ATL: MATTHEW - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[meriland23]

could anyone post the latest radar loop in terms of intensity? I am on my mobile and having a tough time with sites

[WilmingtonSandbar]

So, someone earlier may have brought this up and if so, I apologize. The other day when Nicole formed, it was stated quite vehemently that she was not strong enough to effect the ridging ahead of Matthew. Now that she is a hurricane, is she strong enough?

[ZX12R]

Is anyone else experiencing multiple missing images in all satellite loops?

[Nimbus]

NHC wind graphic shows the potential for current TS winds over portions of SE FL. Has anyone seen ground verification of that? I recognize the disclaimer at the bottom of the graphic with "potential for" language, but hadn't seen anything above 30kt sustained in my searching.

Map may be correct. Here in Fort Lauderdale I have not seen any 30kt sustained winds at all. A few gusts may have come close, no TS gusts either even in some of the squalls, but I do know that squalls can vary greatly in strength.

There are over 10,000 customers without power along the east coast. Those power outages occur during the squalls as the rain bands come through. 1 minute sustained winds above 34 knots in those squall lines are the usual culprit. I haven't seen evidence of any Hurricane force winds (yet).

Good map

[Madpoodle]

I did the same yesterday, first time donation. Same reasons.

Thanks very much!

I contributed late last night while I was drinking. I hope I didn't contribute thousands of dollars.

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[one wolf]

Interesting wind visualization



Found this at Wunderground blog. Don't know the original source

That's beautiful. Thanks for posting.

There is a free android app that animates wind data this way - I use it all the time when planning my fishing trips.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeaom.android.myradar&hl=en

[Steve]

Shout out to Weatherbell and specifically Ryan Mauie for calling out the big wig conspiracy idiots. When you are peddling to the paranoid and they have a life stake in the game, don't tell them the government and National Hurricane Center is trumping up wind speed to make a political point. That may be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'm not saying the sources are in any way legitimate or responsible, consider them. But millions of people go there for their fix of whatever it is they're getting a fix on. It's like somebody painted "Green" on this Funktop to make it look worse. Haha. No ******* way. Nobody but the stormchasers want to be on that FL East Coast in a few hours.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floater ... imated.gif

[SouthFLTropics]

Well crap...I've just lost power in Port St. Lucie. And the wind is hardly blowing.

[bamajammer4eva]

Looks like it did took a decent jolt west if the eyewalls are merging and have possibly expanded

[scogor]

Friends, I need some advice here. My mother-in-law (almost 90 years old) lives by herself in a home near (but not on) the St. Johns River in Jacksonville. It's a brick home but built well before the Andrew standards. She has refused our pleas to evacuate but now is at the point where she admits that she doesn't want to "inconvenience" us. We live in Sarasota and it takes between 4 and 5 hours to drive to her home. We can leave tonight and pick her up and be back in Sarasota before dawn tomorrow. Will I be able to get gas on the way back and will the weather deteriorate too badly for us to do this?

[NDG]

And now a WNW jog.

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Inner wall is going west for the same reasons it looked like it was going N-NNW earlier; outer eyewall is causing the inner eyewall to oscillate like a gyro.

Is this similar to what happened with Wilma in 2005, the eye essentially rotating around the edge of the outer eyewall?

Yes, although not nearly as dramatic.

[ZX12R]

Thanks very much!

I contributed late last night while I was drinking. I hope I didn't contribute thousands of dollars.

You did...

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Wonderful. At least it wasn't wasted.

[davidiowx]

And now a WNW jog.

It's almost as if Matthew is just avoiding land at all cost now.

[ozonepete]

Is anyone else experiencing multiple missing images in all satellite loops?

Yup. But they seem to have stopped it from re-occurring.

[SapphireSea]

So, someone earlier may have brought this up and if so, I apologize. The other day when Nicole formed, it was stated quite vehemently that she was not strong enough to effect the ridging ahead of Matthew. Now that she is a hurricane, is she strong enough?

The issue with Nicole was that she tightened up into a very tiny system to affect the ridge at the time. A very sharp wave/trough is enough to help erode a mid-level ridge. A TS/HUR can erode mid level ridges but pump upper level ridges up. But in the case of Nicole, she is too small to have affected the ridge heavily.

[AutoPenalti]

Looks like people in SFL are pissed off and have become completely complacent.

Comments like "I did all this for nothing", "I bought all his food" "news always hypes up storms" "I will never believe another news channel again" "next hurricane will be a cat 5 and they will hype it up again and then it gets close and steers away"

[KBBOCA]

Bouy SPGF1 is on the western tip of Freeport, I believe. Getting slammed
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=spgf1
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php? ... _label=EDT

[Aric Dunn]

And now a WNW jog.

It's almost as if Matthew is just avoiding land at all cost now.

look how much that outer eyewall has contracted.. thats quick..

[Frank P]

And now a WNW jog.

It's almost as if Matthew is just avoiding land at all cost now.

Looks like the outer eye wall is actuall getting smaller... still looks overall NW to me..