MarkO

Looks like landfall will officially happen in the next 10 minutes. Looks like those chasers are experiencing 100 mph winds now, going to be another 15 or so for Read.

Tallahassee will be ok, it'll wobble wobble but pass on the western side. It's moving quick north.

Storm surge hitting Cedar Key. 5' and rising

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Cedar Key area got to be experiencing some surge now. Wonder what it's going to look like in the morning. I hope everybody there evacuated.

Looking very impressive on satellite and symmetrical on radar. Eye seems to be clearing out.

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A little newer i the NOAA site: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24&dim=1

Outflow more impressive on satellite. Unfortunately, the latest images I can find are about an hour old.

Looking at Google Earth, possibly 10-15 miles

Center looks to have an almost due north track over the past hour via radar.

The drier air (possibly influenced by the western side going over the Yucatan) has prettymuch been eliminated. Very favorable conditions for RI over the next 12-18 hrs. This is going to transform into a buzzsaw on satellite. Cat 5 possible/probable by landfall. Not sure how much fetch it can produce with that fast forward speed. But storm surge will be impressive let alone the winds. I hope people on the west coast of FLA up through the eastern pan handle take this one serious.

I did, Congrat's Paul!

Quick passing shower yesterday (not enough to register), and 0.01" overnight. I've been watering the lawn to keep it alive (barely).

That's an incredible amount of rain for parts of CT and Long Island. Many of the cities and towns around me are having us design stormwater controls by the Cornell extreme precipitation charts, which are much higher than the ones we prreviously used. For example, my local 100 yr/24 hr storm used to be in the 6.4" range, and now it's in the 8.4" range: https://precip.eas.cornell.edu/#/

Did you shovel it into a pile? I know someone who would.

Got real dark in Lowell just before the cell. Probably one of the darkest mid-day thunderstorms I've seen. Lots of cloud-ground strikes in my area. Had a handfull within a mile.

Just rain and some wind, flashes of lightning. I think the hail is going to stay to my west.

Have you thought about installing solar? I had 19 panels installed in December, added 4 more on my own in early April (didn't think I was going to cover my bill). But even for the months of June and July, I'm still overproducing, despite the AC nearly being always on. If I do end up overproducing for the year, I'm going to install a mini-split for heat. It's going to take me as little as 5, but not more than 7 years to pay for system. My new meter hit 565 kW in February, but it's now nearly 1 mW in the negative.

Looks similar to last night. Nice gust front for the folks a little south of me. Last night had a nice wall/shelf cloud structure.

I have a tendency to see radar as 2D, but I know it's more complicated than that. Just trying to understand what's going on in the vertical shear, like the horizontal movement, just trying to envision the vertical rolling dynamics.

I'll admit, I have zero knowledge of summer weather and thermodynamics. As seen on current radar, what is causing the streaking, striations of radar returns moving to the SSE, yet the main bulk of rain seems to be moving to the ENE on the current BOX radar?

Forgot to post, but skied the loaf on Sunday, April 21, and Monday the 22nd. Soft snow Sunday with wall to wall coverage on nearly every upper mountain trail, some bare spots on trails below. Was in the mid-upper 20's Monday, so fast and furious. Made the mistake of taking a steep bump run. It was bulletproof. Had the mountain prettymuch to ourselves on Monday. There's a reason they call it "king of spring". They had 110 trails open, I think Killington had 16. I'll make my way back over to K Mart in a few weeks.

Secnds before totality we saw a bright flash. My nephew got it on video. Still have no idea what it was.

I noticed that too, a fraction of a second before totality. My brother and I simultaneously yelled out "what the f... was that?" The only thing I can think of was maybe some impact from whatever miniscule moon atmosphere refraction of sorts.