We finally have a tropical depression. I still wouldn't bank on any of the models until next run so I won't be posting any. NHC is saying west coast of FL for now.
^^ That's scary for Apalachee Bay. It's considered to be one of the most dangerous targets for a hurricane storm surge, due to its shape creating an amplification of the surge, combined with flat lands with limited barriers.
Georgia severely needs the rain. Hope it's just a soaker as that entire area in general is in a mild drought.
10-20" of rain? I was staying in my parents Hurricane bunker about 10 miles from the bay and I doubt it barely rained but just an inch or two, just a **** ton of wind...and the calm of the eye. Still nothing like Alicia though. That one seemed so much worse wind wise.
I just remember sleeping through the actual storm, then waking up the next morning to find out that my company had just been bought by the government. That was more of a shock to me than the hurricane...
Hurricane Matthew is intensifying rapidly and is a threat to the Caribbean and (at this point) everyone on the East Coast.
This one looks scary. Models are having a hard time and any number of scenarios could play out. Florida to Maine needs to be on alert for this one.
Matthew is now a category 5 storm and it has projected direct hit of both Jamaica (Monday morning) and Cuba (Tuesday morning).
^ ...and who called Matthew? jk... I just couldn't help after seeing your avatar. Seriously though, I hope everyone stays safe and well.
Playa del Carmen is on the Yucatan. Not really sure what you are looking at to think that this hurricane will come anywhere near that area.
Yeah, you called it 4 days ago. Could hook a little bit west into Florida, then come close to Charleston, Wilmington, Virginia Beach, Dover, Philly, and Boston. Hispaniola looks like it has been badly flooded by the hurricane and "blob." This is looking like a disaster.
I knew it wasn't. There were just like a stray model or two, at that point, that had it going that way. Just don't want money down the drain, and with my luck, it'd take one of those stray paths. Glad to see it turn north, though I hate to wish anything like that upon anybody.
Not trying to be rude, but those aren't "real" models. The only factor in those models is current direction, so back when Matthew was moving more W to WNW, they obviously pointed the storm towards the Yucatan. However, the consensus of the "real" models was virtually unanimous in a track through the Windward Passage.
Honestly, I don't follow these things that much, so I saw a few projections that way a few days ago, and was slightly worried. I wasn't overly worried, though, if it came across that way.
