Atlantic Hurricanes

[hawkstwelve]

Look at the clouds from Hurricane Ian getting pulled all the way up to Greenland via the trough parked over the upper E Coast and the ridge over the N Atlantic. Pretty cool.

[OmahaSnowFan]

Southwest Florida.

The sheriff for Ft Myers said earlier today that there were hundreds dead in just his county, but then pulled that back to say it’s unconfirmed.

[Clinton]

Ian has regained hurricane strength and is headed towards South Carolina. 

[NWbyNW]

On 9/28/2022 at 6:57 PM, Doiinko said:

Was it's max speed confirmed to be a Cat 4 or 5? Last I saw was 155mph which is almost a CAT 5 so at some point it probably reached the 157 criteria but I'm not sure. Either way I hope Florida can recover quickly from this.

From what I am reading online, it seems you are right that it only ever reached Category 4.  I was listening to the Weather Channel the hours leading up to impact and they were continuously saying the Ian had hit category 5 wind speeds off the coast.  But I have no evidence beyond me saying they said that.  So they must have taken back that claim?  I am sure in a few days we will get more info. I do know there were wind gusts of 165mph on Tuesday at 8:00PM Eastern.  That has been logged. 

[Tom]

3 hours ago, NWbyNW said:

From what I am reading online, it seems you are right that it only ever reached Category 4.  I was listening to the Weather Channel the hours leading up to impact and they were continuously saying the Ian had hit category 5 wind speeds off the coast.  But I have no evidence beyond me saying they said that.  So they must have taken back that claim?  I am sure in a few days we will get more info. I do know there were wind gusts of 165mph on Tuesday at 8:00PM Eastern.  That has been logged. 

I believe they were using the velocity data on radar which was showing some intense winds in the eye wall.

[tStacsh]

On 9/27/2022 at 4:39 PM, tStacsh said:

This sucker is strengthening rapidly.   Goodbye a lot of vacation spots south of Tampa.  This will take years for the area to recover if it scoots up the coast slowly as a cat 3/4.

Ugh, this was actually an understatement at the time.  What devastation.  

[OmahaSnowFan]

Unreal.

[NWbyNW]

Here is Ian over the Carolina's right now.  Winds continue to go down, but they are still quite strong.  Lots of rain in places.  We'll see how things look in the morning. 

 

[jaster220]

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The top gust recorded by an NWS station was 155 miles per hour, and that burst hit the Punta Gorda Airport.

This was as of Friday, but they said that some instruments they were still trying to get to may have higher data that was captured/recorded but couldn't be transmitted. Anyone have any updates since then? d

On a silver lining note, it looks like Venice fared better than expected due to Ian passing south and avoiding the dreaded storm surge. And the high winds were "off-shore" too instead of having the wide open waters of the Gulf to work with. 

[Tom]

This is how a senior met at NOAA handles the situation in a professional manner....

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/the-grotesque-politicization-of-hurricane-ian

[tStacsh]

On 10/2/2022 at 7:16 AM, Tom said:

This is how a senior met at NOAA handles the situation in a professional manner....

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/the-grotesque-politicization-of-hurricane-ian

Wow shocking, weather isn't climate.  Woah.  Great argument.  Yet Climate Change is still a FACT.  And it's caused by humans.

[Tom]

47 minutes ago, tStacsh said:

Wow shocking, weather isn't climate.  Woah.  Great argument.  Yet Climate Change is still a FACT.  And it's caused by humans.

I don’t deny the climate changes…it absolutely does change…the BIG difference is we differ in opinion of the reasoning behind how/why it changes.  IMO, It ain’t solely caused by humans.  

[OmahaSnowFan]

On 10/2/2022 at 6:16 AM, Tom said:

This is how a senior met at NOAA handles the situation in a professional manner....

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/the-grotesque-politicization-of-hurricane-ian

It’s “political” bc rather than disagreeing on the science for example, people claim it’s some deep state financial scam/hoax/China blah blah blah. And of course it’s understood that more republicans take big donations from big oil, so why would they agree with human caused climate change?

And Republicans are also known as less science based/more religion “God controls everything” too. Just look at COVID.

[OmahaSnowFan]

4 hours ago, tStacsh said:

Wow shocking, weather isn't climate.  Woah.  Great argument.  Yet Climate Change is still a FACT.  And it's caused by humans.

I figured an article from the Washington Examiner, was going to be about a guy defending the use of a markers to change hurricane paths.

[OmahaSnowFan]

Unbelievable

https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-deaths-reported-hurricane-ian-slams-florida/story?id=90693636&cid=social_twitter_abcn&fbclid=IwAR0ph5dPWY6-8miK2av59NwH9LTEfqzOHNbmdgnptvJwLeUFVA3E6djcYic

[Tom]

10 minutes ago, OmahaSnowFan said:

It’s “political” bc rather than disagreeing on the science for example, people claim it’s some deep state financial scam/hoax/China blah blah blah. And of course it’s understood that more republicans take big donations from big oil, so why would they agree with human caused climate change?

And Republicans are also known as less science based/more religion “God controls everything” too. Just look at COVID.

My post went way over your head.  I simply stated the NOAA director carried himself in a professional manner and didn’t agree on live TV with CNN’s Don Lemon’s push for climate change.  It was smart to stay neutral.  End of story.

[Andie]

Florida can’t catch a break. 
The hurricane center predicted a particularly wobbly forward movement for Nicole as it approaches Florida before crossing into the northwest Gulf of Mexico. At 7 p.m. Monday, it had top winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was centered about 425 miles (685 kilometers) east-northeast of the northwestern Bahamas, the advisory said. The storm was moving to the northwest at 8 mph (13 kph). 
-AP
 

[Clinton]

3 minutes ago, Andie said:

Florida can’t catch a break. 
The hurricane center predicted a particularly wobbly forward movement for Nicole as it approaches Florida before crossing into the northwest Gulf of Mexico. At 7 p.m. Monday, it had top winds of 45 mph (75 kph) and was centered about 425 miles (685 kilometers) east-northeast of the northwestern Bahamas, the advisory said. The storm was moving to the northwest at 8 mph (13 kph). 
-AP
 

More flooding to the same areas that were it by Ian.

[Andie]

This mornings cone.  
 

[Andie]

As of Tuesday afternoon, Tropical Storm Nicole was packing sustained winds of 65 mph and was located about 395 miles to the east of West Palm Beach and was moving toward the west at 10 mph. Nicole is expected to continue to strengthen into a hurricane by later Wednesday.
-Accuweather