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Major Hurricane Irma- STORM MODE


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Flooding rainfall threat for the keys and south Florida is now serious imo. All the basic elements are being met: expansion in size, increased duration (slowdown) and large area of intense convection. And then add to this that there will be a prolonged period of onshore flow interacting with an UL trough well out ahead of the storm.

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5 minutes ago, LakeEffectKing said:

New GFS at 24 shows the position of Irma is slightly east...(ie slower)

 

3 minutes ago, LakeEffectKing said:

at 30 is making the turn about 20 mi. further east....

Makes sense given the last few days of ensemble runs. The slower guidance tended to make the turn and end up farther east.

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6 minutes ago, LakeEffectKing said:

New GFS at 24 shows the position of Irma is slightly east...(ie slower)

Thank, LEK...WRT understanding the tropics, you are among the best in this online community.  

I've been to Ft. Meyers.   It seems that all buildings there will have, at a minimum, first floor inundation.

It seems that all the shoreline communities of SW FL are caught inb the crosshairs.

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GOES 16 meso sector is showing that Irma has begun to parallel the coast over the past 30 minutes to hour. If that holds, then the new 00z GFS is handling it real well. This will also result in less disruption to the core. We will have to watch and see if this becomes a longer term trend. 

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Just now, HKY_WX said:

Yikes, it's amazing how this bombs out once is leaves the coastline of cuba on the GFS. If a hurricane this size were to be sub 900mb, we could literally be witnessing the most intense hurricane in history.

It's bath water and very favorable atmospheric conditions. If the inner core isn't seriously disrupted by the Cuba interaction tonight, it should ramp back up fast once clear of the island. It would still be devastating, but maybe we can move back to a track a little east of the west coast cities, and far enough west of MIA-PBI to avoid catastrophe there. It's a very narrow stripe, but it's something to hope for. 

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Yikes, it's amazing how this bombs out once is leaves the coastline of cuba on the GFS. If a hurricane this size were to be sub 900mb, we could literally be witnessing the most intense hurricane in history.

 

Not that it wouldn't intensify over the straits, just be wary of the GFS's intensification. RI could occur but the GFS has been awful on sub 900 mb cyclone intensity.

 

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2 minutes ago, Windspeed said:

Not that it wouldn't intensify over the straits, just be wary of the GFS's intensification. RI could occur but the GFS has been awful on sub 900 mb cyclone intensity.

 

I give it credence mainly b/c most other guidance have been showing this peaking after leaving the Cuba coastline for days. Given the TCHP in the Keys area and the environment aloft, can't rule it out. In fact it's probably likely.

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4 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

It's bath water and very favorable atmospheric conditions. If the inner core isn't seriously disrupted by the Cuba interaction tonight, it should ramp back up fast once clear of the island. It would still be devastating, but maybe we can move back to a track a little east of the west coast cities, and far enough west of MIA-PBI to avoid catastrophe there. It's a very narrow stripe, but it's something to hope for. 

I was looking at maps and it seems like a landfall more toward the western part of the Everglades National Park would be the best case in a range of bad options, but it's complicated with the current/expected size of this eyewall.  We're really talking about trying to thread the needle between big disaster and mega disaster.

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