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    Hurricane Zeta

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    11 minutes ago, dan11295 said:

    You mean Delta (I know easy to get Greek Letters mixed up)

    Uh, yea. So many storms, so many names. LOL

    I was going off of memory. ("Which one was it? Beta? OK, sure...")

    Who remembers Hanna? This was an active forum for sure!

    Hurricane Zeta

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    1 minute ago, dan11295 said:

    I know it's a Weatherflow thing mostly (maybe some other sites have similar deals). Basically selling access to the data. Wundergound stations don't have this restriction for example.

    I'm still waiting for Cameron's data to be displayed from Beta. I think they wait 30 days as Laura's did eventually show up and it was impressive. Beta's may be as well.

    Hurricane Zeta

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    38 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

    What were the highest confirmed wind gusts and storm surge with this?  I looked around and for confirmed numbers found 112 mph for highest wind gust and 10.88 ft for highest storm surge.  That makes me think it will be upgraded to Cat 3 in post, as the highest confirmed wind gust reported usually corresponds with the highest sustained winds at landfall.  

    I've spent some time looking, and 88/112 from Bayou Bienvenue is the strongest winds I've seen recorded. Many PWS are still down, so some that have battery backup that still recorded after the power was out and may show up more later. A few professional stations stop displaying when the the winds hit 50 mph during a storm due to licensing. But 112 is the most I've seen that the public can see online. Local TV news and social media around there reported higher (as posted here last night), but I haven't been able to find the actual recordings online using the tools I use.

    I was up at 4:30 this morning and the first thing I did was look for current winds with the storm. At that time I found 30 to 35 mph sustained winds with gusts as high as 59 were easy to find in GA, SC, and NC with PWS's. Keep in mind most of those are protected from the wind. One was from a Fire Station with 42/59 I think, maybe in SC. But I didn't go far from the center. I suspect some of the stronger winds were a maybe as far as 100 miles from the center ahead of the storm and east.

     

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    2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

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    Hmmm, freezing rain and snow in Texas, a Hurricane hits New Orleans, Biloxi, and Gulfport (MS) and pounds the southeast US into Virginia, miserable hot and muggy in Florida.

    Can't wait to see what is next for 2020. Maybe we'll see snow in Florida a day or two after we get hit by the next TS?

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    2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

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    17 minutes ago, Windspeed said:

    Streams are up but nothing too major. Upper NE TN/SW VA faired pretty well. All the high wind remained east of the Blue Ridge or ridges and peaks above 3600 ft. Generally the stronger stuff clipped Chattanooga but shot east through the Carolinas to SE VA. As for rain, here's a clip of the West Prong of the Little Pigeon from Gatlinburg, TN.

     

    That is crazy for this time of year! In the Spring with a warm wet storm and a major snow melt, creeks and rivers often flood in them mountains. Then it's time to white water raft if not too dangerous (New River in WV comes to mind). LOL

    2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season

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    Every six hours various models dance different scenarios around with future development in the Caribbean and GOM. This being 2020, and enduring yet another hot muggy day on October 29 here in Florida, I tend to think we may not be done for the year.

    We still have healthy green leaves and fresh blooms on our Frangipani in our backyard that never has leaves past mid-September!

    Strange year.

     

     

    Hurricane Zeta

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    1 minute ago, cptcatz said:

    Is that normal?  I haven't been tracking hurricanes long but it seems like every hurricane this year had an open/weak south side as it moved north onto the gulf shore.

    Could be the location of the radar not giving a full picture.

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    Hurricane Zeta

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    3 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

    The levees will probably be fine but referencing what they are designed to handle or have prevented before doesn’t seem like the way to go. If they do fail it will not be because of their specs, it will be because of an unknown defect. Our infrastructure sucks. Something could fail unexpectedly just like Katrina. 

    Not sure why "Capital One Building" keeps popping into my mind...

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