Will - Rutgers

I've never used the word "cucked" in regards to the weather (or anything, actually), but watching Mother Nature bang everyone else but you makes it seem like the perfect word. I mean the line fell apart approaching Middlesex Co from the west and then those severe cells popped to the east. Just astonishing how bad my thunderstorm luck has been this year after a very successful 2017. We should form some kind of Middlesex weather support group.

The radar had it just over Reading when I posted that, Google gave me a distance of about 100 miles. With lag, probably 80-90. Whatever it was was pretty far away.

Good lord I just saw lightning from that line all the way here in Piscataway. Actually now I'm seeing a bunch of it. That's a solid hundred miles away. Giving mild consideration to setting up the camera somewhere but I don't think anything would be here for at least two hours and who knows how it'll fall apart. The stable air down here has been cutting down these storms for two weeks.

Oh cool, a return of the pattern where it's miserably humid and a constant train of storms blows up directly to my north. Because that wasn't annoying as hell last week. Or was it the week before, I'm losing track of time.

These dew points are absolutely stupid. 76/75.

man this weather is boring gimme some snow or lightning

I'm going to guess it's still a Cat 4 and that the wind speed is lagging a little behind what I assume is a very rapid pressure drop. Details don't matter much when the core looks like that. Wobblier storm than Irma wouldn't you guys say?

I have no idea what is supposed to stop this thing from going full Irma at least until it runs over Puerto Rico. The structure is spectacular with a feeder band going directly into the inner eyewall, it's sitting over bathwater, no shear, strong outflow. Good night Johnboy.

Good thing they haven't rebuilt anything on Barbuda yet. JFC.

I guess this is a banter post, whatever. I think we are screwed. Really profoundly screwed. I won't hazard a guess at the long term implications of major AGW (perhaps there might even be benefits somehow realized from it), but there's major basic logistical issues from coastal areas being drowned. And it's hard to see how that's not going to be a central issue of climate change. And that's not even bringing in ecological disruption. Migration pattern disruption, proliferation of certain diseases, etc. Even before we ever get into the finer details of what will happen we have to get over displacing hundreds of millions, billions of people. That freaks me out.