Hurricane Irma

[chillyblast]

3 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

Brad Johnson‏ @whetherPROOF

Thanks and thanks for the link to the wind speeds (Barking Mad)

Flight DL431 got balls of steel.....

[Barking_Mad]

Updated "Euro" ECMWF (12z) model shows powerful Category 4/5 Hurricane #Irma eye right off SE Florida coastline near Miami 
Sunday morning: https://t.co/22lbLPJdP3

[matty40s]

6 minutes ago, The PIT said:

Stream finished the back room was flooding....

Do you mean the streams now in the back room...

[BornFromTheVoid]

Any idea why the ECM has Irma at 960hPa at T0? Clearly, this is wrong.

[Iceberg]

Ec has the eye perfectly over Miami. It couldn't be more so. 

[The PIT]

Great you can a stream from within the hurricane but can't get into the nation hurricane centre.

[OddSpot]

Its all about sheds

Sure it is a different stream and she is also on about sheds lol

Some of them comments though 

 

Edited September 6, 2017 by OddSpot

[Zephyr]

Has there been any coms from Barbuda does anyone know?

[The PIT]

2 minutes ago, OddSpot said:

Its all about sheds

Sure it is a different stream and she is also on about sheds lol

Some of them comments though 

 

There house got hit by a shed.

[chillyblast]

Shed said earlier that a shed hit the house but shed didnt know which or whose shed it was, surely shed have known if shed stop closing the shutters, but with all those flying sheds around I dont blame her!

[Kiwi]

28 minutes ago, SNOW_JOKE said:

Tortola completely destroyed, currently in the eye

Really concerned seeing the damage to these solid modern buildings in, relatively sheltered, low lying Road Town.

Our friends are about 5 miles from here near the top of a hill called Pelican Peak....stunning views, but very horribly exposed. Last heard from them 8 hours ago ...they'd lost power but were battened down for Irma. 

Eye now moving away from the island, so hoping that they're ok and will soon be able to start the clear up. 

PS: they have never had a shed, so at least one less thing for them to worry about!

Edited September 6, 2017 by Kiwi

[Iceberg]

Pressure 912-914 so close to sub 910

winds still cat 5!

[OddSpot]

Wow

 

Edited September 6, 2017 by OddSpot

[Had Worse]

 

 

Airport in shreds and wrecked planes, you need to click on name to see the rest and its bad stuff

Edited September 6, 2017 by Had Worse

[The PIT]

Getting close to the eye possibly.

[Methuselah]

2 minutes ago, Iceberg said:

Pressure 912-914 so close to sub 910

winds still cat 5!

Make you think, eh? The Atlantic storm that sunk the Braer (1993?) had a central pressure of 916!

[chillyblast]

They were saying earlier that the ocean temps in that region are on average 0.5-1C higher than normal and that was essentially jet fuel to this storm as it tracks west, is there any possibility it could get even stronger if it misses Cuba / mountains?

[cowdog]

3 minutes ago, chillyblast said:

They were saying earlier that the ocean temps in that region are on average 0.5-1C higher than normal and that was essentially jet fuel to this storm as it tracks west, is there any possibility it could get even stronger if it misses Cuba / mountains?

Yes. E.g. GFS's last run had it around 890mb at landfall on Florida.

Edited September 6, 2017 by cowdog

[pip22]

Live from St Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Edited September 6, 2017 by pip22

[Summer Sun]

Wondering how big Irma is?

 

[Summer Sun]

 

[Martin R]

https://www.facebook.com/livemap/#@18.650148721424518,-65.00747680664062,9z 

Crazy

[BurntFishTrousers]

 

[knocker]

This evening's HWRF

[chillyblast]

15 minutes ago, cowdog said:

Yes. E.g. GFS's last run had it around 890mb at landfall on Florida.

Brutal.