good morning everyone from north carolina

[weatherwoman]

What a nice day here on the coast of North Carolina, I hope you all have a wonderful day as set and wait for what might be a very interesting next 2 days.

[NC George]

Good night from Ayden. Just finished my GIS homework, now I'm going to bed.

[Three Blind Mice]

Sure hope some of those rain bands make it here. Yesterday was very dusty with all the wind. Kind of hazy in the late afternoon with the dust.

Feels like Midland or Odessa Tx around here!!!

Come on rain, just keep the big O offshore!!!

Wilmington/Wrightsville Beach

[Skyline]

Good Morning.
Sure was breezy yesterday afternoon.
I like the new forecast track which is to the east of me. Yesterdays and last nights high tides ate some of the beach.
Sunny with broken clouds and of course dark to the east and south this morning.
Everybody's waiting to see what they forecast for today. No ones boarding-up. Some stores were low on water yesterday and some lines to fill propane tanks.

[brunota2003]

Good Morning, nothing much here, just windy... Some "dark" clouds are starting to move in now... I like this mornings forecast track better than last nights, as it had the system coming directly over my house , but am afraid it might swing back to the west again

[beachbum_al]

It was real nice on Saturday morning before Katrina hit. You would never had believe that a big monster like Katrina was about to hit the Gulf Coast.

[Skyline]

Yes, I've also noticed very pleasant weather before and/or after a hurricane.

Ophelia is no Katrina however.

Man could those be famous last words or what?

[Robert]

Good night from Ayden. Just finished my GIS homework, now I'm going to bed.

NC George, You were doing your homework rather then partying at the Collards festival?

We got a little rain last night, but not enough to get much wet, but a fair amount of wind. Blew my planters off my front porch (which I was planning on putting away anyway). With the way the radar looks and the storm is moving, looks like we might get quite a few days of off and on rain (which we do need).

Robert

[weatherwoman]

hi robert from newport this is sandy from newport, i thought the collard fest was last weekend i missed i cooked in it one year i can cook a mean collard yum yum

[OuterBanker]

Beautiful here, but wind is the worse on the NC coast. We are in the middle of the gradient between the high and Ophelia so winds have been constant 30 to 40 for past two days. Waves are in the 8 ft range (altough the local on the 8's have 2 to 3 ft seas). High tide grass line all the way to the dune line now so no beach at high tide. Tourist are headed to the beach with their chairs and umbrellas (they really must leave their brains at home). We have our annual church picnic today outside and they haven't cancelled. Our picnic is always the week after Labor Day and we have managed to get about 50% of them in with the rest being cancelled by hurricanes (yes, you would think we should maybe scedule it at a different time). But we are Catholics and most if not all are from the north where we don't have to deal with them.

btw, she really needs to move if we are to have any beach left.

[shaggy]

hey from Greenville its awful windy today!Have you guys seen the forecast flooding for the sounds?some as high as 7-10 feet without the storm just from the strong NE winds we are having.The GFDL has shifted back way west again showing a wilmington hit so we will see if the other follow suit!

[Robert]

hey from Greenville its awful windy today!Have you guys seen the forecast flooding for the sounds?some as high as 7-10 feet without the storm just from the strong NE winds we are having.The GFDL has shifted back way west again showing a wilmington hit so we will see if the other follow suit!

Yea, we have seen them. I imagine that 70 out to Cedar Island will be underwater, but that seems to go under with any extended wind. I am on the Bogue Sound (runs East/ West, Southern Outter Banks), and there is nothing unusual here (just about normal water level). I imagine that Pamlico Sound and Albemarle Sound are going to be the ones having problems if this keeps up.

I have been watching the models and tracks carefully, but I don't think anyone really knows where it is going to go at this point. North West makes sense to me (toward Wilmington, or at least Jacksonville), but that is just my guess.

I don't remember which news I was watching at 11:00 last night (or maybe it was 10:00 Fox), but they didn't even show a track. Said "this is the hurricane" and went on to the 5 day forcast (which had rain). Said that if it came this way we might get more rain and if it didn't we would get less. Didn't mention that we are under a hurricane watch (at least where we are), didn't mention any wind or anything else, just "might get some rain."

Robert

[Robert]

hi robert from newport this is sandy from newport, i thought the collard fest was last weekend i missed i cooked in it one year i can cook a mean collard yum yum

I thought I saw it on the news last night (sent a reporter to the festival). I had never heard of before last night. In fact, I never even tried collards until last year.

Robert

[shaggy]

I was at collard festival my brothers wife works in Ayden love me some collards. The places at this point that will get the most water are the south side of the Neuse around Oriental and Harlow and also up on the south side of the Pamlico river around Lowland and Hobucken I imagine the southside creeks are full and if this storm does come in it could be really bad even as a Cat 1 because of the prolonged NE fetch back in 1999 Hurricane Dennis gave us a near miss then sat offshore for about a week and filled up all the sounds and rivers then came ashore as 70 mph tropical storm and put more water up the river than most of the hurricanes we have had including Bertha, Bonnie and Floyd

[ncbird]

Good afternoon all... been keepin an eye on the cam from the top of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse... nice waves they are getting there

http://pinpoint.ecu.edu/cameras/hatteras2.cfm

and watching the water height in New Bern on the cam there

http://pinpoint.ecu.edu/cameras/NewBern.cfm

[Three Blind Mice]

My kids are bugging about school Monday. Anybody remember if TS warning is criteria for schools closing? Seems in the past it wasn't clear.

[hicksta]

My kids are bugging about school Monday. Anybody remember if TS warning is criteria for schools closing? Seems in the past it wasn't clear.

In texas im pretty sure it is. One timea while back it was at 10 o clock and we were at school got a ts warning and we got out. So im sure about Texas, not NC. Might call your district and ask.

[ncbird]

I seem to remember school being closed when we were under watches/warnings but been a few years since my kids were in school.

Usually channel 7 would have the closings.

http://www.witntv.com/

[n.c sunshine]

hay weather woman don"t know about school but I know alot of these people on here are very rude i am from N. C am amtrying to find out infromation about the storm coming this way

[shaggy]

its seems that if the storm doesn't threaten Florida or the gulf coast its a non-event for most people on here.its nothing personal but they simply just don't care if it doesn't threaten their neck of the woods.