Prospero
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Wow! It is powerful indeed. Outside eyewall I'd say. Kudos to whoever set up the cam. Great that it has stayed online. Must be a strong cell tower.
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Looking at the sats it does not look like this station went through the eye. It is east of the eye. I saw the wind drop and direction change, but it was not in the eye.
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This station went through the eye:
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See the eye...
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Whew!
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Granted I accept it could even be a Cat 5 tomorrow morning. But I along with many expected 4 or 5 today. I did have my doubts being a "Gulf" storm, but probably deep down thought I was way wrong. When I went to bed last night I thought I'd wake up to a solid 2 or 3. I will be up early tomorrow and can't even take a wild guess right now. Might be the same as it is now, give or take a Cat. Does look good now though...
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So, going over Cuba may have caused it's weakened potential? All those strange little issues with the eye and the convection around it that never let a full-blown intensification happen. Sure, why not. Some kind of land-swirl from Cuba that followed Ida into the hot ass Gulf with very little shear. Seemed to be stacked and symmetric, but the lingering Cuba affect hung on. I'm sure there is a better explanation, but I'm not a met, just an old watcher.
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Ida looks strong, but still not perfect. I'd be concerned being in its way, but relieved the hype so far is fading. Good thing it hasn't reached where we were thinking it would be, at least so far. Dry air trying to come in.
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It is strange. Says "SE at 105 MPH", but the graph shows around 60-70. I've looked all over SailFlow and don't see that buoy so can't look there.
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I am the weather expert in my home. My wife keeps asking me for the past couple days where Ida will hit. I tell her where "shrimp people" live. We both are ready for shrimp as well. Kind of a new rule for myself; Drinking beer watching a storm, stick to Banter. It's hard sometimes...
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Best I've seen from the start. But I was out for a few hours today and didn't read the hundreds of posts I missed.
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We need a home, and tonight, this is it.
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Looking at the wind direction and speed even now it is easy to see where the water will pile up.
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Go to the real Ida forum and want to comment. But the banter is better for me. Hanging out at the "Ida Bar and Grill" is lose and fun. Although I was wondering if we need an Ida Banter-Banter thread as well. LOL Another mission turned back during a peak time. UGH! Again! No matter what tomorrow morning is when it's time for the really serious stuff. Even on the real thread it is still an educated stream of consciousness of opinions and ideas. Ida is real, for sure. Still not a Yucatan looking storm.
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Seriously we ALL want to see the biggest baddest storms ever. It is a sickness that makes us weather people. But most of us are always compassionate and empathetic to victims, even in snowstorms. So that is honest. Does that make us bad people? No but we balance doom and survival as best we can. Yet the thrill of Nature and what it does is like a drug that we are addicted to. We can deny, but we know who we are no matter how we spin the excitement we feel when waiting for that perfect eye. Ida is not there yet, but getting there. Almost, but not yet.
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Weather Channel: Traffic is easing up, if you want to get out do it now.
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Ida's eye might be wrapping. Even covert super-secret budgets run out of money at some point. Can't kill every storm. So many storms, so many cities. New Orleans? OK, let this one go this time. Hope they ain't broke when the Cat 5 heads to Tampa Bay!!!!!
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. Hubert H. Humphrey
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Did anyone notice the Tampa radar was down the day Fred might have come by. I sure did. Annoying.
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Keeping my opinion to myself per earlier discussion. But yea, do they not have enough technicians and mechanics.
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OK who agrees? My wish: Ida gets her eye and RIs into a Cat 5, reaches near the LA coast to justify evacuation but not that bad and shifts east staying offshore bringing fun and excitement to the Florida Gulf coast (not too bad, but thrilling even for Tampa Bay), then moving west to the Texas coast giving everybody a taste there maintaining a perfect eye, then going east through the channel between Cuba and Florida allowing the Keys and Miami to have some fun, up the eastern coast brushing Cape Hatteras intensely (they are used to it, can handle it, and love it) then drifting up the east coast past VA and sitting for a day or so off NJ becoming a Cat 5 sub-tropical Hurricane and slamming NJ so nobody will ever mention Sandy again. A perfect eye the entire week long adventure. Right?
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If they are streaming PLEASE share! It is Saturday night with Ida doing her/its best to get it together. We are watching drooling for excitement (of course hoping nobody gets hurt). Daytime landfall on a Sunday? When does that happen? Sitting in Tampa Bay safe and sound, only a couple hours of work in the morning, and all day to be here with two 4K monitors with sats, models, this forum (and others if this gets boring which it will not), and watch Weather Channel. Need live streams galore!!
