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Best storm tracker I've seen yet. Real time. (Original Post) GoneOffShore Sep 2017 OP
Thanks for posting oberliner Sep 2017 #1
thanks for posting Botany Sep 2017 #2
Great app. democratisphere Sep 2017 #3
Thank you, GoneOffShore. gademocrat7 Sep 2017 #4
Excellent! With family and friends at Ground Zero in South Florida, I'll be glued to this. NBachers Sep 2017 #5
Me too... Callmecrazy Sep 2017 #7
Family in Nokomis mountain grammy Sep 2017 #38
Thank you. AJT Sep 2017 #6
Thank you! smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #8
That's really something. Thanks, GoneOffShore. Hortensis Sep 2017 #9
Thanks Soxfan58 Sep 2017 #10
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but it's showing bluepen Sep 2017 #11
Winds are calm inside the eye Sedona Sep 2017 #14
(Edit) Outside the eye, and even all the way up to Miami. bluepen Sep 2017 #16
The mobile app is great too FLPanhandle Sep 2017 #12
Be sure to go into settings... Sedona Sep 2017 #13
So unfortunate the USA is so backward. Keeps company with Burma and Liberia. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #26
Very nice - thanks! n/t Chemisse Sep 2017 #15
Thank you for the link! Question about Jose - flygal Sep 2017 #17
Careful with outliers in the models. bluepen Sep 2017 #21
Sorry, no. GoneOffShore Sep 2017 #22
WOW - thanks for posting! Laf.La.Dem. Sep 2017 #18
The meteorologist on Maddow's show last night.. ananda Sep 2017 #19
Here is a link. Pretty much show the same as what the OP's link shows Quixote1818 Sep 2017 #24
Thanks...I just sent it to my cousin in Tampa. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #20
It's predicting a direct hit on Key West, Naples, Cape Coral and Tampa. Holy Shit! nt Quixote1818 Sep 2017 #23
It's amazing. Goes beyond even the earth-nullschool windmap I had been using previously. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #25
Wow!!! Thanks!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2017 #27
Thank you! nt kstewart33 Sep 2017 #28
Thank you. Son lives in Lake Worth Freddie Sep 2017 #29
Great find! Loge23 Sep 2017 #30
Mobile version SHRED Sep 2017 #31
NICE! Thank you. n/t CousinIT Sep 2017 #32
Thanks. It is interesting to see the long projections of Hurricane Jose. clutterbox1830 Sep 2017 #33
another good one is airplaneman Sep 2017 #34
Wind map - you can customize the URL. L. Coyote Sep 2017 #35
Thanks for the Info Wiseman32218 Sep 2017 #36
Very good site Awsi Dooger Sep 2017 #37
thanks Beringia Sep 2017 #39
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. Thank you!
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:14 AM
Sep 2017

I have a co-worker who got stuck in Ft. Myers and was trying to evacuate as of yesterday. I hope she and her family were able to make it out.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. That's really something. Thanks, GoneOffShore.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:21 AM
Sep 2017

Pulling up a factor of interest, such as swell, and then tapping a location of interest on the map brings up the current prediction for that.

SmirkyMonkey, hope you get good news before long about your friend and her family. Evacuation of 5 million people. Just wow. Those long shelter lines on the TV do not look fun, but...

bluepen

(620 posts)
11. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but it's showing
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:29 AM
Sep 2017

wind speed just outside the eye at 47mph.

And on a somewhat lesser note, do you see a choice for "mb" in the settings for pressure?

Thanks for any help.

And thanks for posting this to begin with. I really like the animation and the other features I looked at.

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
14. Winds are calm inside the eye
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:42 AM
Sep 2017

You're probably clicking in a spot where they're starting to calm. Hurricane force winds ectend 70 miles outside eye on all sides

bluepen

(620 posts)
16. (Edit) Outside the eye, and even all the way up to Miami.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:45 AM
Sep 2017

Edit: I'm using the mobile app. Maybe there's an issue with it vs the desktop version.

No way this is the wind in the NE quadrant.




And much higher winds than this are coming onshore.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
12. The mobile app is great too
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:32 AM
Sep 2017

As a sailor and boater, I use it often. I love the visual representation. It's not perfect but neither are the NOAA marine forecasts.

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
13. Be sure to go into settings...
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 07:39 AM
Sep 2017

Be sure to switch to imperial scales unless you're super science-y knots to miles per hour... millimeters to inches ... meters to feet etc

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,924 posts)
26. So unfortunate the USA is so backward. Keeps company with Burma and Liberia.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 12:47 PM
Sep 2017

Metricate now and join the 20th century. Because it is 2017.

flygal

(3,231 posts)
17. Thank you for the link! Question about Jose -
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 08:05 AM
Sep 2017

I'm in North Carolina and if you go far out to the 18th they show Jose right on the outer banks, but other sites are showing it going further to the east. Have you seen other models showing it hitting the east coast?

bluepen

(620 posts)
21. Careful with outliers in the models.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 08:14 AM
Sep 2017

Best thing to look for is the cluster.

And actually, the official NHC track that comes with advisories is the best thing to watch. The official track forecast is based on models, but models can be hard to read. (Four instance, there is still one model showing Irma going to New Orleans. That's an outlier. Not going to happen.)

You're right—the best guidance has Jose going much father east.

GoneOffShore

(17,335 posts)
22. Sorry, no.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 08:16 AM
Sep 2017

I haven't been following a lot of other models.

This one is, I believe, based on European modeling which would seem to be the most accurate.

ananda

(28,827 posts)
19. The meteorologist on Maddow's show last night..
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 08:14 AM
Sep 2017

.. said the European models have always shown Irma
tracking west.

Their models are better, he said.

BigmanPigman

(51,551 posts)
20. Thanks...I just sent it to my cousin in Tampa.
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 08:14 AM
Sep 2017

The eye goes right over that area at Sunday, midnight. I am hoping it continues to go west and stays a little off the coast until it gets to the panhandle.

Freddie

(9,255 posts)
29. Thank you. Son lives in Lake Worth
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 12:54 PM
Sep 2017

Now evacuated to a motel in Orlando with clients and co-workers (he works at a health care facility). Praying he has an apartment to go home to and that his cat is ok, he could not take her with him. Left her with plenty of food and water. Looks like it may not be as bad for S Fl as originally thought.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
30. Great find!
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 12:57 PM
Sep 2017

Thank you for posting this!
This model shows wind speeds over the Treasure Coast area remaining at or below 50mph, which - accurate or not - at this point is a tremendous relief. We're as prepared as we can be, shuttered up and in good stock of provisions.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
37. Very good site
Sat Sep 9, 2017, 11:20 PM
Sep 2017

I particularly appreciate that you can switch from model to model and get an idea of the forecast wind speed for a specific location from each model.

Some of the models tonight indicate a small shift more eastward as the turn begins...somewhat inland instead of off the coast.

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