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Danokan
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Posted: Sun Aug 16th, 2009 11:20 pm |
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/weather/08/16/weather.severe.storms/index.html
CNN) -- Tropical Storm Claudette was on course late Sunday afternoon to hit the Florida Panhandle in the evening, and the storm's outer rain bands already was pushing into the area.
Meanwhile, two other severe storms were in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday. Tropical Depression Ana, which was downgraded from a tropical storm Sunday afternoon, was losing strength as it approached the Northern Leeward Islands, while Tropical Storm Bill was gaining strength as it followed behind Ana.
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Posted: Mon Aug 17th, 2009 03:57 pm |
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While I am not over in LA (lower Alabama) I am certain that they will be fine. For the folks in the redneck riviera this is nothing more than a large rain storm.
In my experience these types of storms do less damage than a bad thunderstorm.
Now Ana I am going to watch. I'm hoping the mountains in Hispaniola will dissipate it because the waters off of the west coast of Florida are very warm right now and i don't know if I trust the dynamic models that show it as nothing more than a remnant low traveling up our west coast.
If it is sufficiently dissipated then no big deal but with the water as warm as it usually it it should be able to intensify some and give us those thunderstorms I was just talking about.
Bill is more of a concern for mariners.
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JP
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Posted: Mon Aug 17th, 2009 07:24 pm |
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JP
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Posted: Mon Aug 17th, 2009 11:07 pm |
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By 8 a.m. ET, Claudette had been downgraded to a tropical depression as it moved over Alabama. Claudette made landfall about 1:15 a.m. near the eastern end of Santa Rosa Island, just southeast of Fort Walton Beach in Florida, the National Weather Service said. It is expected to move into southern Alabama on Monday morning and into northeastern Mississippi by Monday night.
Even before Claudette made landfall, the storm's outer bands pounded the area with heavy rain, with officials warning that some coastal areas had the potential for localized flooding. Meanwhile, Hurricane Bill was in the Atlantic heading west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, the weather service said. The storm's center was about 1,080 miles east of the Lesser Antilles shortly before 11 a.m. ET
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Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2009 11:59 am |
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I'm not sure which of our members might be in that area. Generally speaking this will be a rain event.
We can and have gotten worse from thunderstorms this year. The problem with tropical depressions is that they can dump quite a bit of rain over a 24 hr period. So long as you are not in a low lying area they are not too bad.
Even cat 1 hurricanes are not too bad. I had the eye of one go right over me last year when I was working down in Melbourne, FL.
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littleitaly1990
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Posted: Wed Aug 19th, 2009 08:42 am |
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I'm sure I'll be fine, thanks for the concern though.
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Danokan
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Posted: Wed Aug 19th, 2009 08:13 pm |
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This is Bill.. Hurricane Category 4 as of now.
They are predicting this won't hit Florida..but might skirt up the Coast and hit the North East.
Still too early to tell!
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JP
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Posted: Wed Aug 19th, 2009 10:28 pm |
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Posted: Thu Aug 20th, 2009 07:29 pm |
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Hopefully the folks in Bermuda are prepared. It looks like they will not catch the full force of Bill but they will be on the Northeast side when he passes. This is where you don't want to be due to the elevated storm surge in this quadrant.
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