Hurricane warnings posted for eastern Caribbean; South Florida preparing
Source: Sun Sentinel
South Florida continues to monitor powerful Hurricane Irma, soon to become a Category 4, as warnings were posted Monday morning for the eastern Caribbean islands.
Whether the storm will impact South Florida remains unknown, but several forecast models are predicting a northern turn late in the week.
"There is an increasing chance of seeing some impacts from Irma in the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys later this week and this weekend," forecasater Dan Brown of the National Hurricane Center said in an 11 a.m. advisory. Still, it is too early to determine what direct impacts the storm might have on the region, it added.
Hurricane warnings are now in effect for a long list of islands, including the islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Martin and Nevis.
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Bottled water flying out the door in S. FL - don't wait to stock up
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Latest spaghetti models...
jimlup
(7,968 posts)I have to say I am relived as my 85 year old dad lives near the coast in N. Carolina. Looks like he should be OK and won't need to evacuate.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Continue to watch it. You can't go by one model run as the solution.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)I'm following it closely. So is my dad.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)had tracks of it rolling right through my area (up through the Chesapeake and/or Delaware Bays) so it is definitely nerve-wracking.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Hurricanes can take very erratic paths. The first hurricane I remember living through was Hurricane Donna in 1960. Her path was very contorted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Donna
Donna went in at Marathon, traveled along the west coast of Florida, turned inland north of Fort Myers, passed over Bartow where I lived, exited at Daytona Beach, made landfall at Wilmington NC, exited in Virgina, then hit land yet again in Westhampton, NY, crossed Long Island and finally went across New England.
I was eight years old at the time. My three sisters and I were home alone with my Dad - Mom was in Alabama with her mother who was dying. As the first eye wall passed our house began leaking and my Dad was worried that some of the windows might blow in. He went out to the detached garage to get boards just in case. I remember him telling my oldest sister, "If I don't come back, DO NOT come after me! Stay inside, crawl into the bathtub or a closet and keep your sisters safe." Fortunately Dad came back in safe and we didn't lose any windows, but that house leaked like a sieve. We didn't have power for weeks so we didn't hear about the extensive damage until much later.
jpak
(41,758 posts)Agnes in 1972 brought insane flooding to the southern Appalachians.
http://www.richmond.com/weather/photos-flooding-from-hurricane-agnes/collection_4642391c-c36d-54a8-ba35-52d390487c2a.html#9
Once it approaches the N. Georgia mountains it could get torrential.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)Still a good idea to keep an eye out. In the next couple days they will be in better range. About the only thing that has been consistent with the most recent model runs the past couple days is that it doesn't look like it will recurve and go out to sea (but even that could change).
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)(my 47-year long and counting hobby...lol) and am following the play by plays by mets and forecasters. The 12Z Euro model is running right now and is so far is similar to the 12Z GFS model - with Irma running it into South Florida.
However later today and tonight when the 18Z & 0Z models run, that could all change.
Time to remember where I put the hurricane evacuation box, just in case.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Mar-a-loco takes the brunt of the damage.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)No way, José.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)which si right n the line of one poof those predictions.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)her house on Emerald Isle NC burned down last month.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)You can't trust this one