I thought shear was supposed to ramp up big time by late tonight? If Ian doesn’t close off the new eyewall by then, the shear is going to inject a ton of dry air and erode away the southern periphery of the hurricane. Or so I would think…
How long until twitter is filled with tweets saying: “(government official) says to write your social security number on your arm if you don’t evacuate.”?
I’ve been thinking that this storm could have a lifecycle similar to 2002’s Hurricane Lili, but with a landfall a bit further east, they both occurred during the same time period too
I think i remember that, was kinda weird where like it would calm slightly between cells. And then after like a five minute break another light to moderate shower would move over and slam us with hurricane force wind gusts.
I found this on the CHC site for Cape Breton:
Strong category-1 hurricane force winds of 100 gusting to 140 km/h at exposed locations except 140 gusting to 160 km/h at the coast with surge of 1.8 to 2.4 m and dangerous waves from 11 to 15 m from Hurricane Fiona are expected.
No storm will ever beat Hurricane Barry from a few years back in terms of ugliness, that thing was literally just a big rain band with literally no convection over or north of the center. How it managed to attain hurricane strength is a mystery of the universe considering I've seen 40 kt tropical storms that looked better
I remember laughing at your prediction (in a friendly way lol) but then thinking “Imagine he’s right? What a coup that would be.” And here we are, with a 4/0/0 season so far. I had 21/9/4 and at this point I’m thinking there’s a better chance Long Island gets hit by a Cat 4 this year than that happening