Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Loud Whispers]

Is it normal for your weather to resemble the surface of Jupiter

[Frumple]

A few times a year, yes.

At least at the moment, it sorta' looks like it'll hit to the east of me, personally, but, well. There's like an entire day and a half to change course, and I'm definitely inside the current advisory area, just... off to the side. Which isn't saying that much considering that's currently like a third of the state or somethin'.

Prediction when I posted last didn't have it hitting major hurricane levels, but hey, that's changed. Surprise! I mean, not actually a surprise, but... still. Likely to hit cat 3, now the question is does it go higher, and if so... second cat 5 of the last decade to hit florida?

Let's hope not

[Frumple]

Bump 'cause Idalia's going to hit land somewhere in the next six or seven hours. If any of y'all are in the way, you still got some time to gtfo, I think. Stay safe, regardless.

Currently, uh. The entire states of Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and at least Virginia are under marginal to [either moderate or high] (I can't friggin' tell 'cause they're showing as the same color on NOAA's map for some ungodly reason) risk of flash flooding in the next 48 hours. East coast 'bout to get goddamn soaked.

Incidentally, this is the strongest hurricane to hit that particular portion of the Florida coast in recorded meteorological history; we haven't had a cat 3+ one go through the appalach bay since at least the 1800s, probably earlier. In other words, this is a literally historic storm for the state. Here's hoping the damage isn't equally historic

[martinuzz]

Stay safe

[Loud Whispers]

Hunker down and keep minty Frumple. I'm rooting for your victory; survival is win when the wind is so potent

[Frumple]

Oh, I'm fine, personally. Worst we've seen/are expected to see here is like 40 mph gusts and a few inches of rain; we've had worse non-supercell thunderstorms this year, basically.

Folks east of me are kinda' fucked, though. Idalia's apparently hit cat 4 and it hasn't quite made landfall yet. Mostly just hoping it doesn't do the full michael and omnifuck the area it hits with cat 5 winds... cat 4's bad enough -- anything over 2 is going to cause substantial damage where it hits worst, anything over 3 is going to be fucking devastating -- but cat 5 is like someone taking an angry drunken lawnmower to your skyline. At least with cat 4 it'll probably only be drunk

Though this rapid intensification thing... I can't remember if it happened more than this, but at minimum this is the second time this has happened to florida in the last five years. At this point, I think you're probably safest just assuming every hurricane going through the gulf is a cat 4-5 and acting accordingly. The lower category hurricanes are relatively harmless outside of flooding/storm surge, but... we can't even somewhat reliably predict storms are going to stay those anymore, apparently

E: Any case, it turns out "behold the sun" was an entirely too apt moniker for a storm. Giant ball of hate destroying everything it touches. That's the sun, a'ight.