ATL: NICOLE - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[HurricaneBelle]

St. Pete/Clearwater airport in the last hour:

[MetroMike]

Now 328 thousand now now without power in all of Florida.

[Coolcruiseman]

Winds were definitely howling here when Nicole started coming ashore. Knocked out power around 4 am. Kudos to FPL as it's already back on.

Top gust report in Melbourne of 73 mph.

[mpic]

Any observations or warnings for Fort Myers? My weather map is showing highest winds of 18mph and hoping it's true. Have friends there who are worried sick

[cycloneye]

Watch for possible tornadoes in the Carolinas.

 https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/status/1590650528928759808

[blueskies]

It is a little bit noisier and more intense in St Petersburg this morning than I had expected. Almost no visibility looking out the windows. Safe inside.

[MetroMike]

Now 328 thousand now without power in all of Florida.

[jdjaguar]

30.1N 80.8W
High helicity tower offshore.
Possible impact JAX in the next hour or so.

Lost power right after you posted this
Big band just swept through
More vigorous than expected.

High tide still 2 hours away
Surge looking like it may equal Matthew in my locale

[ronjon]

In SW Hernando County (Hernando Beach) the winds started cranking from the N-NE around 4:30 am and have steadily increased with heavy squalls through the morning. Getting sustained winds of 30-35 mph with occasional gusts near 50 mph. Recorded a peak gust of 58 mph so far. The center looks to me to be moving mostly west the last few hours and based on radar looks to be in central Pasco County now.

[HurricaneBelle]

On radar right now it looks like the center is over Zephyrhills in eastern Pasco County and looking at the Swiftmud radar it seems to be south of the forecast track and still moving more WNW than NW, so it may hit the Gulf sooner. Probably won't make much of a difference to Nicole's strength but could prolong the agony for the immediate Tampa Bay area, which has been in the soup for hours now.

[Sanibel]

A non-event here thank goodness...Just outside the southern band...


Damage control on the house today to mitigate further water intrusion...

[CronkPSU]

all fine here in far east orlando...

much stronger winds for a longer time than Ian was but maybe a quarter of the rain...back half of the storm coming thru now

gotta hand it to NHC nailing the path and storm strength from the start

[GCANE]

Minimal Significant-Tornado Parameter (STP) fully on shore now, JAX area.

[AJC3]

The 100mph wind gust report was erroneous, as the web page it was taken from had bad wind and site data. The peak gust at 39B pad tower was 81kt/93mph at 200ft.

We confirmed the data was bad with CCSFS when we initially saw the social media post which referenced it.

[dizzyfish]

West Pasco reporting in. We are getting hammered right now. It lets up for a minute then wham. LOL Hubby had to go to work today and said the road had maybe 20% of the vehicles he usually sees. I'm so sad to see all of the erosion on the other coast. Stay safe all!

[Blown Away]

Just south of Tampa here, in Parrish. Bigger punch then I expected! Raining side ways - sustained winds I would guess in the 30-40mph range with higher gusts. Comparable to what we got with Irma in 2017.

Saved Loop. Looks l'm stuck in one of the training bands.

https://i.imgur.com/T6P0UJ9.gif

Amazing how Nicole kept here structure moving over land.

[cycloneye]

Very interesting.

 https://twitter.com/EricBurrisWESH/status/1590722443936763905

[Sciencerocks]

[Poonwalker]

Just south of Tampa here, in Parrish. Bigger punch then I expected! Raining side ways - sustained winds I would guess in the 30-40mph range with higher gusts. Comparable to what we got with Irma in 2017.

Saved Loop. Looks l'm stuck in one of the training bands.

https://i.imgur.com/T6P0UJ9.gif

Amazing how Nicole kept here structure moving over land.

Yeah thought the same thing. Iam sure it’s related to the subtropical dynamics. Look how west loaded it is. Normally worry about right front quadrant but this made no difference. Was meaningless to fret over the exact landfall point.

[cycloneye]

 https://twitter.com/BrandonTJones_/status/1590730795563433984