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Tropical Disco 2013 SNE


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I would love to see the equivilant of s fl hurr wilma strength storm on sne. Their is something about the building euphoria/magic before such a awesome display of power. What a awesome day of wx to experience, gusts 100-110 are prob close to the max id want to experience even inside a structure. I was outside my parents front door and it was a completely protected corridor with stone wall and facing nne but watching the difference between " very strong winds" 50-60 mph winds and 90+ winds was nite and day . Every big gust would send trees bending horizontal and it makes me just wonder how absolutely horrifying it must be to be in the path of something with much stronger winds..i.e strong tornado

Every decade that passes i wonder if florida (specifically the most affluent stretch of the coast from west palm beach to miami) is somehow really thhaaat low of a shot to get hit by a strong 4 or 5 directly. They have gone 84 years. Seems odd to me. Seems very lucky to the point of being strange same with the keys really, no cat 4's/5's since when labor day foreer ago? My point is this country would see a death toll exponentially higher (w keys hit) than weve seen or much costlier (with gold coast hit) and the area seems curiously lucky for 75+ years

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I would love to see the equivilant of s fl hurr wilma strength storm on sne. Their is something about the building euphoria/magic before such a awesome display of power. What a awesome day of wx to experience, gusts 100-110 are prob close to the max id want to experience even inside a structure. I was outside my parents front door and it was a completely protected corridor with stone wall and facing nne but watching the difference between " very strong winds" 50-60 mph winds and 90+ winds was nite and day . Every big gust would send trees bending horizontal and it makes me just wonder how absolutely horrifying it must be to be in the path of something with much stronger winds..i.e strong tornado

Every decade that passes i wonder if florida (specifically the most affluent stretch of the coast from west palm beach to miami) is somehow really thhaaat low of a shot to get hit by a strong 4 or 5 directly. They have gone 84 years. Seems odd to me. Seems very lucky to the point of being strange same with the keys really, no cat 4's/5's since when labor day foreer ago? My point is this country would see a death toll exponentially higher (w keys hit) than weve seen or much costlier (with gold coast hit) and the area seems curiously lucky for 75+ years

Oh yeah definitely, if a population center goes a lifetime without seeing a certain calibre of wx event people will be caught unprepared and probably won't take the threat as seriously as they should. It's just human nature to say, "oh that doesn't happen here, it'll be fine." The same thing could very likely happen in sne with a major hurricane strike, lots of development and growth of population that has no experience with a storm that powerful.

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Oh yeah definitely, if a population center goes a lifetime without seeing a certain calibre of wx event people will be caught unprepared and probably won't take the threat as seriously as they should. It's just human nature to say, "oh that doesn't happen here, it'll be fine." The same thing could very likely happen in sne with a major hurricane strike, lots of development and growth of population that has no experience with a storm that powerful.

 

Exactly. With the 1938 population gradually dwindling away, most people don't realize that we're susceptible to major hurricanes here.

Irene wasn't even a hurricane at landfall... the public is completely unprepared for a cat 3 type storm.

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I wouldn't see a reason not to believe that part of FL would experience a Category 4 or 5. I think anywhere down in that area is susceptible to experience something like that.

Charley was a category 4 at landfall in FL and Andrew was a Cat 5 at landfall in FL. In fact 2 out of the only 3 US landfalling CAT 5's have hit southern FL. Obviously Andrew in 1991 and the Key West storm in 1901.

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Exactly. With the 1938 population gradually dwindling away, people don't realize that we're susceptible to major hurricanes here.

Irene wasn't even a hurricane at landfall... most of the public is completely unprepared for a cat 3 type storm.

Anyone want to guess how the power companies would respond?
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Exactly.  With the 1938 population gradually dwindling away, people don't realize that we're susceptible to major hurricanes here.

 

Irene wasn't even a hurricane at landfall... most of the public is completely unprepared for a cat 3 type storm.

The storm surge at the Jersey shore was category 3 level with Sandy. Mostly due to the extremely large wind field and track.

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Charley was a category 4 at landfall in FL and Andrew was a Cat 5 at landfall in FL. In fact 2 out of the only 3 US landfalling CAT 5's have hit southern FL. Obviously Andrew in 1991 and the Key West storm in 1901.

 

I was just starting my freshman year at University of Miami when Andrew hit.  Actually, I had driven there with my parents and arrived 2 days before landfall.  That was bananas....We were on the second floor of a 12 story dorm and it was rocking pretty good.  The sound was ridiculous.  Will never forget that.  

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Is there any data to back that up? I wouldn't have thought the surge levels would be that high of an equivalent.

 

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-surge-interactive-20121105

 

The link above will answer that question. No doubt Jersey saw a storm surge of 9-12 ft. Whole shore got decimated. Link below shows the scale.

 

http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/charts/tropical/saffirscale.html

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Charley was a category 4 at landfall in FL and Andrew was a Cat 5 at landfall in FL. In fact 2 out of the only 3 US landfalling CAT 5's have hit southern FL. Obviously Andrew in 1991 and the Key West storm in 1901.

 

Er...you mean the 1935 Labor Day storm?

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Charley was a category 4 at landfall in FL and Andrew was a Cat 5 at landfall in FL. In fact 2 out of the only 3 US landfalling CAT 5's have hit southern FL. Obviously Andrew in 1991 and the Key West storm in 1901.

I Said West Palm Beach to South Beach Miami.  The fact that area has gone over 80 years since a cat 4/5 landfall just surprises me a great deal. I know Puerto Rico and esp Hispanola and Cuba saves S FL a great deal of major hurricane hits so I guess when u factor this in it's not as shocking. 

 

Interestingly the 0z gfs is also run "Jb's basement"

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BOB taking a snapshot of one time period is not a reestablished WAR.

 

I did not write fully re-established.  I wrote "looking to re-establish".  It won't lock in like we had for the last 3 weeks but Dorian does not looks to be recurving out to sea anytime soon.  Loop the 500mb images and you can see the ridging is there basically the whole time as Dorian cuts across the Atlantic.

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I did not write fully re-established.  I wrote "looking to re-establish".  It won't lock in like we had for the last 3 weeks but Dorian does not looks to be recurving out to sea anytime soon.  Loop the 500mb images and you can see the ridging is there basically the whole time as Dorian cuts across the Atlantic.

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