Hurricane Season 2011

[bdc30]

12 hours later we have our first Hurricane of the season, and the forecast track keeps shifting east. If I were in South Carolina I'd be paying very close attention to this thing.

The NHC seems to think that due to the track shifting, the storm won't be over Hispaniola for as long as once thought, which will allow it to feed off the warm water. They're showing it with a projected 110mph windspeed at landfall...

 

[ciggy]

Yea...I'm with Dan. I don't want to think about any more bad storms. I do love a good rain or thunderstorm but we've had our share of tornadoes here as well. I kind of luck out living in a bit of a valley. The worst of it either goes just a bit North or South of us. I live in a burb so I just picture this neighborhood ending up like Dan's one of these times. I pray it never happens. So I do feel bad for all thoes who get pounded by mother nature's wrath.

 

[bdc30]

Damn, I was traveling most of the day yesterday and didn't get to follow the updates. Irene grew considerably from the looks of things...Now forecasting 130+mph winds at landfall, and track shifted further north/east. Here's hoping it keeps drifting that way and stays the hell offshore. 135mph is a bad ass storm.

 

[jwintosh]

i, too, am fascinated with severe weather!! yesterday, the wind blew soooo hard, it knocked an empty coke can off the picnic table. and that sun will burn your skin if you don't wear protection.

be safe out there!!

 

[swingerofbirches]

Just last night I was turned on to www.crownweather.com (thx PFM721) and www.spaghettimodels.com (thx BonitaSmokeShop) ...

 

[keinreis]

This thing went from heading right at me, to nowhere close...

 

[CigarSaint]

Stay away from NOLA!!!

 

[swingerofbirches]

This thing went from heading right at me, to nowhere close...

I'm up in Tampa and was glad to hear that it was going to hook into the Atlantic but here's to hoping that it keeps on hooking instead of hitting the southeast or mid-atlantic coast.

 

[bdc30]

Looks like we might be in for an interesting next week or two...

TS Katia had a gigantic westward shift in it's forecast track today. Yesterday they had it hitting Bermuda dead on, now it's hundreds of miles to the southwest of that....Bad news maybe if it ends up in the same neighborhood as Irene just went through.

Also it's looking like a huge rain-maker is forming in the Gulf. Won't have strong winds but it looks to be a slow moving storm which could dump almost a foot of rain down there...

 

[cvm4]

I don't know about NOLA, but we need rain here :waving:

 

[keinreis]

Tis the season. I hope for those people along the east coast this thing steers away from them. Florida is more suited to endure these storms. A cat 1 here is a heavy rain storm, and some slight wind damage, but to the areas in the US that are not built with hurricanes in mind these weaker storms can cause a lot of problems.