Hurricane Hermine – Day 5
Position: 29.7N 84.3W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [030°] near 14 mph [22 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 80 mph [130 kph].
Wind Gusts: 95 mph [150 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles [280 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 45 miles [ 75 km].
Minimum central pressure: 984 mb ↑.
Currently about 40 miles [ 70 km] South-Southeast of Apalachicola, Florida and 146 miles [235 km] East-Southeast of Cinco Bayou (me).
This is the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Dennis and Wilma hit us in 2005. It made the crucial turn for me and went far enough East so high surf and some coastal flooding are the local effects.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Suwannee River to Mexico Beach.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Englewood to Suwannee River, West of Mexico Beach to the Walton/Bay County line, and Flagler/Volusia County line to Duck, North Carolina including the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds.
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for Anclote River to Suwannee River and West of Mexico Beach to the Walton/Bay County line.
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for North of Duck to Sandy Hook, Chesapeake Bay from Smith Point southward, and Southern Delaware Bay.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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Ouch. I know you’ll stay safe, this ain’t your first rodeo, but hope the ferals stay safe too… hurricanes are no place for kittehs :(.
We dump a lot of kibble in the crawl spaces and they make out. The foundations block the wind and the sand keeps down the flooding. The fools who bought or built the houses on the water are going to have surge flooding again. Sooner or later they are going to find out that the flood insurance takes the property after so many claims to stop paying claims on it.
It’s drifting east which is good news for me. The storm going to east of your location really reduces the impact. It is probably going to take out the oyster crop for a while as it is head for the big commercial areas down near Aoalachicola.
Stay safe, Bryan! Hope you’re not one of those without power.
Stay safe, my friend…
(One of our local meteorologists misread the name of the storm last week and called it “Hermione” several times before he was corrected. Truly a magic hurricane!)
Thanks for your concern but this was an Eastern Time Zone storm after it made a comforting, for me, turn a bit further to the right late yesterday morning.
It will be a mess because we haven’t had a hurricane come ashore anywhere in the state since 2005, and it was 40 years before that when the last storm hit this area of the coast. Hermine did a lot of ‘pruning’.
Happy to hear it missed you! Thankfully for all, it was a Category 1 this time. I was in a Cat 1 when Bob went through the Outer Banks many moons ago. It convinced me that I never wanted to be in a Cat 2 or higher. :-/
I hope you have stocked up because it is on its way to make your life miserable. Coastal Virginia is already being affected and it is pulling in and dumping water from both the Gulf and the Atlantic. They are forecasting a possible storm surge of 7′ in Long Island Sound. This thing isn’t finished making annoying people and preventing a nice Labor Day weekend for millions.
Bryan, shortly after my last post here, I switched my concerns to Stella’s brothers; one lives not far from Atlanta, the other, near Baltimore. I have a feeling they’re very wet by now. There are a lot of reasons I’m glad I don’t live in Baltimore; this is one of them. I’m not saying we won’t get some tropical weather before the season is over, but so far, everything that has come through here has been very, very mild.
Things has shifted to the Atlantic Coast the last few years. Long Island and the Canadian Maritime are seeing a lot more activity. Yes, Baltimore is not all that far above sea level and people aren’t perpared for this sort of weather.