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Hurricane Irma


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18 minutes ago, DopplerWx said:

this is gonna be another carolinas hit i believe.  the strength this run is insanity, 880mb...cannot imagine the storm surge verbatim

I think it's safe to say the super low pressures the gfs is showing is probably bogus and over done...it's been doing it since the last update as some have pointed out. The euro is much more realistic but it's still insanely strong...around 920mb. It's really quite extraordinary how long and  much the models have agreed on bringing a very powerful hurricane by this point. 

Interesting to note the gfs continues trending more and more to the south with the upper low over the midsouth which causes irma to curve westward after landfall. 

canadian still showing a florida landfall then big rainmaker for the se too. 

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8 minutes ago, Disc said:

Watching this run come in is a bit sickening. That whole area of the coast will never be the same.

yeah, this is no joke....looking like another major disaster for sure. Can't believe we are looking at such a thing so soon after the worst one we've ever had. 

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17 minutes ago, Wow said:

Canadian, however, would wreck a lot of shoreline before moving curving inland right into the S Apps.

A closer look at the canadian shows the eye skirting right over and paralleling the florida coast...even briefly moving off shore before making landfall in ga. So there might not be a ton of weakening with that track and could possibly still be a cat 3 on the ga coast. Highly unusual track and it's rare to see any canes, much less major ones, make landfall on the ga coast. The last cat 3 was in the 1890s IIRC from the other thread. 

Having such a powerful storm paralleling   the coast like that would be pretty bad in terms of raking the coast and make an awful headache for emergency management and citizens trying to decide whether to evacuate. Hopefully it will be a lot clearer well before then. 

 

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