clskinsfan

Not hearing anything out of Bonito Springs at all. They have had onshore winds very close to the eyewall for hours. Has to be an absolute disaster there.

That thing looked under power and going against the wind. You cannot fix stupid if someone is actually in that boat.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/video/watch-jim-cantore-battle-the-winds-of-hurricane-ian

624000 without power now. Brutal.

No 10-12 feet. One guy stood on another's shoulders to mount it.

He just said it's 8 feet in the air on a pole. Horrifying surge there. And they have hours of surge left. Camera 5 on Sanibel is incredible.

Naples already has hit record storm surge and it is just getting started. What a beast Ian is.

12-18 foot storm surge is unbelievable. That would higher than the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. And also the high tide time is bad for that area as well. Horrifying if it verifies.

The ICON is usually off. But I have to give it credit for Ian. It was the first to sniff out Ian making back into the Atlantic and up the coast.

Wow. Crazy how far the water has come up compared to earlier today. Thanks for the headsup.

Another bit of sad news. We lost our live feed from Southernmost live cam. Was cool watching the water surge up all day and the wave heights increase dramatically. I think they are gusting like 50-60 MPH down in Key West right now. So kind of makes sense we lost the cam.

Clear mesovortices visible on satellite imaging now. Ian is really starting to bomb out.

NW quadrant of the core has really ramped up over the past hour. Eye looks much better now as well. Sad news for Florida.

Waves and sea level really starting to pick up in Key West over the past hour. They might be in some trouble later on. https://southernmostpointwebcam.com/

12Z ICON is some kind of run. Tampa and Charleston both get smoked. We get some really heavy rain out here as well.

Some pretty decent waves already in Key West from the outer bands. https://southernmostpointwebcam.com/

Kind of crazy how well Ian has held together over Cuba. Some slight shrinking of the core. But overall it seems very little impact at all.

Back over the Atlantic and up the coast is interesting. Much better chance for something significant in our area that way.

I would think the southern Aps will wring Ian out pretty well before it makes it up here. But if it tracks the coastal plain we could get some decent uplift rains out this way.

Center of circulation looks much better on Ian. Shear has lightened up a ton. Should be bombs away from here over the next couple of days.

It is a mess. No doubt. When did northern and southern blobs become science exactly?

This is the history for the closest buoy to the center of Fiona during landfall. The buoy is located at the western shore of the Cabot straight. Close to Charlottetown. The wind was not as impressive as I would have expected. But the wave height increase was quite impressive: MM DD TIME (GMT) WDIR WSPD kts GST kts WVHT ft DPD sec APD sec MWD PRES in PTDY in ATMP °F WTMP °F DEWP °F SAL psu VIS nmi TIDE ft 09 24 1400 SW 38.9 48.6 11.8 9 - - 28.69 +0.45 57.0 63.9 - - - - 09 24 1300 SW 40.8 52.4 13.5 11 - - 28.56 +0.51 57.9 63.5 - - - - 09 24 1200 SSW 42.7 54.4 14.1 9 - - 28.41 +0.57 56.3 63.5 - - - - 09 24 1100 SSW 48.6 58.3 17.1 10 - - 28.24 +0.69 57.9 63.7 - - - - 09 24 1000 SSW 46.6 56.3 19.0 11 - - 28.05 +0.46 59.4 63.9 - - - - 09 24 0900 SW 36.9 46.6 25.3 13 - - 27.85 +0.11 62.1 64.2 - - - - 09 24 0800 WSW 17.5 27.2 21.7 13 - - 27.55 -0.37 63.7 64.6 - - - - 09 24 0700 E 27.2 33.0 25.9 12 - - 27.59 -0.50 63.3 64.9 - - - - 09 24 0600 ENE 29.1 38.9 30.8 11 - - 27.74 -0.58 64.4 65.1 - - - - 09 24 0500 ENE 38.9 54.4 24.9 10 - - 27.91 -0.74 64.4 64.8 - - - - 09 24 0400 ENE 44.7 58.3 16.1 8 - - 28.10 -0.83 68.2 64.9 - - - - 09 24 0300 NE 44.7 54.4 8.5 7 - - 28.33 -0.76 70.0 65.5 - - - - 09 24 0200 N 40.8 50.5 8.2 6 - - 28.65 -0.58 59.7 65.8 - - - - 09 24 0100 NNE 35.0 44.7 5.9 6 - - 28.93 -0.40 59.9 65.7 - - - - 09 24 0000 NNE 33.0 40.8 5.2 6 - - 29.09 -0.28 59.9 65.8 - - - - 09 23 2300 NNE 27.2 35.0 3.9 6 - - 29.23 -0.21 60.8 66.4 - - - - 09 23 2200 NNE 21.4 25.3 3.6 7 - - 29.32 -0.13 62.4 66.0 - - - - 09 23 2100 N 19.4 23.3 3.3 7 - - 29.37 -0.14 61.9 66.6 - - - - 09 23 2000 N 13.6 15.5 3.0 7 - - 29.44 -0.07 62.1 66.6 - - - - 09 23 1900 N 13.6 15.5 2.6 7 - - 29.45 -0.09 62.1 66.7 - - - - 09 23 1800 NNW 9.7 11.7 3.0 7 - - 29.51 -0.05 62.2 66.4 - - - - 09 23 1700 WNW 5.8 7.8 3.0 7 - - 29.52 +0.01 63.1 67.1 - - - - 09 23 1600 W 5.8 5.8 3.3 6 - - 29.54 +0.01 63.7 66.9 - - - - 09 23 1500 WSW 11.7 13.6 3.6 6 - - 29.56 +0.02 63.9 66.9 - - - -

Man that thing is hauling ass. 45 MPH forward motion. 60 miles from the center waves are 19 feet at 8 seconds. Crazy. Edit: Now 21 feet at 9 seconds.

Closest active buoy is roughly 100 miles from Fiona at this point. No wind instrumentation on that buoy. But wave heights of 15.1 feet at 7 seconds. https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

What is the water temperature up there? I was in OC today and the water is still in the low 70's there. Waves were not as big as I expected. Kind of disappointing in all honesty.