Atlantic Hurricane season 2017 |OT|

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Curious how much the cooler waters would impact the strength? Hypothetically if it ran more north east and hugged the coast where waters are 10-15 degrees cooler.
 
Curious how much the cooler waters would impact the strength? Hypothetically if it ran more north east and hugged the coast where waters are 10-15 degrees cooler.

It would signifcantly weaken the storm. It's kind of like starving a fire of oxygen. Trouble is Irma is a big storm and it would take some time to reduce drastically, let's face it a drop from cat 5 to cat 3 would still make it bloody awful for anyone in the way.
 
People are making this thread a fucking clusterfuck.
Pick a source. NOAA is probably the best way to go.

There are any number of models that could be correct. If anyone wants one source, follow the NHC. But they are just showing a cone made up of all these models, minus the spaghetti lines.
 
In case anyone is interested, I found a garage that would take my car with the busted windows, I sourced some zinc sheeting for my sliding glass doors and I found a crew of workmen who will help me put it up tomorrow, hopefully.

I believe that the forecasts of tomorrow morning, 8am will tell the tale for us. That's 36 hours out, and close enough to be damn accurate. Will this be the worst hurricane in this country's history, beating even the island-renowned and feared Hurricane Donna from 1960? Or do we get a glancing blow? The tension in finding out is unlike anything else I've experienced.
 
In case anyone is interested, I found a garage that would take my car with the busted windows, I sourced some zinc sheeting for my sliding glass doors and I found a crew of workmen who will help me put it up tomorrow, hopefully.

I believe that the forecasts of tomorrow morning, 8am will tell the tale for us. That's 36 hours out, and close enough to be damn accurate. Will this be the worst hurricane in this country's history, beating even the island-renowned and feared Hurricane Donna from 1960? Or do we get a glancing blow? The tension in finding out is unlike anything else I've experienced.

find out next time, on dragon, ball, ZZZZZZZ
 
So what's the deal exactly with the mb discussions? What effect does that have on hurricanes?

Lower pressure means it's easier for the hurricane to suck up warm moisture from the ocean and causes the storm to grow. Warm moisture from the ocean is effectively fuel for hurricanes.
 
Every single forecast for the past 48 hours has said it would immediately turn slightly north (or have done so by now) and yet as of 8pm it's still heading due west. What is it that all of these models have been missing for the past 48 hours? Why can't they adjust in a way that if they've had the forecast incorrect in a certain direction for so many forecasts in a row, that they start taking that into account?

If this thing misses us south I'll be very happy, but I'll be frustrated that for days and days we were told it was about to turn and come for us when literally every update said that actually no it was still moving west.

I know it's an imprecise science, I'm just tense. It just makes little sense to me that the forecasts can be wrong in the same direction so many times in a row.
 
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