2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Non-Minnesotans arguing about the weather

[bronconick]

Hey, DeSantis deleted climate change from the Florida Government, so they'll be fine.

[MichVandal]

Now a 5

Terrifying. I was just a 1, and 5 is more than they forecasted. One of the vloggers I watch was supposed to go to FLL for a cruising event, but they decided to stay in their home near Tampa. I wonder if they are rethinking that.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

My 89 year-old grandfather picked a great time to fly home this past Saturday. Now he gets to figure out how to GTFO, as the storm surge forecast for Charlotte Harbor is 5-10 ft and his house is right on the Myakka.

Last year he stayed until the end of October, but this year he just had to get home during peak hurricane season.

[joecct]

Now a cat 4

vroom vroom

2 mph away from a cat 5

Florida says climate change is fake, and it’s barreling right at them

Cat 5 now. There will be some (how much?) weakening before landfall,but the storm surge looks like it will be significant.

Yesterday, we (son & I) were driving down I-95 yesterday from Lumberton NC to JAX (I caught a flight back) and there were utility trucks already heading south. I wouldn't be surprised if they stage in Lake City which has a goodly amount of hotel space and is right on I-75.

I-4 out of Tampa is already jammed with people evacuating.

[Proud2baLaker]

Now a 5

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Now a cat 4

vroom vroom

2 mph away from a cat 5

Florida says climate change is fake, and it’s barreling right at them

[LynahFan]

Brevard County (cape Canaveral and environs on the Atlantic coast) already canceled schools for Wed and Thur, and the grocery stores have been taped and pillaged. I’m pretty sure this is going to be a non-event on this side of the state - unless, of course, our power stays off for a while because all the linemen in the country are on the west coast trying to winch Tampa Bay back out of the gulf….

[dxmnkd316]

I saw there was one from 1900-ish and one from 1920-ish, and that's it. It's going straight across the gulf rather than taking a wide turn as is normal and I guess the models aren't really built for that behavior. We have a semi-pro meteorologist here, right?

Check out TS Nestor in 2019.

[dxmnkd316]

NHC puts out extremely detailed storm surge predictions. I'd check those out just to see. I can't imagine 8 miles inland being impacted by storm surge unless they're connected by a fairly large waterway.

[walrus]

Yeah this could be extremely bad. I've seen reports that if Tampa were to get hit, the comparisons go back to like 1921 and.. that's not great.

time to start evacuating now.

Airports are shutting down, one in law flying up here, no go. Another in law flying down there, no go. My Mom in law is almost 85, her husband just turned 89. I doubt they go anywhere. They are inland from Tampa about 8 miles, in a concrete block one story home. I haven't heard any discussions of leaving Sun City Center?

[Kepler]

Well, apparently this track is almost unprecedented. Every article I could find describes it as very unusual. I think it was mcpaper that said this may be a first.

I saw there was one from 1900-ish and one from 1920-ish, and that's it. It's going straight across the gulf rather than taking a wide turn as is normal and I guess the models aren't really built for that behavior. We have a semi-pro meteorologist here, right?

[Kepler]

Yeah this could be extremely bad. I've seen reports that if Tampa were to get hit, the comparisons go back to like 1921 and.. that's not great.

time to start evacuating now.

Straight on, too, not oblique. The weather guy I was watching said the storm surge will be along the same vector as the storm path and that is muchos no bueno because the waves compound.

[dxmnkd316]

This looks bad for Mom in Law, Tampa looks to be close to the bullseye

Yeah this could be extremely bad. I've seen reports that if Tampa were to get hit, the comparisons go back to like 1921 and.. that's not great.

time to start evacuating now.

[dxmnkd316]

Does anyone have any resources that show hurricanes that originated in the western gulf and made landfall on the west coast of Florida?

this path seems so unusual.

Well, apparently this track is almost unprecedented. Every article I could find describes it as very unusual. I think it was mcpaper that said this may be a first.

[walrus]

T. S. Milton

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/gra...?cone#contents

This looks bad for Mom in Law, Tampa looks to be close to the bullseye