ATL: IKE Discussion

[KWT]

tolakram, wobbled just to the WNW which is a very bad sign for Galveston.

Also on fox you can really see the huge waves crashing onto the sea wall...

[jinftl]

with center almost se to sse of galveston bay (check out tolkram's map)....not sure that is good either

Unless my eyes are deceiving me...another North wobble at the end of satellite loop.

[HURAKAN]

[HarlequinBoy]

What stations out of Houston are streaming?

[RL3AO]

What stations out of Houston are streaming?

Four of em.

http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html

[Extremeweatherguy]

Bush Intercontinental Airport (8pm) = Sustained winds at 43mph with gusts to 59mph.

[Sanibel]

Cantore is in front of a concrete hotel built on a 50 foot base of hard fill.

[Windy]

Wheres the photo of the bear guy on the beach?? Someone please post it again, that made me laugh, and right now i need a laugh!

[jinftl]

28.8N and 95.0W looks to be worst point for Galveston. Storm at 28.4N and 94.3N.

This is not a forecast

...oh my God.

[Annie Oakley]

No problem Annie Oakley.

Ahh...thank you and what I meant in saying 'my selfish comment' was that I did not think that there were 132 counties on the Gulf in Texas-not that all 256 counties would be affected...lol....
I think we are all on the verge of hysteria here. Just the verge mind you. We will control ourselves!

[CronkPSU]

[orion]

For those interested... I am uploading a GRLevel3 Houston radar loop with sat underlay...

http://orionweather.net/index.php?content=radar.html

All those in the path... stay safe!

[PTPatrick]

Wouldnt the wind direction right now be pushing water up the back side of Galveston and sort of flood it from the bay side first?

[mel38]

if you have directv you can go to 361 for houston coverage
oops sorry didn't see previous thread.

[HURAKAN]

Impressive outflow.

[BobHarlem]

if you have directv you can go to 361 for houston coverage

http://flhurricane.com/ikecoverage.html has all 4 with radar and sat, looks better on the big monitor too.

[mettski]

The NWC need to have a storm surge scale, reported by the media along with the saff sim scale.

misleading:

Category Two Hurricane:
Winds 96-110 mph (83-95 kt or 154-177 km/hr). Storm surge generally 6-8 feet above normal

[Stephanie]

No problem Annie Oakley.

Ahh...thank you and what I meant in saying 'my selfish comment' was that I did not think that there were 132 counties on the Gulf in Texas-not that all 256 counties would be affected...lol....
I think we are all on the verge of hysteria here. Just the verge mind you. We will control ourselves!

You are all doing a great job trying to keep the public informed. I can't imagine the stress you are under, nevermind the people in the area.

God help everyone down there!

[RBDnhm]

Slightly off topic but unless there have been two counties created recently, I think there are only 254 counties in Texas. In any event, it is possible that 132 of them could be "affected" because the counties in the west are very large and most of the counties are in the eastern 2/3 of the state.

No problem Annie Oakley.

Ahh...thank you and what I meant in saying 'my selfish comment' was that I did not think that there were 132 counties on the Gulf in Texas-not that all 256 counties would be affected...lol....
I think we are all on the verge of hysteria here. Just the verge mind you. We will control ourselves!

[NEXRAD]

Ike's western eyewall has become impressive during the last hour. This feature will likely transport some of the strongest winds directly over Galveston and the SW portion of Galveston Bay, which does not bode well for surge effects for those locations.

- Jay