Jump to content
  • Member Statistics

    17,586
    Total Members
    7,904
    Most Online
    23Yankee
    Newest Member
    23Yankee
    Joined

Major Hurricane Fiona


GaWx
 Share

Recommended Posts

Hurricane Fiona Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL072022
335 PM AST Sun Sep 18 2022

...FIONA MAKES LANDFALL IN SOUTHWESTERN PUERTO RICO...

NWS Doppler radar observations indicate that the center of 
Hurricane Fiona has made landfall along the extreme southwestern 
coast of Puerto Rico near Punta Tocon at 320 PM AST...1920 UTC.  
Maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 85 mph 
(140 km/h).


SUMMARY OF 320 PM AST...1920 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...18.0N 67.1W
ABOUT 15 MI...25 KM SSE OF MAYAGUEZ PUERTO RICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...85 MPH...140 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 305 DEGREES AT 9 MPH...15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...986 MB...29.12 INCHES

$$
Forecaster Pasch/Berg

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

18 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

You look at that radar and IR and you just know there’s going to be catastrophic flooding in PR. Already seeing high end river flood reports. 

Sickening radar returns across PR. This is going to be a devastating flooding impact there. Several gust reports over 100 mph, definitely a feisty storm. Will be interesting seeing if Josh can get the eye in DR

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, NorthHillsWx said:

Sickening radar returns across PR. This is going to be a devastating flooding impact there. Several gust reports over 100 mph, definitely a feisty storm. Will be interesting seeing if Josh can get the eye in DR

Yeah, looking bad with much more rain to come from the looks of the latest radar.  Bad situation.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

51 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

I was in Central PA when Irene hit as a cat 1 and I still lost power despite it just being tropical storm force winds lol. People really underestimate lower end storms

Cannot really compare the two, PR is reporting their entire grid failed.
Localized outages happen all the time from TS force winds up here from deciduous tree falls.  Trimming in the right away prevents nuisance outages but once gusts get into the 50s and 60 larger limbs and uproots become more widespread resulting in your typical distribution fault type outages affecting 10s of thousands of customers at a time.

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, MattPetrulli said:

Another thing of note, almost every model absolutely bombs this in the next few days. It should make a really close approach to Bermuda Thursday as a large, major hurricane. 

07L_intensity_latest.png

Atlantic Canada will need to watch this too as the guidance tries edging this more northward as it interacts with the midweek trough. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It looks like interaction with PR didn’t slow down organization much at all. I hope the DR is ready for this one. 
Unfortunately the slow and steady angle of approach is pretty much a worst case scenario from a flooding perspective. The core has only clipped the higher terrain, it is not weakening. But it's driving the southerly feed of moisture off the Carribean right over the island, with orographic enhancement. Maria was horrible and I don't want to say Fiona will eclipse that in impacts. But it may outperform even Georges from a flooding event. This is looking really bad.
  • Sad 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, Windspeed said:
9 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:
It looks like interaction with PR didn’t slow down organization much at all. I hope the DR is ready for this one. 

Unfortunately the slow and steady angle of approach is pretty much a worst case scenario from a flooding perspective. The core has only clipped the higher terrain, it is not weakening. But it's driving the southerly feed of moisture off the Carribean right over the island, with orographic enhancement. Maria was horrible and I don't want to say Fiona will eclipse that in impacts. But it may outperform even Georges from a flooding event. This is looking really bad.

Yeah, this is about the worst case rainfall scenario for PR. The videos coming out are already really bad. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...