Isabel and conditions in your area...

#1 Postby **Pebbles** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:24 am

Would like to keep an updated thread on here about conditions as Isabel begins to affect the east coast. If people living along Isabel's path could post their conditions now and update us over this afternoon and through tomarrow please. Thanks ahead of time and know our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families that all stay safe and sound during this time.

Nature's Fury · #2 Postby **Nature's Fury** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:33 am

Pebbles,

I am about 100 miles from the coast and it when from being cool and crisp this morning to now within the past hour the winds have picked up, and I have noticed the air is much warmer. The humidity is at 60% if my gauge is right, the barometer shows that the pressure has fell just a hair since this morning as well. I will keep you updated. You do the same! Angela

Carolina_survivor · #3 Postby **Carolina_survivor** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:55 am

I'm at work in Greenville, NC right now (live in Williamston), both counties are included in the Hurricane warning area -- and it's a beautiful, bright and sunny day right now. Just a slight pick-up in the breeze.

Air seems really dry -- usually before a hurricane you can feel a definitely pick-up in the tropical moisture in the air, but I guess that will come eventually. We're expecting feeder bands to bring rain at any time, especially later this afternoon so I guess we'll begin feeling the humidity pick up then.

Will try to post later as conditions degrade. Just purchased a new laptop battery, so I may be able to get online some tomorrow for short periods of time.

Hanging on to my hat . . .

hawksnestguy · #4 Postby **hawksnestguy** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:42 am

Norfolk, VA here--not sure if I am evac-ing or not as pretty much 3/4 of Norfolk is being evacuated with my neighborhood being one of the lone exceptions.

I'll try to update as long as I can but probably the power will go out before long into tomorrow!

Colin · #5 Postby **Colin** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:03 pm

Some clouds moving in from the South here...

Lethemeul · #6 Postby **Lethemeul** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:08 pm

Hey guys,

I live in Raleigh, work in Clayton (NC). It's been a little breezy all day here and looks like it is picking up a little. The high, whicte clouds are starting to move in here. We're all just sitting here wondering what the hey this thing is going to do. We keep checking the satellite images and wondering if these westward movements are just little jogs or something more menacing. May be interesting here if they are more than jogs.

Now, on a side note. Most of you will think that I'm messing with you on this, but, I've had arthritis since I was a kid. Every time one of these storms comes to get us, my right leg aches, particularly the knee and ankle. Well, it's aching. We'll see, tho, I reckon.

Anonymous · #7 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:14 pm

I'm in Raleigh myself...right now its really sunny, but some cirrus (wispy) clouds are present. Breezy too.

Local NWS calling for 40mph+ sustained winds here, with higher gusts come tomorrow. I just hope power doesn't go out.

Beauman · #8 Postby **Beauman** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:15 pm

I'm in Beaufort, NC 10 miles west of Cape Lookout-overcast and humid with increasing winds with gusts over 20 mph-really been breezy the last few hours-first rainbands are beginning to show up on local radar so I suspect we'll see them in a few hours-my gut feelings are for a storm of 110-120 miles per hour moving just to our northeast-maybe over Cape Lookout sometime late tomorrow morning-such a movement really will cause problems in southern end of Pamlico Sound-similar to the Sept. 1933 storm which is still talked about around here as one of the benchmarks in an area which has seen its share of storms in the last 150 years

debbiet · #9 Postby **debbiet** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:26 pm

Hi...I am in Gloucester Point, VA which is at the mouth of the York River...probably less than 10 miles by water to the Chesapeake Bay. Conditions are mostly sunny, just some fluffly white clouds...looking to the east cloudiness is increasing. Winds are very breezy with gusts to 25-26 mph. Still pretty nice but the humidity is rising some...the winds seem to feel more "tropical" than they did earlier this morning. :wink:

paradoxsixnine · #10 Postby **paradoxsixnine** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 2:47 pm

I guess I'll include my local observations, even though in the Triad we're supposed to be pretty much un-adversely affected (?) by Isabel.
Right now it's GORGEOUS. Seventy-five degrees, breezy, barely any clouds. I haven't seen a day this gorgeous since last spring... :roll:

tropical · #11 Postby **tropical** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:16 pm

From Today's Sun-Sentinel, Broward County, Florida.

"Swells of up to 10 feet, along with dangerous rip currents... "

"In Delray Beach, the hurricane's power brought 12- to 15-foot waves on Tuesday, attracting about 100 surfers who defied the red flags posted by lifeguards warning swimmers to stay on dry land."

Full article:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... -news-sfla

#12 Postby **HeartofNC** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:26 pm

I live and work in Raleigh as well, I haven't seen a bird or squirrel all day -

breezy here and beautiful - what I call a Chamber of Commerce day -

HeartofNC

nckatie · #13 Postby **nckatie** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:39 pm

I'm in Carrboro! Another central North Carolinian, so my input's the same, I'm just chipping in for my part. It has been a truly lovely day, although I work outside and definitely noticed a pickup in the breeze, which has been pretty constant all day. If I hadn't known a hurricane were coming, I'd have chalked the wind up as autumnal.

Katie

Bane · #14 Postby **Bane** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:57 pm

Cloudy and breezy right now. Temp is in the 80ish range.

TrueBlue · #15 Postby **TrueBlue** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:08 pm

Hi from Wilmington, NC. Today it has been slightly windy with gust and overcast most of the day. In the last hour it has gotten grey and very windy and gusty out. No rain yet. You can look up at the clouds and watch the rotation. All is well so far. I wish all coastal dwellers luck!

Bane · #16 Postby **Bane** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:14 pm

I never knew you were from Wilmington, trueblue! We'll have to get together to watch the NCSU-UNC game.

Pi Master · #17 Postby **Pi Master** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:44 pm

Just getting cloudy here in Raleigh.

Hey, is this an ACCBoards invasion?

Pi Master · #18 Postby **Pi Master** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 6:41 pm

The sky before sunset was a light purple.

And I don't mean the clouds, I mean the whole sky.

tanda35 · #19 Postby **tanda35** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:22 pm

but at sunset, the whole sky was a weird pinkish/purpleish color to it and some thin high clouds were up there. When I checked the visible picture on my PC, I noticed the outermost cloud bands of the system were already over us and well up into central PA. Now that is one big mutha of a system! Over and out.

Shullate · #20 Postby **Shullate** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:44 pm

We also had a beautiful rose colored sunset this evening here in Wilmington NC.

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