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It really is.

33andRain focuses pretty heavily on the Northeast and hates if it's anything but snow. Ironic name actually. But they have simmered done a bit since going to Discord only. Wxsphere is pretty laid back and covers most regions, but I would say it likely has the most posts of nearly all the boards for the Midwest and lake effect regions. Looked at TriStateWeather but never really got to involved on that board.

Freezing fog is pretty dangerous. It's also beautiful

Yeah sometimes. He's always a great read.

Wxsphere

There has not been a heavy hitter in a few years. So it slowed up quite a bit. 33 and rain went to Discord only. This forum is likely the busiest of them all currently

The owner decided to go a different direction with the forum. Many broke off and started another forum.

Myself and a couple others helped start that board and then the person who now runs it took complete control. So.. That board splintered further and it became divided between another and 33 and rain.

PDII was when I really got into the forums, though I lurked alot back then - I was really young. The boards split pretty well after AccuWx shut unfortunately and there is alot of scattering with one of the heavy hitter boards being fully Discord based now. Boxing Day was insane for the boards and the EC. That was quite a time. Earthlight really called that one, even when NOAA refused to. I may or may not have been overly excited for those PBPs. Been a while since we had a real storm like that. Plus, with the boards scattered, its not quite as easy to obtain the information you used to be able to all at once.

Will I have not seen. DM I have. Edit - It appears Will is Santa Clause, so apparently he has been seen.

Tbh, that looks pretty reasonable. I woul not be surprised if some of those lighter blues shifted a touch North

It depends on the codes adhered to, if any. Those resorts, given the investments made, tend to be pretty well built, specifically to handle these types of storms. Now, the flooding is a problem. And this is an unprecedentedly strong hurricane, so we'll see.

As far as the buildings with concrete walls/ISO-2 builds, that will help, however, the main problem are the points of failure. In this case it will be the roof and without that lateral assistance to help the load bearing walls stay together, you risk implosion essentially. When buildings are constructed, part of the structural integrity comes from the roof tying the load bearing walls together. Combine that with the fact that the ground level pressure is so low while the winds create a potential pressure above 1000 mb inside the house due to the constraints of the winds inside such a small space and there is a strong likelihood that even the concrete wall buildings simply implode.

Helene deleted parts of NC when it hit the area, and I mean truly deleted. It's like civilization was never there in some areas. This is similar in flooding and much worse in wind. Now imagine Jamaica which has nowhere near the infrastructure the United States has.

200 mph... SUSTAINED That is the classification for an EF5 tornado. 200+. That's a 15+ mile wide EF5 Tornado.

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NAM 3K has the storm deepening rather strongly to the NC/SC border with a rather heavy band transversing the area tomorrow and then slowly decaying into the Mid-Atlantic states.

Like anything that governments create, especially for 'emergency' situations. Abuse eventually becomes rampant.

While I agree with you, it's not necessarily planning and coordination in terms of how to handle, it's about funding. Declaring a State of Emergency opens up additional funds from state and federal levels (mostly federal, though it is a bit complicated at times). So the SOE, while I will agree becomes like crying wolf, is really about opening of resources, most of which are financial.

Yeah this aged really poorly

Keep an eye on this. We are still 36 or so hours away and SR models want to back this coastal in. This is not a system to sleep on.

Yes, I remember this quite well. I lived in Ridge at the time. 1999. We got nearly a foot and it was snowing really hard for a while there.

I could be-and have been before- wrong, but I've seen this song and dance before with the models in this set up. More often than not this area takes at least a significant hit. I would most definitely keep an eye on this. There's a ton of energy around and we have a relatively good macro scale pattern. This is not over yet imo.

Only to Hr 144. Still snowing for the subforum at this point.

To my understanding, it was more that the latent heat from the sheer amount of lighting in the atmosphere was enough to cause the heat to melt the snow.