FireAng85
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Hey Poetdi and whoever else is in Maitland, I live in Sorrento and work in Apopka. Pretty close, huh?
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Katie
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Well, I am going to try to sneak over to my grandfather's house this weekend so i can check in. Still haven't ordered a new computer yet, but if I don't make it before he hits - best of luck to anyone in his path. Be safe and be careful.
Hoping for the best.
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MikeC
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Dennis is over land still for the most part moving along the 's track. I hope it doesn't slow or stall in the Gulf. I don't think it will stall anyway. It's still going to rain here quite a bit in Central Florida, I think, and the pressure gradients will keep it a little breezy tomorrow and sunday.
It's ok, I'm living in Maitland (well on the maitland/altamonte border) too just off Mailtland Blvd and 434. But yea, that's off topic. Move that to the E/N forum.
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Colleen A.
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Well..here's a weather update from Central Florida. I went to pick up my kids, and we just had a feeder band come through (at least that's what they're calling it on the local wx stations) that dropped at LEAST 1" of rain here. The trees were bending over quite a bit with the winds blowing so hard and the lightning was pretty intense. Also noticed that the rain was sideways, then blowing s/n, then back to n/s. The temperature in my car dropped from 97 to 69 in about 15 minutes time. I've driven through a lot of storms here, and I've never seen it drop THAT much.
If this is an indication of things to come, I'm not looking forward to it.
Not that anyone else is, either. 
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nandav
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The link that DougYD posted shows that what you just had and what we are seeing here in SW Florida are definitely feeder bands... IMHO
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SkeetoBite
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Colleen,
I was wondering if you were around to notice that. Absolutely the most energetic little piece of activity we've had so far this year. That was crazy.
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rmbjoe1954
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It's going to be a wet and windy weekend for us in East Central Florida. Hold on to your hats in West Florida!
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RedingtonBeachGuy
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belle isle here - need admin work, let me know. 
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KC
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5pm update has been posted on wunderground.com.
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FlaMommy
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Well here in Riverview we just got a little taste of the first band....and it rained for like a second literally...and now it has stopped....although on the radar we are expected a pretty intense storm....i hope all is safe and STAY THE H*LL AWAY FROM US!!!! 
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Tazmanian93
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5pm is out
WHILE SOME WOBBLING HAS CONTINUED TO OCCUR...AS IS TYPICAL OF A
MAJOR HURRICANE...DENNIS IS EXPECTED TO GENERALLY MOVE TOWARD THE
NORTHWEST NEAR 17 MPH...28 KM/HR. ON THIS TRACK...THE CENTER
SHOULD EMERGE OFF THE NORTH-CENTRAL COAST OF CUBA THIS EVENING.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO NEAR 135 MPH...215
KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. ALTHOUGH IS STILL A CATEGORY 4
HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE...SOME ADDITIONAL WEAKENING
IS FORECAST AS MOVES OVER CUBA. HOWEVER...DENNIS IS EXPECTED
TO REMAIN A MAJOR HURRICANE AS IT EMERGES OVER THE STRAITS OF
FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO THIS EVENING.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 65 MILES...100 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 160 MILES...260 KM. EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AS MADE
LANDFALL ALONG THE SOUTH-CENTRAL COAST OF CUBA...A SUSTAINED WIND
OF 99 MPH...160 KM/HR...WITH A GUST WIND GUST TO 149 MPH...240
KM/HR...WAS MEASURED IN CIENFUEGOS...AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGE WAS ALSO
REPORTED.
THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 949 MB...28.02 INCHES.
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Edited by Tazmanian93 (Fri Jul 08 2005 08:49 PM)
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Colleen A.
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Yes, and every minute or so, the thunder is rumbling, brief downpour, gusts and then it stops. This is worse than what we got with ...my kids are hiding in the closet already!  It completely flooded out the street I turn onto (Lake Seward) to go into my subdivision. And we're only supposed to get 1-3" or rain??? I don't think so....
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pcola
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Well, the 5pm track is pretty much the same as it has been for 4 days..westen panhandle......
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Erin 95 , Opal 95, Ivan 04, Dennis 05, and that's enough!!!!
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OcalaKT
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You guys remember the hurricane that did a full 360 a few years back. Not many models had that in store either. Models are just that, MODELS.
I think that was Betsy, sometime in the 60's. She passed by Miami out in the Atlantic, went up even with Jacksonville, then did a 360 and came back and hit Miami, then went out into the Gulf and went up and hit Louisiana, I think. I went through Besty as a little girl.
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DennisHerman
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here is a link to an interesting page I found last year (might have found it here). It has a large collection of current images that are auto-updated.
http://www.geocities.com/tropicwx/
Yes - my name is actually
Edited by DennisHerman (Fri Jul 08 2005 08:57 PM)
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jr928
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yes, betsy it was!
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twizted sizter
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Had it here too...made the power surge off twice already.
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Storm Hunter
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read 5pm disc......
take a look over texas and the ohio valley (WV image)
http://hadar.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/data/rmtcrso/79.jpg
web site with more links
i think some shear will begin to effect the storm starting late, saturday, but i am starting to think that Mobile-Pensacola may be a little far west. I am going to go with Navarre to Destin landfall right now and will make one last call when the recon data from today gets into tonights model runs.... I have a hunch that an ULL near the texan coast with help push the storm to the NW more....problem is, where will the weakness in the ridge be for when he hits the GOM and moves on a nw movement.......
here's good florida vis shot...
http://adds.aviationweather.gov/satellit...g&itype=vis
look at the T-storms over florida
Edited by Storm Hunter (Fri Jul 08 2005 09:23 PM)
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Dawn
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Please you all - give me some guidance- I am so tired after making my parents and the customers at Home Depot happy, do I really need to worry or can I rest a minute before I secure our house. 27.88N x 82.87W. I have everything at home to live for five days but do I need more. Do I finish dropping the anwings or are we going be OK. My husband works with Hospice and won't be home till after the storm. It is up to me-please if you lived in St Petersburg would you worry?
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jth
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I agree. I don't think the NW motion is in much doubt anymore. Now it really will just depend on a wobble here or there to determine exact landfall location. is beginning to have much less doubt as per the last discussion. That ULL over LA moving south is providing an even better avenue for a NW motion. Look for landfall between Mobile and PCB. f I had to pinpoint, I would stick with Destin. Local mets here in Bham are hyping significant damage throughout the state if goes in around Gulf Shores and moves NNW.
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