cycloneye wrote:jlauderdal wrote:cycloneye wrote:8 AM TWO:
A tropical wave located about 1200 miles east of the Windward
Islands is producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms.
Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual
development, and a tropical depression is expected to form in 2 or 3
days. Interests in the Lesser Antilles should closely monitor the
progress of this system while it moves westward to west-
northwestward at about 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
cycloneye, how did you fare in irma?...i know you were offline for a few days.
Well, it took almost 5 years to reply to your question as I was looking back at the threads of 2017 on April 23, 2022. I did well with Irma, only the power grid went out for a few days. But with Maria was a different story as we got the power back three months later and there was a good deal of destruction and many deaths.
I'm from the Weather Underground/Yale Climate Connections community (Jeff Masters' blog) and we had a member from Puerto Rico who endured Maria, we didn't hear from him for weeks. Thankfully he came out ok in the end but he sent us pics of the devastation in his area, was scary stuff. We also had another one from St. Barts who got hit by Irma and he was off the blog for a while as well, but he too came back. Their stories are both chilling - I thought Isabel '03 was as bad as it could get being from the Mid-Atlantic but I can only imagine what it's like to be lashed for hours on end by a Cat 4/5 hurricane.