Major Hurricane Irma

4976340

How Ironic that this picture looks beautiful. I know that is stupid relative to the heartache it might cause and I hope it moves to the least populated area of the world. Good Luck America

4976340

I might have put my reply in the wrong place but this picture is actually beautiful compared to the graphs and the ones that look like the tornado is flesh. Good Luck America, I hope it passes you by. In Ireland people are talking about Trump having much more to build than his big mexican wall but this is a very sad alternative.

Amazingfun

https://twitter.com/NWSKeyWest/status/906699468820631552

Amazingfun

https://twitter.com/mikeseidel/status/906696751905755136

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unHL0_i53oA

The buoy's angry that the shed is getting all the attention.

BumperD

Slowed to 6mph latest advisory. The slower the speed the longer the winds and storm surge batter the coast.

BumperD

120mph, 933mb, NW 6mph think the turn has commenced?

Kermit.de.frog

BumperD wrote: »

120mph, 933mb, NW 6mph think the turn has commenced?

Going through eye wall replacement. Direction is NW shifting to North soon so the turn has been made.

BumperD

Kermit your named after a hurricane hunter aircraft

NIMAN

Worrying that that link with all the webcams combined is showing all of them out of action

https://zeryl.github.io/irma.html

There's a post in the live thread saying it's moving at 6mph now. It's so unintuitive that something so big and powerful can move so slowly.


The weather channel said they're arresting homeless people just to get them of the street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzJF59t2WE

Wobbling towards Key West more and more.

https://twitter.com/PCNHWill


A day or two ago, it was looking like Key West would be a decent distance west of the eye.

Euro 24 Hour just released.

Gaoth Laidir

Recon flight has just measured a pressure of 926.1 hPa at 05:42Z. The previous report was 931.1 hPa at 04:11Z.

Max SFMR surface wind of 123 kt in the northeast eyewalls so some rapid deepening has occurred.

Back to Category 4 unsurprisingly.

EURO > 48 hours in 6-hour intervals.

https://i.imgur.com/9jHGiB4.gifv

Samaris

Did the EURO forecast this? I know about the cone and that it could have gone anywhere in this, but most of the individual tracks when shown were up the middle or even on the Atlantic coast. Realise it's shifted, but did anyone see it coming before/as people were evacuating to Tampa etc?

clever user name

There's a drunk dude asleep on a stage in an Irish bar in key West http://worldcams.tv/bars/irish-kevins-bar

Click on the stage cam.

clever user name

clever user name wrote: »

There's a drunk dude asleep on a stage in an Irish bar in key West http://worldcams.tv/bars/irish-kevins-bar

Click on the stage cam.

Invest in Darwin Awards now. They're going up up up.

Edit: I probably shouldn't have but the meme had to be made.




Sorry for bringing this thread to a new low.

Gaoth Laidir

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Recon flight has just measured a pressure of 926.1 hPa at 05:42Z. The previous report was 931.1 hPa at 04:11Z.

Max SFMR surface wind of 123 kt in the northeast eyewalls so some rapid deepening has occurred.

That sounds significant.. Is that par for the course for this type of hurricane?

I haven't seen people reporting on high tides during surge.. It'll be along the west coast long enough I presume for somewhere to get it at the worst possible time.


Edit: Key West should get hit during low tide thankfully.

Gaoth Laidir

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That sounds significant.. Is that par for the course for this type of hurricane?

The NHC have not mentioned it in their latest update just now. They still have her at 930 hPa.

SUMMARY OF 0300 AM EDT...0700 UTC...INFORMATION

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LOCATION...23.9N 81.3W ABOUT 65 MI...105 KM SE OF KEY WEST FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...130 MPH...210 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 310 DEGREES AT 6 MPH...9 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...930 MB...27.46 INCHES $$

The last link with cams died but this one has some decent ones: http://stormstreamlive.com/

pad199207

Velocity Radar scans showing winds at 145mph near the eyewall

Gaoth Laidir

pad199207 wrote: »

Velocity Radar scans showing winds at 145mph near the eyewall

But they won't be surface winds.

Gaoth Laidir

Latest pressure measured 926.6 hPa at 07:25, so it's filled ever so slightly in the past hour. Max surface winds 103 knots.

Recent pressure trend

04:11Z - 931.1 hPa
05:42Z - 926.1 hPa
07:25Z - 926.6 hPa

peasant

some pictures from hotels in Cayo Coco, Cuba (where the hurricane passed more or less straight over)
These would be fairly well built structures now, no shacks




I think this one explains "strong wind" fairly well

Gaoth Laidir

The eye has been doing an awful lot of wobbling the past couple of hours. It's in a much higher shear environment now.

Icepick

US Virgins

https://twitter.com/ThiruHR/status/906781511852027905

JCX BXC

That's not that shocking, all it is is a few mangled trees up a hilly wooded area, that can happen with any bit of wind.

Compared to some of the awful devastation that we've seen on Barbuda and Saint Martin etc I wouldn't call it heart breaking.