Florida west coast will be fine. At worst, some standard rain. Even if it were to cross the state, it would die off before it hits the west coast.
Hurricane Dorian
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This this is moving west at 1mph. Any place that gets hit with the eye wall is getting EF4-EF5 tornado strength winds for 10-20 minutes on top of the hurricane force winds before and after. The northern Bahamas are gonna be a waste land 
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=30.2;-75.9;4&l=temperature-2m
I've posted this site a couple of times, you'd think I have shares in it, but its a great site to track hurricanes and general weather.
I've posted this site a couple of times, you'd think I have shares in it, but its a great site to track hurricanes and general weather.
Sort of ironic that the country that polutes more and has the more percentage of climate change deniars is hit with these Category 5 hurricanes, they still dont learn
It’s a good site, I’ve been following the hurricane on that for days now.
Yeah, we’ve literally got people on Twitter using the cone of uncertainty as a political weapon against climate change science.
Where about on east coast?
Daughter came home from St Augustine last night at parts of St Johns start evacuating today.
I've been following it on twitter for the last day. I'll be surprised if most of the residents in Abaco are still alive. The buildings were completely destroyed when they came through the eye and they now've now been with winds of 185mph for over 12 hours since, at night and with no power.
225 second in history
Stay safe all of you in the south east
Can someone re explain the air pressure thing to me like I’m an idiot?
What was the question? what is air pressure?
https://sciencing.com/barometric-pressure-hurricanes-22734.html
A good explanation pulled from Reddit also...
Air is heavy. The stack of air exerts pressure on the earth and on the air around it.
The air also moves. Air flows from high pressure to low pressure areas.
Because of various forces the air can not flow straight from the center of a high pressure region to the center of a low pressure region. These forces are basically a result of the inertia that air also has, and the fact that the earth is "larger all the way around" at the equator compared to up near the poles.
So the moving air, as it trys to go from high to low, gets deflected by its own momentum and it swirls around.
The bigger the pressure difference between the highs and the lows, the more air moves, and the faster it moves, and the more it swirls.
In normal weather the highs and lows they speak of are relatively mild and quite large. That is they are large in area and small in pressure difference.
In the case of a "tropical storm" or a "hurricane" a low pressure area starts doing its normal swirl thing, and that creates a barrier of sorts. (The same sort of barrier forms when you see a whirlpool over the drain when you empty a large tub or whatever). But inside the barrier there is the warm ocean water. Warm water evaporates. Warm wet air rises faster than other kinds of air. This rising warm wet air makes the pressure even lower and so the air swirls even faster and the barrier becomes more stable and coherent.
So basically the heat of the water and the cold of the air and the rising air and the barrier all turn into an engine. The walls conduits of the engine (there are literally "pipes" of different kinds of air if you ever look at a cut-away diagram of these sorts of storms) are all made out of swirling air. And the fact that the different kinds of air are moving at different speeds, and are different temperatures, and have different amounts of water in them, "produces" the storm.
One of the main "bad things" about such a storm, worse in many ways than the wind or rain itself, is that the low pressure in the center, combined with the walls of the storm, basically form a straw to suck up the water.
Yes, like a drinking straw.
The storm causes the water to bulge upward right under the storm just like when you suck on a straw just a little and the drink in the straw becomes somewhat higher than the rest of the drink.
When this "high mound of ocean water", called the "storm surge", hits land it does so like a tidal wave, sort of. In the case of Katrina the bulge was about eight feet, though normal is more like five feet. So it's like the storm raises the tide by five feet above whatever tide is normal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlik...li5_what_does_pressure_andor_900mb_mean_when/
The air also moves. Air flows from high pressure to low pressure areas.
Because of various forces the air can not flow straight from the center of a high pressure region to the center of a low pressure region. These forces are basically a result of the inertia that air also has, and the fact that the earth is "larger all the way around" at the equator compared to up near the poles.
So the moving air, as it trys to go from high to low, gets deflected by its own momentum and it swirls around.
The bigger the pressure difference between the highs and the lows, the more air moves, and the faster it moves, and the more it swirls.
In normal weather the highs and lows they speak of are relatively mild and quite large. That is they are large in area and small in pressure difference.
In the case of a "tropical storm" or a "hurricane" a low pressure area starts doing its normal swirl thing, and that creates a barrier of sorts. (The same sort of barrier forms when you see a whirlpool over the drain when you empty a large tub or whatever). But inside the barrier there is the warm ocean water. Warm water evaporates. Warm wet air rises faster than other kinds of air. This rising warm wet air makes the pressure even lower and so the air swirls even faster and the barrier becomes more stable and coherent.
So basically the heat of the water and the cold of the air and the rising air and the barrier all turn into an engine. The walls conduits of the engine (there are literally "pipes" of different kinds of air if you ever look at a cut-away diagram of these sorts of storms) are all made out of swirling air. And the fact that the different kinds of air are moving at different speeds, and are different temperatures, and have different amounts of water in them, "produces" the storm.
One of the main "bad things" about such a storm, worse in many ways than the wind or rain itself, is that the low pressure in the center, combined with the walls of the storm, basically form a straw to suck up the water.
Yes, like a drinking straw.
The storm causes the water to bulge upward right under the storm just like when you suck on a straw just a little and the drink in the straw becomes somewhat higher than the rest of the drink.
When this "high mound of ocean water", called the "storm surge", hits land it does so like a tidal wave, sort of. In the case of Katrina the bulge was about eight feet, though normal is more like five feet. So it's like the storm raises the tide by five feet above whatever tide is normal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlik...li5_what_does_pressure_andor_900mb_mean_when/
https://www.rhinobldg.com/understanding-barometric-pressure-in-hurricanes/
CF: Or try this link above that I found using my google machine.
Btw, the pressure is up to 922, last I looked. Maybe weakening as it’s hitting Grand Bahama? Should be a cat 4 now too.
CF: Or try this link above that I found using my google machine.
Btw, the pressure is up to 922, last I looked. Maybe weakening as it’s hitting Grand Bahama? Should be a cat 4 now too.
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Scroll down and you'll see it says the shelter was built to withstand Category 4
St Augustine is so beautiful.
Oldest city in the US!
Nice place alright.
Nice place alright.
It really is. I see her up there every few months. She studies at Flagler College.
I can confirm no damage to the Trump property in Doral. Better climate than the entire 5 months I've been in Miami
I loved a recent trip to the St Augustine area. Nice quiet beaches even during spring break.
Anyone in the
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Scroll down and you'll see it says the shelter was built to withstand Category 4
Post that everywhere
They will be able to make a movie out of the experience, maybe even a theme park ride..Tweet
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Scroll down and you'll see it says the shelter was built to withstand Category 4
Cape Canaveral. Are you in Jacksonville?
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Florida...
Every time I think I’ve stopped laughing I start again.I hope it directly hits Palm Bay just because of this guy.
The Bahamas pollute the most?
That's a weird accent, kinda boston like.
Lots of northeastern cnuts relocate to south Florida. There’s a saying that Florida becomes more northern the farther south you go.
I saw that last one a few hours ago. They are trapped and not long until they are completely submerged. Awful.
Mother nature s been mightily pissed off these past few years.
Hope they brought an axe up there.Jesus those poor people in the attic
Alot of truth in this. Case in point: I've not heard but maybe 2 southern accents out of all the folks they've interviewed on the news about evacuating Florida.
I'm gonna be honest, when I click on these tweets and see responses like "God be with you", "Praying for you" and pictures of a crying Jesus and shit... I really get put off humanity. I know they mean well, but feck me.
No, in Tampa near Billy and Floridaman.
Stay safe with that surge, king tide too.