ATL: HELENE - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[Teban54]

New pink pixels popping up all around the eye. Helene is making use of every minute she has over water to intensify further.

In that aspect, compared to the likes of Laura, Ida and Ian (all of which leveled off in the final 4-6 hours), it's more akin to Michael. The difference is that Michael had 11 hours to deepen further after becoming a Cat 4, while Helene doesn't.

[Steve]

Kinda nervous here, just northwest of Atlanta. A lot of old, large trees near my house and near my parents’ house. We are getting Opal vibes… we lost a ton of trees then.

Hey Buck. Good luck up there.

[Nimbus]

on radar the eye suddenly started moving erratically like it was starting an eyewall replacement cycle?

https://www.sfwmd.gov/weather-radar/cur ... conditions

[Powellrm]

Here in pasco it's really been not much besides some wind. i mean my recycling bin blew over, does that count?

I’m sorry for your loss.

[Category5Kaiju]

New pink pixels popping up all around the eye. Helene is making use of every minute she has over water to intensify further.

In that aspect, compared to the likes of Laura, Ida and Ian (all of which leveled off in the final 4-6 hours), it's more akin to Michael. The difference is that Michael had 11 hours to deepen further after becoming a Cat 4, while Helene doesn't.

https://i.postimg.cc/Zn3JvyvJ/goes16-ir-meso1-2.gif

That northern part of the CDO looks absolutely menacing

[Buck]

Kinda nervous here, just northwest of Atlanta. A lot of old, large trees near my house and near my parents’ house. We are getting Opal vibes… we lost a ton of trees then.

Hey Buck. Good luck up there.

Thanks, brother!

Prayers for all those in the path.

[BIFF_THE_UNRULY]

pieces of somebodies mobile home just flew over my house. im wondering if there is a tornado somewhere

[tolakram]

Saved loop



source: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=s ... =undefined

[chaser1]

https://i.imgur.com/LNngWjH.jpeg

If those deep cloud tops wrap all the way around, that is T7.0 correct?

Pretty sure, but can that be maintained??

[Travorum]

Here in pasco it's really been not much besides some wind. i mean my recycling bin blew over, does that count?

The lid of my compost bin blew off, solidarity friend.

[tronbunny]

Crazy that the airport in downtown St Pete is reporting a heat index of almost 100 degrees because of dewpoints in the low 80s rotating in around Helene, while raining and wind gusting over 70 mph.

Sep 26, 6:40 pm 84 81 89 99 S 51G71

it felt like that here. I do not recall a time the dewpoint felt so high at this distance from a storm.
Mind you : This is purely a subjective opinion based on finger in the air around 9am EDT somewhere in Central FL.
Even with the breeze the humidity is a wet blanket

[cheezyWXguy]

on radar the eye suddenly started moving erratically like it was starting an eyewall replacement cycle?

https://www.sfwmd.gov/weather-radar/cur ... conditions

Just mesovorts revolving around the eye. No secondary eyewall yet

[caneman]

If you look closely you can see Helene is sparing Pinellas from the outer core winds. Those might be only 10 miles offshore right now. We have had the lights flickering here. 120,000 plus are without power around me. Just thankful

Not spared on the beaches 70 plus gusts. Could have been worse though

[Steve]

The eye is tracking east of the NHC projected path again.

Yes it is, hopefully wobbles back or places like Cedar Key are going to be in even more trouble then they already are.

There's no better place than any other. This storm is just catastrophic, no matter who ends up the loser.

For sure. It’s been breezy all day in New Orleans out the N most of the day 20ish which based on the trough and where we are in relation is clearly surface flow.

[Steve Cosby]

Kinda nervous here, just northwest of Atlanta. A lot of old, large trees near my house and near my parents’ house. We are getting Opal vibes… we lost a ton of trees then.

It sure sounds like you are right to be nervous.

[cheezyWXguy]

Eastern eyewall is beginning to max out the scale (142mph) on radar. Northern eyewall looks close to as strong.

[eastcoastFL]

For reference, this was Idalia last year.

https://i.imgur.com/NRGGrA5.jpeg

And THIS is Helene...

https://i.imgur.com/YM9NXRR.jpeg

Helene looks like some fantasy beast the HWRF used to cook up but it’s actually real time.

[Stormgodess]

Traffic webcams on fl511.com are showing quite a bit of surge flowing into Siesta Key.

It's a mess here. And of course some idiots did not evacuate from their hotels, tried to make a run and cars are flooding out in sea water near major intersections. When they say evacuate due to surge, they do it for a reason.

There are always a few ignorant Billy Bada**es who think that they know better than the experts, and each generation of them pays the price. Ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes, and that’s because you’re too ignorant to know the dire danger you and your family are now in.

Exactly! Sadly until they get into a life threatening or life altering, situation with one, they don't learn.

[GTStorm]

Saved loop

https://i.imgur.com/QRKhHyQ.gif

source: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=s ... =undefined

Thanks for the long loop post. Is she tracking on the east side of the latest NHC projection? Shorter loops look like she is...but might just be optics.

[chaser1]

Kinda nervous here, just northwest of Atlanta. A lot of old, large trees near my house and near my parents’ house. We are getting Opal vibes… we lost a ton of trees then.

Hey Buck. Good luck up there.

It's just a whole new era. "We need to grab the kids and get the hell out of Atlanta..., maybe we can head south to Miami where we'll be safe"