Taking Irma seriously
I saw on the news this morning an on site report showing a steady stream of boats, motorhomes and trailers heading north from south Florida. I think Harvey created a good teaching moment. Hope all f...
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Not to belittle the strength of the storm but much depends on the course of the eye of the storm. JMO but most weather people are overly frightening people by not giving full information as provided by the NHC.
The area of very high winds is very very small & the worst of it is in the NE quadrant of the eyewall. Look at the NHC website. Wind velocity & distance from center, the windfield that the weather people rarely mention, is there.
A hurricane is an anticyclone. An extremely concentrated low pressure system. Surface winds flow in an anticlockwise direction around the center. If the storm center passes offshore along the coast winds will be mostly offshore i.e. from a westerly quadrant, a good thing as far as storm surge is concerned. You do NOT want to be on the eastern of the eye.
Whatever, after being through many hurricanes at home in Bermuda including a very slow moving cat 3, if I were in FL I would be on my way out of FL TODAY. No way would I be joining the rest of the fools leaving at the last minute expecting highways to be moving.
The area of very high winds is very very small & the worst of it is in the NE quadrant of the eyewall. Look at the NHC website. Wind velocity & distance from center, the windfield that the weather people rarely mention, is there.
A hurricane is an anticyclone. An extremely concentrated low pressure system. Surface winds flow in an anticlockwise direction around the center. If the storm center passes offshore along the coast winds will be mostly offshore i.e. from a westerly quadrant, a good thing as far as storm surge is concerned. You do NOT want to be on the eastern of the eye.
Whatever, after being through many hurricanes at home in Bermuda including a very slow moving cat 3, if I were in FL I would be on my way out of FL TODAY. No way would I be joining the rest of the fools leaving at the last minute expecting highways to be moving.
