Floydbuster

I never thought I'd become an old-fogey to where I actually believe we name too much or retire too much.

This weather has been awful and depressing. I feel like I live in an old Soviet town.

Don't post too many videos. They'll end up naming the Upper level low "Fred".

I try. I will say this year I think Florida may be smacked pretty hard. I tend to notice that seasons with abnormally cold springs here in Ohio result in disastrous major hurricane landfalls in Florida. 2004 and 2017 come to mind.

New Video on Hurricane Elsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Czm7j8iE0

Doesn't look like a hurricane, but it definitely looked good earlier. Still better looking than Hurricane Barry 2019.

I think Elsa landfalls further east. I'm gonna guess well south of the big bend.

Thanks. Elsa is looking more stacked tonight.

I feel bad for the NHC. They keep saying no change in strength and Elsa keeps ruining their forecast critiques.

12pm Video Update on Hurricane Elsahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZxHppw2gw

Was just gonna say this. What the heck happened to it?

Those waves are pumping off Africa pretty impressively for July 2nd.

I'm surprised the NHC was still as conservative. I'm typically conservative with intensity as well because of so many storms fizzling in the past, but Elsa is impressing me tonight.

I didn't wanna say it, but yeah. I have a feeling it was similar to the World Trade Center. The way the condo pancaked. Add in the heat, the fires, the amount of time. It's very sad. The recovery forces are working as fast as they can, but I have a bad feeling.

Yeah I doubt if we even get that much here. I'm thinking maybe 3 inches, MAYBE.

14 inches my *ss. Dry as a dog bone in the Cuyahoga Falls region for most of the last three hours. Some sleet on and off.

I'm a hurricane guy, winter is not my hobby. Can you explain in layman terms what is happening to allow such a bust in central Ohio? Too warm of air?

I'm hearing ice hit the windows outside now near Cuyahoga Falls.

Near Cuyahoga Falls. Quiet and clear.

Cleveland Mets are saying the big snow should occur between 10pm and 3am. Looks like a dry socket over much of central/northeast Ohio, and more sleet and mix pulling up into Canton. This storm was REALLY hyped up here, hopefully it's not a total bust. People expecting 8-14 inches throughout Northern Ohio.

It's dark so it's hard to tell but nothing "massive" yet here near Cuyahoga Falls.

It was a very weird hurricane season. I think I'm getting old. It was 20 years ago that I joined the first hurricane message board, which eventually lead to more of them. It just seems like it used to be easier to keep track of "active" hurricanes. When I was a teen, the costliest storms were easy: Andrew, Hugo, Floyd. Boom. Done. I wouldn't even know what the list is now. You have storms like "Sandy" which wasn't even technically a hurricane at landfall. We had a Cat 5 landfall in 2018, but it was in mid-October. We had a slew of extremely busy years (2010-2011-2012) with lackluster landfalls, followed by incredibly slow seasons (2013-2014-2015). Seasons so "boring" that I essentially feel like I didn't track hurricanes during much of the Obama Years. 2020 was insane, but I don't understand all the backlogged seasons in the last decade. What's with the insane Octobers? Weird high-latitude Cat 4s in October like Ophelia 2011? Cat 5 U.S. Landfall in mid-October 2018? Hurricane Joaquin with his messed up late-season southwest track in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? This year: Delta, Zeta, Eta, Iota....all monsters...all in mid-October or later. What the hell? Is it some sort of climate change? I'm a skeptic when it comes to hurricanes and climate change, but it sure as hell feels different. "Busy" seasons when I was a teen were like 2001. The "I" storm in October. Now we have a Greek letter in October. What gives? Any ideas? Are we naming too much junk? Another thing: What's with all the non-U.S. hurricanes being put on U.S. landfall lists? Putting random Typhoons that hit Guam 60 years ago on a list with Michael and Andrew. What the hell is that? Saying Hurricane Maria "hit the U.S." I have relatives who live in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is not the United States of America. Now I see the 1928 hurricane's Cat 5 Puerto Rican landfall being called "U.S." landfall. What the hell is that? I guess I just got used to Steve Lyons and John Hope on the Weather Channel with Kristina Abernathy and Jeff Morrow tracking normal hurricanes on normal maps. I turn on the Weather Channel now and they do "Special Coverage" of an invest. In my day John Hope would've circled it on the tropical update at :50 past the hour and said "Nothing there, but we will watch it. That's it for this time." Now there are supermodel women with 3D graphics showing invest model plots. It kinda takes the notoriety out of our online weather community.