cheese007 Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 I'll say one thing: Elsa sure is persistant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CampergirlFL Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 All good here. Didn't lose power, slept through most of it. Heard the most rain and wind around 2-3am. Still gusty now but I think more rain was to the east and west of us. Lucky indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 High tide is around 10:00 am on Clearwater Beach. Water is coming in on the beach, so there is some surge. Doesn't look too bad though. https://beachresortcondos.com/clearwater-beach-live-webcam.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 What is this storm a cockroach, it just refuses to die. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbenedet Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Looks to be hugging the western side of the cone since the 5a.m. update, but that’s just by eye. The track is still North or ever so slightly west of north. Not seeing an East component yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Action Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Nothing much to report from my house. Lots of rain but that was expected. I hope people that are new to Florida don’t disregard any future warnings when a system comes in. They are all dangerous and unpredictable. We just got lucky this one succumbed to shear. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthHillsWx Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 True to form for this system, after looking dead yesterday evening, has had another blowup of convection over the center, has tightened up and is coming ashore in a strengthening phase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPAwx Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 The region and Tampa proper appear to have gotten through with less impact relative to potential outcomes. Onshore flow will continue thru 1230 high tide, but surge looks like 2-3ft near downtown. An early start to what could be a long and interesting tropical season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 I wouldn't be surprised if wind gust end up higher for eastern NC than they were for most of the Florida coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prismshine Productions Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Elsa nearing landfallSent from my LGL322DL using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaguars Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Somewhat incredible that it curved around Tampa Bay and moved on a line due north from there. No easterly component of any kind detected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 1 hour ago, olafminesaw said: I wouldn't be surprised if wind gust end up higher for eastern NC than they were for most of the Florida coast Yeah might get some gust into the low 40's certainly nothing to extreme...nice that it seems to peak between 4-9 tomorrow afternoon and not 12-4 am like usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted July 7, 2021 Author Share Posted July 7, 2021 Wild ride out of Florida. Currently in Lake City with measured winds near TS force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prismshine Productions Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Is she really trying to wrap her core...Sent from my LGL322DL using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Yikes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhirlingWx Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 6 minutes ago, Windspeed said: Yikes... Pretty pronounced debris signature on that now too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Did downtown Jax just get hit by a tornado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafminesaw Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 https://twitter.com/LyftGyft/status/1412898761123192834?s=20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPetrulli Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Impressive wind gusts to 75 and 81 in Tybee Island and Forest Beach in the last half hour. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncforecaster89 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 I intercepted the NE eyewall (so to speak, if not technically accurate given it wasn’t a hurricane) at Horseshoe Beach, Fl. The highest wind gust was recorded up to 71 mph, with the strongest winds surprisingly being in the SE quadrant of the storm...as the winds shifted to a direct onshore flow. I chose to avoid the storm surge since I was driving my wife’s car and weren’t looking for a divorce. Here’s a brief clip of what I observed during this particular event: https://youtu.be/_oejAgsjAhM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 1 hour ago, ncforecaster89 said: I intercepted the NE eyewall (so to speak, if not technically accurate given it wasn’t a hurricane) at Horseshoe Beach, Fl. The highest wind gust was recorded up to 71 mph, with the strongest winds surprisingly being in the SE quadrant of the storm...as the winds shifted to a direct onshore flow. I chose to avoid the storm surge since I was driving my wife’s car and weren’t looking for a divorce. Here’s a brief clip of what I observed during this particular event: https://youtu.be/_oejAgsjAhM Watching that power line dance is a good reminder that it doesn't take a tree or big tree branch to cut off power. It was a couple hours after Elsa passed here that our strongest winds and heaviest rain happened. I was asleep and missed it, but saw the records and stats. Maybe I should have gone to bed early and then woke up after it passed... Of course here on the coast onshore winds typically have bigger impacts than offshore winds even in a hurricane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 Weird little storm, but then again it’s not everyday you see an early July MDR wave develop and run from the west coast of Florida to New England. On to the next one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Weird little storm, but then again it’s not everyday you see an early July MDR wave develop and run from the west coast of Florida to New England. On to the next one.Rare that it survived the Caribbean as a classified tropical storm this time of year. Rare it reached hurricane intensity more than once while surviving land interaction this time of year. It's also worth reiterating how damn crazy Hurricane Dennis was in 2005, which reached Cat 4 intensity in the Caribbean and made landfall as a Category 3 in the Florida Panhandle sixteen years ago today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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