Tezeta

It looks like a cat 4 to me. Not perfect eyewall, not in the 920s or lower, good but not great IR, and at best borderline recon obs before the planes left. 
 

weenies want it to be a 5 because they have a parasocial relationship with the hurricane. 

5 minutes ago, Floydbuster said:

Teens playing in the surf on the Fort Myers webcam another reason the voting age should be changed to 35.

But I digress. 

 

Why do white people have a death wish? 

3 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

so much florida man footage getting uploaded today

 

 

Crypto Batman. L o fucking L

9 minutes ago, jbcmh81 said:

Future Darwin Award winner.

Future Ryan hall yall thumbnail controversy 

Mold spores rn

1 hour ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said:

Texas, after insurers wouldn't write policies in coastal counties after Celia mandated any home insurers in the state had to form a pool to cover them.  Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency.  They have building code standards, and won't write policies if they is an established storm (Ian is nowhere near, but no policies written since 9/26/2022).  I assume Florida has something similar, although only a small area of Texas needs state mandated insurance for hurricane winds and and Florida, the whole state needs it.

 

Main thread, insured losses may push poorly funded insurance companies under.  If that happens, I wonder if companies will need a minimum reserve to pay claims.  Insurance rates are sure to climb, even in areas not severely impacted in Florida.

Taxpayers are going to have to bail out coastal richers. 

8 minutes ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said:

I think it is phosphate fertilizer production.  Just reading about concentrations of radon producing trace amounts of radium in the waste.  Radiation gets the publicity, but the heavy metals, if I had to guess, would be a bigger danger to wildlife.  Construction gypsum is apparently lower in the radium.  Or they couldn't use it in construction.  The only thing I know about gypsum, really, is its desiccated cousin anhydrite is found in outcrops on the Colorado River in Bastrop.  The other Colorado River.

Dude you should see the gypsum beds out at lake mead. You can be driving by and see what looks like a ton of broken glass, and it’s just clear shards. There are milky ones too, and rosettes you can find. The petrified wood out there even is infested with it, giving it a sparkly luster but brittle texture. 

2 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/imminent-failure-of-phosphogypsum-stack-in-tampa-bay-exposes-phosphate-industry-risks-2021-04-03/

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In response to the unfolding threat, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for Manatee County.

“This environmental disaster is made worse by the fact it was entirely foreseeable and preventable,” said Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “With 24 more phosphogypsum stacks storing more than 1 billion tons of this dangerous, radioactive waste in Florida, the EPA needs to step in right now. Federal officials need to clean up this mess the fertilizer industry has dumped on Florida communities and immediately halt further phosphogypsum production.”
 

so now they want the EPA…

Just now, CoastalWx said:

??

We have seen it a couple times over the years. Laura was the last I remember

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Not so sure I agree what Webber has there is the new eyewall at this moment.

Yeah I think this may be one of those weird AGW era eye melds

This is good timing. They let the weenies hang loose for a while and I got to add some new ones to my list of bad posters. Now it’s time to lock down. 

3 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

bring your pets if you feel teh need 

Live, laugh, lighten up

Oof…like blowing out your knee in the preseason 

They shouldn’t let tornado chasers LARP as tropical dudes

This guy. Lol. 

4 minutes ago, ATDoel said:

apparently this is the place to discuss the hurricane hunter aircraft, why did the most recent recon turn around?

So that a billionaire could get a tax cut

1 minute ago, Rockem_sockem_connection said:

The people who use words like great, beautiful, amazing, etc to describe hurricanes are not sensitive individuals. I can understand being fascinated by the storm as most folks are but don't humanize something so terrible. My 2 cents boys, hate me

Anyone know what the local key west scene is like this afternoon? I wonder what their high water mark from surge from this event will be. 

3 minutes ago, Sportybx said:

What are we looking at surge / wind for Cape Coral at this point ?


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I’d be mildly shitting my pants rn if I were in Cape Coral 

37 minutes ago, wncsnow said:

I'm sure it has happened in history, but I can never recall a storm crossing Florida from the Gulf side then turning back west into SC/GA or NC after entering the Atlantic. 

Charley struck both Florida and the Carolinas. You don’t need to turn west to hit them after Florida exit.

6 minutes ago, cptcatz said:

That's an amazing structure for having just crossed over Cuba. Do you think cat 5 is on the table?

It’s looking better upon exit than charley ever did. If it stays low and landfalls early it could be a very high end impact. 

Just woke up…so dank

5 minutes ago, Prospero said:

Please don't, but I understand.

Charlie, the famous Cat 5 (about the size of a Dime), was heading straight into Tampa Bay. The traffic jams right now may not beat Charlie's.

You know, every minute checking forums, TV, anything that had latest information. Right in the path of the Cat 5. Past couple or few days it's been building. The latest NHC graphic is very worst. Yet, as the tracks go this way and that, no matter what they can not be worse than this moment where I live.

 

 

 

Charley was a 4