Irma the only storm on record to maintain 185+ windspeed for as long as it has. Over 69 hours.

And now there's a big earthquake off of Mexico in the Pacific that's causing a tsunami.

https://i.imgur.com/JyOAnHy.gifv

And now there's a big earthquake off of Mexico in the Pacific that's causing a tsunami.

Tsunami alert should have been canceled - wrong type of earthquake, but I was asleep so couldn't say that earlier.

can't embed .mp4's here as far as I can tell, but here's an inundation map of southern florida

 

https://i.imgur.com/7IGmjS6.mp4

 

and a satellite video of the storm approaching Florida last night into today

 

https://i.imgur.com/icp70kH.mp4

So we've already got two Cat 4 hurricanes going at once, who's ready for Round 3?

 

 

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/906193823956697088

NOAA's latest forecast continues to shift west. Cuba's getting more of the storm than originally predicted, the upper east coast of Florida might not get it as bad but at the expensive of more of the west coast getting hit hard. Panhandle's inline for some hurricane damage, too.

 

Video from St. Martin, which was devasteted

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/america...icane-irma.html

With all the projections now predicting a western shift, is it possible Louisiana/New Orleans gets hit?

The longer range forecast is also aiming the leftovers of the storm directly towards the midwest. Last time we got one of these about a decade ago, we got something like 8 inches of rain over a couple of days IIRC.

Limbaugh just evacuated his Florida home after telling his listeners all week that Irma wasn't a big deal

With all the projections now predicting a western shift, is it possible Louisiana/New Orleans gets hit?

 

No, it's still projected to go right up the middle of Florida, we're talking shifts of 20-50 miles or so of the path of the eye. From everything I've read, the models this far out are pretty accurate, so there would have to be a massive failure in the multiple models in all the same way for it to shift that much.

 

 

It's pretty much a lock, just wait for results from Broward county to come in and......oh my god.

 

 

 

[sorry for the bad election joke]

The longer range forecast is also aiming the leftovers of the storm directly towards the midwest. Last time we got one of these about a decade ago, we got something like 8 inches of rain over a couple of days IIRC.

 

We got some from Katrina, right?

No, it's still projected to go right up the middle of Florida, we're talking shifts of 20-50 miles or so of the path of the eye. From everything I've read, the models this far out are pretty accurate, so there would have to be a massive failure in the multiple models in all the same way for it to shift that much.

 

 

It's pretty much a lock, just wait for results from Broward county to come in and......oh my god.

 

 

 

[sorry for the bad election joke]

Lol, when you stared talking about the models being accurate, I was thinking of an election joke too

We got some from Katrina, right?

 

I don't recall that, but I want to say the one I am remembering was 2008... maybe from Ike?

all models now converging on landfall in FL. hurricane force wind gusts across the peninsula.

 

https://twitter.com/growingwisdom/status/906246072065982465

 

Miami might avoid a direct eyewall hit but it's in the worst possible spot for storm surges.

The Atlantic Ocean has generated more "Accumulated Cyclone Energy" (Measure of the energy being expended by storms) today than on any day in recorded history.

 

Irma appears to be developing a larger eyewall and completing an eyewall replacement cycle. Most recent hurricane hunters pass indicated decreasing central pressures. Storm may be about to strengthen one last time before landfall.

It's back up to Cat 5. Unreal.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray...ng-12172506.php

 

An absolutely gut wrenching read on a volunteer that began coordinating the rescue calls for the Cajun navy.

Can someone pass on to Jennifer Lawrence that trying to sound dumber than Rush Limbaugh shouldn't be a thing?

Can someone pass on to Jennifer Lawrence that trying to sound dumber than Rush Limbaugh shouldn't be a thing?

Fortunately, what she said doesn't even begin to come close.

Can someone pass on to Jennifer Lawrence that trying to sound dumber than Rush Limbaugh shouldn't be a thing?

 

Blaming the hurricanes on climate change and saying Irma isn't a big deal are two very different things. Especially when Irma will level the entire state of Florida.

Can someone pass on to Jennifer Lawrence that trying to sound dumber than Rush Limbaugh shouldn't be a thing?

 

Celebrities are some of the worst individuals in the world. And people listen to every word.

What JLaw say?