Cat6 with a grain of salt.  They tend to overreact to every twitch in a model or report, much like daily tracking poll fluctuations around here. Smiley

The various projections for Irma's path resonate badly with this article about Tampa's unpreparedness: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/health/environment/tampa-bay-climate-change/

This is a disaster of epic proportion waiting to happen. Has the US ever been hit by two major hurricanes in the span of a single month before?

That type of rhetoric is unnecessary.

Sorry. Do you live in Tampa? I understand hyperboles are not really the type of things that someone who lives there would want to hear.
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Kringla Heimsins
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« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2017, 08:04:22 AM »

Saint-Barthélémy and Saint-Martin were essentially destroyed. According to reports, it "felt like a bomb just went off". This is terrible.

The poor communities of the isles were already suffering from the huge tourism attraction and subsequent overpricing of every commodities, as well as aggressive real estate construction.
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Kringla Heimsins
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2017, 12:17:40 PM »

So, Irma finally barely missed Tampa? They're really lucky.
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Kringla Heimsins
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2017, 07:31:02 PM »

Holy sh!t. Maria went from a Tropical Strom to a Cat 5 in the span of 24 hours. I'm really afraid for the Guadeloupe, they're right in the middle of it right now.
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