OT: Here we go again....

-- By the way,
Does anybody else find it odd that the European models are consistently more accurate than the US/GFS models?

Yes it is the only one that is correct... all the others can only predict 12-24 hrs out but the European can go much longer and is correct or really close to the prediction

The scary part is that is the only one showing hurricane Jose looping back and hitting Florida again


EDIT: So lucky it did change overnight, this is showing it staying off the coast https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=ecmwf
 
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We were lucky to get out with minimal damage... not even as bad as Matthew. Power was out longer, and there was more power-induced damage to equipment where I work at CCAFS, with little of the structural damage that Matthew left behind.

Worst part was that we were on vacation in NC/TN (on motorcycles) and had to leave early to get home to Titusville, FL to prep for the storm. Rode through rain for 8 hours to beat it home!
 
I'm worried about Bering Sea Sparky too ... AND his family ... I sent him a PM before the storm hit - but never heard anything back from him ... if anybody hears from him - please post the news ...
 
good news ...

I just got a PM from Bering C Sparky ... he and his family are all OK - and it sounds like his property didn't too messed up ... he's been doing "storm cleanup" work - but hopefully he'll have time to update us soon ...
 
My sister's neighborhood was featured on 60 minutes last night. It was about Harvey clean up and the fact the reservoir system wasn't adequate. My sister lives 3 blocks away from the man interviewed. My sister lives on slightly higher ground so she only got a few inches on water inside but the lore walls and floorboards had to be removed.
 
No thanks...you can keep your hurricanes!

We've just had ex-hurricane Ophelia "breeze" through...

Nationwide Red Alert - 150mph winds, 3 dead, roofs peeled off stadiums and houses and garden sheds flying through the air. Lots of building damage around the country but no homes lost that I'm aware of. Coastal flooding, trees down and roads and motorways blocked. Hundreds of thousands without power and other services. Our power has been out all day but just restored now (midnight), thankfully. Our little country, island even, is in shut down. Airports closed, national transport shut down, no schools open today or tomorrow for the entire country. Some businesses will open tomorrow but lots of cleaning up to do. I'll be in at 6am to power up the plant again and get it ready for 8am production, hopefully.

Still very strong gales this evening but it's just the tail of it as it heads north-east. Rainfall was persistent but no real flooding inland to talk of. Fair bit of debree flung about the place to clean up. The tall trees at the end of our back yard held up well considering they were bent sideways most of the day, towards the house. We have mainly deciduous broadleaf trees here where their leaves face the wind and the tree trunks do not bend so easily in the wind. Unlike palm trees, for instance. It's always interesting to see how newer more modern buildings fair in such conditions in comparison to older buildings and structures - not so well it would appear? Lots of fancy new cladding easily torn off shiny new supermarkets and the like.

But thank God that is over and we've come through relatively unscathed.

Now some of you might think "Pfff, that's a walk in the park!". But we just do not get this level of weather event here. Maybe once every 50 years. We're not used to it or prepared for it. The weather in Ireland is inclement, at best, but I always say I'd take it any day over the penalty incrued for having a tropical climate.

I have always had a healthy dose of respect and sympathy for what must, I'm sure, be life changing and catastrophic events for you folks during tropical cyclone/hurricane season. But today has elevated that level of appreciation to a new level. Very scary and panic inducing and I am not one that panics too easily.

So many laughed off the warnings here in typical Irish "Sure, it'll be grand" fashion - to their detriment. Two of the fatalities were separate people driving unnecessarily where a tree fell on their car. We were all warned to stay in doors. I drove home from the plant at midday when it was only starting up and there were lots of branches down already. One other fatality was a man in his early thirties clearing a felled tree with a chainsaw when another tree fell on him. Why clear it in the middle of the storm? No one was going anywhere, or should have been. Very unfortunate and unnecessary deaths. But aren't they often?

Global warming "experts" are suggesting that this phenomenon, of storms retaining there cyclonic structure and power as they drift east across the Atlantic towards Europe, will become more frequent. I do hope they are incorrect, but it's hard to ignore certain facts which do facilitate this occuring more frequently in the future. For instance, notably warmer Atlantic sea temperatures and sea air which have also been detected more easterly than before. This has resulted in a more easterly centric origin for many of these tropical cyclones. Coupled also with the detection of less wind shear they say that these factors primarly aided Ophelia in maintaining hurricane strength winds so far east. Historically these hurricane strength winds would normally have abated long before they would hit more easterly European shores. I can see merit in their reasoning but one storm is only one statistical data point. If we can say it's been roughly 50 years since the last major event here then let's see how long before the next. I hope, as timid as our little whirlwind might sound to a more seasoned and scarred hurricane victim, that I don't see another similar event in my lifetime.

Yes, you can most definitely keep your hurricanes! The Atlantic, that is. I wouldn't wish these oceanic beasts upon anyone!

Goodbye Ophelia...

As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
- Hamlet

Respectfully relieved,
George
 
But thank God that is over and we've come through relatively unscathed.

By the luck of the Irish!! (spoken in my best Irish accent) 🍻

We were watching and praying for you... glad it was a fast mover and not another Texas

I hope this is not the beginning of the global warming effect but I think it is and this maybe the new normal :confused:
 
yes, I know that this is an "old" thread - but here we are almost exactly one year later - doing exactly the same thing again - but this time with Hurricane Florence ... I've screwed the equipment cupboard together again - and I'm battening down the hatches tomorrow morning ... hopefully (and prayerfully) I'll still have a business to come back to once this thing is over with ...

safety to all who might be in the storm's path ...
.

Florence Monday night.jpg
 
I looks like it's gong to be a bad one this time Ill be think of you.
If you need help getting things back up and running after it passes pm me I should be able to free up some time to lend a hand
 
I'm good, well, at least much better then in 89, if it follows the currently predicted path. North Carolina on the other hand is going to be a grade A disaster :(.


Strange thing here, is at Lake Marion/Moultrie, they aren't dropping the water level at all; still at full pool, so when this mass of water comes pouring down, and flooding the rivers, there won't be any storage for it here. I think we are going to see a repeat of the October flooding a couple of years ago, but no actual hurricane damage in at least the southern half of SC.
 
I'm good, well, at least much better then in 89, if it follows the currently predicted path. North Carolina on the other hand is going to be a grade A disaster .


Strange thing here, is at Lake Marion/Moultrie, they aren't dropping the water level at all; still at full pool, so when this mass of water comes pouring down, and flooding the rivers, there won't be any storage for it here. I think we are going to see a repeat of the October flooding a couple of years ago, but no actual hurricane damage in at least the southern half of SC.

Boy they need to, the last model is showing it making a southern turn after it hits land and parking over SC, now they are calling for 10-30 inches of rain, thats a lot of water....

Anyone one needs anything let me know I have plenty of room for parking
 

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