Hurricane Wilma

This is unreal, the pressure dropped over 80mb in less than 8 hours!!

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Batton down the hatches!

 

just what we needed this is getting a little ridiculous
well hopefully Florida will fare better.

 

Yes let's hope. I live right in the path of the worst part of the storm, Okeechobee, Fl. I think we might just go visit some family up north. lol

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/140345.shtml?hwind120

 

Uncle!!

 

I believe It's a catagory "5" now .

 

yeah it is..it was a CAT 2 when I wnet to bed last night and a CAT 5 this morning by 5AM EST.

 

Man I am not lookin' forward to this thing coming our way. If it comes onland where they are predicting. It's flat all across there & won't do anything to slow it down. Looks like we gonna get hit by the Flintstones.

 

whats after a cat 5??? the thumb of god??????

 

Category 5 with 175 mph winds according to the weather channel. Here we go again. I`m glad I live in the north...I can shovel snow but a hurricane can huff and puff and blow yer house down.

 

ya, but you get to shovel every year, lots of that snow...........here in my neck of the woods, once in a great while an earthquake........the last big one here, was 16 years ago.....wobbles

 

Last one was last night...I must figure out a way to reduce my husband's snoring

 

Shoveling snow is a good replacement for summertime activites...ie...bike riding, walking, softball...that people like myself use to stay in somewhat good physical condition. And truthfully, there isn`t a whole lot of weater in the world that smells as good or is as pretty is freshy fallen snow. A foot of snow can be removed somewhat easily, even if it may happen several times a week. A hurricane, or an earthquake, can kill you.

 

Move your ass down here; the weather will make a man out of you

 

Thumb of God - that's hilarious. All my Floridians, especially my favorite 3, stay safe.

 

awww how nice of you. mmmm no wait i'm not in FL so your not talking about me

 

Cat 4 - moving NNW @ 6mph

Sustained winds - 150mph ( eye wall )

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES...140 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 200 MILES...325 KM.

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE - 929mb...27.43 INCHES

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 7-11 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS

REPEATING THE 4 AM CDT POSITION...20.0 N... 86.2 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 6 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150
MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 929 MB.

They have now pushed it back to sometime Monday when it will be upon us, but I'm sure we will be feeling it long before that.

 

I'll say one thing about this storm: it's in no hurry to go anywhere

On a somewhat-related meteorological note, we had a hell of a lightning storm here last night. All you could see were Abby's two rapidly blinking eyes from under the sofa

 

Appropriate. Nobody is in any hurry to RECEIVE it.

Abby must be in a particularly tolerant mood lately. Or has she been wearing out her Nerf football?

 

But the waiting is terrible. Ya know it's comin'.....................................

 

Stay safe Suesman and all you guys down there.
Will keep you in my prayers.

 

Thanks. We all battened down & ready for it to just be over.

 

The eyewall of Wilma as seen from the ISS, 221 miles over the top.

 

stay safe all you down there. my prayers are with you. the weather has been throwing it down it torrents today. this has put you to the forefront of my mind all day. unrelated to your storm, but connected in some weird way, the weather here has been what the meteorologists describe as 'unstable'. this normally means they don't know WTF is going on.

 

We are supposed to get some pretty decent squalls overnight and through the day tomorrow; KSC is closed tomorrow except for the rideout crew, but I'm going to work anyway

Actually, some of the outer bands from the storm, the "way outer"-bands, are already here, and the winds have been increasing all afternoon. Good sleeping weather

 

Stay safe, and hopefully dry. Glad Wilma is down to a Cat2, hope she stays there or lower.

 

Stay safe down there everyone hurricane better weaken cause i go to florida in a few weeks and i hope it dont screw up the trick . Stay safe and dry and if they tell you to evac just do it and dont fight em!
-the new tech guy

 

Still looks pretty nasty, take care.

 

Well, KSC survived, none the worse for wear. A couple of tornadic episodes near the Shuttle Landing Facility and near Haulover Canal, but not much more. Winds did hit 70 MPH sustained, but only briefly as the storm really picked up speed and left pretty quickly. Nothing other than a few inches of rain and some 45 MPH gusts here at home, but my hometown of Hollywood, FL, got it pretty bad. I-95 from Boca Raton on down into Miami is pretty much junk, as all the street signs, lights and LED message boards are on the ground. I would think I-95 in Miami-Dade would be the biggest concern; it's the main artery in and out of Dade County for the workforce, carrying such a traffic load that it is 16 lanes wide.

Then again, it's Miami and was in serious need of a good bath