Tazmanian93
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1 nautical miles = 1.15077945 miles
http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/nautical-miles-to-miles.htm
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MichaelA
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Multiply by 1.15.
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funky
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The air outside is very humid and heavy.
you are tellin me! the most sticky day this year here in 34202. disgusting day to be outside Just walked outside and it is still the same. no wind whatsoever. scary
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abyrd
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According to that 3-day track, it almost seems like they are expecting it to turn NE now. In 24 hours, they are expecting 2.3 degrees east and 2.2 north, nearly due NE from where it is now. If it continues moving north for a while, that would move it north. I think the hour of decision is here!
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Littlebit
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I have a quick question. We're in Plant City, just east of Tampa and debating whether or not to to board up. We've gotten all of our supplies, gassed up etc.. Just waiting to add the finishing touches should decide to pay a visit. Any advice? As always, thanks to everyone on this board for your insight and expertise. Stay safe everyone!
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Big Red Machine
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For whoever wanted the knots to mph: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/metcon.php
Excellent points Genesis in regards to the . A lot of folks could be surprised (especially those who were north of last year and got very little from him) to see Cat 1 winds from a storm so far south of them. Agree with you in regards to NE also. a cat 1/cat 2 system up there would be a huge story (especially this late in the season!), and cause some major damage (especially if it's moving at 20+ mph. Though many models have trended away from that New England hit, the angle of the trough will be a major deal not only in terms of where hits here, but if she hit there.
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Multi-Decadal Signal
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RedingtonBeachGuy
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go outside and look/walk around your home. Do you see items of debris that could be picked up and chunked through a window? Trees that looked damaged?
if it is a decision whether to go buy plywood and put it up vs. getting the plywood out of the garage and installing it, I am a firm believer of erroring on the side of caution - you can't hurt yourself that way.
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Rdietch
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According to that 3-day track, it almost seems like they are expecting it to turn NE now. In 24 hours, they are expecting 2.3 degrees east and 2.2 north, nearly due NE from where it is now. If it continues moving north for a while, that would move it north. I think the hour of decision is here!
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trough should turn to the northeast during the next 12-24
hr...
they don't think it should be going NE just quite yet so the "HR" odf decision is not here yet but sometime in the next 12-24 hours.
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MichaelA
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I'm in mid-Pinellas and I'm going to make that decision tomorrow when the track is more definite.
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Sarasota3G
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I don’t know what it means as of yet, but here in Sarasota three miles from the gulf, the barometer is trying to rise. It dropped to 29.79 earlier, now it’s up to 29.83. Around here that is a significant change, normal is usually 30.10. I don’t know what’s going on any better than the next armature guy, but I like to see the barometer rise.
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age234
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Or you can go to Google and type "5 knots in mph" or "5 nautical miles in miles" or whatever you want. Pretty cool.
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RedingtonBeachGuy
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The site bandwidth could be severely tested today as the storm approaches the coast, but you can help by not posting the obvious and keeping your posts informative. We need to reduce the number of one-liners so that we can keep the site up and running during this serious event. Your help is appreciated. Some one-liners are ok if they are informative - just try to keep the number of them down.
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i just noticed that as well here in 34202 (about 5 miles east of you)
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I don’t know what it means as of yet, but here in Sarasota three miles from the gulf, the barometer is trying to rise. It dropped to 29.79 earlier, now it’s up to 29.83. Around here that is a significant change, normal is usually 30.10. I don’t know what’s going on any better than the next armature guy, but I like to see the barometer rise.
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The good news in all of this, if you can consider it good news is that the storm will appears to enter SW FL at 7 AM and be off the East Florida Cost at 11 AM. Talk about your quickie !!!
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funky
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The good news in all of this, if you can consider it good news is that the storm will appears to enter SW FL at 7 AM and be off the East Florida Cost at 11 AM. Talk about your quickie !!!
yeah i think people are going to be quite surprised how fast this thing hits them. i think they will be shocked in the morning when they find out that some nasty squalls are passing overhead them already. don't know if i'm gonna get some sleep tonight, watching this NE turn happening. looks good so far! but that northern convection does NOT look good. lets hope for us up near Sarasota that the forward motion will dampen some of these winds!
edit: i am not liking the looks of how these waves of energy are coming off of right now.
take a look: http://hadar.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/RSOgeir3.html
the eastern side of fla. is really flaring up off this stuff, but you can clearly discern a waves of energy aligned from 260 deg. to about 80 deg. currently from about ft. myers to port st. lucie, and slowing drifting north.
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Big Red Machine
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That is good news indeed Toho, no 60 inches of rain here.
My enthusiasm is tempered, however, by the fact that 's winds will be augmented by her forward speed. So if theoretically she came in at a moderate intensity, say 100mph, but had a forward motion of 20 mph, folks could see winds in the range of a major hurricane. Also, a wider area of people would see these intense winds, and 's forward speed would mean that it would spend less time over land, thus the east coast would see winds higher than they would have if was a slow mover.
It is nice though that she'll get in, out, and we can get out with the cleanup. was excruciating last year because it kept people bottled up inside f o r e v e r.
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willw
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WTVT met said he was confident of the ft.myers/naples track basically assuring all of tampa that they would have no hurricane winds.
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Sneakbridge
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We are expected to get Hurricane force winds here in Highlands county. (A little NW of the big lake!) I put up shutters today. When you have them made already, you might as well go through the drill of putting them up when a storm apporaches! I did not see a lot of others preparing in our area. I helped a couple of my new teachers get plywood for their houses. Home depot was busy, but I wouldn't say packed and there was plenty of material in stock. I think most people's attitude is that if it is coming, get here and get it over with. THey'd prefer it not to come, but the wait is sometimes bad too. That being said, I can't imagine what they went through down in Cancun.
As it was just stated, it isn't just how strong the winds are, but how long the winds are there. So 10 hours of 75mph winds might cause more damage than 1hr of 100 mph winds... Is there any study or formula along these lines to help predict the damage an area will see?
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