Prospero
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OK who agrees? My wish: Ida gets her eye and RIs into a Cat 5, reaches near the LA coast to justify evacuation but not that bad and shifts east staying offshore bringing fun and excitement to the Florida Gulf coast (not too bad, but thrilling even for Tampa Bay), then moving west to the Texas coast giving everybody a taste there maintaining a perfect eye, then going east through the channel between Cuba and Florida allowing the Keys and Miami to have some fun, up the eastern coast brushing Cape Hatteras intensely (they are used to it, can handle it, and love it) then drifting up the east coast past VA and sitting for a day or so off NJ becoming a Cat 5 sub-tropical Hurricane and slamming NJ so nobody will ever mention Sandy again. A perfect eye the entire week long adventure. Right?
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If they are streaming PLEASE share! It is Saturday night with Ida doing her/its best to get it together. We are watching drooling for excitement (of course hoping nobody gets hurt). Daytime landfall on a Sunday? When does that happen? Sitting in Tampa Bay safe and sound, only a couple hours of work in the morning, and all day to be here with two 4K monitors with sats, models, this forum (and others if this gets boring which it will not), and watch Weather Channel. Need live streams galore!!
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And rain. Oh the rain.
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Maybe the wise have left, the traffic jam has subsided, and NOW is the time to say, "Get outa Dodge!!"
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Historically yes it did. It took a while for it to manifest. But hey, I was watching weather channel and landfall was not what we were expecting. The after effects were more than anyone imagined.
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NOW there are two eyes...and a crooked mouth! And wild hairdo.
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I was obsessed on another forum (being me), remember the "eye" discussion as it left the Florida coast when everyone thought it would develop much earlier. But reminded of the eye getting it together seeing the clip. Wow, so many storms since then. But if I remember right, it never reached the hype level even though being devastating to New Orleans. I do remember a horrible storm surge I think around Gulfport, MS.
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24 hours yes. What a monster it was. Eye was a mess where Ida is now. We'll see what happens. Hopefully NOT a Katrina. Good post. I'll pull back before I get banned off banter.
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24 hours? Not what I remember. But it did spin off-shore a bit.
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Ida, she/it is trying like hell to get that hot energy from the Gulf into the atmosphere where it belongs. What is the the cool spot? Dry air??
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Mostly I see what I see on the Texas coast. Katrina caught me eye first. But ever since. Just observations, from a storm passionate guy. But years of patterns support what I see. Not always, but in the Gulf it has become a storm forum dialog of "I see and eye" and "Nope, not yet." Ida will be strong no matter what. But didn't we all expect a well-defined perfect eye by now with wrapped around convection? Yes most of us. I have been here for days. Last night going to bed people were talking about the "six hours" from midnight till 6 am. Ida is a powerful dangerous storm indeed, no matter what. But I say the eye will be jabberwocky until a few hours before landfall like Katrina and Laura, some others that we have watched. Maybe if this keeps happening others will wonder WTF is going on. I will accept the weenie crazy hat and actually used to it. Any bets when a Yucatan perfect eye will form with Ida?
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Many will be. Others who live on higher ground in new fancy areas will complain and not leave when they should the next time. Happens here in Florida too often. I don't think it will be as bad as the hype, but certainly could be worse then the dismissers.
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My prediction. We will see this happen until close to landfall. I have my opinion and not sharing because it starts a fire every time I suggest it and we do have an active storm. But come on. Really?
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This is why I love the banter. More opinions and observations, and passion. I agree Ida may reach its potential, but a Major by noon today faded away. And still weird issues in the convection around the eye all day that throw it off. Yet if this same storm was heading to the Yucatan the eye would be perfect totally surrounded by solid convection. We'd all be talking about that. Why do Gulf storms have breaks in the convection? Consistently. Tell me.
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I bet if I watch a five hour sat animation I will see random cold spots appear where solid hot convection should be happening. Of course random scientific explanations suggestion a dry air pocket from somewhere or some other weird reason why a perfect eye won't come together. Another Gulf storm with an eye disease. But its early and I'll watch. Plus I have hundreds of posts to read to catch up!
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Just looked at the sats before I read the Ida storm thread. Eh, yea, not what I was expecting. NOT a Yucatan eye, but something there. Not perfect but maybe it was this afternoon.
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Wow, five hours offline and the Ida banter thread has gone crazy! Will take a while to catch up. Haven't even checked the real Ida thread!!! Is there an eye??????
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We've been very lucky around Tampa Bay. VERY lucky.
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Its going to be a long day. LOL Luckily for me I'll be on the road a few hours away from my PC.
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I think Ida looked better an hour and half ago. Maybe just me. Will Ida have a well-defined eye by noon EST? I have my doubts.
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And that is without a Mandatory Evacuation. Oh what fun.
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I remember Katrina where everyone kept saying as soon as it develops an eye it would strengthen even more and it kept falling apart. Only just before landfall did the eye really look good. I've watched many storms in the Gulf since then where the same discussion happens. A perfect eye is expected, should appear, and they fall apart. Yet we get perfect eyes approaching the Yucatan and out in the Atlantic. Maybe some unknown phenomena has developed in the Gulf that makes it harder for a perfect eye to manifest.
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This discussion comes up every year I think, at least since I have been around. From what I can gather is that there is no "rule", even with the English language. Years ago the media started to move away from "he/she" based on some who, like buckeyefan1, say of a hurricane, "its a pile of parts..." Others will say a hurricane is remembered by it it's name and displays a personality to some. In fact, some will say the Earth itself is not alive, it is just parts. Whereas others say the Earth is a living entity and we are all just parts of it. I miss speaking of storms by their name suggestions and I cringe even now when I force myself to call Ida an "it". I'm in the smaller school of thought that storms are alive themselves for their brief periods on our living breathing planet.
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All-Righta.
