Hurricane Ian

[Wannabehippie]

1 hour ago, MANDA said:

Horrible if true and avoidable if people would just follow evacuation orders.  I hope this is not true. 

Not everyone is able to evacuate. 

[CoastalWx]

I hope the Sheriff is wrong, but that is a densely populated county. I saw people posting pictures of lots of people staying...having a margarita etc and waiting the storm out. Who knows.

[AmericanWxFreak]

4 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Wow...looks like RSW is now closed through Oct. 7 (with some exceptions). 

Source?

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, AmericanWxFreak said:

Source?

https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

 

[smokeybandit]

5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

 

That site shows DAB as being closed for a week, too. 

 

I wonder if that's just some default end date they put when the airport hasn't yet announced when it's reopening.

[weatherwiz]

Just now, smokeybandit said:

That site shows DAB as being closed for a week, too. 

 

I wonder if that's just some default end date they put when the airport hasn't yet announced when it's reopening.

I don't think so. It updated not long ago with the extension to the 7th. It was scheduled to re-open tomorrow at noon I think. 

[Lady Di]

There will be fatalities on Sanibel.  Especially if the causeway failed early there was no way for anyone to get out or to survive that surge.  I heard the water was up to roofs. Watched the Gov. presser and he said he knows of 2 deaths but didn't say where.  He tried to walk back what Lee county sheriff said, but Gov said the first responders went out before they were suppose to, so that statement was a bit telling.  It's going to be a very long and sad day,  I fear.

[jbenedet]

Wow - Daytona Beach is getting slammed. Sustained 53, gusting to 72. I doubt that area was prepped for this.

 

National Weather Service : Observed Weather for past 3 Days : Daytona Beach International Airport

[Brian5671]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

I don't think so. It updated not long ago with the extension to the 7th. It was scheduled to re-open tomorrow at noon I think. 

There is likely significant damage there with the 100-125mph wind gusts...

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

There is likely significant damage there with the 100-125mph wind gusts...

Yeah I imagine the damage there is likely quite significant...not to mention no power. They probably couldn't even get a staff to open if they wanted too. 

[NavarreDon]

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[StantonParkHoya]

Here in north-central NC, the wind is already whipping from the pressure gradient w/ the high to our north and Ian to the south. Akin to a nor'easter approaching. Can't recall a tropical storm with temps in the 50s before, but here we are.

[KPITSnow]

35 minutes ago, Wannabehippie said:

Not everyone is able to evacuate. 

In Cape Coral and ft myers? Most people can. 

[kvegas-wx]

15 minutes ago, StantonParkHoya said:

Here in north-central NC, the wind is already whipping from the pressure gradient w/ the high to our north and Ian to the south. Akin to a nor'easter approaching. Can't recall a tropical storm with temps in the 50s before, but here we are.

Flying into CLT in an hour.  Should be fun confirming your observation in real time.  Lol.

Happy to see the rainfall forecast continues to decline this weekend across the piedmont and foothills of NC.  Need rain, not floods. 

[StantonParkHoya]

3 minutes ago, kvegas-wx said:

Flying into CLT in an hour.  Should be fun confirming your observation in real time.  Lol.

Happy to see the rainfall forecast continues to decline this weekend across the piedmont and foothills of NC.  Need rain, not floods. 

That is a bright spot, we've been in a borderline drought this fall, so we can handle a good amount of rain.

[clskinsfan]

I saw a lot of tweets about people evacuating from the Tampa area to the Fort Myers area when Tampa was in the bullseye. Some of these surge and flood images are from 12 miles inland from the coast. Just a horrific situation in south Florida today. 

[HKY_WX]

NC piedmont will definitely have some good gusts tomorrow afternoon/evenining. The trends continued to push it further east up the coastline. Combining this with the HP will make for a tight pressure gradient up here. Should be an interesting day tomorrow.

[Baltimorewx]

Checked in with some friends who live in Cape Coral...no power or internet obviously but they live far enough off the river I guess that their canal did not flood the street. They live on SE Tenth Ave. Carport is destroyed though which probably led to some car damage but they are alive and well so thankful for that

[StantonParkHoya]

3 minutes ago, HKY_WX said:

NC piedmont will definitely have some good gusts tomorrow afternoon/evenining. The trends continued to push it further east up the coastline. Combining this with the HP will make for a tight pressure gradient up here. Should be an interesting day tomorrow.

Looks like most models have consolidated around a Charleston hit.

 

[hawkeye_wx]

It turned out that some of those early worst-case Euro runs from days ago, which showed Ian turning up into sw Florida, exiting into the Atlantic, then phasing with the tail end of the eastern US trough and moving into the Carolinas as a strong system, were totally correct.

[Bubbler86]

3 minutes ago, StantonParkHoya said:

Looks like most models have consolidated around a Charleston hit.

 

 

Some show a Cat Two when using MB as the gauge. 

[MattPetrulli]

Parts of NE Florida have been in tropical storm conditions since the evening last night. Think the damage up there will be more than we anticipated. Reminds me of Matthew's NE Florida impacts.

[StantonParkHoya]

1 minute ago, hawkeye_wx said:

It turned out that some of those early worst-case Euro runs from days ago, which showed Ian turning up into sw Florida, exiting into the Atlantic, then phasing with the tail end of the eastern US trough and moving into the Carolinas as a strong system, were totally correct.

I'm sorry, are you from the future?

[clskinsfan]

Some of the images in Charlotte County of Mobile Home parks remind me of Andrew. Absolute destruction. So many retired folks have lost everything.

[TradeWinds]

2 hours ago, Clyde said:

East of Orlando here, yard flooded, water 6 inches to a foot deep everywhere, septic backed up. I don’t live in a flood zone so can’t imagine what it looks like in those places. We got 11 inches of rain with Irma and had no standing water so this is quite something. Oh, no wind damage to note and didn’t lose power which is a minor miracle since I typically do for pretty much anything stronger than a deer fart.


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Orlando got hit hard. I received 14.13", almost 6" just in that band last night between midnight and 3 AM. Had to help neighbors as water entered their homes. The flooding in Orlando is ridiculous. We are now pushing 12 hours of tropical storm force winds and gusts to 60. Ian was a beast in FL. 

[Jersey Andrew]

Has anyone heard from Fort Myers Beach?

[Wmsptwx]

Lol just saying “hundreds dead” was pretty stupid and irresponsible to the extreme.

[Wmsptwx]

Just now, Jersey Andrew said:

Has anyone heard from Fort Myers Beach?

Yeah pretty bad damage, much worse than Fort Myers itself(which was still significant).

[NeffsvilleWx]

Just want to share the NWS 5 day path archive because it perfectly captures just how "good" the NHC was with Ian's track. The actual landfall point was in the cone from day 1. Anyone that wants to blame the NWS/NHC for their lack of preparedness is just looking for a scapegoat.

 

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2022/IAN_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_no_line_and_wind

 

[clskinsfan]