78Blizzard Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 With Irma being in the news for well over a week now at major hurricane status, and with the millions of evacuees in FL, the Weather Channel must be having their highest ratings of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psv88 Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Irma looks like crap now. Lol. Donezo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sctvman Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 14 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said: With Irma being in the news for well over a week now at major hurricane status, and with the millions of evacuees in FL, the Weather Channel must be having their highest ratings of all time. Yep. Top 5 cable programs on Thursday were all Weather Center Live. http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-thursday-cable-originals-network-finals-9-7-2017.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 She's deranged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbullsfan Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 so this might seem random but is there an app on the phone that you can use to detect wind speeds. I'm curious as I'm seemingly going to be right in the middle of Ms. Irma I'd like to track the conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of leroy Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 9 minutes ago, dbullsfan said: so this might seem random but is there an app on the phone that you can use to detect wind speeds. I'm curious as I'm seemingly going to be right in the middle of Ms. Irma I'd like to track the conditions. i dont recommend sticking your phone into the rain and wind of a hurricane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandofLincoln Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 35 minutes ago, psv88 said: Irma looks like crap now. Lol. Donezo It's too bad your posts aren't donezo, because they've been terrible all day. I am in now way an expert with this stuff, but I am knowledgeable enough to know that posts like these are nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Moron Cuba is a place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 And so the social media Monday-morning quarterbacking from SE Floridians begins. Ugh. Such an inconvenience to potentially have saved your family's lives <sarcasm>. Seriously, can people wait until it's actually Monday to start assessing things? It's a shame the media spoke in such definitives. If the public only had NHC forecasts and their uncertainties were relayed to the general public and more understanding of shifts and wobbles were mentioned maybe people would get it just a little more than they do now. When media over-sensationalizes things and speaks in definitives for 5-6 days, people tend to start believing them. One city's shift/saving grace is another city's catastrophe but these people complaining about wasting their time will focus only on THEIR inconveniences and NOT the fact other towns will be devastated and how that COULD have been them. I digress.....lets wait until Monday to assess things....always changing/evolving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 I'm amazed how much more people care about Barbuda than they do about Cuba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdgwx Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 6 hours ago, dbullsfan said: so this might seem random but is there an app on the phone that you can use to detect wind speeds. I'm curious as I'm seemingly going to be right in the middle of Ms. Irma I'd like to track the conditions. RadarScope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Joe Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 6 minutes ago, JC-CT said: I'm amazed how much more people care about Barbuda than they do about Cuba Cuba will get clobbered, but much of the area where the eyewall is circulating is lightly populated, an the gov't is petty good about getting people out and helping people afterwards (a good social network). Barbuda was just gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Cuba will get clobbered, but much of the area where the eyewall is circulating is lightly populated, an the gov't is petty good about getting people out and helping people afterwards (a good social network). Barbuda was just gone.Further NW it gets more populated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akeem the African Dream Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Storm is boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akeem the African Dream Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 My predictions on highest gusts. EYW - 121mph MIA - 82mph FLL - 76mph PBI - 71mph I believe there is still a wind meter somewhere around Jupiter Inlet and Juno that is elevated and they may record something between 75-80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritsnc Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 EBUZZ on Facebook is showing fake "Live" videos of supposed double tornadoes in Florida. *eyeroll* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 LOL http://wjbq.com/early-models-suggest-hurricane-jose-will-be-a-direct-hit-on-new-england/ While the models are showing this, it's way too early to speculate what will happen. Heck, we still don't even know the exact path of Irma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of leroy Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Is forecaster Jack the ghost of storm vista JackO? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernskimmer Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Ugh the discussion thread is a joke. Headed back to the SE forum like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akeem the African Dream Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 The sign language guy Rick Scott has on his press conference is awesome . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akeem the African Dream Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Just now, southernskimmer said: Ugh the discussion thread is a joke. Headed back to the SE forum like Mods should just start suspending people instead of wasting keystrokes posting warnings and deleting posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Ralph Wiggum said: It's a shame the media spoke in such definitives. Most journalists have never taken a statistics course. Literally incapable of processing what probabilities actually mean. So you get garbagw reporting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 I've mostly been lurking, but have gotten a kick out of how this storm has been tracked and discussed on the site. As always there's been some excellent analysis, and we're fortunate to have some very knowledgeable mets who generously contribute their insights. But as is also always the case, there's plenty of noise and clutter. It would be interesting to go back and count the number of times that certain "observations" have been made in the discussion thread. Some of my favorites: "You can clearly see based on the last 5 seconds of the loop that the ERC is now complete." "She's clearly strengthening now." "Latest ___ run is the absolute worst-case scenario for ____." "When's the next recon flight?" "Based on the last 2 seconds of the radar loop, there's a clear NW component now." "Cloud tops are cooling. Clearly strengthening." "I live in __. Where should I go?" "She's going to explode when she hits those warm SSTs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pityflakes Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 While it looks now like a best case scenario for Florida with Irma being torn up over Cuba then going far west of Miami-Dade, we won't have any clarity until she turns north and we can narrow down the landfall location and see IF she is able to intensify. Best to step away for 12 hours. I do feel bad for all those ppl on in SE Florida who evacuated (probably) unnecessarily, but until forecasting gets better there was really no other choice given the potential and what the models were showing just 36 hours ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Jeez...the main model thread is a mess. Can't figure what's going on or what the current status of the storm is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of leroy Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 19 minutes ago, southernskimmer said: Ugh the discussion thread is a joke. Headed back to the SE forum like 3 minutes ago, lilj4425 said: Jeez...the main model thread is a mess. Can't figure what's going on or what the current status of the storm is. @mappy @H2O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasons Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 This may be the theme song for the day: 'gonna make it right, tonight....' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akeem the African Dream Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 It's basically game over for a disaster for mainland Florida at this point. this will get buried in Cuba and maybe be 115mph when it hits the keys later. This will be manageable for the most part . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Woke up to quite a cluster this morning apparently. Folks in Miami will never heed evacuation calls again. They got lucky. The more it hangs out over Cuba, the more it's shredded. Much longer and the best it can stay is a 3. Will have to see how it's surge comes to places like Tampa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swataz Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 With all due respect to the members of AmericanWx, to see some in other forums actively "rooting" for it to intensify and not get shredded to hell is disturbing. Yes, I understand the meteorological excitement surrounding the storm, but the human cost and cost to our nation will be very high if Irma gets her act together in the straits. It just boggles my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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